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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 1992 14:14:55 EDT
From: <RHK106@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Why Keanu should be Spider-Man

Allright, most of the posts I've read dispute my claim that Keanu should
play Spider-Man.  I'll give you my points on why he should.

1.  If you've ever read any Spider-Man comic, the character of Spidey is one
of a sensitive, noble, sometimes wise-cracking superhuman who does his
crimefighting thing because he thinks he has a responsibility to use his
great power for good.  In other words, he has to have a sense of humor (Bill
& Teds . . .) as well as have a serious side (Point Break).

2.  James Cameron can get an incredible acting job out of anyone.  I like
Arnold but you gotta admit, he's not the greatest of actors -- except in his
Cameron movies.  (Terminator, T2)

3.  Spider-Man is lean, but not built like a body-builder.  More like a
diver or a lower-weight wrestler.  Keanu Reeves has the perfect Spider-Man
body.

4.  Reeves' face is the exact mirror of Parker's!

5.  For the movie to be a success, you gotta have somebody cool to play
Parker or else everyone will remember that damn TV show that made Spider-Man
look like a dork with dorky body in a dorky costume.  If you read the comic
book these days, Parker isn't your bone-headed geek anymore.  He's even
married to a supermodel.

6.  I must agree with whoever it was that suggested Ray Liotta, though but
like the other guy said, he's too old.
From: jett@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (D Colish @ ATT Holmdel, NJ)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Garbage chute blunder in Star Wars?
Date: 7 Apr 92 03:47:39 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Apr2.231449.3519@iscsvax.uni.edu>, moore7004@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
> In article <ktmbc7INNfql@lisa.cs.widener.edu>, poulson@cs.widener.edu (Joshua R. Poulson) writes:
> > In article <1992Apr2.021233.3488@iscsvax.uni.edu> moore7004@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
> >>In article <74vtyg-@rpi.edu>, garrem@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Olsen Garretson) writes:
> >>> In Star Wars, when Luke, Leia, Han, & Chewbacca are exchanging fire w/troopers,
> >>> Leia blasts a hole in the wall and yells "Into the garbage chute, flyboy!".
> >> The question here is, how does Leia happen to
> >>know there's a garbage chute right there?  Do you suppose Vader took her on a
> >>tour after he tortured her?
> > 
> > Leia did, after all, steal the plans for the Death Star and was rather
> > familiar with the whole structure.  During her spying she probably found
> > out a great deal.
> > 
> > Also, Imperial designs being what they are, they're probably similar to
> > the millions of other Imperial starships she's be on or around.  No one
> > can afford to ignore standards... :) :) :) :)
> > -- 
> > Joshua R. Poulson (NIC handle: JRP8)       [Joshua R. Poulson@cyber.Widener.EDU]
> > Systems Programmer, Widener University     [poulson@cs.Widener.EDU]
> > "Try to be sensitive..." -- the Usenet Oracle Helpfile (send a mail
> > message with the subject "help" to oracle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu)
> 
> Oh, NOW I get it: Leia *memorized* the plans, huh?  That's how she knew where
> the garbage chute was, huh?  Gee, wonder why they even needed R2-D2.  Leia
> coulda just fed 'em all the info.
> 
> And yeah, I guess the Death Star was pretty similar to all the *other* Imperial
> Death Stars they had at the time.  Don't suppose it was an entirely *new*
> structure or anything.
> 
> Scotto the Malicious


   As I recall, and as someone probably already posted as the feed is a
bit slow here, is that C3PO was in contact with Luke via some type of walkie-
talkie. C3PO somehow tapped into the ship's database and was able to find floor
plans. This info he passwd onto Luke who located the correct panel to lead
them from the fire fight that they were engaged in.

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From: murphy@npri6.npri.com (David P. Murphy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.books
Subject: Acts of Butchery (good book --> really lame movie)
Summary: see subject
Keywords: wasgood,nowbad
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:05:15 GMT
Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA

this may be a Frequently Started Thread, but i haven't seen it yet . . .
we rented "Tai-Pan" the other night and simply could *not* watch the damn thing.
it was so bad that it's not even the point of this topic, which is:

    what is the BEST novel which has been made into the WORST movie?

i really doubt that "Tai-Pan" can be regarded as the winner of this category,
but "Kim" (see .sig below) and "The Fountainhead" seem to have great potential. 
also, some sf/sci-fi friends have nominated "Dune", but i haven't seen it.

care to contribute?

ok
dpm
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From: garrem@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Olsen Garretson)
Subject: Re: Vanity in movies
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 22:40:27 GMT

Someone asked for the name of a movie with Vanity in it. The movie was "Action
Jackson", released in 1988.  Even though I already emailed the name of the
movie to the requestor, I just figured I'd post here too, along with the comment
that Sharon Stone was also in the movie... anyone remember what part she had?

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From: kristyp@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kristy Patterson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Prince of Tides: 0 for 7 (yes!)
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:50:00 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <1992Apr8.185902.16849@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> sws8n@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Stefan William Sittig) writes:
>In article <7450@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> bohdan@cs.uq.oz.au writes:

(long discussion about Barbra Streisand deleted...)

>I agree with you.  I didn't mean that she needs to strive to be THE BEST, but
>look around, are there ANY women directors getting nominated making movies, 
>etc?  Please don't slam one of the few that actual gets a movie to the
>mainstream!!  I can think of Penny Marshall, and that's about it.
>Nora Ephron directed a movie this year, but who else?
>			-Stefan


Well, I'd say that Penelope Spheeris directed a movie that got into the
mainstream... anyone heard of "Wayne's World?" :-)

-Kristy


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From: kristyp@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kristy Patterson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Best Film Swordfights
Date: 7 Apr 92 17:17:07 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <1992Mar31.183131.6877@linus.mitre.org> sdo@hoops.mitre.org (Sean D. O'Neil) writes:
>In article <1992Mar29.195656.29458@cs.yale.edu> loosemore-sandra@CS.YALE.EDU (Sandra Loosemore) writes:
>>gl1e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Greg G Levrault) writes:

>>   Anyone who enjoyed the "Princess Bride" scene will love a scene in "The
>>   Court Jester"

>>Well, this film made my "best swordfight" list too.  But the part that
>>had *me* rolling on the floor was the jousting tournament: "The pellet
>>with the poison is in the flagon with the dragon..."

>Wasn't it, "The vessel with the pestle has the poison in the pellet,
>the flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true"?

At some point the pellet with the poison ended up in the chalice with the
palace. I think it went this way: at first, the vessel with the pestle had
the pellet with the poison, and the chalice with the palace had the brew
that was true.  BUT, the chalice with the palace got broken, so the flagon
with the dragon figured in there somewhere, but I don't remember where the
pellet with the poison ended up! :-)

>Sean
-Kristy


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From: uril@yang.earlham.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: T2 is crap
Date: 14 Apr 92 17:40:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: yang.1992Apr14.124026.16964
Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

In article <madkiwi.702851806@camelot>, madkiwi@camelot.bradley.edu (Michael Eade) writes:
> 
> T-1000, once he has touched a person, can simulate that person and their voice.  Once he touched Sarah, he would've offed her.  
> 
> Much too civilized for a machine that hates humans, don't you think?

PLEASE, NO MORE!!!!  WE HAVE HEARD EVERY SIDE OF THIS ARGUMENT!   IT IS 
OVER.  THERE ARE MUCH MORE INTRESTING THINGS TO TALK ABOUT THAN A MINOR 
WHOLE IN AN OTHERWISE SOLID SCRIPT.  SO PLEASE, LET US MOVE ON!!!!!!!!!!
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From: gvg@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Greg Goebel)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 14:20:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Nude Tina Louise
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies

And where is Tina Louise these days?  Some of the old GI cast are pushing up
daisies now but I do see Bob Denver doing some things every rare now and
then.

I always liked him better as Maynard G. Krebs ("WORK!?").  BTW, remember 
Zelda on DOBIE GILLIS?  I heard her on the radio the other night talking 
about how she got blackballed in filmland because she was a lesbian.  I was
disillusioned; she wasn't crazy about Dobie, she just wanted to get a line on
all his cute girlfriends ...

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From: tas@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (thomas.skrobala)
Subject: Re: naked ellen barkin (was Re: Eroticism without nudity)
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 23:19:41 GMT

>
>> And, according to "The Bare Facts Guide", Ellen used a body double for
>> the scenes in "Sea of Love".  I don't remember what it said about "The
>> Big Easy".  She *did* appear naked in Siesta, if it really matters.
>

In an interview in Esquire a year or two ago, Ms. Barkin complained that
the scenes were shot so that her face and body didn't appear together.
I had the impression that it was indeed her body.  My recollection is
that she wasn't against appearing nude, but she didn't want the
emphasis to be on body parts, as it is when the body-without-face is
shown.

Tom Skrobala  AT&T Bell Laboratories  tas@io.att.com
From: synth@dreamtime.unm.edu (Synth F. Oberheim)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Personal to Malcolm Austin!
Date: 6 Apr 92 16:44:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: lynx.9!pjxyd
Distribution: usa
Organization: SynthMuzik Productions Ltd.:  The Danes Call It Quality

Malcolm, I can't seem to get email through to your site!  Please email me
to confirm your path or domain name.

Regards,
Synth .:::::. synth@dreamtime.unm.edu, synth@yenta.alb.nm.us
From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Point Break question
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:19:10 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

> I got the impression the Bodhi was short for Bodhisattva, a name given to
> various Buddhist ideals.  I'm not sure about the spelling, and I'll let 
> someone with more knowledge of Buddhism correct or expand upon what it means 
> to call someone a Bodhisattva.

Or ask a fan of Steely Dan...I happen to be both, but I didn't see the movie.

A Bodhisattva is a Buddhist disciple that has reached enlightenment.
I find this hard to believe of Patrick Swazye!  :^)

(BTW: Interesting piece of trivia...the name Steely Dan comes from the 
name of a dildo in a William S. Burroughs novel...)

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From: ddrumm@amiganet.chi.il.us (Daniel Drumm)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Kim Katr(ea)ll
Date: 6 Apr 92 07:39:34 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

Celeste Campbell:
 
Someone here named it, it's called Masquerade, and it is Kim Catrall. Meg
Tilly is also in it, Lowe falls for Tilly, I think, but was in an illicit (I
really can't remember) affair w. Catrall.
From: csf020@cck.coventry.ac.uk (M. Windsor)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: T2 soundtrack
Date: 16 Apr 92 12:36:13 GMT
Organization: Coventry Polytechnic, Coventry, UK

In article <sjl7rINN89g@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> joneil@heretix.East.Sun.COM writes:
>is there a soundtrack for the movie T2?????
>
>is it good?????

Put it this way ... if you like the title music 
(" a...dunk..dunk...a...dunk..dunk...a...dunk..dunk") 

Then you'll love the movie score music, its just 20 "re-mixes" of the same
dull monotonous tune.  ;-(

Luckily, I only hired it from a local CD library, took it back the same 
afternoon.


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From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Script summary (Its Alive)
Date: 13 Apr 92 22:32:23 GMT
Organization: USC-ISI
In-reply-to: bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu's message of 6 Apr 92 18:02:44 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.180244.24773@hamblin.math.byu.edu> bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu (Bill Smith) writes:

>
>Does anyone out there have a script or script summary for the movie "It's
>Alive" that they would be willing to email me??  Also, I think there was a
>sequel.  What was that about???  [I suppose it was twins ;-)]
>-Bill

Demon baby from hell escapes its parents and goes around killing folx.
Seuqal had a bunch of them droppped on an island. 

At the time, not a bad flick, but by today's standards quite lame.

jas
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From: lorne.murphy@rose.uucp (lorne murphy)
Subject: NORTH AND SOUTH BK.3
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 11:11:29 GMT
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Date Entered: 04-06-92 12:49
John Jakes wrote three novels in his NORTH AND SOUTH trilogy...
why were only two mini-series made? Is "HEAVEN AND HELL" going to be made?
Does anybody know? And if so, will it be the same cast?

LM
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From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
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Subject: Re: Dead Again: Plot conflicts
Date: 16 Apr 92 03:26:43 GMT
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Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
In-reply-to: andre@rurutu.wri.com's message of 16 Apr 92 00:36:12 GMT

It was a somewhat ridiculous movie.  It's one of those obvious films
where all you have to do is think of the most "ironic" twist and you
know what's going to happen next.  I hate predictably unpredictable
films.
--
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                 asked to see ID.... I was living a nightmare.  I was 
                 stranded in a happy paranoid land where the only people 
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From: SASCWR@vm.sas.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Diner
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:46:12 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.

I don't think they referred to it by name in the film, but I seem
to remember reading somewhere (Smithsonian article re: diners?) that
it was the Falls Point Diner located somewhere in the Baltimore area.

...maybe?

Chris Rogers                     e-mail: SASCWR@VM.SAS.COM
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From: napalm@next07wor.wam.umd.edu (Warren L. Mohn)
Subject: Re: DUNE...A minor classic?
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 23:13:47 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.133650.1480@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>  
dnadams@isis.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) writes:
> 
> nyberg@ms.uky.edu (Jack Nyberg) writes:
> 
>  >I just rented David Lynch's DUNE this weekend.  I had seen it when 
>  >it was originally released and remember that I was disappointed.
> 
> I *loved* it when I saw it the first time, and I still do now...
> 
>  >But seeing it again, I was marvellously entertained.
> 
 
  
>  >When you look at DUNE in relation to the other Lynch movies, I think
>  >DUNE fits in very nicely and may someday be considered a minor  
classic.
> 
> I considered it a "classic" right from the very beginning...

A CLASSIC?, Dune?, you must be on drugs.  Or were when you saw it.  This  
piece of garbage passed off as science fiction is an insult to everyone  
who saw it.  Audiences should bring a class-action suit against the studio  
for releasing this film.  Just because David Lynch, a very fine director,  
directed it and it had some nice visuals does not make it a classic.  The  
story was simplified, lame and generally tried to pass itself off as  
intellectual when it was total bullshit.  You got suckered into believing  
the film's claim that it was sophisticated.  
    When I saw this in the theater the studio had the audacity to hand out  
little 2-3 page glossaries about the terms used in the movie, just in case  
you hadn't read the book.  This gave the impression that the movie was  
going to be an insightful, accurate, believable, intellectual journey into  
the world of DUNE.  Yeah, whatever.  It was trash.  And I think if you  
asked David Lynch about Dune, he'd probably deny he ever made it.
           
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From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Subject: Re: Review: SLEEPWALKERS
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: bl
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 17:10:19 GMT
Keywords: review, sleepwalkers, horror, phantom

In article <54579@hydra.gatech.EDU>, ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU (Jorge Diaz) writes:
> In article <SBB.92Apr13024231@panix.com> sbb@panix.com (The Phantom) writes:
> 
> >The Phantom hardly knows where to start.  He supposes that he should

[... more of Phantom's review deleted ...]

> >yet another spiritless, insipid, King-inspired horror film in the
> Listen up, Phantom.
> 
> THE LAWNMOWER MAN is not a spiritless, insipid, King-inspired ANYTHNG.
Yes, I agree with the first two and not the third as well.

> OK?  That movie has nothing in common with King's short story The
> Lawnmower Man, except the title.
> 
> King's story is about a man who mows lawns naked, eats the grass, and
> finally sacrifices the man who hired him to Pan.
> 
> Yeah, it's stupid, but it's certainly no worse than that movie.  Do you
> just hate Stephen King, and *look* for excuses to slam him, no caring that
> you sound like a fool?

Jorge, I don't like to be put in the position of defending Mr. "Phantom",
but here you come off somewhat defensively, and I'm assuming you didn't
mean that.  Besides, I don't think you have to look very hard to find
excuses to slam King.  And although there may be several aspects of
"Phantom"'s reviews that are less than perfect, I don't think "Phantom"
sounds like a fool.  Just made a mistake.  

If King makes money by putting his name on everything from cartoons to
bowling balls, he's going to take the occasional, if not appropriate,
heat, right?

GMS

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