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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 07:06:41 +0800
From: Blacknight <rvchua@ntep.nec.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [MV] Which movie should I watch this weekend?
Mel Eperthener wrote:
> The Horse Whisperer will be on video in November. It is supposed to
> be
> real good, but as someone said, it is a "chick flick". I would
> recommend
> seeing this with a date.
I haven't seen the movie but I absolutely hated the book. I can't
understand why it became a best seller. From what I have heard the movie
isn't that great either. The guy in the movie is supposed to be 45 years
old but Robert Redford who portrays him is what? 60+ years old. I
absolutely cannot relate to the characters, they were written as mere
caricatures. You are supposed to look at Redford's character in awe but
he is just another weak man who cannot keep his hands to himself. As for
Scott Thomas' character, I would really like to slap her or something
every time she is involved in a scene. I simply cannot understand why it
was called the Horse Whisperer when only a small part of the book talks
about horses, most of the time it talks about Redford's character and
Scott Thomas' character's affair.
blacknight
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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 15:44:03 -0400
From: maillist@moviejuice.com
Subject: [MV] MovieJuice! - Week of August 22, 1998
Read, Loved, and Hated by the Hollywood Community in equal measures, it's MovieJuice! Don't miss the Blade pics this week gang at http://www.moviejuice.com. Grab your scalpels, it's time for.
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BLADE - THE CUTTING EDGE OF SCHLOCK
by Mark Ramsey
http://www.moviejuice.com
August 23, 1998
Last week on the Today show, Chris Rock said he'd like to "whup Ken Starr's ass" and called Starr a "scumsucker." If you missed that, it may be because NBC replaced it on the West Coast with a cowboy rodeo college segment. But what does Chris Rock know? I'm sure the cowboy rodeo college will soon have its own HBO series and thriving movie career thus justifying NBC's stupid-ass decision-making process, all the while protecting the puritanical parents of America from the reality that their kids hear more "bad language" in five minutes of Blade than in a full year of Today show segments. And as I scanned the Blade theater, there was nary a parent in sight. God forbid.
In Blade, Wesley Snipes is a one-man vampire killing machine. A dude with a 'tude and a brood. The vamps, you see, are everywhere. They own real estate, blood banks, Dr. Laura's soul, and the Broadway revival rights to every Jerry Herman and Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. The bastards have Carol Channing's fate in their cold, clammy hands! They must be stopped!
Enter Blade in a frantic fugue of gothic/industrial martial arts! Wesley dispatches fanged beasties by the batch, as they crumble into showers of CGI-aided particulates.
How come when the vampires snarl, they sound exactly like a roaring lion? I mean exactly! Couldn't they process the sound just a wee little bit? Who's the engineer, Barnum or Bailey? And why a lion? Why not something really frightening and inhuman like Fran Dresher's whine? I'd rather hear about the cowboy rodeo college.
At least the vampire look finally departs from that tired Buffy-Lost Boys demon clichi, the one with the slanted eyes and bumpy forehead resembling less a blood-sucker and more the Talosian Ambassador from Star Trek.
Look for the cameo from one-time under-age porn nymphet Traci Lords, whose oeuvre is available at an FBI office near you or at Blockbuster Video's new all-adult division: "Ballbuster Video." Thanks to her early start in the business, Traci's films are even harder to see than Kevin Costner's. Little surprise, I guess, that Blade is brought to you by notoriously sex-crazed New Line, where the motto is: "We lower our Pants for Tramps and Vamps." or "Screw me, Do me, owe your career To me."
Kris Kristofferson is back after a long hiatus from acting - which included many of his recent roles. Kris plays "Whistler," which is invariably more credible than his previous roles as "Singer" and "Actor."
And then there's Stephen Dorff who's fangtastic in the Leonardo DiVampio role. But what kind of nemesis is this? In real life, Wesley could snuff this guy with a nasty stare.
My favorite character in Blade is definitely the tight-lipped, buttoned-up, establishment German-accented vampire dandy. "You bore me," he sniffs at the uppity Dorff, right up until the conversation veers back to the collected works of Bette Midler and Peter Allen.
Least likable is the supposed Blade love interest, a blood doctor (natch!) named N'bushe Wright. Bush right???!!! You don't need to be Freud to figure that one out! Small wonder, then, that Wesley is also known as N'manhood Ample and Kristofferson may also be referred to as N'grizzly Geezer.
Early on, N'bushe is nibbled by a nightwalker and the little bandages on her bite marks keep relocating around her neck. Either those marks are moving, or she has the limber head of an owl. At one point they're so far apart only mondo-mouthed Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein could be responsible. Harvey, who usually takes his blood with a sweat and tear chaser, could not be reached for comment.
In case you're wondering, this is another of those movies with chosen ones and resurrected Gods and ancient prophecies and all that crap. Shades of The Fifth Element. Despite it all, though, I got a swift kick out of this flick. A shame they didn't spend as much time dreaming up some fresh story ideas as they did animating silly pictures. This Blade is naughty fun, even if it could use some Blade plug-in air freshener.
Plug it in, plug it in, baby.
Copyright 1998 Mark Ramsey. All rights reserved. NO PORTION MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR.
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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 15:44:03 -0400
From: maillist@moviejuice.com
Subject: [MV] MovieJuice! - Week of August 22, 1998
Read, Loved, and Hated by the Hollywood Community in equal measures, it's MovieJuice! Don't miss the Blade pics this week gang at http://www.moviejuice.com. Grab your scalpels, it's time for.
********************
BLADE - THE CUTTING EDGE OF SCHLOCK
by Mark Ramsey
http://www.moviejuice.com
August 23, 1998
Last week on the Today show, Chris Rock said he'd like to "whup Ken Starr's ass" and called Starr a "scumsucker." If you missed that, it may be because NBC replaced it on the West Coast with a cowboy rodeo college segment. But what does Chris Rock know? I'm sure the cowboy rodeo college will soon have its own HBO series and thriving movie career thus justifying NBC's stupid-ass decision-making process, all the while protecting the puritanical parents of America from the reality that their kids hear more "bad language" in five minutes of Blade than in a full year of Today show segments. And as I scanned the Blade theater, there was nary a parent in sight. God forbid.
In Blade, Wesley Snipes is a one-man vampire killing machine. A dude with a 'tude and a brood. The vamps, you see, are everywhere. They own real estate, blood banks, Dr. Laura's soul, and the Broadway revival rights to every Jerry Herman and Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. The bastards have Carol Channing's fate in their cold, clammy hands! They must be stopped!
Enter Blade in a frantic fugue of gothic/industrial martial arts! Wesley dispatches fanged beasties by the batch, as they crumble into showers of CGI-aided particulates.
How come when the vampires snarl, they sound exactly like a roaring lion? I mean exactly! Couldn't they process the sound just a wee little bit? Who's the engineer, Barnum or Bailey? And why a lion? Why not something really frightening and inhuman like Fran Dresher's whine? I'd rather hear about the cowboy rodeo college.
At least the vampire look finally departs from that tired Buffy-Lost Boys demon clichi, the one with the slanted eyes and bumpy forehead resembling less a blood-sucker and more the Talosian Ambassador from Star Trek.
Look for the cameo from one-time under-age porn nymphet Traci Lords, whose oeuvre is available at an FBI office near you or at Blockbuster Video's new all-adult division: "Ballbuster Video." Thanks to her early start in the business, Traci's films are even harder to see than Kevin Costner's. Little surprise, I guess, that Blade is brought to you by notoriously sex-crazed New Line, where the motto is: "We lower our Pants for Tramps and Vamps." or "Screw me, Do me, owe your career To me."
Kris Kristofferson is back after a long hiatus from acting - which included many of his recent roles. Kris plays "Whistler," which is invariably more credible than his previous roles as "Singer" and "Actor."
And then there's Stephen Dorff who's fangtastic in the Leonardo DiVampio role. But what kind of nemesis is this? In real life, Wesley could snuff this guy with a nasty stare.
My favorite character in Blade is definitely the tight-lipped, buttoned-up, establishment German-accented vampire dandy. "You bore me," he sniffs at the uppity Dorff, right up until the conversation veers back to the collected works of Bette Midler and Peter Allen.
Least likable is the supposed Blade love interest, a blood doctor (natch!) named N'bushe Wright. Bush right???!!! You don't need to be Freud to figure that one out! Small wonder, then, that Wesley is also known as N'manhood Ample and Kristofferson may also be referred to as N'grizzly Geezer.
Early on, N'bushe is nibbled by a nightwalker and the little bandages on her bite marks keep relocating around her neck. Either those marks are moving, or she has the limber head of an owl. At one point they're so far apart only mondo-mouthed Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein could be responsible. Harvey, who usually takes his blood with a sweat and tear chaser, could not be reached for comment.
In case you're wondering, this is another of those movies with chosen ones and resurrected Gods and ancient prophecies and all that crap. Shades of The Fifth Element. Despite it all, though, I got a swift kick out of this flick. A shame they didn't spend as much time dreaming up some fresh story ideas as they did animating silly pictures. This Blade is naughty fun, even if it could use some Blade plug-in air freshener.
Plug it in, plug it in, baby.
Copyright 1998 Mark Ramsey. All rights reserved. NO PORTION MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR.
********************
Hey, kids, don't forget to visit the MovieJuice! Site at http://www.moviejuice.com. The pictures are half the fun (and sometimes more than half the laughs)!
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