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From: hedlund@reed.edu (Marc Hedlund)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Tune In Tomorrow
Date: 21 Jul 92 22:05:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Jul21.220548.22589
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon

In article <1992Jul20.192517.11121@zip.eecs.umich.edu> stame@emunix.emich.edu 
(Stewart Tame) writes:

>Also [TUNE IN TOMORROW] was the second movie I've ever seen with spoken 
>credits (the other was _Farenheit 451_.)  

One scene had a weird use of the "spoken drama" aspect -- just before the
rat exterminator reveals that his eyepatch is unnecessary, it appears on his
left eye rather than his right, where it was originally.  So we, as the
movie audience, are given a visual foreshadowing to the _radio_ play plot,
as dramatized in a movie adapted from a book.  Whew!
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From: stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame)
Subject: Re: The Great Brain
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:45:37 GMT

In article <cathe.712449675@xanadu> cathe@xanadu.ucsb.edu (Cathe Gordon) writes:
>Several years ago, I remember hearing that the children's
>book series "The Great Brain" would be made into a movie.
>Anyone know anything about it?

I dimly recall a Disney movie adapting the first book or so being made.  I
know I saw a few ads on TV for it anyway . . . 

					-- Stewart Tame
From: jsd@daimi.aau.dk (Jacob Steen Due)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Greta Scacchi (sp?) - Any fans out there?
Date: 27 Jul 92 11:21:24 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

chucksi@stc.comm.mot.com (Chuckorama) writes:

>Man oh man. Here I was thinking Greta Scacchi was very one dimensional blonde
>actress based on her brief appearance in Presumed Innocent and sort of 
>lackluster performance in Shattered. Then I accidentally picked up "A Man In
>Love" and that's what I was with her after that video. I then saw White
>Mischief (excellent), and Coca Cola Kid (bizarre)...one of things that's very
>impressive about her is she's played an Australian (CCK), a multi-lingual 
>(Man In Love - she spoke Italian, French, and English), American (Presumed
>Innocent, Shattered) -- So what is she? The British accent seems to come 
>quite well to her...anyone have any background??

Well I'm not a fan of Greta Scacchi, but I'm pretty certain that she's Italian.
If I'm not mistaken, she played the princess in "Flash Gordon", and played
absolutly awful.

/Jacob

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From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Subject: Re: TERMINATOR II
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 16:30:44 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.234311.25719@ncsu.edu>, jhpace1@eos.ncsu.edu (High-Tech Crazie) writes:
> 
> The arm does not have enough circuitry to make SKYNET possible in the time 

I've seen this stated several times and even knee-jerkedly agreed with it,
but really, how does anyone know?

This poster is in an electrical engineering department.  Surely they've
seen robotic arms today that have microprocessors for each joint.
Doesn't the Puma have 6809-type (or 6805?) micros per servo?  Anyway,
if I were to design something like a terminator arm, which mimics
human movement, I'd be fairly likely to use the same technology as the brain
and I'd scatter join-specific command structures to the various joints 
themselves.  I mean, that's how human reflexes often work.  Besides,
it would make the entire mechanism more deadly.

GMS
From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: boomerang
Date: 21 Jul 92 06:11:06 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

MW>Where are all of the Eddie Murphy fans??????????????????

     Maybe when Eddie Murphy does a funny movie again, he'll get some...
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From: "james kewageshig" <james.kewageshig@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: a question alien/xmen
Date: 22 Jul 92 00:23:48 EST
Reply-To: "james kewageshig" <james.kewageshig@canrem.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Canada Remote Systems


ND>I am sorry if this question as already been discussed, but I never saw
ND>something related to it, so I have to ask : it seems to me that the
ND>Alien/Aliens/Alien3 whole story is almost the same as one of the X-Men
ND>adventures, involving insectoid creatures gestating in people's bodies
ND>and keeping characteristics from their host (which, with the X-Men can
ND>be very interesting). I think it was called "Brood's Saga" (at least
ND>in France). So my question is : has anyone ever noticed the
ND>similarities (I am sure you have), and who copied on who ?

I'm almost sure that the 'Brood' story came from Alien.
'Alien' came out in 1979, and the 'Brood' stroyline was sometime
in the early 80's...

There are a lot of similarities with the two storylines.
I especially like the fact that Wolverine couldn't be 'infected'
by the 'Brood' because of his 'healing factor'.
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From: peterme@ocf.berkeley.edu (Peter D. Merholz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Europa (ZENTROPA) and European vs American Films
Date: 31 Jul 92 01:18:13 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: earthquake.berkeley.edu


The artistic quality of them at first excited me, then frustrated me, and 
finally angered me. Why? Because there really was very little of substance
by way of story, and the images only held interest for about 45 minutes. 
Then I got antsy for a plot, which really didn't emerge. 

Why is it that European films seem so image oriented, while American films
are so plot-based (however formulaic that plot may be).
From: dascoser.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Ark of the Covenant
Date: 24 Jul 92 04:28:02 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

lb2e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Louis Blair) writes:

> At one point in the movie, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, the
> characters go to a warehouse to find the crate in which
> the original shrinking ray was stored.  It is a big building
> and there are lots of boxes everywhere.  One of the them
> has an interesting label on it.

Also had a sled labled "Rosebud" (wasn't this warehouse discussed on the 
net a while back?) :)

Dascoser
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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: Old movies:  In theaters? CASABLANCA
Keywords: Classics movies theaters Los Angeles
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 16:25:29 GMT

In article <14qakiINNmtk@agate.berkeley.edu> peterme@ocf.berkeley.edu (Peter D. Merholz) writes:
>The only L.A. revival theaters that I know of are the NuArt and the 
>NuWilshire (which aren't that good, and show lotsa new, independent 
>flicks)...

The main LA venues for showing older films are the New Beverly Cinema,
the Vagabond (when it's open - I think it closed again), the Silent Movie
Theater (limited to what its name says, and only showing films three days
a week), UCLA's Melnitz Theater, and the L.A. County Museum of Art (showing
film mostly on Friday and Saturday nights).  The Nuart and NuWilshire show
a few older films (some Preston Sturges ones right now, the rerelease of
"The Proud Ones", "Tabu" and "Chang" recently), but do, indeed, show more 
recent independent films.  The AMC theaters in Century City show one 
"Hollywood classic" (mostly from 60's & 70's, or even 80's, but some
older ones) every weekend morning around 10 AM.  The Laemmelle Theaters
in Santa Monica have a somewhat eccentric selection of older films that
they show weekend mornings.

The American Cinemateque, operating out of the Director's Guild building
until their own building in Hollywood is completed (if it ever is) shows
a program of interesting films once a month, over a weekend.  They show
foreign films more often than older American films, but those show up,
too.

In the early eighties, things were much better, but the baby boomers
having children of their own and the video revolution killed most of
LA's revival theaters.  In spite of which, you can actually see quite a
few good older films in Los Angeles, if you keep your eyes open.
Right now, the County Museum is celebrating their installation of 70mm
projection equipment (you can see "Around the World in 80 Days" and
"Ben Hur" there in 70mm, this weekend), and Melnitz is showing a retrospective
of Lang's Hollywood films and a De Sica retrospective (not surprisingly
leaving out his rotten Hollywood films).

--
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		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu

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From: tmcfarla@fraser.sfu.ca (Tara McFarlane)
Subject: Re: Anyone recognise this quote?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:41:11 GMT

i was going to suggest checking 'the heathers', but i'm only guessing so
best to check 'uncommon valor' (?) first.                              
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From: bart@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bart Gold)
Subject: The QUIET EARTH- what happenned?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Distribution: rec
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:04:17 GMT

     I just saw the Quiet earth yesterday.

     I'd like your opinions what happenned at the end?
     Where was zac? What was it like on earth at that same point if zac
wasn't on earth??


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From: lmiller@lucy.claremont.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: BOOMERANG
Date: 21 Jul 92 05:47:41 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College

In article <92195.103928AUJLV@ASUACAD.BITNET>, AUJLV@ASUACAD.BITNET (jason l.v.) writes:
> In article <22207@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, 2753s@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Michele White)
> says:
>>Boomerang was great!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>
>>Where are all of the Eddie Murphy fans??????????????????
> Wondering where the hell Eddie got his new attitude. Not even taking the
> movie into account -- every time I read something he said or see him on
> TV, he never fails to make an idiotic impression. And please, no flames
> regarding his behavior in the past. He's just getting worse..
> 
> Now that the weekend is over, I have to wonder about *anybody* who sees
> Cool World and then complains on this net..
> 
> jason l.v.


Getting worse?!  He has matured and that maturity is evident through not only
his choice in movies but interviews and articles he, himself, has written.  

Tanya
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From: mol@jyu.fi (Mika O. Latokartano)
Subject: Re: New Stallone Movie (CLIFFHANGER, dir by Renny Harlin)
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:01:01 GMT

In article <17490137@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> j_elison@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Jeff Elison) writes:

>
>Yeah, and a couple of the best rock climbers in the world are acting
>as doubles for Stallone.  Should make for some incredible REAL climbing
>scenes.
>
>Mort
>

  What's the latest news on this film?  Scheduled premiere, general plot,
  budget, etc?  I'm looking forward to it.  Not because of Stallone, but
  because of Harlin being the director.  Interesting to see how this
  will compare to Die Hard 2.

	- Mika


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From: miked@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Mike Doskas)
Subject: Re: Audience Comments During Movies
Reply-To: miked@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Mike Doskas)
Organization: Bell Northern Research Montreal, Canada
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 20:53:08 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.112122.4996@avalon.nwc.navy.mil>, dejesus@archimedes.nwc.navy.mil (Francisco X DeJesus) writes:
|> In article <1410085@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM> bartb@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Bart Bobbitt) writes:
|> >Over the years, I've heard a lot of funny comments from folks in movie
|> >audiences about what's happening on the screen.  Maybe readers might respond
|> >with their own funny stories.  Here's the best one I've heard......
|> 
|> In "The Last Boy Scout", intro scene, right after the football player gets
|> to the end zone and shoots himself, someone remarked: "So, does the touchdown
|> count?"
|> 
|> Funniest line in the movie...


While the player was running down the field firing off his gun,
I said to my buddy, "Now that's a run-and-shoot offense!"

Wasn't brave enough to yell it out loud, though...   :-(


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From: doak@sunbug.ingr.com (Doak Heyser)
Subject: BARTON FINK: say what?  (SPOILERS)
Reply-To: doak@sunbug.dazixco.ingr.com
Organization: Dazix
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:25:08 GMT



   I got to see Barton Fink the other day and was left a little perplexed.
This slow moving but pleasant film was finally picking up speed when it 
suddenly turned into a cartoon.  I usually have no problem suspending 
belief but this was too much.  Maybe I should have been on drugs or 
something.
   How did the writer's girlfriend die and if it was the next-door neighbor
why did he throw up when he saw her body?  What were the flames in the
hallway supposed to represent?   How did the killer know to kill the
drunkard writer and what was the connection with Fink?   In short, what
the heck happened at the end?  Simple minds would like to know.  Thanks.

- Doak Heyser

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From: neeman@s5.csrd.uiuc.edu (Henry J. Neeman)
Subject: Re: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Organization: Univ of Illinois, Center for Supercomputing R&D, Urbana, IL
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 01:35:50 GMT

sarwate@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjiv Sarwate) writes:
>bl376@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joel I. Greenberg) writes:
>>Does anyone know what Indiana's guide in Egypt's name was?  The character
>>not the actor's name.
>Sallah.

Okay, this reminds me of something that really singes my shorts.  In "Raiders,"
Sallah (John Rhys-Davies) pretends to be a foolish local when he's around the
Nazis, but when he's with Indi and Marion, he's intelligent, articulate,
observant, resourceful, a loving father and husband and a caring friend.
In "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," he's a toadying buffoon.  In
"Raiders," Indi's boss (I forget the character's name, but he's played by
Denholm Elliot) is smart, eloquent and concern; in "Last Crusade," he's
a doddering fool.  Why were such great characters ruined?

Not that I don't like "Last Crusade;" I just miss the original characters.

						Henry Neeman
						neeman@csrd.uiuc.edu
From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: great directors and o
Date: 23 Jul 92 09:56:02 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

PR>But Welles made a few of fair-to-good films for the major studios in the
PR>late 40's and early 50's - "The Stranger", "Lady From Shanghai", "Touch of
PR>Evil", and "Macbeth" (well, maybe Republic wasn't a major studio, but it
PR>wasn't fly-by-night, either).  Except for the last two, I don't remember

     Then there's the legend (?) of the making of "The Lady From Shanghai."
     Welles was starring in a stage production of a "Around The World In
     80 Days."  The theatre company was woefully short on cash, and because
     they couldn't pay a $50,000 debt, the costume department refused to
     deliver the costumes - hours before the curtain was to go up.  Welles
     made a phone call to his bosses, begging them for a loan to help
     out the stage company and save the show.  In return, he agreed, he
     would direct a movie for them, starring him and his wife.  When
     asked what the movie would be, he glanced at the title of a book
     lying on a nearby table and said "The Lady From Shanghai."
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From: dtschett@scott.skidmore.edu (donna tschetter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Sequel in the Works
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:44:52 GMT
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY

"HONEY I BURNED UP THE KIDS"

...little peices of charcoal on the grill...

:>
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From: jreece@sousa.intel.com (John Reece)
Subject: Re: Greta Scacchi (sp?) - Any fans out there?
Reply-To: jreece@sousa.intel.com
Organization: Intel - Information Technologies
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:27:34 GMT

In article <seQoLR600VQjI3oGQr@andrew.cmu.edu>, Peter Yung Chang <pc20+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> Yes, White Mischief was quite a film...

Interestingly enough, both it and the squeaky-clean "Out of Africa" 
were inspired by the real antics of the same clique of British 
colonials.
 					
 
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From: declan@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Declan J. Fleming)
Subject: MAN TROUBLE = PLAIN TROUBLE
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 21:14:13 GMT

I'm STEAMING!!!  I decided to put down Clancy's "Sum of All Fears" for
a few hours to catch a new movie starring on of my favorite actors - 
JACK NICHOLSON!!!  It was a new flic that I'd heard nothing about, but how
could I go wrong with old Jack?

This movie reeked!  I couldn't give a rat's ass what happened to ANY of the
characters!  It looked like someone accidently picked up the wrong spools
of film and showed the editted out parts.  It was inconsistant, boring,
jagged, ragged, and just plain bad.  None of the characters were interesting.
The plot (PLOT!!!???!!!) was all over the place and nowhere at the same time. 

What the HELL is going on in Hollywood.  There HAVE to be some people with      talent there but we just don't see it any more.  I have to compare this         experience with the orgasmic entertainment I received from Clany's book.
It had characters with real problems, nukes, ruskies, PLOTTTTT!!!!, love,
intrigue, sigh....

And to see this movie, I took out 2 hours when I could have been reading!!!
I want to see this kind of attention to detail on film.  "Patriot Games" was
an interesting flic, but in 2 hrs, how much can you do?  I'd seriously pay
10-15 dollars to go into a theater and sit for 6-8 hours and see a real
story spanning the entire length of a book like this.  Leave the nuances in!
That's what makes entertainment ENTERTAINING!!!!  Wake up HOLLYWOOD!  I'm
gonna start spending all my money on books and leave your damn multiplexes
to rot!!!!

D
From: rorschak@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Lauridsen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Europa
Date: 30 Jul 92 19:51:01 GMT
Organization: Exile Government of Bramming

clamen@CS.CMU.EDU (Stewart Clamen) writes:


>This past weekend, on a visit to Toronto, I saw a European movie
>(really a German-Danish-Swedish-French movie filmed in Poland) called
>_EUROPA_.  It concerns a German-American who goes to work in Germany
>in the Allied occupation period following WWII.

>I was wondering what opinions the r.a.movies readership had concerning
>this movie.

I loved it (only seen it twice though), but some reviewer in r.a.m.r
didn't. It's directed by Lars von Trier (Dane - the von is fake), who
recieved a technical prize for it in Cannes. It has been released in
the US as Zentropa (the name of the train company in the movie).

My favourite part of the movie was the voiceover.
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From: jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa!cah@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Christopher Walken
Date: 23 Jul 92 03:52:00 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA)
X-mailer: Stadel 3.4a-227
X-Spam-content: irrelevant

In article <1992Jul22.225543.6139@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> 
k_workman@csc32.enet.dec.com (Karen Workman) writes:
>
>In article <6799@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com>, delanzo@sparc22.hri.com (Michael 
DeLanzo) writes...
>>> [ Stuff deleted....] 
>> 
>>Two people that Walken "hangs around" with are James Woods and Peter
>>Weller. Now if that doesn't tell you how strange he is ... If I saw the
>>three of them walking down the street I'd run the other way. 
>> 
>>-md
>> 
>>BTW, I like the work of all three actors.
>
>Can you or someone refresh my memory as to who James Woods and Peter Weller
>are?  What have they played in that they can be recognized for?

Peter Weller is Robocop.  James Woods is Bill Wilson (to pick two
totally disparate roles...)

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From: gu@castle.ed.ac.uk (G Ushaw)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: jurassic park / steve
Date: 21 Jul 92 10:10:47 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Edinburgh University

How about the T-Rex on the Back to the Future thingie at Universal
Studios? Not sure how it was done but it's pretty darn groovy. Though
admittedly it doesn't have to interact with live-action stuff...just
real live people!
From: bew@brahms.udel.edu (Ben Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Old movies:  In theaters?
Summary: They're the best
Keywords: Classics movies theaters Los Angeles
Date: 24 Jul 92 01:14:33 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <b+dm0qd.jeffgus@netcom.com> jeffgus@netcom.com (Jeffrey Gustafson) writes:
; 	Can some one tell me where I can find old movies still being
; played in theaters?  I'm looking for black and white movies (classics,
; even silent) mostly.  What places can I go in the Los Angeles area to
; find them?
; 			...Jeff
; 			jeffgus@netcom.com


Yea, and where else in this (turning into gooey glitzy multi-colored plastic)
country?  How many other's have this same experience:  I am flipping through
the cable channels and I hit on a B&W film.  I think, hey, this might be
worth watching.  It has a nice "look" to it...

Ben.

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