From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #140 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, May 11 2009 Volume 17 : Number 140 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: movies you love to hate [Eleanore Adams ] Re: movies you love to hate [James Dignan ] Re: movies you love to hate [lep ] Re: movies you love to hate [Laura Dean Golias ] Re: movies you love to hate [Laura Dean Golias ] Re: movies you love to hate [lep ] Re: movies you love to hate [2fs ] Re: Movies [Tom Clark ] Re: movies you love to hate [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Earworm trouble ["craigie*" ] Re: Bob Dylan : Could he have concealed TWO more brides and FOUR other children? ["craigie*" ] Re: movies you love to hate [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: Netflix [lep ] Re: Netflix [lep ] Re: Netflix ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Speaking of movies [lep ] Re: Speaking of movies [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Speaking of movies [lep ] Re: Speaking of movies [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Netflix [2fs ] Re: Netflix [2fs ] Re: Speaking of movies [2fs ] Re: Speaking of movies [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Re: Speaking of movies [2fs ] Re: Speaking of movies [kevin studyvin ] Re: Speaking of movies [2fs ] Re: Speaking of movies [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Speaking of movies ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Netflix [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Netflix [kevin studyvin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 15:43:55 -0700 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: movies you love to hate Favorite horror movies - not in order: The Thing - by John Carpenter (well all the Carpender movies really) The Shining - (Kubrick version) Jaws (Speilberg) Alien (Ridley Scott) The Ring - american version Psycho (original) The Hills have Eyes (original) Descent Dawn of the Dead (original) Any of the Hammer flix Young Frankenstein - ok that one doesn't really count.... There are just too many to name.... I'm watching a ton of Carpender movies this month since I bought like 10 of them for .98 cents a piece used I do get into the japanese horror films, and the crappy gross out ones too but they just don't make my desert island list. I guess i am a sucker for the classic 20 century american fear. eleanore On May 9, 2009, at 9:15 PM, lep wrote: > Eleanore says: >> I, too am a horror movie buff, so my fav movie list has to not >> include >> horror. > > is this like some honor code among horror movie fans? > > plus, how do you argue with your fellow horror movie fans if everyone > keeps them a secret? > >> Right now The Darjeeling Limited is in high rotation, cause I just >> bought >> it, and it mirrors my siblings and I. (I am the Owen Wilson >> character, >> planning family vacations, high on pain killers, after multiple >> injuries, >> and my brothers are sooo the other brothers.) > > i liked "the darjeeling limited", but i'm such a sucker for "the royal > tennanbaums"(sp?) that nothing else anderson's really makes a dent in > me. except that i totally fell for the 20-minute short that goes > before "the darjeeling limited". i love the stilted conversation, and > the lovely shot of the paris hotel at twilight, and that song that's > both so ridiculous and sweet (which sometimes gets stuck in my head > for days.) > > xo > > -- > "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- > the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 11:24:38 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: movies you love to hate > An Angel At My Table ?! someone outside NZ has heard of this one? FWIW Janet Frame lived only about a mile from where I live. Never met her though - she was very much as recluse. James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 20:13:55 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: movies you love to hate James says: >> An Angel At My Table > > ?! someone outside NZ has heard of this one? FWIW Janet Frame lived only > about a mile from where I live. Never met her though - she was very much as > recluse. i don't know about "an angel at my table" in particular, but i think jane campion's fairly well-known in the u.s., at least to anyone whose taste is even partly not mainstream. (i came across "an angel at my table" because netflix has my taste fairly-well pigeonholed ; the reviews are quite good: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/An_Angel_at_My_Table/60034964 it's been hovering near the top of the netQ for a few months - maybe i'll be inspired to move it up, although with the recommendations flying around "colossus" just went in at the top .) as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 19:27:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Laura Dean Golias Subject: Re: movies you love to hate It's an extraordinary movie. I had never heard of Janet Frame until I saw it. I'm not sure how I discovered it. The first Jane Campion film I ever saw was Sweetie. It doesn't make my top 10 movie list, but I really enjoyed it. But an Angel At My Table just blew me away. Laura Dean Golias ldgolias1@verizon.net May 10, 2009 08:17:45 PM, softboygirl@gmail.com wrote: James says: >> An Angel At My Table > > ?! someone outside NZ has heard of this one? FWIW Janet Frame lived only > about a mile from where I live. Never met her though - she was very much as > recluse. i don't know about "an angel at my table" in particular, but i think jane campion's fairly well-known in the u.s., at least to anyone whose taste is even partly not mainstream. (i came across "an angel at my table" because netflix has my taste fairly-well pigeonholed ; the reviews are quite good: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/An_Angel_at_My_Table/60034964 it's been hovering near the top of the netQ for a few months - maybe i'll be inspired to move it up, although with the recommendations flying around "colossus" just went in at the top .) as ever, lauren -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 19:41:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Laura Dean Golias Subject: Re: movies you love to hate I agree with you an these movies. They are all favorites of mine. Also on my list are: The Exorcist Rosemary's Baby Halloween (the original) 28 Days Later Night Of The Living Dead Dawn Of The Dead (remake) The Amityville Horror (remake) Cat People (original) I also have a fondness for Bruce Campbell movies, even though they are campy. Some newer horror movies I enjoyed are The Haunting In Connecticut and The Strangers, and Bug. If I had to pick a favorite horror movie, I would have to say Halloween. (original). Laura Dean Golias ldgolias1@verizon.net May 10, 2009 06:50:54 PM, eleanore@tdl.com wrote: The Thing - by John Carpenter (well all the Carpender movies really) Jaws (Speilberg) Alien (Ridley Scott) The Ring - american version ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 21:18:47 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: movies you love to hate Laura says: > Rosemary's Baby oh, i love this movie so much. i usually see it at least every few years. one reason is the setting - i have a fondness for movies set in early-70s new york city, and that one has that endlessly gorgeous apartment. i recently watched the movie "birth" on dvd; the setting and the atmosphere reminded quite a bit of "rosemary's baby". nicole kidman has a sort of modern-70s hair style, similar to mia farrow's in "rosemary's baby." it's somewhat hard for me to recommend "birth", but i liked it quite a bit. it was pretty strange - not a lot happens and what does happen doesn't make much sense, but it has this amazing feeling of portent that held me throughout the entire movie. i was a bit mesmerized by it. i'd be curious to hear opinions, if anyone's else seen it as ever, lauren p.s. btw, laura - is dean your middle or maiden name? my mother's father's name was dean, and i was always envious of my sister for getting that as her middle name (if i had gotten the name, i would have annoyed everyone i know by insisting they call me "dean", i'm sure by the age of 18.) (oh, and definitely feel as free to not answer my questions as i feel to ask them.) p.p.s. many of the horror movies mentioned i like. i think when i hear the term "horror movie", i tend to think of movies that would freak me out more (sorry, i probably started thinking this way when i was like 11, so it's probably stuck in there permanently.) - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 22:00:36 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: movies you love to hate On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 4:57 PM, lep wrote: > 2fs says: > > what you wrote is actually a better description than i could have > given for my problem with "requiem for a dream." it's like > aronofsky's just bitch-slapping the viewer instead of giving him the > space to think or imagine. not much of a way to tell the story, IMO. > And what you just wrote is actually a much more concise way of saying one thing that I think is often going on in those situations I described... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 22:36:48 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Movies On May 10, 2009, at 1:22 PM, 2fs wrote: > Also, re the distribution timing: that's weird, because it seems like > they've multiplied their distribution points such that it usually > takes 1-3 > days for things to arrive for us. It's just odd that it would longer > living > so near the HQ: maybe you should just drive by and pick them up > instead ;-) They have distribution centers all over now. We got a movie once with a return envelope addressed to Staten Island! WTF! I used to get my hair cut at a salon down the street from their HQ and thought it odd that I couldn't drop my movies off on my way to my appointments. You'd think some marketing weenie would've thought to put a box outside at least as a promotional tool! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 07:49:34 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: movies you love to hate - -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 10. Mai 2009 20:13:55 -0400 regarding Re: movies you love to hate: >> ?! someone outside NZ has heard of this one? FWIW Janet Frame lived only >> about a mile from where I live. Never met her though - she was very much >> as recluse. > > i don't know about "an angel at my table" in particular, but i think > jane campion's fairly well-known in the u.s., at least to anyone whose > taste is even partly not mainstream. The same goes for Germany and ISTR that movie in particular got a lot of attention. I didn't see it, though. "The Piano" is so far my only Jane Campion movie. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 07:55:01 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: movies you love to hate - -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 10. Mai 2009 21:18:47 -0400 regarding Re: movies you love to hate: > p.s. btw, laura - is dean your middle or maiden name? my mother's > father's name was dean, and i was always envious of my sister for > getting that as her middle name (if i had gotten the name, i would > have annoyed everyone i know by insisting they call me "dean", i'm > sure by the age of 18.) And then you could've set up a toll-free number and gone on to become huge in the reaper business! - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 08:12:29 +0100 From: "craigie*" Subject: Re: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse) 2009/5/9 lep > Sebastian says: > > > Spoiler alert! > > > For me it was more the bit where Whiskey discovers that Topher programed > Dr. > > Saunders to hate him. The episode was Amy Acker heaven! First the bad > girl > > outfit, then the self-aware doll ... wow. > > it was great seeing ms. acker getting to cut loose a bit. and with > all due respect to craigie*, she makes a way better bad girl than > faith does. Agreed. In the absence of Faith, a bad girl Amy Acker is very heaven... > > I don't believe there will be > > another season, but I'm looking forward to the DVD set (I might even > spring > > for the BluRay edition), just to see the extra episode that Fox won't > show. > ooh.... boxed set Dollhouse DVDs.... I'll probably get this *before* the UK shows any of it... c* (and - in an aside - I finally met a girl who fulfils the criteria below. Including the black vinyl! Now I just have tio figure out how to make her mine alone! Bwahahahaha!) - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 08:25:56 +0100 From: "craigie*" Subject: Re: Earworm trouble Pancho And Lefty was released in 1972. Candle in 1974 do the math... it's also inconceivable that EJ *wasn't* aware of P&L given his interview on Spectacle... TvZ should consider instructing legal counsel... c* 2009/5/8 kevin studyvin > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > > Oh noes: I just started hearing Robyn's "We Evolve" but sung to the tune > of > > "We Belong" by Pat Benatar. > > > > J > > > > If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the > essential > > words. -- Josi Saramago > > http://www.readin.com/blog/ > > > > Speaking of wormage, I got one of those things going recently where "Pancho > And Lefty" and "Candle In the Wind" kept segueing back and forth. Which > one > of those tunes is the older, anybody know? There's a suspicious degree of > melodic convergence going on there... > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 08:48:37 +0100 From: "craigie*" Subject: Re: Bob Dylan : Could he have concealed TWO more brides and FOUR other children? Trust the Art, not the artist... c* 2009/5/9 > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1179512/Bob-Dylan-hid-marriage- > -daughter--15-years-Could-concealed-TWO-brides-FOUR-children.html > > my blog is "Yer Blog" > http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ > http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ > > **************Remember Mom this Mother's Day! Find a florist near you now. > (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=florist&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000006 > ) > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 10:28:27 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: movies you love to hate - --On 8. Mai 2009 17:19:15 -0400 lep wrote: > speaking of the three colours trilogy, i adore that movie "heaven" > which was written but not directed by kieslowski. Me too. I really like Tom Tykwer in general, although I haven't yet watched The Perfume (I didn't like the book at all and they only had the dubbed version in the theaters) and I was a little disappointed by The International. But Winter Sleepers and The Princess & the Warrior are just great. Sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 10:58:15 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Netflix Thanks for all the comments re Netflix! To summarize: a Netflix membership is compulsory for subscribers of Fegmaniax. Nobody has only one DVD at a time, a few have more than two, which is not even an option here in Germany. In some cases it is unclear whether the membership makes economic sense :-) Based on that I took the plunge and initiated a trial membership at lovefilm.com/.de. I chose a plan that lets me rent up to four DVDs per month and two at a time, for 11.99 Euros per month. I filled my queue mostly with looads of movies you recommended, some of which I already know but haven't watched in a long time, but the majority being films I'd never seen or even heard of. Carrie, your list is great but it has the disadvantage that you just can't get many of those films over here! The Russian/Polish section isn't very big. I managed to score Stalker (which I already know) and a few Kieszlowski movies, but there's hardly any Andrez Wajda and little else. I guess that's what film festivals are for ... I will bore you with my impressions once those DVDs (and BluRays!) roll in. - -- b. Sebastian Hagedorn b Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de b' http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 02:15:32 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: movies you love to hate On May 10, 2009, at 4:24 PM, James Dignan wrote: >> An Angel At My Table > > ?! someone outside NZ has heard of this one? FWIW Janet Frame lived > only about a mile from where I live. Never met her though - she was > very much as recluse. > > James I love this movie! I got turned on tho it in Northern Ireland. I like Jane's work. - - c - --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness." Martin Luther King Jr. - --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 05:28:06 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Netflix Sebastian says: > Thanks for all the comments re Netflix! i appreciate them as well because it's a big help with the hardcore procrastinating which i accomplished this weekend (this is how bad it got: (1) i watched (a) the second half of a john travolta movie on UHF ("a civil action") and (b) 1.5 episodes of "rosanne", and (2) did laundry.) > To summarize: a Netflix membership is compulsory for subscribers of > Fegmaniax. Nobody has only one DVD at a time, a few have more than two, > which is not even an option here in Germany. In some cases it is unclear > whether the membership makes economic sense :-) haha. > I will bore you with my impressions once those DVDs (and BluRays!) roll in. definitely. i'm all for movie talk (i miss eb's writing about movies). as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 05:31:16 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Netflix lep says: >> I will bore you with my impressions once those DVDs (and BluRays!) roll in. > > definitely. i'm all for movie talk (i miss eb's writing about movies). okay, that sounds like i'm agreeing the part you said about boring us. which i wasn't; i was just agreeing that - oh, frak it. you know i mean. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 07:38:16 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Netflix Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > To summarize: a Netflix membership is compulsory for subscribers of > Fegmaniax. There is no Netflix in Canada, and the alternatives are utterly shit. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 09:11:03 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Speaking of movies Jeremy wrote: > Anybody include "The Wild Bunch" among their list? quentin tarantino i'd bet. > I am just watching that > for the first time tonight and it's seeming like it could be on a list of > that nature. After more times of viewing it at any rate. it shows up on a fair amount of lists - otherwise, i probably wouldn't haven't seen it, as it's not really up my alley. speaking of peckinpah, i have a small fascination with "straw dogs" but not enough to actually see it (i'm not sure which freaks me out more: the "thin veil of civilization" or "mathematician loses it.") oh, look, another "reimagining": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0999913/ these days, it seems safer to wonder what they won't be remaking within the next few years. as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 09:19:49 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Speaking of movies What I am wondering about Pekinpah is, is "The Wild Bunch" intended as a parody of Westerns? I perceived it as sort of a cross between "Blazing Saddles" and "North by NW" -- I was enjoying watching it but I had this nagging doubt about whether I was supposed to be taking the characters and their motivations seriously. Maybe will watch again with the commentary track turned on. J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 09:24:51 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Speaking of movies Jeremy says: > What I am wondering about Pekinpah is, is "The Wild Bunch" intended as a > parody of Westerns? my understanding (with not much aid from my memory) would be that no, it's not. at least it's not treated that way in whatever analysis/criticism i've read about it. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 09:34:37 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Speaking of movies On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:24 AM, lep wrote: > my understanding (with not much aid from my memory) would be that no, > it's not. at least it's not treated that way in whatever > analysis/criticism i've read about it. Yeah, I started being concerned about midway through that I was misreading the film... The cinemetography stylized to the point of cartoonishness, the costumes and the dialog and the plot points were all screaming Parody at me... Now I'm wondering how valid of a cinematic experience it is to watch and enjoy something as parody that is intended as the real article. J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 09:19:23 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Netflix On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > There is no Netflix in Canada, and the alternatives are utterly shit. > That company could use some marketing assistance - "Utterly Shit" isn't a very good name for a movie-delivery service. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 09:20:21 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Netflix On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:28 AM, lep wrote: > > > > I will bore you with my impressions once those DVDs (and BluRays!) roll > in. > > definitely. i'm all for movie talk (i miss eb's writing about movies). > Just don't talk about the new Star Trek film - lest he blow a gasket... (This refers to a Facebook conversation...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 09:21:10 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Speaking of movies On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > What I am wondering about Pekinpah is, is "The Wild Bunch" intended as a > parody of Westerns? I always assumed it was intended as a space of ontological doubt. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:33:34 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: Speaking of movies Sam Peckinpah would usually state that "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" was his favorite movie and screen it before an audience rather then "The Wild Bunch". Michael B. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Osner" To: "lep" Cc: "a sweet little cupcake...baked by the devil!" Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 9:34:37 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: Speaking of movies On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:24 AM, lep wrote: > my understanding (with not much aid from my memory) would be that no, > it's not. B at least it's not treated that way in whatever > analysis/criticism i've read about it. Yeah, I started being concerned about midway through that I was misreading the film... The cinemetography stylized to the point of cartoonishness, the costumes and the dialog and the plot points were all screaming Parody at me... Now I'm wondering how valid of a cinematic experience it is to watch and enjoy something as parody that is intended as the real article. J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 10:56:36 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Speaking of movies On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:33 AM, wrote: > Sam Peckinpah would usually state that "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" was his > favorite movie and screen it before an audience rather then "The Wild > Bunch". "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" is also a fine John Cale song (presumably based on the movie, which I haven't seen). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 11:27:24 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Speaking of movies > oh, look, another "reimagining": > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0999913/ > > these days, it seems safer to wonder what they won't be remaking > within the next few years. > > If it's not Citizen Kane it'll probably be Gone With the Wind. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 13:45:11 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Speaking of movies On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:27 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > > oh, look, another "reimagining": > > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0999913/ > > > > these days, it seems safer to wonder what they won't be remaking > > within the next few years. > > > > If it's not Citizen Kane it'll probably be Gone With the Wind. Who's heard of either of those? I mean, what, they're gonna make movies for your grandpa? I'm voting for Porky's or something equally quality-laden. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:50:48 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Speaking of movies > I'm voting for Porky's or something equally quality-laden. Quality is my cross to bear. If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:58:36 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Speaking of movies 2fs wrote: > > I'm voting for Porky's or something equally quality-laden. That's a 2011 release - Howard Stern has the rights. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 11:55:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Netflix 2fs wrote: > Just don't talk about the new Star Trek film - lest he blow > a gasket... (This refers to a Facebook conversation...) The guy playing Chekhov is beyond terrible (and I seem to see that guy cast in things fairly often and he's always terrible -- whose dicks is he sucking*), John Cho and Simon Pegg are both underutilized and probably too old given the rest of the cast, and Abrams does that thing where he has a character start playing music, and then when the player goes away, the music stays** but I liked it overall. And the end of the opening sequence really got to me, though that has a lot to do with my own personal history. *Or should be be whose dicks are he sucking? that sounds worse, so I'm guessing it's wrong, but I think that "I sometimes wish I were dead" sounds wrong too even though it's right; **In 22whatever, would Beastie Boys "Sabotage" be considered classical music? "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 12:26:26 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Netflix On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > 2fs wrote: > > Just don't talk about the new Star Trek film - lest he blow > > a gasket... (This refers to a Facebook conversation...) > > The guy playing Chekhov is beyond terrible (and I seem to see that guy cast > in things fairly often and he's always terrible -- whose dicks is he > sucking*), John Cho and Simon Pegg are both underutilized and probably too > old given the rest of the cast, and Abrams does that thing where he has a > character start playing music, and then when the player goes away, the music > stays** but I liked it overall. And the end of the opening sequence really > got to me, though that has a lot to do with my own personal history. > > *Or should be be whose dicks are he sucking? that sounds worse, so I'm > guessing it's wrong, but I think that "I sometimes wish I were dead" sounds > wrong too even though it's right; > **In 22whatever, would Beastie Boys "Sabotage" be considered classical > music? > Re: Trek phenomena in general -- http://nonadventures.com/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #140 ********************************