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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:28:11 -0400
From: Mel Eperthener <bcassidy@usaor.net>
Subject: Re: [MV] Kevin Spacey
At 10.23 AM 24/09/1999 -0700, Oz wrote:
>Mel Eperthener wrote:
>>
>> Shawshank is possibly one of the best movies ever made. Did not do well at
>> the box office, but found new life on video, and is likely the most
>> profitable video release in history.
>
>Actually, on a rentals:number of copies ratio it ranks somewhere in
>the 30's. I saw a list about three years ago of the most profitable
>video titles using that formula, and the number one was... (wait for
>it)...
>
>Dream Academy, closely followed by Clerks and Showgirls. Ah, the
>classics...
Not surprised.
However, there was a listing just about six months ago in a video trade
magazine that said that Shawshank was the most profitable (actually,
perhaps I would be more correct to say most successful, as opposed to
profitable). I am not sure of the exact criteria, tho I suspect it was
other than turns per copy (the technical term for what you said:-)
Both Clerks and Shawshank (as well as The Usual Suspects, and a number of
sleepers) reached their success because of the word-of-mouth that a video
store can generate. This comes about because first of all, you don't have
the rather small (<6 weeks) window that most thearitical runs have, and
second, people mill about talking about what they like and don't like.
Shawshank has impressed over the long haul, well after such dreck as
Waterboy, Armageddon and You've Got Mail have died off.
Regards,
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 22:49:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: maillist@moviejuice.com
Subject: [MV] MovieJuice! - ADVANCE - THREE KINGS - Gold Bricks and Mortar
THREE KINGS - Gold Bricks and Mortar
by Mark Ramsey
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September 23, 1999
Spot the October Premiere on the newsstand and you'll see my bedroom fantasy come true: Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, cheek-to-cheek.
It's pure tweak chic: Winona, who once punched in to a loony bin, and Angelina, who's got more issues than Meet the Press and lip enough to cover the state of California or at least something in that general shape.
Oooo, baby.
Fresh from the Gulf War sands, Three Kings kicks off with a captured Iraqi and a hidden map.
Well, it's not exactly "hidden." In fact, its rolled like a taco, and it juts out of his ass like the Apollo 11 flag on the moon. It's one small step for man, one giant map in the ass for mankind. I believe this hole's a par-three! Rand McNally's gone randy, baby. Is this what they mean by "PokΘmon"?
Naturally, the stench of the so-called "Iraqi ass map" attracts fortune hunters, including George Clooney, Marky Mark, Ice Cube and Spike Jonze. What do they want with this ass map? Do the three kings plan a royal flush?
Nope. It's a treasure ass map! And "X" marks millions of dollars in stolen Kuwaiti gold, stuffed in an Iraqi bunker.
George, in particular, has been up to his ass in ass, thanks to his shapely-assed former French model girlfriend and his CinemaScopic, panoramic-assed aunt Rosemary.
And since this movie's from Warner Bros., parent company Time Warner has taken corporate synergy to appalling new levels. Also spotted poking out of the Iraqi's ass, for example, were a Time magazine subscription card, 10 free Columbia House CDs, a Book-of-the-Month-Club selection, two tickets to a Braves game and, in a special coop deal, 250 hours of free AOL.
Speaking of ass, Three Kings is a kick-ass dark comedy that's remarkably moving and true. It's an uncomfortable and brilliant collision of laugh and death, gas and ass, strife and life, creed and greed. It's Desert Storm's answer to M*A*S*H.
And it's positively one of the best movies of the year.
Clooney is the King of Cool, as far as I'm concerned. Think Steve McQueen, plus irony, minus swagger, plus Ali Baba, minus Ali McGraw. I'm nutty for George because he doesn't take himself seriously, and "taking yourself seriously" is one of the Screen Actors Guild bylaws. That, and wearing dark sunglasses at the Viper Room.
Plus George is single now, ladies, so puff up the petticoats and spritz back the feathered hair. There's courtin' to be done, Farrah!
This whole flick has a bleak, washed-out look. Its world is disinfected and sterile, much like the surgical strikes of antiseptic "smart" bombs. Remember the blasts broadcasted birds-eye by CNN in a war with no shooting and where none of the casualties were red, white, or blue? If you think you know all about the Gulf War thanks to network news, then you must see this movie.
Look for former SNLer Nora Dunn as a network reporter, a "five-time Emmy runner-up." It's a rabid parody of CNN foreign correspondent and fourth estate moth to combat flame Christiane Amanpour. Last Fall, Christiane reported that CNN homeboy Larry King would cameo in Three Kings. Producers were reportedly split between the revised titles: Three Kings, a Joker, and a Platoon of Ex-Wives or Four Kings, Another Wedding and a Funeral.
A terrific Marky Mark proves Boogie Nights was no fluke, and kooky music video king Spike Jonze is a comic revelation. Last seen in his clever disguise as the geeky frontman for Fat Boy Slim's "Torrance Community Dance Troupe," Spike goes gonzo and bare-knuckles rapper Ice Cube. In what should be a ridiculously one-sided fight, Spike holds his own with Cube! Only in the movies, dude, because Cube should be kicking this little white boy's ass! That's like Arnold and Maria takin' it to the mat and ass-whooping to a draw. Sure, and I won a Monet on eBay with a $50 bid.
Well, it was a Gus Monet.
Kudos to writer/director David O. Russell. Three Kings is a humvee-dinger of an outstanding movie with a remarkable cast, top to bottom.
Stand back, because it will, as George says, "hit you with the blinding power of American sunshine."
Copyright 1999 Mark Ramsey. All rights reserved. NO PORTION MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR.
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 06:06:55 -0400
From: Gene Ehrich <gene@ehrich.com>
Subject: Re: [MV] Critics.
At 10:52 PM 9/23/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Do
>any of you actively check a certain critic's reviews before you
>decide which movies to see? If so, which critic/s?
I check Ebert, time and other major services looking for a consensus but
more often have learned that certain stars's movies are usually good while
others have a lot of bad ones. Combination of the two things. Again read a
lot of reviews and tend to respect Ebert the most.
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 08:33:14 -0400
From: roseng@southss.tvdsb.on.ca (Nicole Rose)
Subject: [MV] The Green Mile
David M Hoptman wrote,
I saw the greatest movie last night.
In LA,I often get advanced screening passes to movies that won't be
released
in thatres till several months
later.I saw "The Green Mile," based on the Stephen King novels.It
starred Tom
Hanks as a prison guard on
death row at a Louisiana Jail.It was also directed by the same dude who
made
"The Shawshank Redemption,"
another fine film adapted from a Stephen King book."The Green Mile" is a
superb piece of work which I have
no doubt will be nominated for some Acadamy Awards hopefully including
Best
Picture.---Dave
Ok wow that is geat to know. I have been awaiting the movie The Green
Mile to come out sisnce the books came out in like 97 or something. I
can't wait now that I know it stars Tom Hanks! Also one of the greatest
actors. So I'm glad most of you agree on my personal movie tastes, and
Mel has the Kevin Spacey down to an art. lol. So any other fav movies
people want to talk about? I think I have too many to mention.
