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movies-digest         Tuesday, April 28 1998         Volume 02 : Number 009



[MV] Sci-fi Movie News - 04/24/98
Re: [MV] SPECIES II  / Review   Some Spoilers
Re: [MV] SPECIES II  / Review   Some Spoilers
Re: [MV] SPECIES II  / Review   Some Spoilers
[MV] Deep Impact
[MV] Tarzan, Major League 3, Lost in Space
Re: [MV] Deep Impact
Re: [MV] Deep Impact
Re: [MV] Tarzan, Major League 3, Lost in Space
Re: [MV] Deep Impact
Re: [MV] Tarzan, Major League 3, Lost in Space
Re: [MV] Deep Impact
[MV] Lost in Space vs. Star Trek
Re: [MV] Lost in Space vs. Star Trek
Re: [MV] Two Girls and a Guy, 0 stars (out of 4) -Reply
Re: [MV] Two Girls and a Guy, 0 stars (out of 4) -Reply

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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 14:32:12 -0600 (MDT)
From: The Reporter <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Sci-fi Movie News - 04/24/98

In a press release issued April 13, Paramount
Pictures announced that production on the ninth Star
Trek movie--which is being filmed with the working
title Star Trek IX--began March 31 under the direction of
Jonathan Frakes.  Michael Piller wrote the screenplay for
the film based on a story he developed with Rick
Berman.  It will be the third film in the Trek franchise to
feature the cast of the television series Star Trek: The
Next Generation.

Patrick Stewart (Captain Jean-Luc Picard), Frakes
(Commander William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt.
Commander Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lt.
Commander Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly
Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi) and
Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data) will reprise their
starring roles as the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise.  They
will be joined by Academy Award-winner F. Murray
Abraham, Tony Award-winner Donna Murphy and Emmy
Award-winner Anthony Zerbe.

According to Paramount, "In Star Trek IX Captain Picard
and the crew of the Enterprise fulfill one of man's
enduring dreams--to find a fountain of youth.  When the
existence of this newfound paradise is threatened,
Picard faces a daunting decision--in order to protect the
lives of the inhabitants of this alien world, he must
commit treason and take up arms against the
Federation itself."

Paramount would not confirm recent rumors that the final
title for the movie will be Star Trek: Prime Directive.  The
film is currently shooting in Southern California for a
November release.

                        -=> * <=-

Principal photography has begun on director David
Cronenberg's new SF thriller eXistenZ, an Alliance
Communications film that recently added Willem
Dafoe, Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Don McKellar and
Callum Keith Rennie to its cast.  eXistenZ was written by
Cronenberg and is the first project he's undertaken since
his controversial adaptation of SF writer J.G. Ballard's
book Crash.

The film stars Jennifer Jason Leigh as Allegra Geller, a
game creator extraordinaire whose latest invention,
eXistenZ, taps into the fears and desires of its players.
Jude Law stars opposite Leigh as a novice security
guard who links into Geller's virtual world.  The film is
shooting in Toronto for a 1999 release.

                        -=> * <=-

Con Air director Simon West is in talks with
Propaganda Films to helm the movie version of the
1960s British SF TV series The Prisoner, according
to The Hollywood Reporter.  West, whose next project is
The General's Daughter starring John Travolta, may hold
off making a decision on the deal until the film's cast is
set.

The Prisoner was created in 1967 by
writer/director/actor Patrick McGoohan, who also played
the show's main character, No. 6.  The series chronicled
No. 6's attempts to escape from a seemingly idyllic
village that was really a prison designed to break the
spirits of its inmates.  The show ran for only 17 episodes
but has since become a cult classic among SF fans.

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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 21:54:11 -0400
From: GARY ZEIG <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] SPECIES II  / Review   Some Spoilers

>SPECIES II
>MGM
>approximately 90 minutes
>
>Buzz Review News embodied by it's; publisher, subscribers and assorted
>visitors, will be chatting up the novelization's author Yvonne Navarro at 9
>P.M. EST in http://forums.delphi.com/m/main.asp?sigdir=bzrvuenews. Thinking
>that viewing the movie would be good, I gathered up my 70 year old mom, the
>lady who gave me my love of Horror and SF, and went to the matinee.
>
>Well, my mom liked it.  She seemed to think it had just the right amount of
>excitement as well as the nudity, sex, and violence that appeal to a "young"
>audience.  Confronted by a family member who thought we'd gone to see another
>big budget SF flick,  her response was no, the good one.
>
>IOn the other hand, I have seen better.  For one, the product placement is
>much too evident.  Pay close attention to an early going space scene and
>you'll know what I mean.  That same scene will bring you appearing and
>disappearing stars as well as loads of loud noise when none of that that is
>possible in "real" space.
>
>The plot, that which Yvonne handles so admirably in the novelization, is sadly
>lacking in substantive background.  If I hadn't already read the book I can
>assure you that I would've been lost and seriously p'od.
>
>Scientific devices seem only to exist for a golly gee factor.  The tone is
>completely different from Yvonne's book.  I read her book and I cared about
>the characters.  The motion picture had me wishing them dead.
>
>Okay, to rehash the plot though I ain't gonna give away much more than the
>trailers.  We've sent a manned mission to Mars for a landing and sample
>taking.  Samples on the ship acts odd.  Back on Earth, good guy, All American,
>handsome Mars astronaut becomes a horndog and the killing starts. At the same
>time we learn that a female clone has been grown from the previous human/alien
>combo and tamed down for our safety.  It becomes a matter of will they or
>won't they and will Mr.All American's offspring push us off the planet.  There
>is a lady scientist supposedly humanely experimenting on our cloned
>alien/human and a strong guy who is bound to save the day.  Along with corrupt
>government officials you have all the cliches you'd ever need for a big
>budget, flash in the pan, flick.
>
>If you can catch a matinee, well, at least you know the viewing will cost
>less.  Try and keep in mind that my mom liked it.
>
>Buzzy
>
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I heard a rumor that there will be  a Species 3, regardless of how poorly
Species 2 does.
Can someone confirm this?

GRZ



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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 23:03:25 EDT
From: BzRvueNews <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] SPECIES II  / Review   Some Spoilers

In a message dated 4/24/98 10:59:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< Can someone confirm this?

 GRZ
  >>

Things are left open.

I can ask Yvonne Navarro but I don't know if she'd be privy to that sort of
info or even be able to tell me.

Buzzy

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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:16:51 -0400
From: GARY ZEIG <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] SPECIES II  / Review   Some Spoilers

>In a message dated 4/24/98 10:59:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [e-mail]
>writes:
>
><< Can someone confirm this?
>
> GRZ
>  >>
>
>Things are left open.
>
>I can ask Yvonne Navarro but I don't know if she'd be privy to that sort of
>info or even be able to tell me.
>
>Buzzy
>
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I have heard that Natasha Henstridge has a contract for 3 Species movies.
And that a 3rd one will be made soon,
may have been written already. This may be the worst thing for her. I think
she'd be better off doing something
else. Sometimes an actor can get stigmatized by a movie, and his/her career
goes nowhere.

Gary




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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:07:26 -0500
From: Rick Zamora <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Deep Impact

Hey all,
    Anybody looking forward to this Friday's opening of Deep Impact with
Morgan Freeman?  Looks to be a good s/fx extravaganza with a portion of
human interest thrown in.  What would you do if your were lucky enough
to have your number picked as a chosen survivor?  Reversely, what if you
were not picked and doomed to die in this catastrophe?

Laters,

Rick




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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 13:24:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: grasshopper <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Tarzan, Major League 3, Lost in Space

well, my past three trips to the theatre have definitly been to see camp
movies. Here are my takes on the three:

Tarzan: Fairly enjoyable, but not that great. I doubt I would have paid to
go see it (Note: I didn't pay to see any of these movies.) The actor that
played Tarzan- he was Johnny Rico in Starship Troopers- wasn't too bad.
The plot had some blah moments, and some taken from Temple of Doom, but I
don't resent the time I spent watching it. Jane March, who played... Jane
was decent- she's definitly pretty.

Major League 3: As a baseball fanatic and a fan of the movie "Major
League", I had to go see Major League 3. The third was definitly better
than the second, but it would have been nice to have Tom Beringer to tie
everything together. Having Pedro, Taka Tanaka, Rube and the owner-guy (I
can't remember his name, real or charector)  back was interesting, but not
having Charlie Sheen or Beringer definitly hurt. It ended up being a bit
of a feel good baseball movie- not unlike its predesessors- and overall it
wasn't bad. I liked the whole bit about coaching- the majors vs. the
minors- but it might have been better not to play on the major league
following.

Lost in Space:  I liked "Lost in Space" but I thought it was weak. The
space monkey was lame and the dialogue was pitiful (but then, the writer
also wrote Batman and Robin... why would anyone hire her to write a
script?) Leaving the movie wide open for a sequel was fairly pathetic too-
but then, in a better movie it would have been fine. The acting was all
right- I know the friend I went with really liked Heather Graham- but I
came out dissapointed because the movie could have been so much more.

well, that's my take on life right now.

kg


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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:48:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Just Different." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] Deep Impact

deep impact sounds interesting, but atm les miserables is a tad more
intriguing so i'll prolly end up catching both ;P

besides i'm going to see the broadway play this wed, so i wonder how liam
neeson and Rush & thurman are all gonna do =)

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 =(=^*^=)=        |"Cats seem to go on the principle that it|
   / ~ \        |    never does any harm to ask for    |
  ( | | )        |        what you want."           |
   ~^ ^~(_        -------------------------------------------
      *_)

On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Rick Zamora wrote:

> Hey all,
>     Anybody looking forward to this Friday's opening of Deep Impact with
> Morgan Freeman?  Looks to be a good s/fx extravaganza with a portion of
> human interest thrown in.  What would you do if your were lucky enough
> to have your number picked as a chosen survivor?  Reversely, what if you
> were not picked and doomed to die in this catastrophe?
>
> Laters,
>
> Rick
>
>
>
>
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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:48:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Just Different." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] Deep Impact

deep impact sounds interesting, but atm les miserables is a tad more
intriguing so i'll prolly end up catching both ;P

besides i'm going to see the broadway play this wed, so i wonder how liam
neeson and Rush & thurman are all gonna do =)

   /\_/\        ___________________________________________
 =(=^*^=)=        |"Cats seem to go on the principle that it|
   / ~ \        |    never does any harm to ask for    |
  ( | | )        |        what you want."           |
   ~^ ^~(_        -------------------------------------------
      *_)

On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Rick Zamora wrote:

> Hey all,
>     Anybody looking forward to this Friday's opening of Deep Impact with
> Morgan Freeman?  Looks to be a good s/fx extravaganza with a portion of
> human interest thrown in.  What would you do if your were lucky enough
> to have your number picked as a chosen survivor?  Reversely, what if you
> were not picked and doomed to die in this catastrophe?
>
> Laters,
>
> Rick
>
>
>
>
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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 18:24:32 -0500
From: Melody House <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] Tarzan, Major League 3, Lost in Space

>Lost in Space:  I liked "Lost in Space" but I thought it was weak. The
>space monkey was lame and the dialogue was pitiful (but then, the writer
>also wrote Batman and Robin... why would anyone hire her to write a
>script?) Leaving the movie wide open for a sequel was fairly pathetic too-
>but then, in a better movie it would have been fine. The acting was all
>right- I know the friend I went with really liked Heather Graham- but I
>came out dissapointed because the movie could have been so much more.
>
>well, that's my take on life right now.
>
>kg

kg,
Hi. I finally went this weekend to see Lost in Space. I had looked forward
to it despite the reveiws I had read. I should have gone along with the
reveiwers. The monkey was one of the more pathetic pieces in it. The acting
was very so-so. Matt LeBlanc was decent and Gary Oldham wasn't bad. The
girl who played Penny (can't remember her name) was pretty good too. The
rest of the cast could have been cardboard for all the feelings they
brought into it. Mimi Rogers especially was bad. Is her only claim to any
acting talent at all the ability to bug out her eyes in every scene she is
in? Mimi...a little less eyeliner. Don't draw any more attention to those
things!

Next time I listen a little closer to this group instead of wasting my money

Melody
>
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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 18:29:25 -0500
From: Melody House <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] Deep Impact

At 03:07 PM 4/27/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hey all,
>    Anybody looking forward to this Friday's opening of Deep Impact with
>Morgan Freeman?  Looks to be a good s/fx extravaganza with a portion of
>human interest thrown in.  What would you do if your were lucky enough
>to have your number picked as a chosen survivor?  Reversely, what if you
>were not picked and doomed to die in this catastrophe?
>
>Laters,
>
>Rick

Hey Rick--

I'm very much looking forward to this show and I hope it's as good as it is
looking in the preveiws.

I don't know that I would want to be a 'survivor' without my family. I
would probably give my 'winning ticket' to one of my kids but I have two of
those so who to choose.....bad decision to make

Guess I'm one of the weirdos who would rather stick it out to the end with
her family rather than be seperated.

Melody
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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:29:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: grasshopper <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] Tarzan, Major League 3, Lost in Space

I would have to disagree about Gary Oldman- I wasn't impressed by him at
all. He wasn't bad, but he wasn't paticulary good either- he wasn't
cardboard but he wasn't flesh and blood either.


>
> kg,
> Hi. I finally went this weekend to see Lost in Space. I had looked forward
> to it despite the reveiws I had read. I should have gone along with the
> reveiwers. The monkey was one of the more pathetic pieces in it. The acting
> was very so-so. Matt LeBlanc was decent and Gary Oldham wasn't bad. The
> girl who played Penny (can't remember her name) was pretty good too. The
> rest of the cast could have been cardboard for all the feelings they
> brought into it. Mimi Rogers especially was bad. Is her only claim to any
> acting talent at all the ability to bug out her eyes in every scene she is
> in? Mimi...a little less eyeliner. Don't draw any more attention to those
> things!
>
> Next time I listen a little closer to this group instead of wasting my money
>
> Melody
> >
> >
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 07:52:49 -0300
From: John Buckley <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] Deep Impact

>Hey all,At 03:07 PM 4/27/98 -0500, you wrote:

> We got 13 people going to the movies to see it. Then we go to the Oar
Club to Party.
>
>Chow,
>
>Jon
>
> Anybody looking forward to this Friday's opening of Deep Impact with
>Morgan Freeman?  Looks to be a good s/fx extravaganza with a portion of
>human interest thrown in.  What would you do if your were lucky enough
>to have your number picked as a chosen survivor?  Reversely, what if you
>were not picked and doomed to die in this catastrophe?
>
>Laters,
>
>Rick
>
>
>
>
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 08:09:45 EDT
From: GeminiJef <[e-mail]>
Subject: [MV] Lost in Space vs. Star Trek

Well, if there's any hope out there for those who crave a better Lost in Space
flick, let us not forget that Star Trek: The Movie was horrendously and
impossibly boring, ridiculous, and just plain bad.

And now with Star Trek IX coming out, no one can wait.  Take a concept, throw
it out there, and then get some good writers involved.  I think the biggest
challenge the Lost in Space makers had was converting Cheese to Drama just as
Star Trek: The Movie tried to do.

That first hurdle is the hardest, then it's all momentum from there.  The fact
that there was an opening for a sequel, leads me to believe that there is yet
a better script and a better film on its way next summer.

Patience, my virtuous ones; only good will come to pass . . . .

- -jjj

In a message dated 98-04-27 16:30:40 EDT, you write:

<< Lost in Space:  I liked "Lost in Space" but I thought it was weak. The
 space monkey was lame and the dialogue was pitiful (but then, the writer
 also wrote Batman and Robin... why would anyone hire her to write a
 script?) Leaving the movie wide open for a sequel was fairly pathetic too-
 but then, in a better movie it would have been fine. The acting was all
 right- I know the friend I went with really liked Heather Graham- but I
 came out dissapointed because the movie could have been so much more. >>

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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 01:29:53 +0100
From: Graeme MacKeachie <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] Lost in Space vs. Star Trek

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- -jjj,
Hmmmmm.  But repetition alone won't do it.  And neither, I say, will persistence.
Neither of those made a better Brady Bunch sequel!!

What will make the difference, I think, is the calibre of the creative minds
involved.  Goodness knows, the "Lost in Space" franchise (as it will probably turn
out to be) is going nowhere unless they get a better screenwriter!!  The dialogue
in that movie was staggeringly bad (and not even bad in the right way to be
cultishly good).  A decent director wouldn't hurt, either.  I personally think the
"Star Trek" movie series owes a huge (and largely unacknowledged) debt to Harve
Bennet (the screenwriter and producer of movies II, III, IV and V) and one of my
favourite directors, Nicholas Meyer (who co-wrote IV and VI, probably the two best
of the "old" generation, and directed II and VI).

Oh, I have to share with you all an amusing poem I learnt just recently:  first,
do you know what "haiku" is?  [Okay, I'll tell you quickly --  It's a very strict
form of Japanese poetry, that always has three lines, and exactly seventeen
syllables in lines of 5, 7 and 5.]   I hope I haven't spoiled it now!

HAIKU
     A kind of poem
     That makes ev'ryone sound like
     Captain James T. Kirk


- -- Graeme.
(p.s.  for all its faults, I thought "Star Trek: The Movie" captured the wonder of
space and the sheer scope of the adventure better than *any* of the ST movies that
have come since.)


GeminiJef wrote:

> Well, if there's any hope out there for those who crave a better Lost in Space
> flick, let us not forget that Star Trek: The Movie was horrendously and
> impossibly boring, ridiculous, and just plain bad.
>
> And now with Star Trek IX coming out, no one can wait.  Take a concept, throw
> it out there, and then get some good writers involved.  I think the biggest
> challenge the Lost in Space makers had was converting Cheese to Drama just as
> Star Trek: The Movie tried to do.
>
> That first hurdle is the hardest, then it's all momentum from there.  The fact
> that there was an opening for a sequel, leads me to believe that there is yet
> a better script and a better film on its way next summer.
>
> Patience, my virtuous ones; only good will come to pass . . . .
>
> -jjj



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- -jjj,
<BR>Hmmmmm.  But repetition alone won't do it.  And neither,
I say, will persistence.  Neither of those made a better Brady Bunch
sequel!!

<P>What will make the difference, I think, is the calibre of the creative
minds involved.  Goodness knows, the "Lost in Space" franchise (as
it will probably turn out to be) is going nowhere unless they get a better
screenwriter!!  The dialogue in that movie was staggeringly bad (and
not even bad in the right way to be cultishly good).  A decent director
wouldn't hurt, either.  I personally think the "Star Trek" movie series
owes a huge (and largely unacknowledged) debt to Harve Bennet (the screenwriter
and producer of movies II, III, IV and V) and one of my favourite directors,
Nicholas Meyer (who co-wrote IV and VI, probably the two best of the "old"
generation, and directed II and VI).

<P>Oh, I have to share with you all an amusing poem I learnt just recently:
first, do you know what "haiku" is?  [Okay, I'll tell you quickly
- --  It's a very strict form of Japanese poetry, that always has three
lines, and exactly seventeen syllables in lines of 5, 7 and 5.]
I hope I haven't spoiled it now!

<P><U>HAIKU</U>
<BR>     A kind of poem
<BR>     That makes ev'ryone sound like
<BR>     Captain James T. Kirk
<BR>

<P>-- Graeme.
<BR>(p.s.  for all its faults, I thought "Star Trek: The Movie" captured
the wonder of space and the sheer scope of the adventure better than *any*
of the ST movies that have come since.)
<BR>

<P>GeminiJef wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>Well, if there's any hope out there for those who
crave a better Lost in Space
<BR>flick, let us not forget that Star Trek: The Movie was horrendously
and
<BR>impossibly boring, ridiculous, and just plain bad.

<P>And now with Star Trek IX coming out, no one can wait.  Take a
concept, throw
<BR>it out there, and then get some good writers involved.  I think
the biggest
<BR>challenge the Lost in Space makers had was converting Cheese to Drama
just as
<BR>Star Trek: The Movie tried to do.

<P>That first hurdle is the hardest, then it's all momentum from there.
The fact
<BR>that there was an opening for a sequel, leads me to believe that there
is yet
<BR>a better script and a better film on its way next summer.

<P>Patience, my virtuous ones; only good will come to pass . . . .

<P>-jjj</BLOCKQUOTE>
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 09:07:28 -0700
From: Bruce Bridges <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] Two Girls and a Guy, 0 stars (out of 4) -Reply

Hi Guys,

I'm back from the great city of Austin Tx.  I saw some great comedy
troups at the BS Comedy Fest.  Here are some brief thoughts on
current topics.

I thought the Killer was a beautiful film.  All of the elements and
imagery combined to create a great movie.  Since then every John Woo
film I've seen repeats the same themes, images, camera tricks etc.
and I am frankly bored by it.  I did like Face/Off and hope that he
can continue to find that right combination of actors, story etc. to
continue to create good films.  There are far more chinese directors
out there who have created truely wonderful films and I'm a little
disappointed that Woo gets all the attention.  Oh well.

I thought Deconstructing Harry was brilliant.  Only Woody Allen would
dare lay bare himself so honestly and still manage to be wickedly
funny.

Here is a funny thing that I caught while sitting with some kids
watching Star Wars over the weekend.  The light sabers cast shadows!
I couldn't stop the tape to double check since I would ruin it for the
kids but I'm positive I saw shadows.  Since the saber is a source of
light it shouldn't do that.

Concerning Titantic.  I always wondered why Decaprio's character
suddenly became a boat sinking expert.  In the final sinking of the
ship he gives Kate very detailed instructions on how they must endure
the initial suction beneath the surface yada yada yada.  Who the hell
made him an expert?

Concerning walk-outs of movies.  I do that all the time.  You can
generally tell within the first 25 minutes if a movie is worth the
trouble and if it hasn't convinced me, I walk (unless I'm with
someone.)   I was recently burned with this test though when I saw
The Suicide Kings.  It turns out that it has a great first 30 minutes
and then turns to crap.

bye,
bb

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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 19:35:51 cet
From: "greuel" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [MV] Two Girls and a Guy, 0 stars (out of 4) -Reply

> Here is a funny thing that I caught while sitting with some kids
> watching Star Wars over the weekend.  The light sabers cast shadows!
> I couldn't stop the tape to double check since I would ruin it for the
> kids but I'm positive I saw shadows.  Since the saber is a source of
> light it shouldn't do that.

Well, they were holding broom sticks when they shot the film, all the
light stuff was added later frame by frame. It seems that they were
not very careful with the accuracy as I read there are scenes where
they forgot to colour the light sabres in.


> Concerning walk-outs of movies.  I do that all the time.  You can
> generally tell within the first 25 minutes if a movie is worth the
> trouble and if it hasn't convinced me, I walk (unless I'm with
> someone.)   I was recently burned with this test though when I saw
> The Suicide Kings.  It turns out that it has a great first 30 minutes
> and then turns to crap.

Is that a thing other people do as well? I have never walked out of a
film. I paid for them so I watch them even if they bore me silly. I
guess I fall in the masochist section.

thomas


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