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| Syd |
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| Well, sheesh, I didn't think my remarks on Mean Girls were so profound that you'd all be shocked into silence for two days! |
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| sioux |
| Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 10:34 pm |
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I'm just catching up syd, and it's been weeks and weeks since I saw Mean Girls. However, yeah, the scene in the gym was a clunker in what I otherwise found a good movie. it was like a scene being parodied in Heathers with the guidance counselor.
Having said that, I really liked the film. Tina Fey is a sharp writer and the lack of mean spiritedness ala Heathers was okay with me. The fact that the "cool outsiders" got skewered as much as the popular girls was more ...real.
And as I said in my review lost on the old site, this film was about girls dealing with girls - there was no Christian Slater guy leading a girl astray to be mean. The guys were background trophys for the most part.
I said it better there....grumble grumble |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 12:50 am |
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| I remember your line "it will probably be called Heathers Lite, but it's more like Heathers with a heart." Why don't you save copies of your reviews? |
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| sioux |
| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 12:53 am |
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| joe - one, because I don't think I generally write anything all that saveable. two, in this case, because I generally count on the site to keep what I say as long as it is vaguely relevant. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 12:56 am |
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| I went on a frantic search in those few days before forums were killed/restarted to save some stuff I wrote I thought was good. From now on, I think I'm going to save a copy of any review I write. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 2:08 am |
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Joe,
Good idea! And if you can, back up your date. In case of a crash, your reviews will not scatter to the four winds. <Big sigh> |
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| censored-03 |
| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 3:07 am |
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I'll get to this one before hippie does.
I backed up a date once ! |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 3:16 am |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 3:33 am |
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Quote: I'll get to this one before hippie does.
I backed up a date once !
Fuckaduck!!!
And I bet Marc would have had a ball with it, too! |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 4:18 am |
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| There is simply nothing for me to add. |
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| Jynx |
| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:12 am |
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I just found out one of the Heather-ettes died a fews years back at age 30 ... of a brain tumor. Odd thing is, she's the one that asked Veronica if she had a brain tumor.
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| lulu |
| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 3:46 pm |
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Saw Troythis past weekend and of the five of us I was the only one who liked it. My only complaint was the length of the battle. I won't go into the book vs. the movie; since the book was not history, there is no comparison and I tried very hard to know Homer right out of my head since I recently read it. And being that Hector was my favorite in the book and Achilleus was not really that great a fellow in the book, I had to rearrange my priorities in the movie since Achilles was Brad Pritt who could just as easily have been Hector. And who would know that the ten-year war was only a short war in the movie; it seemed much longer in the movie. AS I said, I started to get the hang of it by the time the movie ended, even after Agammenon got his, without Cytemnestra's doing after all. Well, worth seeing depending on how you like your Iliadserved or if you don't know it or don't care, so much the better. But if you like big battle scenes, then I guess you'll like troy, although some of the CGI images could have been better. I truly loved Eric Bana as Hector and Peter O'Toole was wonderful as Priam. Helen could have been more beautiful for a face that "launched a thousand ships."
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 4:08 pm |
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The line-up for this year's Silent Summer Film Festival:
July 23, 2004 at 8:00 p.m.
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
starring Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence and Marion Byron
Directed by Charles Reisner
Live theatre pipe organ accompaniment by Dennis Scott
Opening night festivities with The West End Jazz Band
July 30, 2004 at 8:00 p.m.
Nosferatu (1920)
starring Max Schreck, Alexander Granach
Directed by F. W. Murnau
Live photoplay accompaniment by Mark Noller
August 6, 2004 at 8:00 p.m.
The Iron Horse (1924)
starring George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy
Directed by John Ford
Live photoplay accompaniment by Dennis Scott
Accompaniment by the 30 pc. American Music Festival Orchestra,
Phillip Simmons, Music Director, with International photoplay organist Dennis James at the Gateway Grande Pipe Organ.
August 13, 2004 at 8:00 p.m.
It
starring Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin
Directed by Clarence Badger
Live theatre pipe organ accompaniment by Jay Warren
EXTRA! Jay Warren's 1920s glass-slide sing-a-long and Flapper Revue!
August 20, 2004 at 8:00 p.m.
Lilac Time (1928)
starring Colleen Moore, Gary Cooper
Directed by George Fitzmaurice
Live theatre pipe organ accompaniment by Mark Noller
SPECIAL GUEST - Joseph Yranski, Colleen Moore's historian
PLUS Pre-show performance by Spider Saloff and The Uptown Jazz Trio
August 27, 2004 at 8:00 p.m.
Blood and Sand
starring Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee, Nita Naldi
Directed by Fred Niblo
Live theatre pipe organ accompaniment by Dennis Scott
Closing night festivities with The West End Jazz Band
Programming Nosferatu sucks, but the rest of it is reasonably acceptable. |
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| shannon |
| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:18 pm |
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| What's wrong with Nosferatu? Just too obvious a choice or do you really not like the film? |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:30 pm |
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I missed that, somehow, until Shannon pointed it out.
Nosferatu is a great, great movie, but if the reason is the obviousness of the choice, that would make sense. It is hardly obscure, unwatched, or hard to locate. There are other, less well known silents that deserve attention. |
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