I agree for the most part.. I don't think Bruce takes himself all that
seriously, or at least he hasn't until recently. There's been talk of a Die
hard 4, but he is moaning because he has said that there's not much left in
terms of original action.. I agree somewhat. I think he is better than he
lets on, but aside from 12 monkeys and some shining scenes here and there,
he hasn't really tried all that hard.
Has anyone seen the trailer for his newest film? Called The Sixth Sense,
about a little boy who can see the spirits of the dead. having sen it twice,
there's not enough to gauge it by, but it looks better than a lot of the
most recent stuff he's done....
> >any means, I'd have to say that Bruce Willis is among the most underrated
> >actors; watch "12 Monkeys" and "Death Becomes Her" and you'll see that
> >he can do more than wiseguy action roles.
> >
>
> I agree! i've been saying to all my friends he's more than what people
> say
> he is. And doesn't always deserve the jokes he may sometimes get.
>
>
>
[ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ]
[ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:37:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: maillist@moviejuice.com
Subject: [MV] MovieJuice! - ADVANCE - WILD WILD WEST - Mild Mild Pest
WILD WILD WEST - MILD MILD PEST
by Mark Ramsey
http://www.moviejuice.com/1999/wildwildwest.htm
July 2, 1999
It's a Western version of The Avengers, and it's lumbering to a theater near you!
Has there ever been a star-vehicle Warner Bros. didn't like? Thanks to Mel and Danny, these guys would call the joint "Lethal Warners" if it didn't discourage patronage at the commissary. Today's Soup: Alphabet - Complete with Roman Numerals and directed by chef Dick Donner. Eat where you're never too old for this shit.
Wild Wild West is the latest vehicle starring charismatic leading man Will Smith and, sadly, it's the Summer's best reason to count popcorn kernels, unless you find yourself counting sheep first. Speaking of sheep, they're grazing on the White House lawn - and leaping over Sam Donaldson, who shouts questions at them to no avail.
I know this flick is supposed to be low-brow, but if this audience's brow were any lower, you could glue electrodes to our necks, jolt us alive, and build us a bride with a skunk hairdo.
Based on a fine TV series virtually unknown to anyone under 30, Wild Wild West is the story of a studio in search of a big-budget, high-concept Summer blockbuster ... er ... I mean the story of 19th Century cowboy Feds battling a super-criminal with a keen knowledge of Erector Sets.
Pity Will. Most of his quips are fresh as a fortune cookie. Generally, they're of the "Let's just get some shut-ass" variety. As a matter of fact, this flick enjoys more than its share of dick and boob jokes. Joke: Will invents the first "realistic" breast implant. Joke: Will's face gets magnetically stuck below Kevin Kline's belt. Ha, ha. Funny Mel, funny Danny.
Pity famed Shakespearean actor Ken Branagh. As Dr. Arliss Legless, he's half man, half chair. One part Gary Oldman Dracula, one part Mel Blanc Foghorn Leghorn, all ham. Although he's missing legs and torso, his booming diaphragm knows a good checking account balance when it sees one. Beware the ides of March, Ken. And watch out for chicken hawks, too.
So Ken has married Britain's top actresses and kidnapped America's top scientists to create a weapons system "beyond contemporary imagination" (i.e., studio script code for "Get me ILM on the line!") Either give up the US Government or the US will be destroyed. Let's just hope he means US magazine!
Ken builds what looks and pumps like a huge phallus that decapitates luckless cowboys by flinging razor-sharp, spider-embossed trash can lids at them. I kid you not. It's a Freudian field-day! Does it sound like the Evian is Acid-enhanced down at the Warners lot? Groovy!
Check the big mechanical spider puffing steam like an overgrown Imperial Walker with a bonus ability to make tea. Let's be honest: A mechanical beastie with a smokestack is not all that scary. It looks like something Doc Brown would invent to travel back in time - with any luck, to the time before I walked into the theater.
That's what we need: An instrument of death that moves reeeaaaalllly slowly. This fancy mechanical contraption reminded me of the trash tongs on a garbage truck. Unfortunately, this refuse solution deposits trash - all over the Cineplex near you.
My favorite character is the Confederate General with shockingly bad makeup and a hearing aid Vitrola attached to his head. He still don't hear too well, but he's got a boss selection of Rudy Valee 78's and he can play a Gershwin piano roll like nobody's business!
Pity poor Kevin Kline, who's best known as the answer to the question: "Whatever happened to Phoebe Cates?" (Well, to me anyway). Kevin's a wacky inventor who solves crimes by cross-dressing. He's a great cook, he abhors violence, he's very tidy, and he's got a strange attraction to Tom Selleck. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
But most of all, pity Salma Hayek. Her biggest acting challenge: Show some cleavage and some butt-crack on cue. If asses earned Oscars, then it's Salma and Nicholson, all the way, baby..
Let's see: Broad-appeal, bankable, Summer-proven star. Nicely balanced cross-ethnic cast: Black, Latin, Brit, and...uh...whatever Kevin Kline is. This movie's strategy is so transparent, Warners should affix decals so we don't bump into it accidentally.
Strange, I thought, as the overgrown Imperial VW Bug spouted steam and fired photon torpedoes at choo-choo trains. How can the bad guys devise photon torpedoes but not progress from steam to electricity? It's the deepest mystery of the Old West.
And believe me, gang, this West gets old fast.
Copyright 1999 Mark Ramsey. All rights reserved. NO PORTION MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR.
********************
DONÆT FORGET TO VISIT MOVIEJUICE.COM!
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)!
********************
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST:
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL! Just go to http://www.moviejuice.com and follow the directions at the top of the left frame. It's very easy. NOTE: YOUR NAME CANNOT BE REMOVED FROM THE LIST UNLESS YOU UNSUBSCRIBE USING THE EMAIL ADDRESS YOU REGISTERED WITH). And don't write me lots of mean-spirited crap. I won't read it.
********************
IF YOUR LINES AREN'T WRAPPINGà
Your browser and/or email client (why DO they call it that?) has a setting called "Wrap Long Lines." Select it!
[ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ]
[ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:49:56 -0000
From: "Mike and Ann Thompson" <thompsn@ihug.co.nz>
Subject: [MV] Address change
My new email address is: thompson@xtra.co.nz
[ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ]
[ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:57:13 -0400
From: Gene Ehrich <gene@ehrich.com>
Subject: [MV] Two Movies
We saw a couple of movies during the last week.
The Generals daughter was a very good flick. Travolta was outstanding and
the movie moved along very nicely with great supporting cast.
Tonight we saw half of The Big Lebowski - bad, bad movie, nuff said. I
can't imagine anyone watching the second half.
gene@ehrich
http://www.voicenet.com/~generic
Computer & Video Game Garage Sale
Gene Ehrich
PO Box 209
Marlton NJ
08053-0209
[ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ]
[ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:04:32 -0500
From: torq@mo.net
Subject: Re: [MV] Two Movies
At 10:57 PM 6/29/99 -0400, Gene Ehrich wrote:
>We saw a couple of movies during the last week.
>
>The Generals daughter was a very good flick. Travolta was outstanding and
>the movie moved along very nicely with great supporting cast.
>
>Tonight we saw half of The Big Lebowski - bad, bad movie, nuff said. I
>can't imagine anyone watching the second half.
how can anyone possibly dislike "the big lebowski"?? that movie is
hilarious! how can you go against a movie with a dude, john goodman, a
purple-suited bastard named jesus, and a teenage runaway that teases the
meant-to-be-teased?
[ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ]
[ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:40:51 -0400
From: "Chris Culligan" <culligan@gate.net>
Subject: Re: [MV] Two Movies (and Blair Witch Project)
I agree! I loved the movie. Absolutly under-rated in my opinion! Of
course, I can see how some may not have liked it, but I thought it was
original and funny. I could relate to "the dude". I have a friend like
him.
Can't wait for the release of The Blair Witch Project. Saw some previews
for it on MTV. I'm so glad it picked up a distributer. Sounds like thier
banking on a big time summer sleeper on this one. I bet they get it.
CHRIS
- ----- Original Message -----
From: <torq@mo.net>
To: <movies@lists.xmission.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Two Movies
> At 10:57 PM 6/29/99 -0400, Gene Ehrich wrote:
> >We saw a couple of movies during the last week.
> >
> >The Generals daughter was a very good flick. Travolta was outstanding and
> >the movie moved along very nicely with great supporting cast.
> >
> >Tonight we saw half of The Big Lebowski - bad, bad movie, nuff said. I
> >can't imagine anyone watching the second half.
>
> how can anyone possibly dislike "the big lebowski"?? that movie is
> hilarious! how can you go against a movie with a dude, john goodman, a
> purple-suited bastard named jesus, and a teenage runaway that teases the
> meant-to-be-teased?
>
> [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ]
> [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ]
>
[ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ]
[ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:48:17 -0600
From: jkrudy <jkrudy@micron.com>
Subject: [MV] Blair Witch Project
When is The Blair Witch Project due for release?
- -----Original Message-----
From: Chris Culligan [mailto:culligan@gate.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 3:41 PM
To: movies@lists.xmission.com
Subject: Re: [MV] Two Movies (and Blair Witch Project)
I agree! I loved the movie. Absolutly under-rated in my opinion! Of
course, I can see how some may not have liked it, but I thought it was
original and funny. I could relate to "the dude". I have a friend like
him.
Can't wait for the release of The Blair Witch Project. Saw some previews
for it on MTV. I'm so glad it picked up a distributer. Sounds like thier
banking on a big time summer sleeper on this one. I bet they get it.
CHRIS
- ----- Original Message -----
From: <torq@mo.net>
To: <movies@lists.xmission.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Two Movies
> At 10:57 PM 6/29/99 -0400, Gene Ehrich wrote:
> >We saw a couple of movies during the last week.
> >
> >The Generals daughter was a very good flick. Travolta was outstanding and
> >the movie moved along very nicely with great supporting cast.
> >
> >Tonight we saw half of The Big Lebowski - bad, bad movie, nuff said. I
> >can't imagine anyone watching the second half.
>
> how can anyone possibly dislike "the big lebowski"?? that movie is
> hilarious! how can you go against a movie with a dude, john goodman, a
> purple-suited bastard named jesus, and a teenage runaway that teases the
> meant-to-be-teased?
>
> [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ]
> [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ]
>
[ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ]
[ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ]
[ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ]
[ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:47:21 -0700
From: "Romero, Leticia" <lromero@saonet.ucla.edu>
Subject: RE: [MV] Two Movies (and Blair Witch Project)
My sister saw it last month - she'll never be afraid of spiders again...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Culligan [SMTP:culligan@gate.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 2:41 PM
> To: movies@lists.xmission.com
> Subject: Re: [MV] Two Movies (and Blair Witch Project)
>
> I agree! I loved the movie. Absolutly under-rated in my opinion! Of
> course, I can see how some may not have liked it, but I thought it was
> original and funny. I could relate to "the dude". I have a friend like
> him.
>
> Can't wait for the release of The Blair Witch Project. Saw some previews
> for it on MTV. I'm so glad it picked up a distributer. Sounds like thier
> banking on a big time summer sleeper on this one. I bet they get it.
>
> CHRIS
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <torq@mo.net>
> To: <movies@lists.xmission.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 11:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Two Movies
>
>
> > At 10:57 PM 6/29/99 -0400, Gene Ehrich wrote:
> > >We saw a couple of movies during the last week.
> > >
> > >The Generals daughter was a very good flick. Travolta was outstanding
> and
> > >the movie moved along very nicely with great supporting cast.
> > >
> > >Tonight we saw half of The Big Lebowski - bad, bad movie, nuff said. I
> > >can't imagine anyone watching the second half.
> >
> > how can anyone possibly dislike "the big lebowski"?? that movie is
> > hilarious! how can you go against a movie with a dude, john goodman, a
> > purple-suited bastard named jesus, and a teenage runaway that teases the
> > meant-to-be-teased?
> >
> > [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ]
> > [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ]
> >
>
>
> [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ]
> [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ]
[ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ]
[ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ]
------------------------------
End of movies-digest V2 #207
****************************
[ To quit the movies-digest mailing list (big mistake), send the message ]
[ "unsubscribe movies-digest" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ]
