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« Reply #45 on: July 15, 2005, 07:33:50 pm »
ugh.  i enjoyed Die Hard, a lot.  i also enjoyed Farewell My Concubine.

I think they need to make a movie that is a sequel to BOTH AT THE SAME TIME.

even a Dolph Lundgren vehicle has a good purpose, which is to allow nice UPN affiliates not to have to run Doggstown anytime they want to show a "movie".  (i had never heard of Doggstown until i only had ABC and UPN on antenna.  I have seen it 5 times now.)

Sometimes when i hear that "They"/"Hollywood" are remaking a movie that they have already made, i think "dear goodness, they are going to ruin it in remaking it!" and then sometimes i think "good! that means they won't make any new crap!" and _sometimes_ i think both at the very same time!
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« Reply #46 on: July 15, 2005, 07:41:04 pm »
I loved Charolettes Web, but those Stewart Little movies were only mildly amusing.

~Paul
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« Reply #47 on: July 15, 2005, 07:55:55 pm »
If we've moved on to random movies, I would just like to point out that I got offered a free pass to an advanced screening of The Brothers Grimm yesterday, but it was at 4:00 downtown and I couldn't get out of work.  If I had even had one day's notice I would have made sure I could go.  

Still, we're getting not just one, but two new Terry Gilliam movies this year.  That alone makes this a good year for movies.
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« Reply #48 on: July 16, 2005, 12:45:24 am »
Stuart Little played very well in the target demographic. Which is really what counts, you know? I mean, Sharkboy and LavaGirl defied all attempts to describe magnitude of Sucking but the kids liked it.

It's the same thing with candy. I would not have imagined that there would ever be a candy nose with gummy snot in it. Or that kids would eat it. Yet they dig their little fingers in and dig 'em out and eat them. I wouldn't. I couldn't.

I can no longer eat spaghettios. Too much sugar in them - so sweet - yuck.

All this stuff sells where it is intended to and I guess that's more-or-less what Hollywood is up to most of the time.
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« Reply #49 on: July 16, 2005, 12:47:38 am »
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If we've moved on to random movies, I would just like to point out that I got offered a free pass to an advanced screening of The Brothers Grimm yesterday, but it was at 4:00 downtown and I couldn't get out of work.  If I had even had one day's notice I would have made sure I could go.  

Still, we're getting not just one, but two new Terry Gilliam movies this year.  That alone makes this a good year for movies.


Did you see the documentary about Gilliam's failed attempt to film "Don Quixote" called "Lost in La Mancha"?
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« Reply #50 on: July 16, 2005, 02:02:15 am »
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Stuart Little played very well in the target demographic. Which is really what counts, you know? I mean, Sharkboy and LavaGirl defied all attempts to describe magnitude of Sucking but the kids liked it.

I wonder if Shark Boy's lawsuit against that movie will pan out.
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« Reply #51 on: July 16, 2005, 03:42:37 am »
Lost in La Mancha was better than any Quixote movie could ever be.

And Gilliam's made some clunkers - The Brothers Grimm looks good, but the other one... I don't know.
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« Reply #52 on: September 10, 2005, 05:19:27 pm »
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he couldn't take the time to explain to his friend WHY he was stealing his car, but instead had 30 seconds to aimlessly argue with him over it?

Yes, that's exactly right.  Thank you Teodor for backing me up on this.  If Tom Cruise's mechanic friend had been more like Beef he might have survived the alien attack.

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