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Machine, but I enjoyed seeing it as a rental >> >> From: Daryle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 3:13 PM >>> To: SciFi Noir >>> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Movies Watched Over The Holiday >>> >>> L

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Love Dead ringers the book and the movie. ravenadal wrote: > I loved "Dead Ringers" and Jeremy Irons scene-chewing turn as very > disturbed twin gynecologists. Have you seen Cronenberg's "A History > of Violence"? If not, I would be curious as to what your opinion of > that film. > > I am a huge

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wow, how'd i miss that? I was sure he died last year! -- Original message -- From: "ravenadal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> According to IMDB.com, Sid Haig is still alive and kicking. Haig plays the Chester the gravedigger in Rob Zombie's "Halloween" remake and has at least two mo

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I did not even know I had it in my rental que. I know critics panned the guy Pearce version of Time Machine, but I enjoyed seeing it as a rental From: Daryle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 3:13 PM > To: SciFi Noir > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Movies Wat

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tting on my coffee table, I did not even know I > >> had it in my rental que. I know critics panned the guy Pearce version > >> of Time Machine, but I enjoyed seeing it as a rental > >> > >> From: Daryle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >>&

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According to IMDB.com, Sid Haig is still alive and kicking. Haig plays the Chester the gravedigger in Rob Zombie's "Halloween" remake and has at least two movies scheduled for release in 2008. Unfortunately, Haig is not famous enough to rate a mention on my favorite dead or not celebrity site: htt

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Time Machine, but I enjoyed seeing it as a rental >> >> From: Daryle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 3:13 PM >>> To: SciFi Noir >>> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Movies Watched Over The Holiday >>> >

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> > From: Daryle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 3:13 PM > > To: SciFi Noir > > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Movies Watched Over The Holiday > > > > Last night, TCM had an HG Wells double feature. ³Things To Come², which is

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, January 02, 2008 3:13 PM > > To: SciFi Noir > > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Movies Watched Over The Holiday > > > > Last night, TCM had an HG Wells double feature. ³Things To Come², which is > > awesome because everyone in the future wears capes, and ³The Time Machin

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didn't Sig Haig die within the last year or two? -- Original message -- From: "ravenadal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I thought "House of 1000 Corpses" was amateurish. "The Devil's Rejects" has a gonzo, over-the-top insouciance that was not unappealing. I found it a stone gas tha

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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 3:13 PM > To: SciFi Noir > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Movies Watched Over The Holiday > > Last night, TCM had an HG Wells double feature. ³Things To Come², which is > awesome because everyone in the future wears capes, and

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I thought "House of 1000 Corpses" was amateurish. "The Devil's Rejects" has a gonzo, over-the-top insouciance that was not unappealing. I found it a stone gas that Sig Haig, the bad guy of every Pam Grier celluloid wet dream I paid to see in the 70's was still working (at 68). I enjoyed Zombie's

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BTW... I saw A History of Violence and I liked it... I'm interested in your take on Rob Zombie... --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "ravenadal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you have given "Children of Men" one viewing, I suggest you watch > it again (and then again, if necessary). Directo

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Everyone's entitled to their opinion and their likes and dislikes. I can assure you, though, that I reject nothing without evaluating... I actually did watch Children of men more than once and I'm one of those people who pays strict attention to backgrounds and details. That's why I said I get

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If you have given "Children of Men" one viewing, I suggest you watch it again (and then again, if necessary). Director Alphonso Cuaron does something cinema should always do but seldom does. He tells his story visually with as little verbal exposition as he can get away with. I admit to being a

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I enjoyed Children of Men a great deal but was disappointed with the ending. I won't put any spoilers in but I wached it intently all the way through just *captivated* then sort of went "huh"?. I also just saw Eastern Promises two days ago and I liked it a lot maybe *because* of the clinical a

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indeed! -- Original message -- From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Right. And don't you feel *really* old, all of a sudden? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, Chestnut was in a series called "C-16 FBI", but i can't believe that was ten years ago! -- Original mess

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Right. And don't you feel *really* old, all of a sudden? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, Chestnut was in a series called "C-16 FBI", but i can't believe that was ten years ago! -- Original message -- From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No, Keith, but Rocky Carroll

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Great comments! I was amazed at the Simpsons take, but i went to BoxOfficeMojo.com and confirmed it did half a *billion* dollars so far! Holy crap! And most of that was overseas! Can't wait to see Children of Men. I agree with you on "Eastern Promises". Looked great, was a good movie, but left

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Right, Chestnut was in a series called "C-16 FBI", but i can't believe that was ten years ago! -- Original message -- From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No, Keith, but Rocky Carroll, of "Roc" fame, and Gloria Reuben were both in it. http://imdb.com/title/tt0285332/ [EMAI

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I started with "The Simpsons Movie" which, I am glad I did not pay to see in a theatre as it comes nowhere near any of the great Simpson episodes. It is, however, the environmental movie with the largest box office, thus far: $525,797,315 (as much of an inconvenient truth as that may be for Nobel

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No, Keith, but Rocky Carroll, of "Roc" fame, and Gloria Reuben were both in it. http://imdb.com/title/tt0285332/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: was Morris Chestnut in that one? He was in a shortlived show about some law agency -- Original message

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wow! That is quite a feat.How do you process them. I reviewed "Eastern Promises", you remember. A good but rather dreary and oppressive feeling movie. I guess you'd have to cleanse your mind with "The Simpsons" after that, then watch "Children of Men", which I hear i good, then use "Ratatouille"

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Today I watched "the Simpsons Movie," "Children of Men," "Eastern Promises" and "Ratatouille," back to back to back and, right now, they are not all getting along inside my head. ~rave!

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was Morris Chestnut in that one? He was in a shortlived show about some law agency -- Original message -- From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> More than welcome. And, frankly, you didn't miss much. It was really glossed over, IMO. Saccharin, at times. Only one decent charac

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More than welcome. And, frankly, you didn't miss much. It was really glossed over, IMO. Saccharin, at times. Only one decent character in the bunch, the field-op guy, A.B. Stiles, if memory serves. He would never say what the A.B. stood for, true spook he was. Once hinted that it might mean "Abs

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To: SciFi Noir Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Movies Watched Over The Holiday MI-5 is my SHOW. It¹s called ³Spooks² in England. BBC America runs the later episodes now, but A&E ran the first two seasons. You probably saw the promos for A&E and thought it was an American show. You are w

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that's an old ep from one or two years ago. I saw that in early '07 or late '06 -- Original message -- From: Daryle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes, just in October. Alexander Siddig was in an episode. On 1/2/08 4:44 PM, "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PR

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I saw that episode a few years ago. He was fantastic. Daryle wrote: > Yes, just in October. Alexander Siddig was in an episode. > > > On 1/2/08 4:44 PM, "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >> >> >> >> They Showed it on BBC America recently >

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Yes, just in October. Alexander Siddig was in an episode. On 1/2/08 4:44 PM, "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > They Showed it on BBC America recently > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > i'm a big fan o

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They Showed it on BBC America recently [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i'm a big fan of MI-5, used to rave about it all the time. Haven't seen it on > TV since last year, when it was aired on A&E channel. There are no new shows > are there? > > -- Original message -- > From:

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I gotta get me a cape… From: Daryle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 3:13 PM To: SciFi Noir Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Movies Watched Over The Holiday MI-5 is my SHOW. It¹s called ³Spooks² in England. BBC America runs the later episodes now, but A&E

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MI-5 is my SHOW. It¹s called ³Spooks² in England. BBC America runs the later episodes now, but A&E ran the first two seasons. You probably saw the promos for A&E and thought it was an American show. You are watching it the best way possible, without commercials. Last night, TCM had an HG Well

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I've been renting from Netflix. When I go to the BBC web site, it looks as if it finished Dec 2007. I'm only up to its 2nd year. They list 6 series out there. http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/spooks/episodeguide.shtml --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i'm a big fan of M

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Yeah, that was it. I never watched it. Thanks. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Marian, that was CBS, doing "The Agency". > > maidmarian_thepoet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess that I am all over the place: > > The Butterfly Effect: Director'

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Keith, I've heard that there are more. Haven't seen any as yet. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm a big fan of MI-5, used to rave about it all the time. Haven't seen it on TV since last year, when it was aired on A&E channel. There are no new shows are there? -- Original message

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i'm a big fan of MI-5, used to rave about it all the time. Haven't seen it on TV since last year, when it was aired on A&E channel. There are no new shows are there? -- Original message -- From: "maidmarian_thepoet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I guess that I am all over the pla

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Marian, that was CBS, doing "The Agency". maidmarian_thepoet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess that I am all over the place: The Butterfly Effect: Director's Cut - liked it. It has its problems, but the writers put some thought into the movie. The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio Sweet

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I guess that I am all over the place: The Butterfly Effect: Director's Cut - liked it. It has its problems, but the writers put some thought into the movie. The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio Sweet. Is honest about the problems of community involvement in a democracy

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agreed. my major complaint with the second movie was getting rid of his love, and, especially the camera. The way the camera jumped all over the place made me very dizzy. Curiously, though the third film also has a frenetic camera, it didn't bother me, though some friends who saw it with my grou

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I enjoyed the third movie, but the first and the second reminded me of the First two of the aliens series. Both were extremely well done, in but very different flavors. The third was good, I enjoyed it, I got what I came for, but I did not feel the excitement and "emotional investment that I felt