From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #233 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Thursday, July 4 2002 Volume 02 : Number 233 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] discuss [Stuart Bell ] [loud-fans] powerpuff (ns) [Dana Paoli ] Re: [loud-fans] movies: The Nightmare Before (During?) Matrix ["Francis J] RE: [loud-fans] powerpuff (ns) ["glenn mcdonald" ] RE: [loud-fans] movies: The Nightmare Before (During?) Matrix ["glenn mcd] Re: [loud-fans] name that tune [Boyof100lists@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] movies: The Nightmare Before (During?) Matrix [Semstark@a] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 00:39:00 -0400 From: Stuart Bell Subject: [loud-fans] discuss http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 00:40:34 -0400 From: Dana Paoli Subject: [loud-fans] powerpuff (ns) We went for the air conditioning. It wasn't as good as I'd hoped. In fact, one might say that it was pretty bad. Exercise caution. Cute Van Halen joke, though. - --dana ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 00:44:41 -0400 From: "Francis J H Park" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] movies: The Nightmare Before (During?) Matrix Movies that no one else has: The only movie that immediately comes to mind is The War Game, which was a piece done for British TV in the '60s. It showed what would happen in England leading up to, during, and after a limited nuclear exchange. I got it from International History Films, which deals in a lot of old government/military footage. I scarfed up an old Wehrmacht infantry training film on killing tanks that featured quite a bit of captured Allied hardware (e.g., T-34s and AT-6 Texans), but a friend of mine already had it, so I knew I was going to get it. By today's standards it's kind of unremarkable - but I'm sure that in the 60s it was a colossally big deal since it was banned on the BBC for a while afterwards for its supposed graphic treatment of the decline of civilization after the Big One. As a kid, I used to play a rather glum role-playing game called Twilight: 2000. It's even more glum after reading the alternate history pieces that detail the US Army's order of battle and where its pieces got scattered - after a limited but ongoing nuclear war. Based on that history, I'd have been chilling out in scenic Poland, along with the survivors of the 1st Cavalry Division. Of course, that presumed that I'd survived a few years of sustained combined arms combat, which for lieutenants tends to be even more lethal than for most others. If I had to cite a civilian movie, then I think the only one that comes to mind is "Zulu," starring an extremely young Michael Caine. I have it on disk. Francis J. H. Park http://home.sprintmail.com/~durandal - -- The price of freedom is eternal vigilance ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 00:55:48 -0400 From: "glenn mcdonald" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] powerpuff (ns) I want more context. I'm the kind of Powerpuff fan who never thinks to go out of my way to intentionally watch the show, but really enjoys it when I do happen to see an episode. I hoped the movie would be half a mega-sized episode and half a public-space salute to the show's charms we usually experience only in private. Like an 83-minute fan-club convention. Did you think it wasn't, or did you want it to be something else? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 00:59:55 -0400 From: "glenn mcdonald" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] movies: The Nightmare Before (During?) Matrix I will venture to guess that nobody else here actually owns a copy of _Dr. T and the Women_. I'm not saying you should, either, but a) I've become a total sucker for director commentary, and b) I bought it used for $10 and it's easily worth that much to me to be able to drag it out and play the city-council scene for anybody who imagines that Cambridge and Dallas can't really be that different... glenn ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 01:20:27 EDT From: Boyof100lists@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] name that tune Sweet. That song is great. It stays in your head like the Zombies' "She's Not There" or "The White Knight" by Cledus Maggard. (The latter: just kidding) Sorry, but I backed the Pinto into a trash can on the street by accident while I was fumbling with the Partridge Family's "Shopping Bag" 8-track, and it burst into flames. My eyebrows should grow back. I'm pretty lucky. Warm...leatherette, - -Mark Staples np Beat Happening (KLP 1) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 01:49:56 EDT From: Semstark@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] movies: The Nightmare Before (During?) Matrix Ah, I've got you matched on that one. Bought it sight unseen as I'm an Altman fanatic. Despite its lowly rep, I found it pretty watchable until the third act, when it sunk to a _Ready-To-Wear_ level of awfulness. It's a shame Altman's commentaries aren't more informative, despite his willingness to do them. Positively the best solo track I've heard is Bruce Campbell's for _The Evil Dead_. Somebody mentioned the Soderbergh/Lem Dobbs track for _The Limey_, and that one's incredibly interesting and entertaining for the sniping between the two of them alone. -- Stark glenn mcdonald wrote: << I will venture to guess that nobody else here actually owns a copy of _Dr. T and the Women_. I'm not saying you should, either, but a) I've become a total sucker for director commentary, and b) I bought it used for $10 and it's easily worth that much to me to be able to drag it out and play the city-council scene for anybody who imagines that Cambridge and Dallas can't really be that different... >> ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #233 *******************************