From: owner-movies-digest@lists.xmission.com (movies-digest) To: movies-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: movies-digest V2 #266 Reply-To: movies-digest Sender: owner-movies-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-movies-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk movies-digest Saturday, April 29 2000 Volume 02 : Number 266 [MV] Summer movies Re: [MV] Replacement Killers RE: [MV] Replacement Killers Re: [MV] MI2 Re: Re: [MV] MI2 Re: [MV] MI2 Re: Re: [MV] MI2 [MV] Sci-Fi Movie News - 04/25/00 [MV] websites RE: [MV] websites [MV] (MV) websites Re: [MV] websites [MV] Armageddon response Re: [MV] Armageddon response Re: [MV] Armageddon response RE: [MV] Armageddon response Re: [MV] Armageddon response [MV] director's disease RE: [MV] director's disease [MV] Kim Basinger Re: [MV] Kim Basinger Re: [MV] Kim Basinger Re: [MV] Kim Basinger ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 13:29:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Nathan Lemrick Subject: [MV] Summer movies I was just wondering what people think about the new films that are coming out this summer. I think the first big hit will be U-571. It looks to be a good film that people are going to see. After that I think this summer is going to great. With films like MI:2, Shaft Returns, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, The Patriot, and X-Men. Any many others that would take a long time to mention. I think this summer will be little like last year minus episode one. There will be alot of good films to see but not enough time to see them all. ___________________________________________________ GO Network Mail Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.com [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:57:28 +1000 From: "Peter Roberts" Subject: Re: [MV] Replacement Killers Replacement Killers certianly was a very good movie, with Mira Sorvino playing a very good supporting role to Chow Yun Fat. It shows how she can adapt to a large variety of roles from Mighty Aphrodite to Replacement Killers to Summer Of Sam. Boris Boris - Testimonial 2000 Get your free customized E-mail from http://gmail.garfield.com ! [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:53:34 -0700 From: "Paul Gardner II" Subject: RE: [MV] Replacement Killers Thanks, Wade. That's exactly what I meant! ;-) piggy - -----Original Message----- From: owner-movies@lists.xmission.com [mailto:owner-movies@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Wade S Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 11:10 AM To: movies@lists.xmission.com Subject: [MV] Replacement Killers But, Woo did produce it, as I think the other Paul was implying in that below statement. Maybe he wasn't though... Hm. But speaking of Replacement Killers, when are we going to get see the next picture by its director Anthony Fuqua ? (maybe misspelled) I thought it was an excellent action flick and even for an hollywoodized-chop-socky-Woo-style film, it was very good, even better to me than some of Woo's made-in-america fare, such as Hard Target or Broken Arrow. Wade > > > I believe it's been directed or produced by John Woo (Replacement > > Killers, Face/Off, misc. hundreds of other chinese action adventure > >John Woo did not direct REPLACEMENT KILLERS, but as indicated he is >directing >MI2. > >[ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] >[ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] - ------------------------------------------------------------ "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not so sure about the first one." --Albert Einstein "I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!'" --Bruce Baum ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:48:00 +0200 From: manuel morrens Subject: Re: [MV] MI2 - --------------9F722896504571A9FA01E048 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (Paul D Richardson) wrote: > > Has anyone heard anything about the new Mission Impossible Sequel? I'm > > curious to know whether it will be as good as the first one, or a flop like > > most sequels tend to be. > > I'm predicting it will be better than the original, simply because of the John > Woo factor. Unfortunately, it looks like they haven't corrected the primary > flaw of the first film, in that it seems to focus in on Ethan Hunt rather than > a well-balanced team. At least Ving Rhames is back. > I'm quite sure it will be betterfor several reasons 1) Look at the following list hard target (medium) Broken Arrow( good) Face/Off (Kicks ASS!!).... You make the next step 2) Mission Impossible was too organized; don't get me wrong, I mean I surely can appreciate De Palma's work but it was too clean for me. He is just not the type to direct action. Off course, in thriller he is superb( Untouchables rules, body double, dressed to kill, scarface, carlito's way,...all films that are excellent)but other genres....hmmmm...well, I'm holding my heart for M2M Mission Impossible is movie nr 1 to be directed by a action-specialist....and Woo can be better than Him ???? ;-) 3) HAVE YOU GUYS SEEN THAT AWSOME TRAILER??????????? 4) Tom's haircut is so much cooler 5) Shootings have taken so long, release has been pushed further for quite a few times ; could also be bad sign tough, but since Woo is rather a perfectionist I'm hoping it's a good one.... then again so was Kubrick, and Eyes Wide Shut wasn't the masterpiece it was supposed to be (to my humble opinion off course) 6) let's hope they drop the stupid chewing gum Anyway, when can we expect to see Lord of the Rings Volume 1 or Matrix 2 ?? Thatha - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Manuel Morrens mmorrens@minf.vub.ac.be Department of Medicine http://minf.vub.ac.be/~mmorrens/eighties Brussels Free University http://minf.vub.ac.be/~mmorrens/gk - --------------------------------------------------------------------- - --------------9F722896504571A9FA01E048 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (Paul D Richardson) wrote:
> Has anyone heard anything about the new Mission Impossible Sequel?  I'm
> curious to know whether it will be as good as the first one, or a flop like
> most sequels tend to be.

I'm predicting it will be better than the original, simply because of the John
Woo factor.  Unfortunately, it looks like they haven't corrected the primary
flaw of the first film, in that it seems to focus in on Ethan Hunt rather than
a well-balanced team.  At least Ving Rhames is back.
 

I'm quite sure it will be betterfor several reasons
1) Look at the following list hard target (medium) Broken Arrow( good) Face/Off (Kicks ASS!!)....
   You make the next step
2) Mission Impossible was too organized; don't get me wrong, I mean I surely can appreciate De Palma's work but it was too clean for me. He is just not the type to direct action. Off course, in thriller he is superb( Untouchables rules, body double, dressed to kill, scarface, carlito's way,...all films that are excellent)but other genres....hmmmm...well, I'm holding my heart for M2M
Mission Impossible is movie nr 1 to be directed by a action-specialist....and Woo can be better than Him ???? ;-)
3) HAVE YOU GUYS SEEN THAT AWSOME TRAILER???????????
4) Tom's haircut is so much cooler
5) Shootings have taken so long, release has been pushed further for quite a few times ; could also be bad sign tough, but since Woo is rather a perfectionist I'm hoping it's a good one.... then again so was Kubrick, and Eyes Wide Shut wasn't the masterpiece it was supposed to be (to my humble opinion off course)
6) let's hope they drop the stupid chewing gum
 

Anyway, when can we expect to see Lord of the Rings Volume 1  or Matrix 2 ??
 

Thatha
  

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  - --------------9F722896504571A9FA01E048-- [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:45:10 +1000 From: "Peter Roberts" Subject: Re: Re: [MV] MI2 You asked about the Lord Of The Rings, well they are actually shooting the movies in a kind of random order. So one day they could be shooting the start of the movie then the next they could be shooting a scene half way through the third, like that. So that means it will take longer for them to release the first instalment, but I am definitely waiting in anticipation. I hope it is at least half as good as the novels. Cheers. Pete Boris - Testimonial 2000 Get your free customized E-mail from http://gmail.garfield.com ! [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:19:00 -0600 From: ("Paul D Richardson") Subject: Re: [MV] MI2 > I'm quite sure it will be betterfor several reasons > 1) Look at the following list hard target (medium) Broken Arrow( good) Face/Off > (Kicks ASS!!).... And, of course, his later Hong Kong work is even better than anything he's done in the U.S. (A BETTER TOMORROW, THE KILLER, HARD-BOILED, etc). > 2) Mission Impossible was too organized; don't get me wrong, I mean I surely can > appreciate De Palma's work but it was too clean for me. He is just not the type > to direct action. Off course, in thriller he is superb The problem with the first film was that it SHOULD have been a thriller (IMHO). But I agree...if they are going to turn it into an action franchise, Woo is a much better choice than DePalma. > Anyway, when can we expect to see Lord of the Rings Volume 1 or Matrix 2 ?? FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING is due to be released Christmas 2001, with the other two films coming out once a year after that. The first trailer is already on the web, and it looks great. I don't know about MATRIX 2. I would love to see a release next year, but I haven't heard a date. I have heard that 2 & 3 will be shot back-to-back and that they are trying to get Jet Li in the cast...but that's about it. [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:23:00 -0600 From: ("Paul D Richardson") Subject: Re: Re: [MV] MI2 > You asked about the Lord Of The Rings, well they are actually > shooting the movies in a kind of random order. So one day they > could be shooting the start of the movie then the next they > could be shooting a scene half way through the third, like that. Well, it's not exactly random. They are shooting the three films together (as if they were one, longer film). But, like shooting any film it's not done in sequence. It's based on the availability of locations, actors, etc. I'm glad they are doing it this way, it will make for a smoother transition between the three films. [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:40:59 -0600 From: "The Reporter" Subject: [MV] Sci-Fi Movie News - 04/25/00 Director James Cameron told Entertainment Tonight that he won't be involved in the proposed sequels to his Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, according to Cinescape Online. Cameron made the comment while attending the premiere of U-571 in Los Angeles. In response to a question about the proposed sequels, Cameron replied, "Not going to do it." Terminator 3 and T4 are being developed by producers Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna. Arnold Schwarzenegger told SCI FI Wire recently that he would not reprise his Terminator role without Cameron. Co-star Linda Hamilton has also said in the past that she would not sign on to the sequels without Cameron's participation. That leaves only T2 star Edward Furlong and original Terminator cast member Michael Biehn as possible returnees. -=> * <=- Carrie-Anne Moss, who played Trinity in The Matrix, has signed a deal to reprise her role in the hit film's two upcoming sequels, according to Variety. Moss will join Keanu Reeves in The Matrix 2 and 3, which begin back-to-back filming next fall, the trade paper reported. Writer-directors Larry and Andy Wachowski will shoot the two films in a 250-day schedule, Variety reported. It's still an open question whether the films will return to Australia to shoot or whether they will move to England or Canada. Moss, meanwhile, will appear in the upcoming Mars movie Red Planet, co-starring Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore, which opens Nov. 10. -=> * <=- Expect a tenth Star Trek movie in late 2001, Star Trek: Voyager executive producer Rick Berman told the official Star Trek Monthly magazine. Berman added that he and Paramount are now talking with a writer who has never been involved with Star Trek, but is a "great fan" of the franchise. "As to the nature of the story that we'll be working on and other elements of it, it's all really premature," Berman told the magazine. "There are hopes that a film could be released by Thanksgiving or Christmas of 2001, and there are a lot of ifs that are going to have to be resolved for that to happen, but I think that's the studio's goal at the moment." As for a new television series to replace Voyager when it finishes at the end of next season, Berman reiterated that he and partner Brannon Braga "have only pitched one series to the studio. That concept has gone through some relatively minor revisions, and all of the rumors that we have had series rejected or that we have pitched numerous series are bull." That would appear to contradict statements by Braga himself, who earlier confirmed for SCI FI Wire that Paramount had tested several concepts. But Berman echoed Braga's feeling that the new series should be something new, an apparent reaction to efforts by fans to persuade Paramount to base the show on Capt. Hikaru Sulu and the crew of the U.S.S. Excelsior. "I do think it's instrumental that the next Star Trek series be fresh and that it be different, dramatically different, and the concept that we have developed is dramatically different," Berman said. "Assuming that it goes through, and assuming that everything gets figured out as to when and where it's going to appear, I'm more excited about its possibilities than I have been probably about any of the series." -=> * <=- George Lucas told radio listeners that he has finished the first draft of Star Wars: Episode II, according to the Dark Horizons Web site. Lucas made the surprise announcement in a call to KROQ-FM radio in Los Angeles from the Long Beach Grand Prix, in which he was racing, the Web site reported. Lucas said that taking part in the street race was his reward for finishing the script. Last week, the official Star Wars Web site reported that screenwriter Jonathan Hales (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles) would polish the first draft of Episode II. In another surprise announcement, the director also told KROQ that his Industrial Light & Magic special effects shop was working on a DVD version of Star Wars: Episode I, complete with extra footage, according to Dark Horizons. The director offered no release date for the DVD. -=> * <=- Dean Devlin, one half of the producing-writing-directing partnership that produced Godzilla, confirmed for Eon Magazine the rumors that he and Roland Emmerich won't be involved in a U.S.-made sequel to the giant lizard movie. "We're no longer involved with the sequel to Godzilla," he told the magazine. Devlin added, "What it came down to was creative differences between the direction the studio [Sony] wanted to go and the direction we wanted to go. ... We had a vision of what we would have to do in order to do a sequel and also fulfill what the fans need. We had an idea for a monster vs. monster story, and for Sony it was more expensive than they were willing to spend, and we felt anything less would not be that exciting." Gareth Wigan, vice chairman of Sony's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group told Eon, "People withdraw from projects for creative reasons all the time, and that's what happened with Godzilla 2. That decision hasn't had an impact on our overall relationship with Dean and Roland." -=> * <=- Heath Ledger (The Patriot) has won the coveted role of Peter Parker in the upcoming feature film version of the Marvel Comics series Spider-Man, according to a rumor on the Ain't It Cool News Web site. AICN cites an unnamed inside source at Sony studios, who said, "It's pretty much common knowledge around the Sony studios." The source added, "They want to start promoting Heath as the next Brad Pitt." If true, Ledger will have beaten out rivals for the role that reportedly included Wes Bentley, Chris Klein, Tobey Maguire, Ewan McGregor, Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicholas Brendon, among others. Director Sam Raimi has been hired to helm the superhero movie for Sony's Columbia Pictures division. -=> * <=- Skip Woods (Swordfish) is in final talks to write and direct the long-rumored remake of the 1976 SF classic movie Logan's Run for producer Joel Silver (The Matrix) and Warner Bros., according to The Hollywood Reporter. The original film starred Michael York as a policeman in a futuristic state in which all people must die at age 30. Logan's Run had a brief run as a CBS television series starring Gregory Harrison in 1977, the trade paper reported. -=> * <=- On the heels of the success of House on Haunted Hill, Joel Silver and Bob Zemeckis will remake another cheesy William Castle horror movie, 1960's 13 Ghosts, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Silver and Zemeckis' Dark Castle Entertainment, which produced the remake of Castle's House last year, will hire commercial director Steve Beck to direct the new Ghosts, the trade paper reported. Ghosts, a co-production with Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures, will tell the story of a family that inherits a mansion haunted by ghosts visible only to those wearing special goggles. In the original film, theatergoers were handed a special viewer to see the ghosts on the screen. The Dark Horizons Web site, meanwhile, reports that Dark Castle may be gearing up to make a sequel to House on Haunted Hill, which earned more than twice its estimated $19 million production costs. Writer Dick Beebe, who penned the screenplay of the 1999 film, would write the script. Silver and Zemeckis created Dark Castle to produce mid-budget horror films, particularly remakes and updates of horrormeister Castle's campy oeuvre. -=> * <=- Australian actress Frances O'Connor (Mansfield Park) will join Jude Law and Haley Joel Osment in A.I., the SF movie to be directed by Steven Spielberg, according to The Hollywood Reporter. A.I. is scheduled to begin shooting July 10, with an eye to a summer 2001 release, the trade paper reported. O'Connor will play Osment's mother. She revealed her role during the Sydney premiere of Mansfield Park. O'Connor is currently working with director Harold Ramis on the remake of the 1960s fantasy film Bedazzled. A.I. is based on a treatment by the late director Stanley Kubrick and is set in the distant future, after the polar ice caps have melted. -=> * <=- Horrormeister Clive Barker sold Walt Disney Co. the movie rights to four unpublished fantasy novels called The Abarat Quartet, according to the Hollywood trade papers. The first of the Abarat novels is due in fall 2001, with others scheduled to come out at nine-month intervals, Variety reported. The quartet will tell the story of 16-year-old Candy Quackenbush, who leaves her native Minnesota and crosses into another dimension, where she finds herself on a 25-island archipelago called Abarat. The novels will be illustrated by Barker's paintings, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Barker is best known as the director of the classic horror film Hellraiser. -=> * <=- MSNBC columnist Jeannette Walls reports that Christian Bale (American Psycho) may be in line to play Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode II. Bale declined to comment on the rumor at the premiere of Psycho. -=> * <=- The film The Queen of the Damned, based on Anne Rice's vampire novel of the same name, will shoot in Melbourne, Australia, according to the Dark Horizons Web site. Director Michael Rymer must begin shooting in August, or the film rights revert back to Rice, the site reported. Wes Bentley (American Beauty) recently dropped out of the film, and the search is on for a replacement to play the vampire Lestat. [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 07:55:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Nathan Lemrick Subject: [MV] websites I am doing a assignment for a class where the instructor whats to have websites to help in the report. My topic is how the internet has helped change the movie industry. my question to the group is does any one have any ideas where to look to get this information. Also if you have a website could you send me the url it would be very appericated. I know there are sites out there but I am having problems finding them. Thank you for your time. ___________________________________________________ GO Network Mail Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.com [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:10:01 -0400 From: "Stephanie Wood" Subject: RE: [MV] websites Nathan, One of the best websites for movie information is at The Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com Good luck on your assignment! Stephanie >-----Original Message----- >I am doing a assignment for a class where the instructor >whats to have websites to help in the report. My topic is >how the internet has helped change the movie industry. my >question to the group is does any one have any ideas where >to look to get this information. Also if you have a >website could you send me the url it would be very >appericated. I know there are sites out there but I am >having problems finding them. Thank you for your time. [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:27:45 +0200 From: "Olaf Adam" Subject: [MV] (MV) websites This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0012_01BFAFBD.E1723020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Nathan! I'm not exactly sure what you (or your instructor) is aiming at, but = here are some samples of my bookmarks that might get you started. I left = out databases (like IMDB.com) and other general movie sites and only = included stuff that has something to do with business matters - or the = fandom, which again means the movie audiences and therefore business = again. Let me know if I can help you further, and how your assignment turned = out, of course! Cheers Olaf in no specific order: Movie-List - The Net's Most Updated Movie Trailers Site=20 Ain't It Cool News=20 Dark Horizons=20 Hollywood.com -- Isn't it time you went Hollywood!=20 VARIETY.COM=20 Welcome to the Hollywood Stock Exchange!=20 FANDOM - Main Site - Home=20 Drew's Script-O-Rama=20 HOLLYWOOD FILM INSTITUTE=20 American Film Institute=20 The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation (The Razzies)=20 DVfilmmaker.com - Your Digital Filmmaking Information Source=20 Welcome to Lucasfilm Ltd.=20 Digital Domain=20 Welcome to IMAX=20 - ------=_NextPart_000_0012_01BFAFBD.E1723020 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi Nathan!
 
I'm not exactly sure what you (or your instructor) = is aiming=20 at, but here are some samples of my bookmarks that might get you = started. I left=20 out databases (like IMDB.com) and other general movie sites and only = included=20 stuff that has something to do with business matters - or the fandom, = which=20 again means the movie audiences and therefore business = again.
Let me know if I can help you further, and how your = assignment=20 turned out, of course!
Cheers
 
Olaf
 
 
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- ------=_NextPart_000_0012_01BFAFBD.E1723020-- [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:46:22 EDT From: Jimwalmann@aol.com Subject: Re: [MV] websites I hope the web spawns web-sites that include more cast members, especially actresses, who are under-reported in books, etc. I have a test web site that I am working on.... only 25,000 records so far, but there's always tomorrow. http://204.188.126.114/Scripts/ndISAPI.dll/CAST/pg_SearchPage Any other questions, please write. Jim Walmann [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 18:44:33 -0600 From: "Gregory A. Swarthout" Subject: [MV] Armageddon response Nikedj99@aol.com wrote: > > I know that this movie is kind of old, but I am doing a review on Armageddon > and I thought I'd check out what other people thought, and I think i speak > for all when I say that you are wrong. I don't think you speak for all. I don't think you even speak for most. At the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/), the movie received a 5.8 out of 10 average rating from over 12,000 voters. > I mean come on, you probably haven't even watched the entire movie. Sure did; first kid on the block to see it. > The movie was great This is obviously some new definition of the word "great" I wasn't previously aware of. > and what about "decent effects" um, helllooo, they were awesome They were unexceptional. > and where do you get off saying the movie "is a mess', i'd like to see u do better And if I couldn't then "Armageddon" should be looked upon more favorably that it deserves? > U need more taste Perhaps, but it takes less taste, not more, to enjoy "Armageddon". Greg [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 09:37:57 -0600 From: "Gene Ehrich " Subject: Re: [MV] Armageddon response At 06:44 PM 4/26/00 -0600, you wrote: > > I know that this movie is kind of old, but I am doing a review on > Armageddon > > and I thought I'd check out what other people thought, and I think i speak > > for all when I say that you are wrong. > >I don't think you speak for all. I don't think you even speak for most. >At the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/), the movie received a >5.8 out of 10 average rating from over 12,000 voters. I agree. It had good special effects but nothing besides that. At least it was better than The Matrix and Blair Witch. Of course nothing, absolutely nothing could be worse than Blair Witch. [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 09:48:12 -0600 From: "Gregory A. Swarthout" Subject: Re: [MV] Armageddon response Armageddon better than The Matrix? Bite your tongue! "Gene Ehrich " wrote: > > At 06:44 PM 4/26/00 -0600, you wrote: > > > I know that this movie is kind of old, but I am doing a review on > > Armageddon > > > and I thought I'd check out what other people thought, and I think i speak > > > for all when I say that you are wrong. > > > >I don't think you speak for all. I don't think you even speak for most. > >At the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/), the movie received a > >5.8 out of 10 average rating from over 12,000 voters. > > I agree. It had good special effects but nothing besides that. > At least it was better than The Matrix and Blair Witch. > Of course nothing, absolutely nothing could be worse than Blair Witch. > > [ 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: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 21:29:52 -0400 From: "Chris Culligan" Subject: RE: [MV] Armageddon response I think "Blair Witch" suffered a backlash from it's surprise popularity at the box office. Was it a good movie?? That, I guess, is a matter of opinion. I think it is important to keep its popularity in perspective. The makers of "Blair Witch" never intended it to achieve the success that it did. If you don't count the fact that it made gagillions of cash I, fo one, still think it was original, creative, and, at times, creepy. And I'll defend it for it's originality, to the grave. On the other hand, it certainly wasn't the best movie I've ever seen. On a side note, I saw Legend of Bogey Creek on TBS the other week and I was surprised at the similarities between BWP and Bogey Creek. For some reason "Bogey Creek" reminded me of "Blair Which" big time. Did anyone else notice this?? It also struck me as funny that Bogey Creek was also a low budget horror film that did surprise business at the box office. I wonder if history will remember The Blair Whitch Project as just so much low budget camp?? - -----Original Message----- From: owner-movies@lists.xmission.com [mailto:owner-movies@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Gene Ehrich Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 11:38 AM To: Movies Mailing List Subject: Re: [MV] Armageddon response At 06:44 PM 4/26/00 -0600, you wrote: > > I know that this movie is kind of old, but I am doing a review on > Armageddon > > and I thought I'd check out what other people thought, and I think i speak > > for all when I say that you are wrong. > >I don't think you speak for all. I don't think you even speak for most. >At the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/), the movie received a >5.8 out of 10 average rating from over 12,000 voters. I agree. It had good special effects but nothing besides that. At least it was better than The Matrix and Blair Witch. Of course nothing, absolutely nothing could be worse than Blair Witch. [ 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: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 12:46:02 +0200 From: manuel morrens Subject: Re: [MV] Armageddon response - --------------CDF16053127902CCBD5C834D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gene Ehrich wrote: > At 06:44 PM 4/26/00 -0600, you wrote: > > > I know that this movie is kind of old, but I am doing a review on > > Armageddon > > > and I thought I'd check out what other people thought, and I think i speak > > > for all when I say that you are wrong. > > > >I don't think you speak for all. I don't think you even speak for most. > >At the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/), the movie received a > >5.8 out of 10 average rating from over 12,000 voters. > > I agree. It had good special effects but nothing besides that. > At least it was better than The Matrix and Blair Witch. > Of course nothing, absolutely nothing could be worse than Blair Witch. > > [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] > [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] wow, dude! Armageddon BETTER than Matrix???????? Matrix is only just the best movie I've ever seen. It has eye for almost everything. from the cool characters to the fantastic shots: when for example they arrive at the building were Neo sees Morpheus for the first time: that shot were you see rain falling down from the building: Awesome!!!!!!! When Keanu has to choose between red and blue: you see the reflection of Keanu in both eyes of morpheus'sunglasses but on one side the red pill and in the other the blue pill. The shot were trinity puts the gun against the head of the agent ("dodge this"). The fantastic choreography of the fighting sequences....awesome...off course there are some people amongst you who will tell that this has already been done in Hong Kong movies....well ok, but not this stylish and as cool as this one. The story is one of the most original screenplays ever..... HOW IN THE WORLD CAN YOU SAY THAT ARMAGEDDON WAS BETTER ?????????????? Michael Bay is a loser compaired to the Washowski brothers. Even Bound beats every single movie from Bay. The onle thing Bay is good at is making his choice of wich composer will make the Score Mark Mancina did an awesome job on bad boys . So did Trevor rabin(Armageddon) and Nick Glennie Smith(The Rock). - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Manuel Morrens mmorrens@minf.vub.ac.be Department of Medicine http://minf.vub.ac.be/~mmorrens/eighties Brussels Free University (lyrics of the eighties) - --------------------------------------------------------------------- - --------------CDF16053127902CCBD5C834D Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gene Ehrich wrote:
At 06:44 PM 4/26/00 -0600, you wrote:
> > I know that this movie is kind of old, but I am doing a review on
> Armageddon
> > and I thought I'd check out what other people thought, and I think i speak
> > for all when I say that you are wrong.
>
>I don't think you speak for all.  I don't think you even speak for most.
>At the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/), the movie received a
>5.8 out of 10 average rating from over 12,000 voters.

I agree. It had good special effects but nothing besides that.
At least it was better than The Matrix and Blair Witch.
Of course nothing, absolutely nothing could be worse than Blair Witch.

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 wow, dude!
Armageddon BETTER than Matrix????????
Matrix is only just the best movie I've ever seen.
It has eye for almost everything. from the cool characters to the fantastic shots: when for example they arrive at the building were Neo sees Morpheus for the first time: that shot were you see rain falling down from the building: Awesome!!!!!!!
When Keanu has to choose between red and blue: you see the reflection of Keanu in both eyes of morpheus'sunglasses but on one side the red pill and in the other the blue pill. The shot were trinity puts the gun against the head of the agent ("dodge this").
The fantastic choreography of the fighting sequences....awesome...off course there are some people amongst you who will tell that this has already been done in Hong Kong movies....well ok, but not this stylish and as cool as this one. The story is one of the most original screenplays ever.....
HOW IN THE WORLD CAN YOU SAY THAT ARMAGEDDON WAS BETTER ??????????????
Michael Bay is a loser compaired to the Washowski brothers. Even Bound beats every single movie from Bay. The onle thing Bay is good at is making his choice of wich composer will make the Score
Mark Mancina did an awesome job on bad boys . So did Trevor rabin(Armageddon) and Nick Glennie Smith(The Rock). 
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  - --------------CDF16053127902CCBD5C834D-- [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 12:58:35 +0200 From: manuel morrens Subject: [MV] director's disease - --------------00D8052B26A12641D2A0C758 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ok what in the world is happening over there in Hollywood? Several director's are making movies that are definitively not their thing. Oliver Stone makes a stupid football-movie (guess he ran out of politicals shocking issues), Bryan De Palma Makes a science-fiction movie about this ridiculous mission to mars...well I haven't seen it yet but I'm holding my heart. Soderbergh makes a medium movie about the Julia Roberts-boops...nothing more to it..(Erin Brokovich)....I mean what happened to the genius behind Sex. lies and videotapes and out of sight????? Ok Peter Jackson, well I can understand He'll make more money with lord of the rings than with movies such as Bad taste, braindead,...( altough Frighteners was pretty cool). Wes Craven goes classic with meryl Streep (then again, sounds like horror to me!) Bryan Singer's X-men...well.....I have my doubts..... And if you look at the cool movies from the past months: Sleepy Hollow(Burton), Insider (Mann), Bringing out the dead (scorsese).....All movies the directors are good in..... draw your conclusions...... - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Manuel Morrens mmorrens@minf.vub.ac.be Department of Medicine http://minf.vub.ac.be/~mmorrens/eighties Brussels Free University (lyrics of the eighties) - --------------------------------------------------------------------- - --------------00D8052B26A12641D2A0C758 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ok what in the world is happening over there in Hollywood?
Several director's are making movies that are definitively not their thing.
Oliver Stone makes a stupid football-movie (guess he ran out of politicals shocking issues), Bryan De Palma Makes a science-fiction movie about this ridiculous mission to mars...well I haven't seen it yet but I'm holding my heart. Soderbergh makes a medium movie about the Julia Roberts-boops...nothing more to it..(Erin Brokovich)....I mean what happened to the genius behind Sex. lies and videotapes and out of sight?????
Ok Peter Jackson, well I can understand He'll make more money with lord of the rings than with movies such as Bad taste, braindead,...( altough Frighteners was pretty cool). Wes Craven goes classic with meryl Streep (then again, sounds like horror to me!)
Bryan Singer's X-men...well.....I have my doubts.....
And if you look at the cool movies from the past months: Sleepy Hollow(Burton), Insider (Mann), Bringing out the dead (scorsese).....All movies the directors are good in..... draw your conclusions...... 
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  - --------------00D8052B26A12641D2A0C758-- [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 08:51:00 -0600 From: ("Paul D Richardson") Subject: RE: [MV] director's disease > Soderbergh makes a medium movie about the > Julia Roberts-boops...nothing more to it..(Erin Brokovich)....I mean > what happened to the genius behind Sex. lies and videotapes and out of > sight????? Have you actually seen ERIN BROCKOVICH? While it's not up to par with OUT OF SIGHT and THE LIMEY, it's still very good. Soderbergh actually gets a good performance out of Julia Roberts, and Albert Finney gives one of his best performances in years. [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 01:46:26 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Lee=20Smith?= Subject: [MV] Kim Basinger Hi, I'm sure Kim Basinger appeared in one of the James Bond movies but I can't remeber which one I was watching at the time. Does anyone else know which one it was (that is if I was her and I wasn't just imagining it :-) Lee ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 22:52:16 EDT From: MrMovie008@aol.com Subject: Re: [MV] Kim Basinger Kim Basinger was in Never Say Never Again (1983) and she played the role of Domino Petachi. - Mr. Movie MrMovie@place-an-ad.com http://place-an-ad.com/MrMovie/ [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 22:52:16 EDT From: MrMovie008@aol.com Subject: Re: [MV] Kim Basinger Kim Basinger was in Never Say Never Again (1983) and she played the role of Domino Petachi. - Mr. Movie MrMovie@place-an-ad.com http://place-an-ad.com/MrMovie/ [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 16:01:25 +0800 (PHT) From: "Elmer Rico E. Mojica" Subject: Re: [MV] Kim Basinger Never Say Never, the renegade Bond movie On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, [iso-8859-1] Lee Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sure Kim Basinger appeared in one of the James > Bond movies but I can't remeber which one I was > watching at the time. Does anyone else know which one > it was (that is if I was her and I wasn't just > imagining it :-) > > Lee > > ____________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk > or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie > > [ 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 #266 **************************** [ To quit the movies-digest mailing list (big mistake), send the message ] [ "unsubscribe movies-digest" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ]