in general? to see a movie? or for a specific purpose?

any...

:-) Welcome Suzanne and Hal9000. Please make yourselves at home here - and bring in a better couch for the movie theatre, cos ours is a bit worn out.

lotsa roguh housing going on while the lights are out!

you know dat's right!

Anyone wanna talk about Titanic, the movie?

Actually, I think you'll find several... Hello, Christopher!

hi christopher! how'd ya find us?

I am a big movie fan, I think I could run my own movie theatre with all the movies I buy or I could build one with all the money I have spent on going to see the movies. Keep me updated, I am new here.

Great, glad you're checking in! Come back often and post lots!

I will try my best to visit as often as I can. My project is almost over, but I am enjoying the topics. Thanks for making me feel welcome!

Anytime...

hi movie-lovers. anyone seen LA Confidential? I guess that's a silly question, or maybe it's not. Anyway, I caught it last weekend, and it was *superb*! People even clapped at the end! It was excellent, really really good - not what I expected from a Hollywood movie at all. One thing, though. Why did Kim Basinger get an Oscar? Best Chest in a Hollywood Movie?

Leave it to Mike to come up with that one! What a babe connoisseur. I haven't seen LA Confidential, but it's next on my list of movies to see.

intorduction to the movie conference .

Hiya, Suzanne!

Welcome!

Oh boy, I'm sicker than I thought . . . I'm even seeing green now!

It's gone now . . . I swear I saw green all over the place!

feeling better this week?

Top form, thanks!!!! I never let illness ruin my health.

Hi. I watch a lot of movies, both in the theater and rented. I just want to know other people's opinions of different movies, that's all. That's what this is for, isn't it?

You bet, Marybeth! Welcome and feel free to post your movie reviews in any of the relevant topics.

Absolutely!

And join us in the other conferences too. It's great fun, and we're always looking for new opinions and faces.

See Terry? I'm on a mission from God.

with a full tank of gas and a half a pack of cigarettes...

but I neither drive, nor smoke. Oh! You?

Hi!

Hi! Are you here to stay or is this going to be a one night stand?

I feel used already...

ha-ha, And you've only been back one day!! Did you have a good time, girl?

Oh yeah! We just relaxed and did our girl stuff all day and let our sugar daddy take us out to dinner every night! It was nice to just not have to cook for a week.

Hmm, sounds wonderful! I too have a short holiday in sight, and I can already not sleep at night, I'm so excited.

Your trip to Boston??

No, that will happen later this year - unless my sister gets here first, because she's planning a trip to Namibia for October, and we might arrange it so that she comes here for two weeks at the same time, in which case it's unlikely that I will go to America this year. We'll be spending too much money! No, we're going to the Lake District in England for six days - fly next Wednesday evening. We're going to stay at a cottage there with my husbands three best friends from university; I love them all, they are very nice people, and they all see me as a pet, so they spoil me. Don't mind that at all every once in a while!

Is your sister on the net too? What's she like?

Sonja has internet and e-mail, but her working hours are akward. What's she like? Physically or personaility wise? Physically, being my twin, she looks like me, but a PRETTY version - probably because she came out first, I lie to myself to make me feel better! And she is VERY VERY funny. She is also kind, intelligent and warm. She would be much loved if she were to come here. She might come around October when she has a few weeks off.

She must be a world class beauty indeed. And what part of the world does Sonja habitate? That would be very, very cool if she joined us ... seeing the interaction between the two of you. Is she as chatty as you?

Sonja lives in Boston now - married an American - which Mum is very pi$$ed off about. Don't think she'll ever 'forgive' us for flying off such a long way from the nest - we three are very close. Not sure if you or the others will enjoy the interaction between us - that part scares me a little; scared we'll scare you away. We just have too many private jokes and stuff between us, and we'll just end up taking the whole place over - though we won't mean to. It will cause a certain amount of trouble and friction, because we feel strongly about the same things, and have the same opinion on literally EVERYTHING, even though we don't really mean to. (That is the bit that is identical between us). I don't know if that sort of thing will be fair on the rest of you. There's a good chance she'll be visiting me soon, and I'll introduce her then - we can see how it goes. And yes, she is as chatty as me. If you want I can post you a picture of her, and you can put it into my topic in 'Babes', so you and the others can see what she looks like.

Absolutely, and having her on would more than likely double our pleasure. I can't imagine any discontent over two of you! The picture would be great. So you're identical twins, wow! I have some cousins who are identical twins and they're both super folks (Barney and Muriel), she's a schoolteacher with a big family and he's a multimillionaire shipping magnate / travel tour businessman.

ummm... problem with the 'identical' part (unless there was a SERIOUS operation in their past!)

Identical wasn't what I meant. Anyway, do you and your sister email each other now? I try to keep an email going with my sister, but we've been lagging and I can't seem to get her attention into this.

We e-mail about twenty times a day! Whenever she's got a minute at work or when I've got a few minutes, and when I wake up in the morning there will be a LONG mail on my screen. We miss each other like he��. But in a way I suppose it is better for us to be apart.

Wow, the way you two communicate, it would be *very interesting* to see you online together here. I'd say twenty emails a day is a prolific correspondence. What do you talk about mostly?

And it doesn't even feel like we talk to each other alot! Weekends we phone our brother on my mum's phones, and drive him crazy. ha-ha! I am not sure what we talk about, really. Infantile nonsense, I think. We laugh alot.

Do you have only the one sister, Terry? Is there a big age difference? Are you close?

We're pretty close, except we don't communicate as well as we should. I need to pick up the ball here. She's five years younger than I. There's probably a picture of her under alice something at http://www.spring.net/~terry/albumjpg

Yes, I found her . . . along with some other interesting photos . . . She looks nice, though I can't make out that much of her face. It's a very nice photo. Why don't you communicate well - do you live too far away from each other?

with my brother it's not the distance of the body... it is the distance of our minds...

where does he live, Stace? SA?

She's in Calif.

There are 4 of us kids, and one still lives w/Mom & Dad, we live on the same street as my parents, another lives around the corner, and my sister is 2 miles down the highway. (The apple doesn't fall far from the tree around here.) It's great for all our kids.

Hey, maybe we should start a 'family' conference where folks could talk about their families? topics could be mom, dad, sister, brother, kids, etc. etc.

Love the photo, Terry! A family conference? Why not? But leave the dad-topic out.

all dads aren't unsavory Riette... mine is pretty neat.

T'was a joke.

If I thought ALL dads were unsavory, I would never have had kids.

Not with a man anyway!

oooh! now THAT would've been interesting!

oitificial inseminiotion

Hello springers! I love movies, too, but in the last couple of years missed nearly every single one I wanted to see (notable exception being Mars Attacks!, which is one of the most intelligent folms ever made). Actually, it's strange to show up here, 'coz yall be yapping away about stuff that might never even be released over here, and if, then with a bad translation and worse title to match. I collect film on reels (e.g. Super8, Normal or Standard 8, 16mm, etc.), and film family and friends with my Super8 film camera. Maybe one day I'll make a short movie... But it'll be in Super8, because I'm a very analogue personality, I'm afraid.

Oh, sorry, forgot this here: Is there anybody interested in the same thing? Swap, trade, chat. Please check http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/read/collecting/24 .

Cool, I'll check out your topic in the collecting conference.

Ok,hi.The last ling I saw posted her was in March.So if your looking here,hi.

Ok,hi.The last thing I saw posted her was in March.So if your looking here,hi.

Ok,hi.The last thing I saw posted here was in March.So if your looking here,hi.

Opps.Why did I do that?

Magic! At least you did not contradict yourself *smile* (It happens to all of us at one time or another!!!)

Welcome, Samantha! Welcome, Samantha! Welcome, Samantha! :-)

Oh, look, everybody! Samantha and Autumn both have a hickup! hickup! hickup!

Howdy Samantha!

hi samantha!

Is it too late to join in ? I'm just taking time out from drool,stretching my wings and wanted to say hello.

welcome!!

Hello, Judy!!

It's never too late, in fact, you're right on time, Judy.

Hi all, I love movies! I am a huge Geoffrey Rush fan and I can't wait for quills to be released, has anyone else heard the buzz about it?

Hey there! I'm just out of lurkdom and ready to partake of the Spring. I LOVE movies, hey I live vicariously, through the movies that is. I have a degree in art history and did take film studies courses. Consequently I'm a little more informed than the average fan, but hey, please don't hold that against me. Michelle, I've read a bit about Quills. It's based on a play about the internment in a madhouse of the Marquis de Sade toward the end of his life. I also noticed that you have a topic for Rush at the drool conference. I seems that nobody ever posts there. Michelle, I say post there. Why not?!? Colin Firth is not the center of the universe -- not even at drool. That is one conference that definitely needs shaken out of its complacency. I say other women should demand their right to drool and the powers that be there be damned. Much of that last paragraph was in defense of friend of mine who posts at drool. She's a sweet woman but a doormat. I've told her as much and she agrees. I won't mention her name. I've lurked there for some time and those in charge are not nice people; however, she is. I say post on that Geoffrey Rush topic. And who the hell is Stephen Dillane anyway? And who the hell cares?

I say other women should demand their right to drool and the powers that be there be damned. No one is preventing anyone from posting at the other topics at Drool. Much of that last paragraph was in defense of friend of mine who posts at drool. She's a sweet woman but a doormat. I hadn't noticed that we had any active posters who acted like doormats. and the powers that be there be damned. Do you customarily go to other people's homes and insult them? Hosts (generic) do this voluntarily and expend quite a bit of effort and time/money on keeping the site active and worth visiting. Sorry that you don't like, but maybe Drool is not for you.

Possibly, and that is definitely worth pondering. But if you think that a website is your home -- you need to get out of the house or get a life. Nah, what you need is to lighten up. Since you obviously have trouble grasping the concept that message boards are supposed to be fun you should run back to your little world there at drool. Go back to your little sandbox and leave the other conferences to grown-ups who know how to take a joke. Furthermore Karen, I think you owe the people at the movie conference an apology for bringing your whining and sniffling over here. You are probably not adult enough for that so I shall do it for you. I apologize for the ugly scene warranted by the humorless Karen and my having to stoop to this level by her inability to have some fun poked at her. I hope things improve from this point onward.

anyway......welcome to the movie conference!! i don't get out to see movies as much as i'd like so my comments on them may be a bit dated! oh, and i like geoffrey rush, he's good!

Hello again, Carys! (Does Carys remind anyone else of a certain Namibian we all know and love?!) The last good movie I rented was House of Yes, with Parker Posey. It's one of those quirky indie films with weird situations interspersed with clever dialogue.

We sat down and watched a really wierd, I think 1970s, fantasy film called Labyrinth. It had David Bowie in it as the goblin lord and was really a tale about how a girl wished her baby brother to be taken by the goblins, and then when it happened had to fight her way through the labyrinth to rescue him. SAome bits were good and funny, and there were some very nice special effects, but I got a bit bored with it ....I think it can go out to the nearest charity shop...

i liked that one! (labyrinth)

Bits of it I really liked ...but I felt it dragged in the middle. I did like the ending and it was a nice gentle film. Maybe I was just too tired that night to appreciate it!

(Hey, Wolfie, go look at education and cultures conferences please ...I'se getting lonely in there... *grin*)

Hey guys! I'm so sorry for the bad intro to your conference. But I'm a loud-mouthed broad and make no apologies for it. Except I just did. That's only because you're such nice people! Besides being flamed and returning the favor are part of life on the internet. Sometimes you just meet up with people bring out the worst in you and you with them. She's gone back to her conference and as she noted it's not really the place for me. So be it. I can respect that. I remember seeing Labyrinth. I really enjoyed it. I don't know if my son, Alun, is old enough for it though. He's eight but I think it might be better to wait about 2 years or so. The role in Labryinth was really a good one for Bowie. He always seemed so other-worldly that roles such as that and The Man Who Fell to Earth really suited him. It's really funny that I worry about my son seeing Labyrinth. All this summer he's been pestering my husband and me to take him to see Gladiator. Over my dead body. That is not a movie fit for any child. Alex, my husband, says that it's a movie for grown women where they can slober and grovel over Russell Crowe's thighs. I think he might be just a tad insecure. Glad to be here!

i had heard that the gladiator was a good one. maggie: i haven't seen labyrinth in a while so i can't remember if it drags or not!!

Yup, I really enjoyed Gladiator. However, I definitely wouldn't take a youngish kid. I sat and squirmed in my seat at the beginning - it was SO gory that I really wondered if I was going to be able to stay!!! Having said that, the violence is appropriate for the story, and as a young friend of mine said to me 'if you use a sword, it gets messy!'. The music is great and really adds to the film, I think some of it has become popular in it's own right in the UK too. For me the extreme violence made me feel uncomfortable, and I spent quite a bit of the film with my eyes shut. However, the bits in between more than made up for that - excellent storyline. Funnily enough there was a Roman weekend on TV recently and seeing the 'real' gladiator story and discussion on Roman warfare tactics made me realise again how good the film had been ....and having seen the film, added to my enjoyment of the TV programmes.

The documentary sounds interesting. Some great background for the movie. I did take my son to see Chicken Run and Fantasia 2000. He liked them both. I think I liked Chicken Run a bit than he did though. That pretty much is because I got all the film references in the movie, such as the Great Escape, Stalag 17, etc. He liked a lot of the new Fantasia. His favorite segment was the first one. The music was the Pines of Rome and it used computer animation of whales. It truly was breathtaking. He also liked the one holdover from the orignal film, The Sorcerer's Apprentice with Mickey Mouse.

We (husband and me) went to see Chicken Run ...and enjoyed it on the same level as you Carys. I have yet to go and see Stuart Little .....