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From: sdt8s@curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU (Steve Tilson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Diehard III
Date: 11 Nov 92 00:08:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: murdoch.1992Nov11.000843.20364
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Virginia

berninge@cs.purdue.edu  writes:
> 
> Entertainment Weakly ran an article this issue about the prospect of
> Die Hard 3.  It seems that the script they were going to go with
> involved terrorists on a steam ship (the details elude me, and I
> don't have the magazine in front of me at the moment).  The project
> has been scrapped because the plot is too similar to another movie
> just released, or soon to be released (again, details elude me).
> The producers vowed that there will be a Die Hard 3 eventually...
> 

There you have it. Under Siege has killed Die Hard 3, for the
moment.

Oh, well...

Steve
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Violets are blue.
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From: mvburke@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (mary virginia burke)
Subject: Re: Truly, Madly, Deeply and Joni Mitchell
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:56:50 GMT

I think the song is called "A Case of You"....But then, I was too
busy listening to all the Bach (on modern instruments, ew!) to pay
a whole lot of attention to that bit.  Delightful movie!

MVB

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From: m13079@mwunix (Mary Anne Walters)
Subject: Re: REVIEW: CANDYMAN
Organization: MITRE Corporation, McLean VA
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:22:59 GMT

All this fuss over a long review by the Phantom (who I would gladly pay
to read, thank you!) made me think of the shortest review I've ever seen
and which I quote here, in it's entirety:

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 -- Man with chainsaw.  Kills people. Area theaters.

Made me laugh......

 
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From: dd00@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DARIUSH DERAKHSHANI)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Most SHOCKING film in my childhood
Date: 13 Nov 92 05:21:32 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

>S954818@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU (Mark Pedigo) writes:
>>bam@Bang.UUCP (Bret A. Marquis) writes:
>>>
>>>Most shocking movie has to be "Lord of the Flies".  The 1963 version
>>>directed by Peter Brook, adapted from the William Golding novel.
>
>I've seen both and the remake pales to the '63 version. I really hate it
>when they take a damned good book and change the setting in the movie.
>Why do movie people _do_ this sort of thing? It is much more effective when
>prim and proper English boys degenerate into barbarians than American
>soldiers boys. This, to me, screwed up everything in the '90 remake. Just


I must agree, I think the 1990 remake was lousy in comparison.  The remake
failed miserably to convey the book's ideas.  They never really explored
Golding's allutions to the Satanic figure the pig's head became, the Christ
figure (I forget his name) who was tempted by the talking pig's head, etc.
etc.  It was a masterpiece turned into an adventure flick, not a bad adventure
flick, but nothing more.
-- 

Surrealincerely Yours,

          ====)------------------- Dariush

                                        "Whatever."
                        "Life is just an annoying side effect of sex."
From: arnold@pyramid.unr.edu (Bruce M Arnold)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Movies you heard were good but sucked
Date: 6 Nov 92 05:31:59 GMT
Reply-To: arnold@pyramid.unr.edu (Bruce M Arnold)
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno  Department of Computer Science

In article <Bvnw7y.4In@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> mftjs@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (T. Jerry Scott) writes:
>In article <b5nW03QQ8eRt00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> jsp@pls.amdahl.com writes:
>
>I felt that way about Unforgiven.  I have seen most of the Clint
>Eastwood movies, and liked them, especially ones like the Dirty Harry
>movies.  This movie, Unforgiven, got good reviews, so I paid the $5+
>bucks to see it when it first came to the theatre.  My wife is also a
>fan of Eastwood, so we went expecting a neat movie.  At the end of the 
>movie, we could not find one thing good in the whole movie.  I mean,
>leaving two small kids in the wilderness to go and kill someone
>is just bad bad bad.  And it gets worse from there....  This one
>gets my vote hands down.

I can see how someone could interpret the movie this way, but it really
has nothing to do with anything about killing the guy

The entire movie asks the question, "when is bad - bad, and what is good?"

If you notice, there are no bad guys or good guys.. I mean, the bad guys
(the dudes who cut up the whore) aren't really THAT BAD.  But Clint's dude
isn't really that GOOD either..

It's hard to explain.. but that's the basic idea..

( I loved the movie myself )
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From: mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon)
Subject: Re: DAVID LYNCH\DUNE
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:09:36 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies

In article <996.39.uupcb@hal9000.UUCP>, george.bruner@hal9000.UUCP (George
Bruner) wrote:
> but I think his [Lynch] style of filmmaking
> is not suited to sci-fi. I would have liked to have seen some sort of TV
> mini-series -- a string of two hour segments -- done by a Spielberg or

Neither Lucas nor Speilberg would have been appropriate, though
more so than David Lynch.  

Ridley Scott - *he* would have been appropriate.           
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From: sdt8s@curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU (Steve Tilson)
Subject: Re: CHRISTMAS movies?
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:20:27 GMT

fugitt@tempus.Corp.Sun.COM  writes:
> 
> 
> In article 92Nov3124456@todd.kastle.com, todd@kastle.com (Todd A. Scalzott) writes:
> >
> >>
> 
> > 
> I keep waiting for someone to mention "Home Alone" and the upcoming
> sequel...
> 

And you can keep waiting, as far as I'm concerned... no, this
isn't a flame on you, I just can't abide that pesky little
dork. I can't wait til he hits puberty so everyone will realize
he can't act and will lose all interest in him.
--
From: george.bruner@hal9000.UUCP (George Bruner)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: DAVID LYNCH\DUNE
Date: 9 Nov 92 00:52:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: hal9000.996.39.uupcb
Reply-To: george.bruner@hal9000.UUCP (George Bruner)
Distribution: world
Organization: HAL 9000 BBS, (313)663-4173, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Was anyone else out there disappointed with David Lynch's "Dune"?
The movie brutally left out important parts in the book and the
screenplay was awful. I've found Lynch's "Blue Velvet" and "Wild at
Heart" to be refreshingly offbeat, but I think his style of filmmaking
is not suited to sci-fi. I would have liked to have seen some sort of TV
mini-series -- a string of two hour segments -- done by a Spielberg or
Lucas instead.
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Subject: Re: Prospero's Books
From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 21:37:13 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <9211081813.AA27211@cec1.wustl.edu> sp2@cec1.wustl.edu (Sundara Pandian) writes:
>
>   I have a few questions to anyone who watched the
>full movie `Prospero's Books'. I saw this movie
>yesterday, but left the movie hall about 30 minutes
>after this movie started. I could not make a head 
>or tail out of this movie and I didn't have enough
>patience to watch the whole movie to get to know
>what is it about. I will appreciate your help if
>you could tell me what is this movie about and what
>happens to Prospero at the end.

The film makes a lot more sense if you read The Tempest by William
Shakespeare (sp?) the night before.

I did, and it helped immensely. Hell, I even enjoyed the film a lot!
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From: ce732@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven K. Wilcken)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: the absolute worst movie of all time, so bad it's bad
Date: 7 Nov 1992 06:18:21 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ce732@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven K. Wilcken)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


A movie I would put in the running is "the Return of Captain Invincable."
This movie answers the age old question, Why don't you see Christopher Lee
in any musicals.  It would be just another cheesy superhero movie except
for the musical numbers.  Bad music and much too much of it.

-- 
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                                            -Arthur Dent-
From: james.kewageshig@canrem.com (james kewageshig)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: forensic medicine/cor
Date: 10 Nov 92 01:34:11 GMT
Reply-To: "james kewageshig" <james.kewageshig@canrem.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

ins894r@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Aaron Wigley [Wigs]) writes:

AW>Simon Hamner (sch@getafix) wrote:
AW>: Well I suppose you could count Backdraft sorta... Robert De Niro does a
AW>: lot of forensics to track down the cause of the fire.

AW>There was a good series produced by ABC-TV here in Australia a year or so
AW>ago for television called 'Phoenix'. It was based around the Car Bombing
AW>of a Police function. Forensic Police played a large part in tracing the
AW>suspects. (The show was actually based on the Bombing of the Police
AW>headquarters here in Melbourne several years ago).

Thats weird.  In Canada, a show from the States called 'Quincey'
was all about a forensic examiner who catches criminals (of course;) ).

There was also a show called 'The Phoenix' that was about this guy
who was an alien (I think) that is discovered in a hermetically-sealed
tomb, and had these mystical powers based around his gold eagle medallion.
Although not realated to Forensics, I thought it was kinda funny that
the show you mention was so similar to the 2 shows I mentioned...
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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: Do movie stars sound like smurfs on US TV?
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:06:59 GMT

otto@jybox.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:
>thompsmr@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Thompson) writes:

>Bob Niland has a very good article (LD#12: Film/video 3-2 pulldown and
>"white flags") on this, but the clou of the article is this:
>-- begin --
>In the analog domain, or on "real-time" digital telecine scanners, the
>optimal practice is to map a film frame onto three video fields, pull down
>the next frame, map it onto two video fields, then back to 3 field; hence
>the name "3/2 pulldown".  Older low-budget practice is to repeat every
>fourth film frame for one video frame. 
>-- end --

Erm... But how is this when pictures change very much (due to rapid
movement and such)? Then you should see moving lines twice in the pic-
ture. It happens when we watch NTSC converted to PAL.
Does that happen? And isn't it rather disturbing? I find it is.


May the Cool Be with You!

(C)OOL mcmxcii
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From: bbrett@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Betsy Brett)
Subject: Sheryl Lee: I Love You to Death?
Summary: Who did she play?
Keywords: Sheryl Lee
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:26:22 GMT


I have hear from a few sources that Sheryl Lee, otherwise known as Laura
Palmer, was in the film, I LOVE YOU TO DEATH.  I have seen this film a
couple of times, and even own a copy, but have not seen her in it.  What
character did she play?

Along the same lines, now that I think of it, who was Lara Flynn-Boyle
in DEAD POETS SOCIETY???  She played Donna on Twin Peaks (the series,
not the movie.)  I also have this film, but have not spotted her in it.

-Betsy Brett-
bbrett@morgan.ucs.mun.ca

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From: davidw@aifh.ed.ac.uk (David Wren)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: New Branagh Film?
Keywords: Branagh
Date: 13 Nov 92 10:39:40 GMT
Reply-To: davidw@aifh.ed.ac.uk (David Wren)
Organization: Dept of AI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

In article <mswens69.721580585@ursa>, mswens69@ursa.calvin.edu (Mark Swenson)
writes:
# I have heard that Kenneth Branagh (director of 1988s Henry V and Dead Again)
# is working on a new film that is based on another Shakespearean play.  Has
# anyone heard of this?  If you have, I would like to know what play it is 
# based on and when it will be coming out?  Also, if it isn't asking too much
# I would like to know if Derek Jacobi or other actors/actresses from
previous
# films will be in it.  Thank you.
# --
# #  Mark Swenson	                        #      "Play for more than        
#
# #  101 Bolt, Calvin College             #       you can afford to         
#
# #  Grand Rapids, MI 49546	        #       lose, and you will         #
# #  mswens69@ursa.calvin.edu             #        learn the game."         
#

I think that the film in question might be "Much Ado about Nothing", and I'm 
sure that his usual bunch of actors/actresses will be in it. A few years ago,
Judi Dench directed Branagh in Much Ado on the stage,  so I wonder whether 
she might be involved. 

-- 
David Wren 
Department of A.I.
Edinburgh University
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From: tony@jeeves.engr.mun.ca (Anthony H Galway)
Subject: Line on OLD Movies
Reply-To: tony@jeeves.engr.mun.ca
Organization: C-CAE, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:04:04 GMT

	I am looking for a line on older movies. Specifically Errol Flynn,
Barry Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby etc. Does anyone know of a movie house
that specializes in older movies, and if so could you get me an address
or 800 number that is accessable to Canadians (Newfoundland)

Thanks
-Tony
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From: braca2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (BRAY CHRISTOPHER)
Subject: Re: Movie Production
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:42:43 GMT

jjonsson@alexandria.lib.utah.edu writes:

>In article <3NOV92.00460676@vax.clarku.edu> mcohen@vax.clarku.edu writes:

>>In a previous article, lp_rath@pavo.concordia.ca (RATHE, LOUIS-PHILIPPE) wrote:
>>>I was wondering. How many people on internet would be interested
>>>in having a news group about movie productions. A news group for
>>>amateurs, pros and cinema students. The 'art' of making movies on
>>>film sock. A news group for Super 8mm, 16mm and 35mm productions.
>>> 
>>>I just finished filming a 16mm 5-10 min short movie* and I tought it 
>>>would be great talking about editing, film stock, exposure, sound,
>>>whatever,  etc...


put my name on the roll.

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From: Gordon.S.Witter@dartmouth.edu (Gordon S. Witter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: DAVID LYNCH\DUNE
Date: 12 Nov 92 23:05:19 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu

In article <996.39.uupcb@hal9000.UUCP>
george.bruner@hal9000.UUCP (George Bruner)  writes:

> Was anyone else out there disappointed with David Lynch's "Dune"?
> The movie brutally left out important parts in the book and the
> screenplay was awful. I've found Lynch's "Blue Velvet" and "Wild at
> Heart" to be refreshingly offbeat, but I think his style of filmmaking
> is not suited to sci-fi. I would have liked to have seen some sort of TV
> mini-series -- a string of two hour segments -- done by a Spielberg or
> Lucas instead.
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>            

I may be mistaken, but wasn't Lynch one of Lucas' (?) first choices for
director of _Return of the Jedi_.  I like most of Lynch's works, but
this is one I'm glad he didn't take part in.

-dino
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From: cmp2s@Virginia.EDU ("Cameron Montgomery Payne")
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Book "The Art of War" seen in the movie 'K2-The ultimate High'
Date: 6 Nov 92 02:14:32 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

Check out Passenger 57 with Wesley Snipes. It's not out yet but
its got "The Art of War" in it.
From: sp2@cec1.wustl.edu (Sundara Pandian)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Prospero's Books
Date: 8 Nov 1992 12:14:33 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


   I have a few questions to anyone who watched the
full movie `Prospero's Books'. I saw this movie
yesterday, but left the movie hall about 30 minutes
after this movie started. I could not make a head 
or tail out of this movie and I didn't have enough
patience to watch the whole movie to get to know
what is it about. I will appreciate your help if
you could tell me what is this movie about and what
happens to Prospero at the end.
   Thanks,
                                            Sundara.
                                   sp2@cec1.wustl.edu
From: ivy@chem.ucsd.edu (Ivy Blumberg)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: CHRISTMAS movies?
Date: 5 Nov 1992 18:08:31 GMT
Organization: University of California San Diego, Chemistry
NNTP-Posting-Host: chedccf0.ucsd.edu

In article <lfdrnuINNcnj@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> fugitt@tempus.Corp.Sun.COM writes:
>
>
>In article 92Nov3124456@todd.kastle.com, todd@kastle.com (Todd A. Scalzott) writes:
>>In article <8628@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> ns@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Nancy M. Schnepp) writes:
>>
>>>   From: ns@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Nancy M. Schnepp)
>>>   Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
>>>   Date: 2 Nov 92 17:56:21 GMT
>>>   Sender: news@dirac.physics.purdue.edu
>>>   Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
>>>   Organization: Purdue University Physics Department
>>>
>>>   Does anyone have a list of Christmas movies?  
>
>
>>>   More????
>

One of my favorites is "One Magic Christmas."


ivy



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From: rtang@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (The One Your Mother Warned You About!)
Subject: Re: My opinion of Under Siege(possible spoiler) 
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 02:03:10 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.192919.9498@mcs.anl.gov> chuck@cygnus.eid.anl.gov writes:
>In article 1du7nlINN3qc@eagle.natinst.com, darrenl@natinst.com (Darren Lilie) writes:
>> Another thing which bothered me is that how did Segal know exactly how
>> much time to "cook" the "homemade bomb" that he put in the microwave.
>> I mean that the buzzer happen to go off right before the bomb exploded and
>> there happen to be several of the terrorists in the room at the time.
>Easy, Segal turned the lights off by turning off the *circuit breaker*. When the
>bad guys turned the breaker back on, both the lights and the microwave started.
>Obviously the amount of time to microwave a bomb is covered in Special Forces
>Cooking 101.
Good explanation, but of course you should know that the SEAL training
course is called BUDS which stands for basic underwater DEMOLITION school.


RT

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From: firestar@leland.Stanford.EDU (Lipton Ann Meredith)
Subject: Lethal Weapon (was Re: Movies about Blind People)
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 18:49:33 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.160452.3012@ils.nwu.edu> tsui@ils.nwu.edu writes:


>
>I hate how people like to stick labels like "homosexual tendencies" to John Woo
>films just because its convenient and doesn't rquire any thinking.  Woo is not
>ashamed to show his characters with genuine emotions.  Films like LETHAL WEAPON
>(all of them) just try to pile on the action so they don't have to worry about
>the script.
>


Umm, while I think there are alot of action films out there for which this
criticism could be justified, I don't think Lethal Weapon is one of them.  
I am continually impressed by the character portrayed by Mel Gibson in
Lethal Weapon -- he goes so much deeper than your average kung-fu killing
machine (aka Steven Segal).  And his relationship with Danny Glover's character
in that movie is equally wonderful.  I don't deny there is alot of action,
but there's nothing wrong with action, especially when you have strong,
interesting characters behind it.

Now, as for the other Lethal Weapon movies, those really have sacrificed 
character for action -- with Martin Riggs no longer suicidal, alot of that
freshness is lost.

Firestar
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From: v115p8d6@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (she listens like her head's on fire..)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: MOVIES ABOUT BLIND PEOPLE
Keywords: none
Date: 9 Nov 92 18:28:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Nov9.143239.4963@pony.Ingres.COM>, walker@Ingres.COM (Lynn Walker) writes...
>With all this talk about "Jennifer 8", I seemed to remember a similar film
>about a blind women who may have "witnessed" a murder. This film was made
>in the 70's (??) I can't remember the star or title, but perhaps someone
>can refresh my memory?

There was a mystery movie about a blind woman made in the 70's called
Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn. A very good movie.

> 
>			-- Lynn --
> 
> *****************************************************************************
>  Lynn Walker		+ "When you think about it, the whole idea of two guys
>  Toronto, Canada	+  making decisions for twenty million people--that's
>  walker@ingres.com	+  pretty funny."		-- The Candidate
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