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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 01:02:05 +0900
From: Honwa Chau <nihonitchy@ibm.net>
Subject: [MV] Alien v. Aliens
greuel wrote:
> I'm surprised at all the raving about the 2nd Alien. I did not like it at
> all. The idea about the first one was that there is a creature of utter
> beauty. The beauty of perfection. The original alien is so highly
> developed that only Ripley's wit can overcome it.
The design of the alien is such a gimmick. It is unnatural. How can
evolution account for a creature that needs to go through two separate
gestation periods? That's so wasteful. And the acidic blood is a goof. It
seems like the alien creature would have no natural enemy. Why would it need
acidic blood.
Hmmm...maybe I missed something somewhere. Did the aliens develop naturally
or were they created through genetic manipulation? Maybe I missed some
dialogue in one of the later films. (I saw "Alien3" in a theater with
terrible sound. The dialogue sounded like it was spoken underwater. I was
about to complain when I realized it added to the movie. Not knowing what
the actors were actually saying made the film seem mysterious and more
interesting. I was only one of five people in the theater and I think the
other four were asleep. And "Alien Resurrection" was so bad, I was just
muttering to myself for the better part of the film.)
As for "Alien" v. "Aliens," both are very well-made and totally different
films. I think if the first film had taken place on a military ship, the
crew would have had an easier time killing the alien. Crews of freighter are
not trained to handle such situations.
"Aliens" is one of my favorite films because it is such a well-thought out
action film that has no wasted scenes. And the second half left me
breathless.
itchy
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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 13:59:01 EDT
From: BzRvueNews@aol.com
Subject: Re: [MV] there's something about mary..
From Movie Maven #2
There's Something About Mary
Ben Stiller Cameron Diaz Matt Dillon
Plot? Well...
Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy finds girl again. Other boys
find girl. Girl winds up with somebody.
First of all, this movie is hysterically funny. There were times I
laughed so hard that I nearly peed my pants. It was a hoot and
a half.
The humor is very adult. Much of which I could never repeat.
Please do not take your children. Or, for that matter, easily
offended adults. Which goes to say that you might be viewing
it without the company of spouse or partner.
Again, I laughed so hard that I cried and nearly, well you know.
I even snort whenever I watch the television commercials. As I
tell my sons, " Silliness makes life worth living."
Cameron Diaz is a dear. She is lovely to look upon, charming, and
a funny goof.
Matt Dillon, in this movie, is such a charming sleazeball. Matt,
nobody oozes deception better than you.
Ben Stiller's parents must be proud. Their genes combined to
form comedic genius in the personification of their son. He is a
lovable goon.
I just found everyone, everything, in and about this movie to be
a gas.
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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 15:55:08 EDT
From: ATLibra930@aol.com
Subject: [MV] Dance With Me
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I just saw dance with me, and i thought it was really good. i love to dance,
and that might be the reason why i liked it so much. The only thing i didn't
like was the toddler behind me screaming in my ear....don't u hate that???
Then, that kid wokd up a baby, and the mother wouldn't take her kid out of the
theatre. The kids ruined the whole fishing scene (the most important one) and
i missed the ENTIRE conversation, and my friend had to fill me in. I still
enjoyed it, though. I think it's worth seeing.
Just my thoughts....
Alison
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I personally love star wars, and it did have a plot. One movie that didn't
have a GOOD plot was Mafia. Every movie has a plot, it is just whether or not
it is interesting and good. If Star Wars didn't have a plot, nobody would like
it. Well, that's my opinion at least....
Alison
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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:31:51 -0400
From: maillist@moviejuice.com
Subject: [MV] MovieJuice! - Week of August 30, 1998
54 - BOOGER NIGHTS
by Mark Ramsey
http://www.moviejuice.com
August 30, 1998
I suppose my favorite tune from the disco era had to be "Push, Push in the Bush," which, as I recall, was a soaring ballad in support of agricultural labor rights in sub-Saharan Africa. Later, it was covered by George Michael as "Push, Push in the Tush," but that's another story.
Return with us, friends, to the days when a Fawcett was a poster on the wall rather than a chrome bathroom appliance. Those Fantasy Island days when "models danced with plumbers," everyone had a favorite Angel, and Mork was that Dork from Ork. The disco daze when Blair was the hottest chick in private school and something was just not right with Jo. Live, from New York, it's Saturday Night, Baby!
Like it or not, Saturday Night Fever is reborn in 54, a disco-duck-and-cover tribute to Harrison Ford's fast-advancing age and the white-hot, white-drugged 70's dance club of the same name. "You've never been anywhere until you've been here," says the pitch line. That's a slight revision from the original: "You'd rather be anywhere else but here."
Studio 54, you see, was the center of the universe - a theory once advanced by Copernicus as a "fuck you" to all those heliocentric assholes who considered disco the devil's music and their king - Evelyn Champagne King, to be exact.
The guy from I Know What You Did Last Summer stars as Shane O'Shea, whose full name is Shane O'Shitty Shameful Show O'Shea.
Also on board is the princess of passion, the dream of Scream, the lovely Nevelicious Campbell. Neve's in search of Indie street cred in the Parker Posey role as a Soap actress willing to sleep with anybody who advances her career - as if anyone like that exists in real life! Campbell's Soap is good food, baby! Marvel as Neve wraps her tender tentacles around the longest and skinniest cigarettes I've ever seen. Is she sucking smoke or blowing darts? Is she preparing to pole-vault or is she about to fence with Liza Minelli's lashes? En garde! En mascara!
But all is not lost. Great performances are turned in by the blistering Salma Hayek and comic genius Mike Myers who, displaying a virulent case of "Jim Carrey Envyitis" and a serpentine "Coffee-Talk" accent, plays a real pocket protector's pocket protector. Check out that nose on Mike! The minute that proboscis hits the screen, the Miramax special effects wizards mimic Director William Castle's "Emergo," as a huge schnozz emerges from the screen tethered to a rope, wafting over the audience's heads. Look out, folks, it's gonna BLOW!
In its heyday, Studio 54 attracted the Beautiful People the way musicians attract Winona Ryder. Just take a gander at the guest list: Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, Bianca Jagger, and famous feline culinary designer Halston Purina. All present and accounted for in the party to end all parties. Chocked full of Peter Frampton wannabes, checkerboard faces, and Marie Antoinette heads - all improperly joined at the neck I might add.
All this is fine for the big cities, but either cineplexes across America are suddenly haunted, or breadbasket theaters showing 54 have been converted to temporary ghost-towns. There's more tumbleweed in the aisles than baffled patrons in the seats. Strangely, goings-on are so peculiar that Miramax called in Sightings to investigate. Thus far, the only paranormal experiences reported are the bionic ghost of Lee Majors' career and the strange feeling of "suspend-o" provoked by Neve's perky breasts.
Plus, the title "54" implies counting is required, doesn't it? As anyone knows, if folks liked movies that required counting, then Sesame Street would spin off flicks the way SNL does - and probably better ones at that.
I guess I expected even more debauchery from the legendary zenith of hedonism. If only it had more 69, I wouldn't 86 54.
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: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 06:36:28 +0100
From: "Gerald Taylor" <geeg@vossnet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [MV] Twists.......
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Manuel wrote......
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By the way did you see A Perfect Murder(Douglas/Paltrow) =
...I liked it as well.... ok ok it was a Hitchcock-remake...but still... =
pretty good movie ...=20
Again,,,,another film that has not hit
our shores yet.....it is becoming fairly
common for films to take roughly two months
to get here after your showings. "Ryan"=20
does not arrive until "Sept 11" and "Something
about Mary" until the end of September. A=20
lot of other european countries are
beggining to see the films before us! Have
you seen the original "Les diaboliques" if
you have not and think that it is
unavailible, I will happilly tell you what
made it better than the atrocious S. Stone
version.~
Gerry T
~~~~~
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self =
contained,
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake and weep for their sins,
they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
not one is dissatisfied, not one demented with the mania of owning =
things,
Not one kneels to another nor to his own kind that lived thousands of =
years ago,
not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Walt =
Whitman.
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