Is this a true story???
Reece Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is so easy to see happening, customer service being what it is today.
A lady died this past January, and Citibank billed her for February and
March for their annual service charges on her credit card, and then added
The hobbit is a children's book. It is not a serious film about love and
lost. I don't think that there is a director out there that could capture that.
If
Henson were alive I think that he could have done it. I think the person that
directed the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe could do a
I doubt it. If they find out a customer is dead, they just ask for a
copy of the death certificate.
JJ Mohareb
On Dec 21, 2007 3:43 AM, Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this a true story???
--
Read the Bitter Guide to the Bitter Guy.
http://thebitterguy.livejournal.com
I'm sure it's a joke. Somebody sent it to me. I should have id'ed it as
such.
But I'm so lax...sigh...
Sorry!
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What does everyone think of the 1st Blade movie?
Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just saw the trailer for
Hellboy 2. It looks to be every bit as
good as the first one. I'll miss John Hurt but I think this could be
truly fun
B
--- Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I still hold
So, Skiffy's influence spreads, I see. :(
Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peters: 4400 Is Canceled
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=46613
Scott Peters, creator of USA Network's The 4400, announced on the show's
official forum that the
Blade was a great movie until I saw Blade 2. I¹m not a vampire person. I
really don¹t like vampire stories at all, actually. But I liked Blade 2.
Blade 3 made me really appreciate the second film more. Hell, Blade 3 made
me appreciate Michael Jackson¹s Thriller video more. Blade 2 is my favorite
Nah I think it was a case of nobody was watching this show. I can¹t think
of 25 people I know, including this list, who were watching it. 4400 just
seemed like a miniseries gone wild to me. Dead Zone as well. I really liked
the first 2 seasons of Dead Zone, but it just seemed to fall off.
I thought it was fun. I've seen two or three times and I always enjoy
it. I don't think it's a great film. It's just a fun action film with
vampires.
B
--- yinka oyekunle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What does everyone think of the 1st Blade movie?
Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I
dude, what happened with your fiance? If too painful to discuss i understand
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From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gymfig, I kinda have to disagree about that assessment of The Hobbit. When I
read it as a child, I took it for nothing more than elegant,
Wasn't bad.
yinka oyekunle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does everyone think of
the 1st Blade movie?
Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just saw the trailer for Hellboy 2. It
looks to be every bit as
good as the first one. I'll miss John Hurt but I think this could be
truly fun
B
Gymfig, I kinda have to disagree about that assessment of The Hobbit. When I
read it as a child, I took it for nothing more than elegant, beautiful words. I
read it a second time, after coming through the shock of losing my fiancee, and
it hit me at a visceral level, particularly the point when
Justin, does that mean that Gandalf will be packing a boom stick?
Justin Mohareb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With Bruce Campbell as
Gandalf.
On Dec 20, 2007 8:33 PM, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Raimi Helming Hell, Then Hobbit
Spider-Man
SHH!
You might give them *ideas*...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Huh
I thought Jackson was directing.
Will we have elves doing martial arts now?
Will young master Toby make an appearance as young Bilbo?
Will Halle Berry be cast as the first black eleven
They kept bouncing it all over the place...No wonder why no one watched it
Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nah I think it was a case of nobody was watching this show. I can¹t think
of 25 people I know, including this list, who were watching it. 4400 just
seemed like a miniseries
Like you, I am mad for V for Vendetta, possibly the wordiest comic
book movie ever made. It a symphony for the eyes and the ears. I
also second Hellboy. This probably won't expand your to view list,
but I remain enamored of Sin City.
The adaptation of Daniel Clowes' Ghost World featuring
I completely forgot about Ghost World. That movie is awesome. I liked
Constantine but didnt love it.
I have avoided Cat Woman cause I heard it stunk so bad.
--- ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Like you, I am mad for V for Vendetta, possibly the wordiest
comic
book movie ever made. It a
Oh yeah! I forgot the Hughes Brothers' excellent From Hell,
starring Johnny Depp.
~rave!
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just saw the trailer for Hellboy 2. It looks to be every bit as
good as the first one. I'll miss John Hurt but I think this
I am vaguely remembering that I saw this but I may have to revisit it
to refresh.
B
--- ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh yeah! I forgot the Hughes Brothers' excellent From Hell,
starring Johnny Depp.
~rave!
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Interesting thing about ³From Hell². It is arguably the Hughes Brothers¹
greatest film. It was also their last. I think this is a great Johnny Depp
performance, and if I¹m not mistaken, was the first of the whole ³Johnny
does an accent well² roles. Heather Graham did not belong in this picture
She was murdered in a robbery at her dad's restaurant back in '84. They did get
the guy, fear not, and executed him in '95.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dude, what happened with your fiance? If too
painful to discuss i understand
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Apologies. I'm thinking of Fox, always moving good shows around. Skiffy
wouldn't let a good show *last*.
Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nah I think it was a case of nobody was watching this show. I can¹t think
of 25 people I know, including this list, who were watching it. 4400 just
It was a great movie.
Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am vaguely remembering that I
saw this but I may have to revisit it
to refresh.
B
--- ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh yeah! I forgot the Hughes Brothers' excellent From Hell,
starring Johnny Depp.
~rave!
---
Thanks, Bosco. Couldn't throw words to my thoughts at the moment.
Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought it was fun. I've seen
two or three times and I always enjoy
it. I don't think it's a great film. It's just a fun action film with
vampires.
B
--- yinka oyekunle [EMAIL
My top all-time has to be Hellboy, followed by Batman Begins, Spiderman,
V Is For Vendetta and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On an earlier thread someone
mentioned that the latest Batman film
was their favorite comic adaptation. I really
(quietly expanding shrine to all women of the City of Brotherly Love...)
tdemorsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Smart man. I think that trumps
a Baltimore woman. Of course, you
guys all know from experience with me that we Philly women are as meek
as church mice...right, Right,
no words to respond to that, dude. wow
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From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
She was murdered in a robbery at her dad's restaurant back in '84. They did get
the guy, fear not, and executed him in '95.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dude, what happened with
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Small asteroids pose big new threat
URL to an interesting article from MSNBC
_http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22328494/_
(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22328494/)
The rock that caused the Tunguska explosion may have been much smaller that
originally believed. But, if
Now I'll be singing Thriller for the rest of the day...
Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blade was a great movie until I saw
Blade 2. I¹m not a vampire person. I
really don¹t like vampire stories at all, actually. But I liked Blade 2.
Blade 3 made me really appreciate the second film
Hell, Blade 3 made me appreciate Michael Jackson¹s Thriller video more...
LOL... too funny. I agree, I liked Blade 2 but I think I lean more towards the
1st. I wish Nbushe (sp?) was in all 3 would have been cool to see her as the
love interest of Blade (plus it would have been nice just to
Reece, I wouldn't be too sure about that. I have a friend whose mother died.
She had an AOL account, drawing monthly from her checkign account. He took the
account over, and noticed that the withdrawls were still beign made, four
months *after* her death. He had to send AOl a death certificate
I continue to defend Halle Berry's Catwoman, but we wont' go
there!
LOL, even her catnip scene w/ that lady?
Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I completely forgot about Ghost World. That movie is awesome. I liked
Constantine but didnt love it.
I have avoided Cat Woman
Tracey, I disagree. I think tha tbringing Black Sheep home would endear you
to them. I haven't seen it as yet, hoping to rent it as soon as I can get into
Blockbuster, but the sheer snarkiness of the trailer had me howling.
tdemorsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah. Shaun was good, but
I refer to The Punisher as The Punishment, because you have to have done
something horrific to be forced to watch it. Any movie that can manage to make
Rebecca Romijn look bad...
Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still hold Spider-Man 2 as the
best ever made.
I think ³American
SHH!! You gon' get us in trubble!!!
Reece Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes...6-foot, fanged,
clawed, fire-breathing Church mice!
Maurice Jennings
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Daryle, again I agree with you in totality. As for the Hughes Brothers,
consider me as having been in a cave for some centuries. Last film???
Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting thing about ³From Hell². It is arguably the Hughes Brothers¹
greatest film. It was also their
as far as the schedule? I hear that, it's why i lost track of both it and
Deadzone. And even freakin' reruns aren't shown in order anymore, so you can't
catch up on the off season like you used to be able to do..
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From: Astromancer [EMAIL
(The party to whom this has been addressed is presently dead for financial
reasons...)
Reece Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maurice? Maurice who? :o)
(arms flailing, running screaming past Independence Hall)
Maurice Jennings
Have you or someone you know been threatened with
LMAO
Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (The party to whom this has been
addressed is presently dead for financial reasons...)
Reece Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maurice? Maurice who? :o)
(arms flailing, running screaming past Independence Hall)
Maurice Jennings
Have you or
Regarding the casting of dark-haired, multi-ethnic Keanu
Reeves as the blond-haired Constantine, Hollywood persists in weird
casting for no good reason. I ask, why is the blond Kristin Dunst
playing the red headed Mary Jane and the red haired Bryce Dallas
Howard is playing the blond Gwen
LAWDY! It's too late!
It's really hard to count them things jumping over your bed to go to sleep.
doze, scream in terror, 1...doze...scream in terror...2
Maurice Jennings
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More GENTLY than QUIETLY! YIKES! Reverently?
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LOLLOLLOL!!
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you just don't know great acting when you see it! Halle Berry BECAME
a Catwoman (if not THE Catwoman)!
~rave!
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, yinka oyekunle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I continue to defend Halle Berry's Catwoman, but we wont' go
there!
LOL, even her catnip
Their version of Touching Evil was remarkably faithful to the British
version, which surprised all heck out of me. It starred Jeffrey Donovan, the
same actor who's presently starring in Burn Notice. If you can catch it
through any auspices, I recommend it highly.
ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Save yourself! Actually, I worked off of Cityline Avenue in Bala Cynwyd. I
used to hang out
at a few Philly clubs. First place I've been where there were a LOT of
Black Exotic Dancers...
Man, what a treat! Of course, I don't mean to objectify our women...pant,
pant...
Maurice Jennings
Have
LOLLOLLOL
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I TIVO'ed it. Caught every episode...
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Meta
You a Philly girl?
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Meta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We certainly are, Tracey. Just ask my husband.:-)
Meta
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, tdemorsella tdlists@ wrote:
Smart man. I think that trumps a Baltimore woman. Of course, you
I got dirty looks from my husband when I mentioned it. He started
throwing up some recent choices he felt were poor. I'm emailing the
info to my brother-in-law
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that would be a good idea...I think...
tdemorsella
ugghh, you guys are giving me a headache
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Justin Mohareb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With Bruce Campbell as Gandalf.
On Dec 20, 2007 8:33 PM, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Raimi Helming Hell, Then Hobbit
I read The Hobbit recently and it still felt like a children;s book. It may
not be for 5 year old, but it is definitely not a grown up story. It is a story
of adventure and growth. It is not a Peter Parker story. It does not have
heavy adult situations that require and adult mine. The hobbits
I really liked it until the last season. They got rid of the
preacher, the black buddy and the sheriff. They made his relationship
with his son sappy and the darkness was reduced.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
if i have anything to look forward to, it's that I
too late to cover your tracks now. I'm gunning for you.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Reece Jennings
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maurice? Maurice who? :o)
(arms flailing, running screaming past Independence Hall)
Maurice Jennings
Have you or someone you know been threatened
after seeing that is when I starting believing in his talent.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It started with Six Degrees Of Seperation in my humble opinion...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how long before his rep has grown enough
to do that?
What about Tim Burton?
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The hobbit is a children's book. It is not a serious film about love
and
lost. I don't think that there is a director out there that could
capture that. If
Henson were alive I think that he could have done
I thought the first Blade was a classic
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, yinka oyekunle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
What does everyone think of the 1st Blade movie?
Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just saw the trailer
for Hellboy 2. It looks to be every bit as
good as the
Same parent company
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, Skiffy's influence spreads, I see. :(
Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peters: 4400 Is Canceled
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=46613
Blade one was a classic. I thought Blade two was good, but some of
the magic was lost. Blade three was ...just bad...very, very bad.
Their battlee with Snipes destroyed the franchise
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Blade was a great movie until I saw
There were at least 4 on the list watching it. But, I do not know
what the ratings were
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nah I think it was a case of nobody was watching this show. I can¹t
think
of 25 people I know, including this list, who were watching
In a message dated 12/21/2007 10:27:58 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What about Tim Burton?
Tracy,
If I could I would come through this computer and slap you silly for that.
LOL!!!
Johnny Depp would be an awful choice for Bilbo. Bilbo would
How did John end up being able to walk without a cane? Did his former love
finally get with the evil senator? Was there an ending to the series, or is it
just to be cancelled with no resolution?
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I really liked
In a message dated 12/22/2007 12:22:10 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's a tricky mix to get the humour, action, drama, FX, and magic down pat
Something that only Jackson can do.
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Great List except for Catwoman - however, if you go in with lowered
expectations in can be fun. I never saw ghost world but I just added
it to my list. another movie that you mike like that I do not believe
was ever a comic, but it has that feels like one is Equilibrium. The
plot is listed
Touching Evil was really good; From Hell was almost a masterpiece. I
sure hope that is not the last we have seen from them.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree From Hell is the most accomplished movie the Hughes
Brothers made. Working outside their
that was Bowfinger, a really good, underappreciated film where Steve Martin
wants to shoot a film with Eddie Murphy, but can't afford him (he can barely
afford a film camera). i don't think Murphy's playing himself in the film, but
he is playing a famous actor. Martin can't afford the actor,
Personally I want Jackson, but I was trying to come up with someone
who had the imagination for it. I agree he is probalby way to dark,
but i do not think he is any worse than Raimi
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 12/21/2007 10:27:58 PM Eastern
I agree, but if the can get Jackson, who has the imagination and
vision? By the way, how was Willy Wonka. Depp's Michael Jackson
performance in the trailers hs just creeped me out
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Burton's tastes run a bit to the more gothic and
ha-ha! Too true!
So, Scary Tracey, did you watch the trailer yet?
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Now that I think about it, it's not really that far fetched. I mean, after
Deity-knows-how-many-centuries of us shaving these poor guys bald in order
I had heard great things about it from the critics, so i rented it a
year ago. I really liked it. There is another Murphy film I like with
Jeff Goldblum in which Murphy is some time of Ghandi - like guru that is
exploited for shopping TV shows. Have you seen it? I really liked it too
I have Bowfinger on DVD and watch it a few times a year.
The scene with Kip crossing the freeway and the instance where the
MindHead rep (Terrance Stamp) tells Kit that under no circumstances should
he show it to the Laker Girls always leaves my ribs sore from laughing.
Chubby Rain? Fake Purse
They both came on every Sunday night twice at 9:00 and then 11:00 and
then on Wednesday and Thursday at 11:00 pm as repeats. Occasionally they
would show reruns 4400 on Scifi at 7:00 pm on Fridays. They hinted that
they were canceling 4400 last summer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
as far as the
I just saw Spiderman 3 a few weeks ago. Why did he feel so compared to
tell so many potentially good stories in one film?
Daryle wrote:
I still hold Spider-Man 2 as the best ever made.
I think ³American Splendor² was pretty well done, and recently I saw, for
the first time in its
that's why i said Raimi wouldn't be my first choice. I'd go with one of the two
Mexican directors who've shown with Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy, Children of Men,
and Harry Potter that they can balance all the aspects required of such a film
as one based on The Hobbit
-- Original
Burton can be a bit too--what's a good word...?--artificial-seeming to me. All
the riotous colors, the crazy angles of Willy Wonka all turned me off so that I
never saw the film. I was the same way with 'The Grinch, which I unfortunately
did see: it was over-the-top, over saturated with bright
haven't seen that one.
Another film that didn't do much box office is Show Time. It's really, really
funny in the first two-thirds, as it's a good send up of reality shows (who
knew back then those monsters would so dominate television?!), and DeNiro and
Murphy play off each other well. But
Don't know about the limp. I missed a season while I was in Mexico.
She got with the senator and then ended up dumping him when John proved
to her that he was just hooking up with her or votes. She was getting
hooked up with John and then she found out he did not tell the full
truth about
Yeah - and I got tired of Johnny pining away for his unappreciative ex,
who had been turned into an annoying and unnecessary character.
The writing was uninspired in the last season. I still watched anyway,
hoping it would get back on track.
The think del Toro is dark on the order of Raimi and Burton, however, I
won't argue against the idea that he has vision. Children of men is
fantastic, but I can't see what about his work makes you think he would
be good for the Hobbit. I've only seen one Harry Potter all the way
through,
i thoroughly disliked it. Too long, too boring, too many plotlines, FX and CGI
the worst of all the films--which is saying something, since as i said
yesterday, the CGI has always disappointed me in teh Spidey films.
The cardinal sins are that the Sandman really isn't used all that much in the
for some reason I feel del Toro's immersion in fantasy (Pan's Labyritnth, Hell
boy) would work, combined with his natural ebullience and childlike sense of
wonder. To use wholly inaccurate words, i just feel he's a more mature
fantasy director than Raimi would be, even though both are on the
Ditto about the wife and the season. Add JJ to the list of unnecessary
characters. I was a big fan of the show, but the last season, I
struggled to stay focused though the episodes that I watched. After
about 5 or 6 episodes, I stopped trying to find it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah - and
I always loved the symbiote story and they trivialized it and treated it
like an afterthought while totally destroying it with that strut you
call the
Stupid Saturday Night Fever thing. Up until now, I felt that Raimi was
fantastic storyteller of the larger than life. After Spidey 3, I'm
yeah it was great! Murphy playing the arrogant-then-ultimately-paranoid
superstar, and the nerdy lookalike at the same time was great. This movie was
the first time i got a hint that Murphy might have acting skills beyond simply
telling jokes onscreen.
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I forgot the Children of Men guy did Potter as well. In that case, I
would say he is an excellent choice if we could not have Peter Jackson.
I would also trust Del Toro's vision over Raimi these days. I have not
Seen Pan Labyrinth.While the critics rave, most people I know who
have seen
And the look on Kit's face in the parking garage as he is being stalked by
the dog in heels?
My wife completely loses it at that scene.
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I fond the very pedestrian. glad I did not go to the movies to see it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
haven't seen that one.
Another film that didn't do much box office is Show Time. It's really,
really funny in the first two-thirds, as it's a good send up of reality shows
(who knew back then
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