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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 17:44:50 -0600 (MDT)
From: The Reporter <gregorys@xmission.com>
Subject: [MV] Movie News - 06/10/98
Terror tactics in Hollywood
By Benedict Carver
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Dimension Films is employing scary tactics for its latest scary movie.
The Miramax genre division has given its slasher thriller "Halloween: H2O" an Aug. 5 release date, pitching it directly against MGM's teen horror picture "Disturbing
Behavior," which goes wide Aug. 7.
In "Halloween: H20," Jamie Lee Curtis reprises her role as Laurie Strode who once again takes on her knife-wielding nemesis, Michael Myers.
"Disturbing Behavior" is about a kid who stumbles upon a small-town conspiracy to convert rebellious teens into clean-cut, upstanding citizens.
Miramax co-chairman and Dimension founder Bob Weinstein claims that "Halloween: H20" scored even better than "Scream" in test screenings. Independent
sources verified the findings.
"I'm not worried about ("Disturbing Behavior")," Weinstein said. "But (MGM) is going to have to think twice. If I were them, I'd move."
MGM, however, says that it is not budging.
"We have a young, teen thriller in the vein of 'I Know What You Did Last Summer,' and they have a sequel," said Larry Gleason, MGM's worldwide theatrical
distribution presideny. "Our film is finished, we have posters up, and we've had trailers in theaters since Memorial Day. As of today, we aren't moving."
Gleason believes that "Disturbing Behavior" has a secret weapon in teen sensation Katie Holmes ("Dawson's Creek"), who appears in the picture alongside James
Marsden and Nick Stahl.
Either way, on the weekend of Aug. 7, both films will be up against the big-budget action/thriller "Snake Eyes," starring Nicolas Cage and Gary Sinise. Like the
other two films, the Paramount/Disney co-production skews to young males.
The following weekend, Aug. 14, Universal pitches in with its alien action movie "Virus," starring -- yes -- Curtis, and Warner Bros. releases its comedy-thriller
"The Avengers," starring Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman.
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 19:41:29 -0700
From: Wayne Ramlogan <ramlogan@tht.net>
Subject: Re: [MV] City of Angels
Hello
you are right!!!
Gregory A. Swarthout wrote:
> From: "C. B. D." <mishkaNOSPAM@total.net>
>
> Hello, all! My name is Christiane; I live in Canada (suburbs of Montreal)
> and this is my first time contributing to "movies". I've been reading for a
> while, enjoying the debates and everybody's interesting and intelligent
> comments.
>
> Concerning the movie City of Angels, the trailers I've seen remind me of a
> German picture I saw in 1991 dealing with an angel falling in love with a
> human. I can't remember the title; only remember loving it tremendously.
> Peter Falk had a cameo. Was this "Wings of Desire" that was referred to in
> an earlier thread?
>
> This German picture touched me very deeply, and my initial reaction to the
> thought of Hollywood trying to copy it was that they would be unable to
> reproduce the depth of eloquence the previous production achieved.
>
> Is City of Angels a "rip-off"? A copy? "Inspired" by the German flick? Or a
> bonafide new story? In any case, does anyone know the movie I'm talking
> about?
>
> C.B.D.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> "To be Greek one should have no clothes:
> To be medieval one should have no body:
> To be modern one should have no soul."
> - Oscar Wilde
> mailto:mishka@total.net
>
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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 08:05:35 +0800
From: Nimrod <rvchua@ntep.nec.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [MV] City of Angels
Robyhk28@aol.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> yes it is right this is really a makeup of a movie called heaven over
> berlin
> by the german director wim wenders. But city of angels is inspired by
> this
> german movie and not a really make up according to the new director.
> it is
> transfered into l.a. 1997. the wim wenders movie is palying in berlin.
> so it
> is really different. but this new city of angels movie is really
> great. i
> really love this movie
>
I just saw City of Angels last week. It was a bit of mediocre and didn't
leave a lasting impression. Since I already heard the reviews from this
list, so I did not came out disappointed.
I have this tremendous doubt about Maggie's love. She was quite composed
when she first learned that Seth was not human. If I were her I would be
hysterical. Finding the perfect man only to find that he is not even a
man. I would scream and cry buckets of tears. Was she really that cold??
The way I see it, the love that they were "experiencing" was lukewarm,
certainly not worth becoming human (in Seth's part).
As for the acting, well there was no glint in Meg Ryan's eyes as she did
in IQ and Sleepless in Seattle. I used to think that she is one of the
few actress that you know is really in love. Anyway she was playing this
person who is a bit good but has nothing at all to make the audiences
emphatize with her. Her character was a bit one-dimensional, not well
developed.
As for Nicolas Cage (although I really like him), his only contribution
to the film was his dopey eyes and nice butt. I certainly liked him
better in FaceOff (which is precisely the reason why I like him so
much), but his performance in City of Angels is very ho-hum.
I wanted more but I did not expect more since I already knew its
limitations. BTW, was this movie based on a book??
blacknight
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 20:56:20 -0600
From: "NCC2000" <ncc2000@mcn.net>
Subject: Re: [MV] Favourites
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My top five movies:
- - Blue Velvet
- - Star Trek II
- - L.A. Confidential
- - The Professional
- - Nixon
At least the top five that come to my mind. I'm sure I'm forgetting about
