You aren't alone, dude....
Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Forgot to add on the literal "duck
out of water" premise, which I sympathize with daily. I've always felt out of
place, even among the Technonerdati.
"Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wow!
Thank you for making yourself vulnerable and opening up. Now the
question you had to anticipate... why?
Martin wrote:
> Tracey, to put you at ease, I'm going to reveal one of my deepest, darkest
> movie secrets.
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> I love "Howard the Duck".
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> "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Keith
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> I know you are disappointed in me, but for mindless fluff sitting in the
> comfort of my home, I liked the first one. :(
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> Martin wrote:
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>> But...but...I *wanna* throw away my money! Mindless stupididty is my milieu!
>>
>> [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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