I think one of the most depressing movies is "Mask". It would be so awful
to be in that kind of situation.
"David" is another depressing movie. This is the movie where a father
kidnaps his little boy, then burns him up in a motel (but he doesn't die)
because he can't have him (as in can't have custody of him). It is a true
story too, which makes it even more depressing. I think it was a tv-movie.
Any comments on this one?
That's all I can think of at this time. I know I will think of more later.
- -Tonya
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 00:08:49 -0400
From: maillist@moviejuice.com
Subject: [MV] MovieJuice! ADVANCE: ANTZ - A Life Bugz
ANTZ - A LIFE BUGZ
by Mark Ramsey
http://www.moviejuice.com
October 4, 1998
Let's evaluate the movie-goer's options this weekend:
There's A Night at the Roxbury, that "Fruit of the SNL Loom" short subject writ long. The one with the head-bobber disco twins whose mission in life is to prove unambiguously that one funny late night minute can become a painful, 75 minute Life-o-suction ordeal (actually only 17 minutes long if you don't count the credits - or was that "crud-its"?).
Roxbury brings you special guest slummer Richard Grieco in his fast-aging guise as nightcrawler Bela Lugosi Grieco, a.k.a. "Dracu-leico." Richard demonstrates the high art of grab-ass in a club flick that should be clubbed to death. Damn! These club-tomaniacs should stick to the small screen, where Dance Fever is a short Electric Boogaloo to the medicine cabinet and the Tylenol. Yes, friends, A Night at the Roxbury is forgettable with a capital "F," a small "f" and every "f" in between. F'in right! Hey, SNL: Instead of spawning lame-ass movies, why not spawn a final thirty minutes worth watching?
And then there's Dreamworks' Antz, which is...a movie about ants!
Actually, it's the first of two movies about ants, the second due from Disney later this year (and that doesn't count the animated epic on runner Steve Ant-fontaine, currently in turnaround). I hope the folks at Dreamworks are very proud of themselves. They beat Disney's wonderful Armageddon with the year's first Comet movie, the gloomy Deep Impact. Then Dreamworks announced they will follow up the success of their Comet movie with biopics of Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and the rest of Santa's reindeer several months ahead of Disney's nine-film reindeer saga. "There are only three ideas in all of Hollywood," explains Dreamworks kingpin Jeff Katzenberg, "and I have them first."
In a separate but related story, the makers of There's Something About Mary are being sued by a guy who claims to have created numerous "unique scenes" of cum-based hair gel. "That's my ejaculate, every drop," said inventor Hans Stroker, whose special Salon Selective formula comes in two holds: "Motile" and "Extra Motile."
Oh, back to Antz.
In a world of expressions you never expected to hear, "a Woody Allen cartoon" has to be somewhere near the top - right between "a Jeffrey Daumer Cookbook" and rotund weatherman Al Roker's tell-all, "I'm not Fat, I'm Trans-Fatty Acid!"
Yes, Ants is a movie for kids featuring the Wood-man, whose notorious attraction to kids is more than legendary and less than savory. Woody plays a neurotic ant named "Z," who needs therapy because, well, he's a fucking ant! How would you feel?
"Z" rebels against the conformity of regimented life in Antz-ville. Yes, life for these bugs is more similar than the profiles of filmmakers Michael Bay and John Frankenheimer! Of course, these insects don't exactly look like ants. More like E.T. with a Jennifer Lopez ass. Aren't these the same buggers that once abducted Scully?
Be an individual! Think for yourselves! Don't follow orders your whole life! These are just some of the lessons of Ants, or as these lessons are known by kind-hearted consensus-builder Harvey Weinstein at Miramax: "insidious propaganda."
"Z" and his babe, the ingeniously named Princess Nala - er, Bala - set out on a quest: A search for the mythic oasis of "Insectopia," first documented by Saint Thomas More's book of the same name, and brought to you by the folks at Coke, makers of "Fruitopia," and Universal Studios, home of the new multimedia "Coppola-topia" attraction, where visitors ride a thrilling career rollercoaster through financing and creative ups and downs, winning Oscars, nearly going insane, and casting luckless offspring in high-profile projects before settling down to make wine. Ah, the good life! Hey, forget the E.T. Adventure, let's go on this one again!
Antz features a few good gags delivered by top-notch voices from the likes of Gene Hackman, Sly Stallone, and Sharon "I'm a princess, damn it!" Stone, but despite this and some damn fine animation, the story's as complex as a Bazooka Joe comic.
Not to make a mountain out of a mole-hill, but small wonder I was catching my Z's about 45 minutes in.
My advice on Antz: Cry Uncle.
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: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 11:41:37 -0600 (MDT)
From: The Reporter <gregorys@xmission.com>
Subject: [MV] Movie News - 10/02/98
On the set of her new film "Never Been Kissed," Drew
Barrymore told "Access Hollywood" she thinks she is "so
nerdy and 'losery!' If nerds and geeks are hip, then maybe
I'm hip!" In the new movie, Barrymore plays a newspaper copy
editor who gets a chance to go undercover and write a story
about today's teens.
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Claire Danes' apology for her disparaging remarks about
Manila wasn't big enough for the Philippines' President
Joseph Estrada. "She should not be allowed to come here. She
should not even be allowed to set foot here," Estrada
insists. On Tuesday the City Council declared the
19-year-old actress persona non grata and banned all her
movies because she called Manila smelly, rat-infested and
weird.
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 23:39:30 +0100
From: "Gerry Taylor" <geeg@vossnet.co.uk>
Subject: [MV] Silly punch up question
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I stand and look at them long and long.
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