Victoria Hirt wrote:


With all the actors that are in heaven, you don't think there are
stages...movie...and more in heaven?

Why would we have any need of human entertainment?

IOW...we've lost our thread compass, haven't we, and are just hoping to
coast in on goofy punchlines and flogged Trademarks?


Oh, goodie, the Usenet police.

(No, no, I meant *he* ran out of ideas and was hoping to get by on the
"goofy trademark and smiling agreements" clown act...)

Derek Janssen (see, we're normal folk, we make different posts and don't
care about our market image)
djanss@charter.net

Is anyone going to watch the Golden Globes. I mean, after cutting down
the nominees to what they have, there is no excitement in any category.
I think the Passion of the Christ was cut only to create interest.
What do you think?

But you don't get a vote. Only members (professional actors, producers,
backstage people, directors) of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences are eligible. And there are far better movies for stories and
character out there when you come to best pic/actor/actress/etc. Simply
because The Passion is a Christian movie doesn't make it good
automatically from a critical standpoint. Simply because one group floods
the market for one picture, doesn't make it popular to the rest of the
non-Christian world. For my money, The Passion made so much because
Christians kept going to see it more than once--much like fan's of the
LotR's kept going back and back for all three movies.

RichA wrote:
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 04:04:34 -0800, Ibn Tumart
ibnzztumart@gmailzz.com> wrote:


RichA wrote:

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:27:55 -0500, "Tweek" <comeon@dood.com> wrote:



I saw them perform this song on a Letterman rerun last night. The drummer
was making these weird faces at the camera, then threw a conniption at the
end of the song. It was weird, but the performance sounded amazing.


Green Day are anti-American pieces of GARBAGE.
-Rich

How so?


Heard their latest song? Please refer to album title.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002OERI0/002-1690299-8652849?v=glance
-Rich

I take it you haven't listened to the song very carefully. It's ripping
the mass media culture which has such influence in this country, not
saying America itself sucks.

Mark Leeper's Top Ten Films of 2004
(film comment by Mark R. Leeper)

As an amateur film buff I see nowhere near as many of the major
artistic films as I would like.

And frequently when I do, my
take is somewhat individualistic.

For example, while many of the
critics are very impressed with SIDEWAYS, I am just mildly
positive on it.

Mark R. Leeper wrote:
Mark Leeper's Top Ten Films of 2004
(film comment by Mark R. Leeper)

As an amateur film buff I see nowhere near as many of the major
artistic films as I would like.

for all of us who write for a living, I am curious when "film buff"
acquired a professional status.

And frequently when I do, my
take is somewhat individualistic.


and others. I have always been tickled by phrases, eg "more unique".
Your opinion should be personal and individual.

For example, while many of the
critics are very impressed with SIDEWAYS, I am just mildly
positive on it.

It's for real boring geeks, isn't it

How
do I become a professional????

Now that sounds like a very useful trick. I'll have to remember that
one.

But what intrigued me more was how come Drusilla
Lucilla had an Italian accent and Comitus had a British accent?

You are actually getting into an interesting subject, but one that I
am
not knowledgeable enough to give you a full answer. When you make a
film about the ancient world, what accents do people get? What
figures
of speech can they use? Do accents need to be consistent? The most
correct thing would be to have them speak in the original languages
with the original accents and to use only figures of speech from that
time. That can be hard on the audience. The film THE PASSION
actually
wanted to do that, but supposedly made huge mistakes.

ALEXANDER did
some funny things with accents, at least in part gave the Macedonians
Irish accents.

Actually they made frequent use of American, Irish, and
British (especially Scottish) accents.

Only scholars would recognize
what were the common figures of speech of the time, so is it OK to
use
modern ones?

A friend tells me there's an old tradition in translating
Greek plays of using Scottish, Welsh, etc accents to represent
regional
Greek accents occurring in the original. The best answer I can give
you is that if it bothered you it didn't work.

By the way, you might notice that THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE was
essentially remade, though heavily altered, into GLADIATOR.

Jack Bohn <jackbohn@bright.net> wrote in
news:7fvk41pgg69l309qj9hlljkd52nbh21us2@4ax.com:

So, will a giant alien squid appear in Times Square, causing the
United States and the Soviet Union to put aside their differences
to work on defenses against the menace?

I only care about Rorshach, who I thought had the best writing and
characterization.