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From: owner-movies-digest@lists.xmission.com (movies-digest) To: movies-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: movies-digest V2 #259 Reply-To: movies-digest Sender: owner-movies-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-movies-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk movies-digest Sunday, February 13 2000 Volume 02 : Number 259 [MV] Sci-Fi Movie News - 01/24/100 [MV] MovieJuice! - EYE OF THE BEHOLDER - Lure o' Ashley [MV] MovieJuice! - BULLETIN - SCREAM 3 REALVIDEO COMEDY [MV] The Forbin Project [MV] MovieJuice! - SCREAM 3 - Schwing Blade [MV] Scream 3 is Topsy Turvy reviews [MV] MovieJuice! - ADVANCE - THE BEACH - Boo-Boo Lagoon [MV] Sci-Fi Movie News - 02/10/00 [MV] MovieJuice! - ADVANCE - REINDEER GAMES - Holly Jolly Christmess ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:37:22 -0700 From: "The Reporter" <gregorys@xmission.com> Subject: [MV] Sci-Fi Movie News - 01/24/100 Farscape creator Rockne S. O'Bannon told fans of The SCI FI Channel series that he is planning a feature film based on the show, now ending its first season. "Production on season two is well underway, there are discussions re: a Farscape movie, [and] a book series is forthcoming," O'Bannon said in a Jan. 13 chat at SCIFI.COM. Plans for the movie are influencing the series' storyline, O'Bannon said. "I'm in meetings presently with [producers] Brian and Lisa Henson [regarding] ... a Farscape feature, so I'm having to nail down certain aspects of the mythology so that we don't have a movie out sometime in the future that conflicts with the series. ... There are aspects to a two-part episode just written by David Kemper that will definitely factor into the movie idea I have in mind." Farscape airs Fridays at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and Saturdays at 2 p.m. ET. -=> * <=- The Dark Horizons Web site has resurrected the rumor that Gillian Anderson of The X-Files may have a part in Star Wars: Episode II, which creator George Lucas is still writing. Anderson, who plays FBI Agent Dana Scully on the Fox TV series, is supposedly a key figure in the second film. An unnamed source tells the site, "According to rumor, Gillian would be playing a Jedi Council member who is newly appointed to the council and was trained by Qui-Gon (and may have been more to him). As I asked her this, she just smiled and didn't say a word! She did say she thought she would be filming a movie outside the United States around the time Episode II will be shot." -=> * <=- Gillian Anderson is not in the running to step into Jodie Foster's role as FBI Agent Clarice Starling in Hannibal, the controversial sequel to Foster's The Silence of the Lambs, Anderson's spokeswoman told SCI FI Wire. "There's nothing to say, there's nothing official, and there are just lots of rumors," Anderson's manager, Connie Freiberg, said through Kim Fitzgerald, a spokesman for Anderson's day job, The X-Files. That doesn't foreclose a future deal. But it appears to quash widespread rumors that Anderson is one of the front-runners for the coveted role, along with Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth). Fans of Anderson, who plays FBI Agent Dana Scully on the long-running X-Files, have eagerly touted her for Hannibal. Indeed, the character of Scully was reportedly modeled on Foster's Oscar-winning performance in 1991's Lambs. Foster bowed out of the sequel reportedly due to a scheduling conflict with her next directorial job, Flora Plum. -=> * <=- Corey Solomon, director of the feature film version of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, says he convinced producer Joel Silver to sign on to the project by showing him a three-minute action sequence. Silver (Die Hard, The Matrix) was apparently impressed enough with Solomon's "student film" that he agreed to produce the movie, the director told Cinescape magazine. To avoid the cliches of the fantasy genre, Solomon also said he forced his writers to sit through every bad 1980s sword-and-sorcery movie, then showed them Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ben Hur and Spartacus, and told them, "OK, lets get to this place." Solomon said the fantasy genre died because many of the old movies failed to take the audience to "a place they have never been before, with characters they can really care about." -=> * <=- Julianne Moore (The End of the Affair) will star in The Sixth Sense director M. Night Shyamalan's next movie, Unbreakable, a supernatural suspense film. The Disney production will also star Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson and starts filming April 17 in Philadelphia, according to Variety. Unbreakable is a thriller with paranormal overtones about a man, played by Willis, who learns something shocking about himself after being the sole survivor of a large accident. Moore plays Willis' wife, a physical therapist. Moore received Golden Globe nominations for her roles in An Ideal Husband and The End of the Affair. Her recent credits include Cookie's Fortune, Magnolia and A Map of the World. -=> * <=- Spider-Man creator Stan Lee has sold The Guardians--Book One: The Unbound, an unpublished superhero novel, to Warner Bros. for possible development as a feature film franchise. The Guardians concept--about young people who discover their supernatural abilities--was created by Lee and Larry Shultz. The first novel in a series, The Unbound was written by Shultz and Dave Smeds and tells the story of John Porter, an American teen-ager who holds the key to fighting evil, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In the novel, Porter teams up with another prodigy, Risa Cohen. The story juxtaposes supernatural events with historical reality. Lee and Shultz will produce the project through their Lee/Shultz Entertainment company. The company is also developing the feature film Tomorrow, a version of the movie Planet of the Apes that substitutes robots for monkeys. -=> * <=- John Travolta may fulfill an obligation to Columbia Pictures by starring in the feature film Travel Agent, a time-travel thriller. Travolta owes Columbia a movie after dropping out of The Double, directed by Roman Polanski, according to Variety. Travel Agent, written by Gregory Hansen (Heart and Souls), deals with a man who travels six months into the past to thwart an assassination. Andrew Davis (The Fugitive) is in line to direct the movie. Travolta is currently producing and starring in Battlefield Earth, based on the SF novel of the same name by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. -=> * <=- David Fincher (Alien 3) will direct a feature film based on the short story "Passengers" by prolific SF writer Robert Silverberg, about aliens who inhabit humans for short joy rides on Earth. The story will be adapted for the screen by Greg Pruss and produced by USA Films, according to Variety. Under the influence of the aliens, people abandon their normal lives and experiment with debauchery or indulge violent urges. The story centers on one man in New York who has been "ridden" through an intense physical encounter with a woman who was also under alien influence. -=> * <=- Supernatural Law, the Exhibit A Press comic series by Batton Lash, is being developed into a feature film by Universal Pictures. Marti Noxon, a writer for the WB TV hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is working on characters in a draft of the script by Steve Wilson and Stephen Mazur, Exhibit A co-publisher and editor Jackie Estrada told the Comics Continuum Web site. Noxon's work "is supposed to be finished sometime this month," Estrada said. Universal recently renewed its option on Supernatural Law, which tells stories about a law firm that specializes in demon clients. The comic changed its name from Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre. -=> * <=- A new contender has emerged in rumors about who will play Peter Parker in Sony's upcoming feature film based on the Marvel Comics series Spider-Man: Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-star Nicholas Brendon (Xander). Seventeen magazine is fueling the rumors, reporting that Brendon has been approached by filmmakers to consider putting on the web mask. If true, Brendon would join actors including Brendan Fraser (The Mummy), Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers) and John C. Reilly ( Boogie Nights) as candidates to play Spidey, according to the Ain't It Cool News Web site. Brendon is breaking into feature films after playing Buffy's sidekick for the last four seasons. He appears in the upcoming independent horror films Pinata and Psycho Beach Party. -=> * <=- Sam Raimi (For Love of the Game) is emerging as the front-runner to direct the Columbia Pictures feature film based on Marvel Comics' Spider-Man. Raimi is Columbia's choice, but the studio hasn't signed the director yet, according to Variety. Raimi is an avowed Spider-Man fan and wants to direct the film. But the director may have a scheduling conflict. He's about to begin principal photography on Paramount's The Gift later this month. But Columbia wants to begin shooting Spider-Man in late spring or early summer for a summer 2001 release. That would mean Raimi would have to postpone post-production on The Gift. Columbia is trying to cut a deal with Paramount to accommodate both films. -=> * <=- Jan de Bont (Twister) will direct and produce a feature film based on the ecological disaster novel Dust by Charles Pellegrino, the scientist behind the dinosaur-cloning theory that inspired Jurassic Park. Dust tells the story of scientist Richard Sinclair, who must deal with a bizarre extinction cycle that threatens to destroy humanity. De Bont and partner Lucas Foster will develop a Dust script from a first-draft adaptation by Ted Humphrey, according to The Hollywood Reporter. -=> * <=- Ian McKellen has finished up his duties playing Magneto in Fox's upcoming X-Men feature film and is now en route to New Zealand to play the wizard Gandalf in New Line's upcoming feature films based on J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy of books, The Lord of the Rings. The actor talked about his travels in a post to his Web site. In a journal entry dated Jan. 8, the actor wrote, "Actually I am not sure of the date. I am in Los Angeles en route for Wellington, [New Zealand, where Rings is being shot,] with a 12-hour flight on Qantas/British Airways ahead of me. I don't wear a watch, and all I know is that the U.K. is eight hours ahead, and New Zealand is four hours behind, plus (or minus) a day. "Nevertheless, it feels that the 21st century has really arrived now that my end-of-year obligations are completed," McKellen wrote. "I have finished my filming on X-Men--until the post-production dubbing and the publicity round starts. I have been home to London to greet friends and family and the millennium; I have packed many bags, and Middle Earth beckons." McKellen also posted a photograph of himself "pondering Niagara Falls, Canada, during a break in shooting X-Men, November 1999." [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:09:42 -0500 (EST) From: maillist@moviejuice.com Subject: [MV] MovieJuice! - EYE OF THE BEHOLDER - Lure o' Ashley TAKE THE NEW MOVIEJUICE.COM QUIZ This week, visit http://www.moviejuice.com and take the Angelina Jolie quiz. In the movie of Angie's life, who will play her lips? ******************** MOVIEJUICE.COM IN THE NEWS This week MovieJuice.com was featured prominently in a piece on TNT's Roughcut about the best non-corporate movie sites. Thanks for the mention, TNT! And may I say how very old and fragile Ted Turner's looking lately. See the piece for yourself at: http://www.roughcut.com/features/stories/anyone_can_be_a_critic.html ******************** CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE STEVEN SPIELBERG KIND Yep, another run-in with the king. He peppered me with questions about MovieJuice! (yes, he reads it) and was genuinely interested in the answers. I'll write more about it later. Suffice it to say, this man is not only perhaps the greatest filmmaker who ever lived, he's also a class act. ******************** CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE ANGELINA JOLIE KIND The fantasy has come true! I've had my close encounter with Angelina Jolie. And I think it's safe to say she forgot about it two seconds after the let's-pretend-to-know-each-other picture was snapped. Thank God my imagination remains vivid as ever! ******************** SPECIAL THANKS A special shout out this week to Bill Diehl of ABC Radio and Joel Siegel of Good Morning America. It was a joy to chat with you both and I deeply appreciate all your kind comments about MovieJuice.com. I wish somebody famous would tell me they hate my guts - it would make great copy. ******************** EYE OF THE BEHOLDER - Lure o' Ashley by Mark Ramsey January 28, 2000 <a href="http://www.moviejuice.com/2000/eyeofthebeholder.htm">Click here for the full review!</a> http://www.moviejuice.com/2000/eyeofthebeholder.htm The folks at Pixar, makers of Toy Story, have a wise motto: "Story is King." But at Destination films, makers of Eye of the Beholder, "Story is the Duke of Hazard." I'm watching the commercials for this movie and seeing outrageously hyperbolic blurb-o-rama: "A top-notch thriller" - The Studio Hand-Job Entertainment Network "This may be Ashley Judd's best work to date" - Publicityflack.com "One of the most hypnotic thrillers ever made" - Amazing Kreskin's Hollywood "I liked the way the cast list scrolled up at the end" - TIME Magazine Don't get me wrong, I'm no snob. My brow is so middle it snags my toothbrush. But Eye of the Beholder is monstrously Bad with a capital "B." Obi-Wannabe Ewan McGregor plays the "eye," while Ashley Judd and various permutations of lacy undergarments play the "beheld." Booty is in the eye of this beholder. Meanwhile you, my movie-going friend, play the sucker that's born every minute if you lay out your hard-earned bread for this turkey. Better to flush the bucks down the toilet - at least the draining water features swirling action, and there's no gum under the seat. A stalker love story; what could be more enticing? Why is Ewan going ga-ga over Ashley Judd, anyway? Why is a monkey eating peanuts in a pub as Ewan hoists a Guinness? Why is the British Intelligence Com-center staffed by a crack team of lesbians - is this a Bryn Mawr semester abroad? Why is Ewan able to tap into Ashley's bedroom video from his PC on an airplane, of all places? And if you could do this, who wouldn't pay four bucks for a headset? Talk about a cock-pit! Ewan calls a bell-tower home. It's noisy, but he can count on meeting a chick named Esmeralda if he's ever publicly flogged in the town square. Most cloying and inscrutable of all is Ewan's ghostly daughter - now lost and a figment of his imagination. She appears regularly in her Shetland sweater and tartan skirt to giddily skip, jump rope, play hopscotch, and taunt daddy with Father Knows Best era clichΘs. Couldn't Ewan dream up a Barbie playset and Easy-Bake oven to keep this kid busy? I'd like to wrap some Silly String around her throat. Is this a casting call for Annie? Ewan collects sno-globes. Not because they reveal anything about his character, but because they serve as a ravenously pretentious and ridiculous transitioning device. Need a scene-change to Chicago? Close-up on the Chicago sno-globe as the scene dissolves. Each globe is a "portal" into another locale when it should be a portal into different theater and a better movie. Check it: Some anonymous player-dude flirts with Ashley, suggesting he recognizes her from somewhere. "Everybody looks like somebody else," replies Ashley. "I'll agree with that, toots!" he says, echoing romance kings, the Three Stooges. Say, numbskull, whoop, whoop! Ruff! Ruff! Use the "foice," Ewan! Soitenly! Ashley's hangin' with a wealthy blind vintner. This earnestly Julio Gallo thinks he owns acres of vineyards in Sonoma, when he actually sports a backyard garden in Pomona. Poor bastard. And just like the rest of us, he can't tell Ashley's sister from her mom. Ignorance really is bliss. So Ashley gets nabbed in Chicago by the "Federal Police." The what? What kind of fascist faction is this? And why are they driving "Red & Eggshells" instead of "Blue & Whites"? Who's the arresting officer, Det. Lt. J. Crew? Will the judge throw the book at you or mail you a catalogue? Do they read you your rights or your source code? And like all felons arrested in Chicago, Ashley instantly relocates to Alaska to waitress in a busy roadside truckstop coincidentally frequented by vacationing just-folks James Brolin and Barbra Streisand! Memories, like the corners of a meatloaf special and a bottomless cup of coffee! Golden-throated chanteuse k.d. lang makes a rare acting appearance on the big screen, proving not only that Boys Don't Cry, they don't act either. And look, there's Genevieve Bujold, a graduate of Earthquake and Coma, who still knows how to make disasters and put audiences to sleep. She's "Anne of the Thousand Bad Career Choices." Make that a thousand and one. Copyright 2000 Mark Ramsey. All rights reserved. NO PORTION MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR. ******************** MOVIEJUICE.COM HATE MAIL OF THE WEEK - -----Original Message----- From: [Name Hidden to Protect the Innocent] Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 5:12 PM To: mramsey@moviejuice.com Subject: Your movie review Mr. Ramsey: I truly regret writing this letter but your review of the "Green Mile" was so distasteful, poorly written, and a very bad attempt at sarcasm. I think you should seriously pursue a different career besides writing, at least in the field of a movie critic. Your lack of intelligence shines so brightly in your review that maybe you should go into comics. At least those are colored. You have no fundamental love for a movie so masterfully put together like "The Green Mile" was and I think before you write a review, actually go see the movie, because basically the only thing that you accomplished in that review was telling us about Jason Priestly and some knitting needles. "The Green Mile" is a movie that has been at the top of the charts since it came out on the screen and I think that your review does nothing but show what a bad writer you are. It does not even compare to "The Shawshank Redemption" and I think that as a "talented" writer you should see that. #1 one I guarantee this movie to win an Oscar this year and #2 I guarantee that your intelligence and moral level is probably the same as an amphibian. Get class and talent rapidly THEN start writing quality, not crap. A Frustrated Reader MY REPLY: Dear Frustrated: Gosh, how glowing does a review have to be before you people leave me alone? But I've decided you are right and I will pursue a different career - I've decided to take up writing poorly structured emails which brazenly guarantee the outcome of the Academy Awards in a way that can best be described in one phrase: Long-shot. Thanks for your note. MRR ******************** THE MOVIEJUICE.COM AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION QUIZ Here are the results from last week's quiz: "Warren Beatty will receive a special award at the 72nd annual Academy Awards. It's called:" The Red Baron - 10% The Trojan Horse of the Apocalypse - 31% The Sword in the Stones - 11% The Woody Starlet-Pecker - 30% The Bulbous Bulworth - 18% I don't think you guys get the "Sword in the Stones" choice. Think about it. ******************** DON'T 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 bottom of the left hand side. 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. [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 01:06:31 -0500 (EST) From: maillist@moviejuice.com Subject: [MV] MovieJuice! - BULLETIN - SCREAM 3 REALVIDEO COMEDY MOVIEJUICE.COM BULLETIN: NEW COMEDY REALVIDEO PRESENTATION û SCREAM 3 Come one, come all, and witness the pre-release MovieJuice.com Comedy RealVideo Presentation: An Introduction to Scream 3! Hosted by filmmaker Wes Craven, or somebody who looks strikingly like him, anyway. ItÆs vastly cheaper than the real thing, and less than four minutes long! YouÆll need the RealPlayer G2 a stiff northerly wind at your back. <a href="http://www.moviejuice.com/2000/scream3vid.htm">Click here for the full review!</a> http://www.moviejuice.com/2000/scream3vid.htm ******************** TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST: DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL! Just go to http://www.moviejuice.com and follow the directions at the bottom of the left hand side. 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. [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 10:48:56 -0500 From: Gene Ehrich <gene@ehrich.com> Subject: [MV] The Forbin Project Finally found a copy at my local library of one of my all time favorite science fiction movies. Colossus, The Forbin Project. Great movie with some great lines and really rather up to date considering how old it is. If you never saw it, see if you can get a copy. 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: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 12:23:57 -0500 (EST) From: maillist@moviejuice.com Subject: [MV] MovieJuice! - SCREAM 3 - Schwing Blade SCREAM 3 - Schwing Blade by Mark Ramsey February 4, 2000 <a href="http://www.moviejuice.com/2000/scream3.htm">Click here for the full review!</a> http://www.moviejuice.com/2000/scream3.htm Scream 3 - Schwing Blade by Mark Ramsey There's a zit on hottie Neve Campbell's chin. Don't take my word for it, see for yourself. It's a ZIT! Is this some devious new product placement for Clearasil? ILM can create dinosaurs on a PC but they can't cover a zit?! Doesn't Photoshop have an "Oxy-cute" filter? Our priorities are all wrong, if you ask me. That zit is our clue, it's time for Scream 3. And this time, Neve is armed - not with a gun, but with what looks either like Pepper Spray or a can of OFF insect repellent. Who can tell? Believe it or not, the good folks at the studio set up a special screening of Scream 3 just for me. Not because I'm a big-shot, but because I'm a pest who can't be trusted to know too much too far in advance. I'm a loose cannon, for chrissake! Look out! Hey, Miramax, since you're going to all that trouble, why not just send the cast over to my house to run lines? Oops, that's impossible, since cast-member Jenny McCarthy couldn't find her way unless I tie a line around her neck and reel her in. It's a common practice at Jenny's one-time haunt, the Playboy mansion, where there are so many live ones being hauled in, Hef should hang them from hooks and snap photo mementos. "Hey, look at what Joe Montana caught! Is that tuna an albacore?" It won't surprise anyone to know that Jenny's job is to get dispatched early, which is merciful to say the least. If Jenny were a soldier, dialogue's the enemy - small wonder she owes her success to her foxhole, if you know what I mean. Didn't Jenny get her implants removed? Well it sure looks like they're back! She's had those breasts stuffed so many times her agent negotiates a side of cranberry sauce and a slice of pumpkin pie. With Jenny, it's not called "surgery" it's called "harvesting the crops." If Jenny's gonna be on film, let it be 35mm Kodak prints, not the silver screen. She's helplessly over the top and way out of her face-mugging, belch-mongering league. Jenny, take a lesson from the exquisite Parker Posey, who's also over the top and really, really good at it. Remember Cotton Weary? He has graduated from Woodsboro to host a TV talk show called "100% Cotton," which the network refers to "the fabric of our program schedule." At NATPE, it was sold as the only "natural" thing to come out of LA that wasn't bottled from an underground spring. My God, Courtney Cox is so skinny she can slide into rooms without opening doors. Her body double is a number 2 pencil. Not only is she David Arquette's wife, she's also his bookmark. One question: What's with Courtney's wig? It just looks...wrong! I think wardrobe covered a soup ladle with hair and tipped it upside down on her head, carefully slipping the handle down her back to help prop her up. Does this big dipper require hair gel or PAM? This movie includes what was, for me, the funniest moment in all of the Scream movies. A certain scathingly-funny slacker duo makes a welcome cameo. You'll know it when you see it, and I wish every movie had it. Let's be honest, Scream 3 could have been screamingly bad. I mean, what was fresh about the first one is impossible to duplicate. And what can be harder than making the third movie in a series a gem? One thing: Ending the series without opening the door to Scream 4! Well, Wes Craven and his crew have done both, and it's a pleasure to behold. A franchise with an ending! Glory be! Does this mean the Scream homicidal maniac can't come back to nix the cast of Real World Hawaii before that annoying Amaya signs on as spokesperson for Jenny Craig? We've come a long way since Dragnet. The two LA cops on the job in this flick are heavy on LA and light on cop. Either they work for the Melrose Place division or it's GQ Friday. The only lineup these guys see is in a Gap ad. Scream 3 is terrific fun and vastly better than I had feared. That's despite climaxing with that trusty clichΘ, a lengthy explanatory scene where the killer lays out his (or her) psychopathic motivation and slows the movie to a dead stop. Oh well, it's tradition. Copyright 2000 Mark Ramsey. All rights reserved. NO PORTION MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR. ******************** AND DON'T MISS "SCREAM 3 - THE REALVIDEO COMEDY ADVENTURE" <a href="http://www.moviejuice.com/2000/scream3vid.htm">Click here for the full video!</a> http://www.moviejuice.com/2000/scream3vid.htm ******************** MOVIEJUICE.COM HOMOPHOBIC MAIL OF THE WEEK - -----Original Message----- From: [NAME HIDDEN TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 12:12 PM To: mramsey@moviejuice.com Subject: Ripley Hi Mark - Just a quick note to let you know that I've been reading your Moviejuice reviews and I like your take on things. I first discovered moviejuice with the review for "The Talented Mr. Ripley". You were right on (which means that you agreed with an eminent NY movie critic - myself) with Ripley. Way too gay & way too weird without any of the babes in the movie getting naked. MY REPLY: Now just a minute. I NEVER said Ripley was "way too gay." I don't even know what "way too gay" is, although I suspect "Kiss Me Kate" comes close. Thanks for your note. MRR ******************** DON'T 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 bottom of the left hand side. 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. [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 01:02:48 -0800 From: Movieman <movieman@netcom.ca> Subject: [MV] Scream 3 is Topsy Turvy reviews Topsy Turvy is getting some attention as it is on many people's top ten lists for last year. It is a biographical tale of Gilbert and Sullivan. Unlike most biographical stories, this one decides to focus on a section of their lives instead of their whole careers - so we see a more detailed look at the thought process and the creative process of putting a musical play together. Highly entertaining, though I suspect only for those that enjoy musical theatre in the first place as it has at least 6 full songs played out on stage for us. Intriguing look at theatre and at the turn of the century. 81%. Scream 3 is much more mainstream of course as it unloads into a record breaking amount of theatres for a February release. Though it did not have much hype in the ways of advertising it does carry with it two very successful predecessors. This one is probably the weakest of the three - and this coming from a fan of all three of them. Many clever moments as well as suspenseful moments - though I thought the script dipped into the same ink well that it was lampooning. A few times 2 characters would split up in an unfamiliar place to search it out - when we were told in the first two movies that this was a wrong thing to do in a horror movie. Some good in-jokes with the Hollywood angle this time and it certainly is a fun murder mystery to try and figure out. A 77% for a decent end to a good trilogy of horror comedies. There is still time to see many of last year's Oscar hopefuls... Fantasia 2000 - 95% Being John Malkovich - 95% Cradle Will Rock - 93% Magnolia - 92% Toy Story 2 - 91% If you do not want to receive Movieman's emails...then shame on you...but just email me and I will remove you - no problem. If you know someone who would benefit from Movieman's infinite wisdom and insight then feel free to pass their email to me and I will include them in the list!:-) [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 20:41:52 -0500 (EST) From: maillist@moviejuice.com Subject: [MV] MovieJuice! - ADVANCE - THE BEACH - Boo-Boo Lagoon THE BEACH - Boo-Boo Lagoon by Mark Ramsey February 10, 2000 <a href="http://www.moviejuice.com/2000/thebeach.htm">Click here for the full review!</a> http://www.moviejuice.com/2000/thebeach.htm Steven Spielberg just had a kidney removed, and already it has hired a personal trainer, signed a first look deal with Paramount, earned a Golden Globe nomination, torn up the dance floor with Jennifer Love Hewitt, and been tossed out a speeding car window by a fleeing Puffy Combs. Go figure. Good news! The Self-Indulgent Planet of Leo DiCaprio returns to the screen in his first new movie since Titanic. Call it Titanic Disappointment. Sorry, but The Beach is a flick only Leo's mom and his Schwab broker could love. The Beach is from the director of that killer heroin and heist opus, Trainspotting. Unlike Trainspotting, however, The Beach features needles of the pine variety and track marks leading to the ocean. A baby crawling along the ceiling has given way to a movie that just plain crawls. The Beach isn't killer, it's just deadly. Bonjour, Love! Leo falls for French babe Franτoise, which I believe is a type of salad. I'll take mine sans dressing, if you know what I mean. Franτoise and her boyfriend Etienne (which is French for "cash machine") join Leo on his quest for paradise or at least a place to take off his shirt and flex. Hey Leo, get thee to a gym! I know a movie's in only two dimensions but so are you, pal. Word is, Leo mostly works chest - as many as possible. He's heavy on the bars and light on the barbells. "Regardez-vous, Jack" says Franτoise, "if we sweem out to za sea, za plankton will glooooow as zey bask in our lovemaking, and we may share pomme frites and champagne with ze ocean fauna. Bonjour Monsieur Tiger Shark! Mangez-vous on Za Heart of Zee Ocean!" Hear that sound? It's music by the legendary composer Angelo Badalamenti, who unfortunately has the words "bad" and "lament" in his name. That's a warning beacon if ever there was one! Once in paradise, Leo and his posse encounter a hippie commune whose primary chore is to beam wistfully out over the beach as if they - or we - have never seen one before. To welcome Leo and his pals into their communal brood, the beach hippies launch enormous hot air balloon condoms emblazoned with their names into the night sky - just like NASA did with The Last Action Hero. Up, up they float to join various other orbiting birth control devices, such as gigantic dental dams, spinning pill dispensers, and a hovering 8 x 10 of the Drew Carey Show cast. Leo is supposed to keep the island a secret but that would mean more airborne condoms, so out goes the word and in come the immigrants along with the ghost of Papa Hemingway and numerous bootlegs of Jimmy Buffet's Greatest Hits. What kind of paradise is living in one room with fifty stinkin' hippies and no TV, anyway? If The Blue Lagoon taught us anything, it's that hot chicks living on remote islands get naked. Not in this paradise, bubba. The only "endless love" here is between Leo and his hair care products. Things turn comic when Leo goes guerilla. Wrapping a bandana around his head, Leo goes skipping through the forest like a Keebler elf. He declined to stick camouflage branches in his hair for fear they'd take root. Elf Leo taunts the considerably less attractive gun-toting locals like he's Tarzan, King of the Dingleberries. Hey, Puck, what fools these peace-loving hippie mortals be. Okay, as an actor, Leo is second to none. Maybe the finest of his generation. But when he embarks on a torturous quest to find himself in the jungle, do we have to go along for the ride? On the other hand, Leo, if you want to go back to finding yourself in every VIP room, every after-hours club, and all eligible models under 21, let me know. I'll scrub for that ride anytime. Warning: If you dare venture to this beach I have one piece of advice: Wear sunscreen and shield your eyes. Copyright 2000 Mark Ramsey. All rights reserved. NO PORTION MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR. ******************** AND DON'T MISS "SCREAM 3 - THE REALVIDEO COMEDY ADVENTURE" <a href="http://www.moviejuice.com/2000/scream3vid.htm">Click here for the full video!</a> http://www.moviejuice.com/2000/scream3vid.htm ******************** MOVIEJUICE.COM HATE MAIL OF THE WEEK - -----Original Message----- From: [Name Hidden to Protect the Innocent] Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 6:37 AM To: mramsey@moviejuice.com Subject: review just read your Angela's Ashes review. Was all that racist stuff supposed to be funny? MY RESPONSE Yes, yah feck. Thanks for your note. MRR ******************** THE MOVIEJUICE POLL RESULTS "In the movie of her life, Angelina Jolie's lips will be played by:" Mini-Me and his fraternal twin - 16% A Sealy Posturepedic boxspring mattress set - 27% The Hamburgler - 40% The Aircraft Carrier USS Kennedy - 16% Well, you guys are good judges of the funny ones. Congratulations. This week's NEW question: "Steven Spielberg just had a kidney removed. According to his doctor, it's a case of..." VOTE AT http://www.moviejuice.com ******************** DON'T 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 bottom of the left hand side. 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. [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:05:11 -0700 From: "The Reporter" <gregorys@xmission.com> Subject: [MV] Sci-Fi Movie News - 02/10/00 In the highly anticipated sequels to the SF action movie The Matrix, Neo faces off with a female agent who can move faster than the speed of light. That's a tidbit of the plot offered up by an unnamed source to the Dark Horizons Web site about the two sequels now in pre-production. A representative to the production told the Web site that "in the period since shooting on the original film wrapped, the programmers who devised the technology for The Matrix have refined it and taken it to new levels. What exactly this entails is anybody's guess." Also expect more dynamic fight scenes with moves that "defy comprehension." As to rumors about where the two follow-up movies will be filmed, the site reported that London's Shepperton and Pinewood studios have been queried about their availability from December to February 2001 and from June 2001 to August 2001. The original film was shot in Australia. Other rumors have placed Keanu Reeves and a producer who looks like Joel Silver in London, scouting studio space. Meanwhile, comic book writer Grant Morrison (JLA, The Invisibles) is reportedly contemplating suing Andy and Larry Wachowski, the brothers who created The Matrix. Grant argues that The Matrix copies storylines from his Invisibles comics, according to IGN Sci-Fi. So far, no suit has been filed. -=> * <=- Padawan or Webbed One? Leonardo DiCaprio, reportedly in the running to play Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode II, is now on the short list of actors vying for the role of Peter Parker in Columbia's upcoming Spider-Man movie, based on the Marvel Comics franchise. Entertainment Weekly online cites an unnamed high-level studio source saying that DiCaprio is at the top of a list that includes Freddie Prinze Jr. (Down to You) and Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley). DiCaprio's representative Ken Sunshine told the magazine, ''He's obviously approached all the time about great-sounding ideas, but he's got to see the script.'' Prinze's publicists weren't available, and Law's said, ''There have been some overtures about it. Jude has been a Spider-Man fanatic since he was a kid.'' The magazine also reported that Sam Raimi (A Simple Plan) has sealed the deal to direct the movie, with filming to begin in December for a fall 2001 release. Meanwhile, the Spider-Man Hype Web site quoted an unnamed source saying that actor Liam Neeson (Star Wars: Episode I) will play Spidey's nemesis The Green Goblin. Long before he put on his Jedi robes, Neeson played the title role in Raimi's feature film Darkman. -=> * <=- Contrary to rumors, Marvel Comics is apparently pleased with the production of the feature film version of its popular X-Men series, now shooting in Toronto, Empire magazine reported. Production of Fox's X-Men feature film is going so well, producers are talking sequels and action figures. X-Men has been shooting for five months, and a teaser trailer and 10 minutes of footage have already been assembled, according to an Empire magazine reporter who visited the set recently. The film is two months away from the end of shooting, but producer Lauren Shuler Donner is already talking sequels. Director Bryan Singer has been working seven-day weeks to meet the July 14 release date, despite a shoulder injury sustained while demonstrating a Wolverine move to actor Hugh Jackman. On the day Empire visited the set, X-Men Storm (Halle Berry), Wolverine, Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) and Cyclops (James Marsden) were fighting Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) on the Statue of Liberty. The good guys were wearing skin-tight black leather, while Mystique was wearing little but blue makeup. -=> * <=- Late director Stanley Kubrick's proposed SF movie A.I. remains a closely guarded secret, but rumored details of the story have been leaked to the Dark Horizons Web site. The movie, based in part on Brian Aldiss' short story "Super Toys Last All Summer Long," centers on a robot child named David who outlives humanity centuries from now after the polar ice caps have melted, the site reported. David, a robot in the form of a little boy, is discovered by artificial intelligences (the "A.I.'s" of the title), and placed in a computer-generated reality as a museum reminder of a time when humankind ruled the Earth. Dark Horizon cites several supposed drafts of a script based on Kubrick's treatment for the movie, which combines elements of the Pinocchio fairy tale, virtual reality and global environmental disaster. Director Steven Spielberg is reportedly interested in making the movie, and is writing a screenplay based on Kubrick's treatment. -=> * <=- Red Planet, the second of two Mars-themed SF movies coming out this year, is being bumped back to Nov. 10 from its June 16 opening date. It's the second delay for the Warner Bros. film, which was moved from an original March 31 premiere after Disney's Mission to Mars grabbed a March 10 release date, according to Variety. The studio said the delay was necessary in part because of the time needed to complete the movie's extensive special effects. In June, the movie would also have faced stiff competition from Shaft and Titan A.E.. Red Planet, about the first manned mission to mars, stars Val Kilmer, Benjamin Bratt, Carrie-Anne Moss and Tom Sizemore. Kilmer and Sizemore were reported to have feuded during filming in Australia, but the stars have denied a rift. -=> * <=- George Lucas has completed a script for a fourth Indiana Jones movie, but neither potential star Harrison Ford nor director Steven Spielberg have seen it yet. Without Ford's or Spielberg's approval, a fourth movie is unlikely, according to USA Today columnist Jeannie Williams. "If there was a script they all loved, they would kill themselves to clear their schedules," Ford's agent, Patricia McQueeney, told Williams. "They love it so much, but they can't seem to get their heads together on a script they are all enthusiastic about." Ford just completed the supernatural thriller What Lies Beneath. -=> * <=- Chuck Russell (The Mask) is rumored to be the potential director of a Sony feature film based on the Marvel Comics character Dr. Strange. Russell, whose credits include Eraser and The Blob, would also write the script, according to the Comics Continuum Web site. Don Murphy, a producer of the Doctor Strange project, told the site earlier that Sony had put the movie on a fast track for development, with an eye to a summer 2001 release. -=> * <=- The producer of the hit feature film Stuart Little, which was based on E.B. White's children's book of the same name, has bought the movie rights to another popular kid's story: George Selden's The Cricket in Times Square. Stephen Waterman, Little's executive producer, bought the rights for Cricket and its six sequels from publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Cricket, first published in 1960, chronicles the adventures of a singing cricket named Chester and his New York City adventures with Harry the cat, Tucker the mouse and Mario, a young boy whose parents run a failing newsstand. Waterman intends to turn the book into a live-action/computer-animated feature along the lines of Stuart Little. [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:23:49 -0500 (EST) From: maillist@moviejuice.com Subject: [MV] MovieJuice! - ADVANCE - REINDEER GAMES - Holly Jolly Christmess AN ENTERTAINMENT INSIDER AWARD FOR MOVIEJUICE.COM I'm proud to announce that MovieJuice.com has been picked by the editors of Fade In: magazine as one of the Top 100 Coolest Film Sites on the Net. Fade In: is a mag about and for screenwriters, so I consider this a special honor since it comes from people who write movies - or at least write about people who write movies. The full list of winners is in the current issue of Fade In: on newsstands now. You can visit Fade In: at http://www.fadeinonline.com. Thanks, Fade In:! How you came up with 100 decent film sites is beyond me. ******************** REINDEER GAMES - Holly Jolly Christmess by Mark Ramsey February 13, 2000 <a href="http://www.moviejuice.com/2000/reindeergames.htm">Click here for the full review!</a> http://www.moviejuice.com/2000/reindeergames.htm Ben Affleck has little bitty baby teeth. See for yourself! I'm talkin' a full portfolio of juvenile micro-ivories. Why didn't I recognize this when he spit up in his stroller en route to the Golden Globes? Did Gwyneth ever mistake a nibble for an insect bite, or was she too busy cutting Ben's food into itsy-bitsy pieces? Ben, do you prefer a bite guard or a crossing guard? Do your vitamins come in every Flintstone flavor? What's the tooth fairy waiting for, anyway, critical mass? You know, there's nothing like a Christmas movie that opens late in February. Believe me, a late Winter sextet of dead Santas in the opening frames tells you one thing and one thing only: Something's rotten and it's coming from the silver screen. Reindeer Games is one of the most expensive movies ever made by the folks at Dimension films - that's the division of Miramax whose films contain roughly one-third the standard number of dimensions. With games like these, no wonder the other reindeer wouldn't let Rudolph play. I don't know about red noses, but the faces must be glowing red over at Dimension, thanks to this unseasonable turkey. Any Thanksgiving movies forthcoming, guys? As Reindeer Games opens, Ben Affleck is in prison. Ben's convicted of illegal sex acts with Matt Damon, and here he is in the big house embroiled in a food fight. The joint is jumpin', and somebody wants that piece of cheese Ben's gnawing with those Stuart Little choppers. Tattooed on Ben's shoulders are playing cards and crucifixes, which are Ben's way of saying: "I am the Poker-playing servant of the Lord. Thou shalt have no other Poker-players than me." It's also a subtle hint of the miracle it'll take for Miramax to see payback on this gamble. Babelicious Charlize Theron is a lonely-heart pen pal to Ben's cell-mate, because what gal can settle for a guy on the straight and narrow when there are so many forlorn, sincere felons serving 20 to life? Gary Sinise buffs up for a slum stint as a nasty criminal. He reprises his long-haired Lt. Dan costume in a look that shouts: Jesus Christ, Super-hood. Gary is alleged to be Charlize's brother, which has geneticists the world over returning to their drawing boards in befuddled puzzlement. They say every dark cloud has a silver lining, and there's just enough of Charlize's upper torso exposed to line my cloud with silver place-settings galore and a little baby setting for Ben, too. Bless you, Charlize! Who needs a script when the Good Lord creates lines like these? Look quick and you'll see Ben's ass prominently displayed during one particularly gymnastic go-round with Charlize. Ben should have saved his ass for a better flick, because nothing's gonna save his ass here. This is one of those movies where the twists are more important than the story. I hate movies like that. Twisting is the specialty of writer and Miramax wⁿnderkind Ehren Kruger, the guy who penned twisty - - but far superior - Arlington Road and Scream 3. Somebody remind Ehren that good movies are about delicious stories first, clever twists later. Ehren, Hemingway had to die before his crappiest stuff was released, so what's your excuse? I expected much better from a movie with the credentials behind this one. Reindeer Games is from director John Frankenheimer, who's been making movies since my teeth were almost as tiny as Ben's! John directed the underrated Ronin and authentic classics like The Manchurian Candidate, where Frank Sinatra's hey-hey nookie with the dames took a back seat to genuinely swingin' dramatic tension. The only tension in Reindeer Games is in my straw when I suck on it. I like Affleck a lot, and damn it he deserves better than this Santa caper lump of coal. Even teeny-tiny teeth need something tasty to chew on! Reindeer Games is less Ronin, and more groanin'. It's a pimple on the ass of The Manchurian Candidate. Or, on Ben's ass, numerous pimples. Copyright 2000 Mark Ramsey. All rights reserved. NO PORTION MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR. ******************** AN INDIE FILM PLUG FOR ALL YOU ANGELINOS - TONIGHT! Every so often a true-blue MovieJuice.com fan turns out to be a filmmaker! Well I'll be darned! Here's the skinny on a new flick screening TONIGHT, with copy provided by the producer. If you live in the LA area, here's one you should catch: METAL - "It's a dark art film about a black man who can't get a job." The director's pitch line is, "METAL is the story of Ray (played by Wedrell James), a sensitive black, unemployed mechanic who, in spite of his debilitating and dehumanizing situation, tries to maintain a sense of dignity and moral values. It might be said that he would be equal to a modern day Sisyphus, who, according to Greek mythology, was forced, forever, to push a block of stone up a hill only to see it roll back again." For more info, visit: http://www.21stcentury.org. The film is showing TONIGHT at 6:15 at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles. Tickets are available by calling (323)-290-5900. The screening is at the Magic Johnson Theatres, located in the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, 3650 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Los Angeles (1 block west of Crenshaw and King). ******************** MOVIEJUICE.COM BACKSTREET BOYS FANMAIL OF THE WEEK - -----Original Message----- From: [NAME REMOVED TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 9:13 PM To: mramsey@moviejuice.com Subject: hello Hi my name is [NAME REMOVED] IM 13 and Saturday IM going out for the first time alone with the boy I have a crush on and our friends and we are going to see scream 3 I have seen all the scream movies and cant wait to see this one and its going to be kinda special to me i even bought me a 30 dollar outfit for the occasion MY REPLY: Well, in a 30 dollar outfit how can he not be impressed? By the way, has anyone ever told you you write like Brett Easton Ellis? MRR ******************** DON'T 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 bottom of the left hand side. 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. [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ End of movies-digest V2 #259 **************************** [ To quit the movies-digest mailing list (big mistake), send the message ] [ "unsubscribe movies-digest" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ]