adding all e-mails from Martin to "Spam" folder... :)
Wow! What did you like about it. Now I need to think of the worst, most panned
movie that I like as my guilty pleasure.
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From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tracey, to put you at ease, I'm going to reveal one of my deepest, darkest
movie secrets.
I love "Howard the Duck".
"Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Keith
I know you are disappointed in me, but for mindless fluff sitting in the
comfort of my home, I liked the first one. :(
Martin wrote:
> But...but...I *wanna* throw away my money! Mindless stupididty is my milieu!
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really hope none of you fine people contributed
> any ducats to making "National Treasure 2" the number one movie over the
> Christmas weekend. I tried to watch the first movie a couple of years ago, on
> a Sunday night, as background noise while I cleaned up. I turned it off with
> 45 minutes to go. Silly concepts, preposterous occurrences, autopilot acting
> by Cage and Voight ("just show me the money!!"). Not fun or clever or
> engaging at all. Despite what some think of me, i'm not a movie snob, don't
> have a thing against low brow humour (saw "Knocked Up" recently and loved it)
> or mindless action flicks. I"m the guy who will watch "The Warriors" every
> single time it airs (much to my wife's consternation!) And "Face Off"? Pure
> cinematic pleasure of adrenalin, over-the-top acting, and things that go
> "boom!". Love that flick.
> But National Treasure sucked, and I hear the sequel is even dumber in plot.
> Mount Rushmore built just to hide a city of gold. A secret book passed down
> from one President to another that details, among other things, the truth of
> what's kept in Area 51? Brotherrr!
>
> Please tell me none of you watched it?
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> "National Treasure" sleighs Christmas box office
> Tue Dec 25, 2:27 PM ET
> Nicolas Cage's adventure sequel "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" raced to
> $65 million during its first five days of release across North America,
> distributor Walt Disney Pictures said on Tuesday.
> The tally consists of actual sales for the four days since the film opened
> last Friday, and a Christmas day estimate. Final sales data will be issued on
> Wednesday.
> Through December 24, the film had also earned $27.5 million in 17
> international markets, mostly in Asia. The critically maligned sequel to the
> 2004 smash "National Treasure" stars Cage as a treasure hunter who flies
> around the world trying to solve an ancient puzzle related to Lincoln's
> assassination.
> Will Smith's sci-fi thriller "I Am Legend" was No. 2 with five-day sales of
> $47.5 million, taking its 12-day haul to $150.8 million, said Warner Bros.
> Pictures.
> Because of the holiday, data for many films were incomplete. Twentieth
> Century Fox reported a four-day tally of $32.8 million for its surprise hit
> "Alvin and the Chipmunks," saying it was impossible to estimate Christmas Day
> sales. After 11 days, the kids film has earned $88.7 million.
> The fact-based political comedy "Charlie Wilson's War" earned $14.75 million,
> and the Johnny Depp musical "Sweeney Todd" $12.75 million, both after five
> days. Their respective studios, Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures,
> warned that the Christmas Day components were rough guesses.
> The box office jury is still out on "Charlie Wilson," a high-profile vehicle
> starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, which is playing in twice as many
> theaters as "Sweeney Todd," which DreamWorks co-produced with Warner Bros.
> Further down the rankings, "P.S. I Love You" had earned $9.1 million in its
> first five days. After a low-key opening weekend, Warner Bros. said it hoped
> more women would turn out in force for the Hilary Swank tearjerker now that
> Christmas-related chores are behind them.
> The musical spoof "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" reported a four-day haul
> of $4.7 million. Distributor Columbia Pictures did not have a Christmas Day
> estimate for the box office disappointment.
> Midfield rankings will change when final data are issued Wednesday because
> they will include sales for three Christmas Day releases: the action sequel
> "Alien vs. Predator: Requiem," the Denzel Washington drama "The Great
> Debaters," and the family fantasy "The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep."
> Walt Disney Pictures is a unit of Walt Disney Co. Warner Bros. is a unit of
> Time Warner Inc. Twentieth Century Fox is a unit of News Corp. Universal
> Pictures, a unit of General Electric Co's NBC Universal. DreamWorks Pictures
> is a unit of Viacom Inc. Columbia Pictures is a unit of Sony Corp.
> (Reporting by Dean Goodman; Editing by Stuart Grudgings)
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