Hmm, what's playing that's hot?

7 yrs in Tibet but I'll wait for a rainy, contemplative day.

Same here, *that's* the movie I want to see.

Paul, have you seen 7 Years yet?

Not yet, I want to see it though.

Hey everyone, I am somewhat of a movie buff as well. The last to movies that I've seen are L.A. Confidential and Devil's Advocate. I HIGHLY recommend either! Kevin Spacey was really good in LA and there were also some very talentd young actors. It was 2 1/2 hours long, but worth it. Paccino was amazing in Devil's Advocate (as usual), and although I'm not a big Kionu fan, he didn't do a bad job. Both screenplays were phennomenal! In LA they introduce tons of angles that you never think will all come togethe , but somehow in the end they do. Devil's Advocate on the other hand is intense, with some extremely creative ideas. I think out of all the movies out right now, these two are must sees!

What do you want to see next, Brian?

I heard that Starship Troopers might be the next one to see. I don't think it's gonna win any awards, but the word on the street is great effects and a fairly in your face kinda hardcore style. Lots of shock value in a blockbuster kinda way. I'm not sure it'll be worth my $7.25, but I think the entertainment value will be high.

I'll have to check it out, I've heard this. Deserving of a topic???

I'm not sure that it deserves it's own topic (how do you start one anyway?), but I would like to hear people's views on blockbusters in general. I hear that they are on the decline. Ya know, spending millions of dollars, getting big name stars, lots of new digitaly animated effects...but not much substance. The newest Batman movie for example. I think the American public is tired of all the hype, and tired of paying $7.00 for crap. They still hold a lot of aesthetic value I must admit, but is that al people want?

Start a topic? Just click on the new topic button. If you're telnetting, you just type 'e' at the prompt.

New conference button? Am I missing something? There is a Prev topic, Next Topic, Prev Conf, Next Conf, Freeze, Forget, and Help button, but I don't see a New Topic button!?!

Then I'll have to fix that so there is!

Hey gud! Where are you from that movies cost $7.25?

I'm echoing Stacey--here in the Baltimore area it's like $5.50 for first run. Now Stacey, where do YOU live where you see first run for a dollar??? And get to play pinball at the same time???

No, no! First runs are $6.75 in Denver. I see the cheap movies at the Super Saver Cinema in Bear Valley for $1.75 and THEY have pinball. But I liked your idea better -- 1st run for a dollar PLUS pinball.

1st runners are $7.25 in Ann Arbor, MI...it's pretty rediculous! There is a buck.50 show but the movies are outdated, and there isn't any pinball :(

Outdated movies aren't a problem for me but "no pinball" ??!?!?! that sucks. Sorry. The Bear Valley (cheapo movies) even has good popcorn! I will count my blessings now! *grin*

I'm going to see a movie tonight. Any ideas?

GATTACA! I really liked it.

Are you taking a date? Sometimes, it matters what she likes too. Oh, and I heard Starship Troopers was really good albeit graphically violent.

A friend & I are going to the Sat. matinee of either "Portrait of a Lady" or "Washington Square"--2 possible "chick flicks". My husband will much prefer staying home for Notre Dame football. Terry, if you see either of these tonight, please post your review by Sat. afternoon!!

The answer is yes, stacey. so i'll write them down on 3 pieces of paper wad them up and flip them on the table at Satay and let her pick one, and she'll have 2-1 odds on a chick flick.

What a prince! My husband would've stacked the deck w/3 Arnold Schwarzenagger movies.

She picked the two chick flicks, rejected them, and we ended up watching galactic insect wars. Wild movie with violences, tremendous special effects fo spacecraft, insects and alien worlds, and even some mixed nude shower scenes. Gore alert, however.

What a chick! We're going to see that on Wednesday! The one day out of 14 that Brandon will be home.

Definitely a guy kind of flick, do you like bugs? Or do you fear them?

Depends on which side of the window they're on. Actually I enjoy bug watching. But I lived in an apartment that used to become infested with crickets. One or two crickets are okay. 1500 on your balcony is disgusting. How was your date??

Great. You'll love this bug movie then, especially to co-ed scenes in the shower.

Bugs, aliens and nudity?? Sounds like a naughty melange of genres...

And the effects are on a level with Star Wars and Aliens.

Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday!

Guess I'll go to Chinese Box or Two Girls & A Guy, cuz I've seen just about everything else. Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, and Maggie Cheung should get me havin' intercourse with the popcorn; and Robert Downey, Jr. is always invigoratingly counterbuff to the typical stud snoods, at least for me. Going to a movie with somebody can take the emotion out of it: I find I don't feel near as much. How does it happen with you.....& you & you, etc.?

gotta be in the right mood. I enjoy seeing movies with others but often I prefer to go by myself... depends on if my company in engaging in the sport of pinball!

Armegeddon is coming July 1st. I already saw Sudden Impact.

and?

If I go to the movies (rare), I'll go with someone else. But I prefer to watch videos at home alone, undistracted.

I read this review so I'd like to see this movie: The Celebration Danish film. Wealthy family disintegrates during the course of the patriarch's 60th birthday celebration. Much in common w/ Lars Von Trier's films on the surface, but especially on a writing level this is far more accomplished and complex. Astounding, just astounding acting in every single role. Gorgeously shot - on an $1800 consumer camcorder. This is so much better than any description of it could make it sound (it's a also a difficult one to discuss without spoilers). I was completely floored. Probably the best film I've seen this year.

Since Bob Nagy gave it a rave review I want to see There's Something about Mary Another view: "have a couple beers, bring that goofy chick, look for the crowd of genxers, and don't be afraid to fart. 'something about mary' is just the kind of serious drama mature audiences of sophistication find enlightening... haha i'm just fucking with you."

I have been cracking on this movie big-time in another topic here, Terry, but some others seem to like it. Go ahead and waste $2 and 2 hours of your life! I bet you couldn't make Bob Nagy sit through it again.

He said he was going again

(i saw it twice too) (sorry autumn... dunno, guess i have weird tastes... don't get much into modern cinema at all... i prefer the films of the thirties and forties, and when i have a choice, i watch them nearly exclusively... and over and again... it's like admiring a great piece of art to me, i've seen 'casablanca', 'the maltese falcon', etc., over 200 times, easily... but when confronted with modern films, it's the dumb ones that appeal to me most ('honeymoon in vegas', for example... or 'spinal tap', or 'the freshman' oryeah, 'something about mary')... most other films are unsatisfying to me, at least compared to those produced in eras of (real) passion, and literacy)

Ah, you're an enigma, Nick...

hmmm... (enigma-ramus, perhaps?) (there's compelling data supporting this view, i admit)

The film I want to see next: " LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS" I'll have to wait until next summer. Because that is when the Paramount will show it again.

You might find it at Vulcan Video.

I'll Check and see if they have it.

is that one with subtitles? it sounds like "the babes do paris" haha, maybe subtitles aren't needed...

It has subtitles. It is a good movie even if you don't speak french. If you speak french, it is a much better movie. The english translation of the title is: "The Children of Paradise". It was filmed in Paris during the German occupation in WWII. The extras in the movie are members of the french resistance. The movie was their cover for all being together in one place. They hid out by acting in the movie.

After all the chit chat surrounding it... I want to see Something About Mary!

and I just got back from Something About Mary gotta say I understand where you're coming from Autumn (but I enjoyed the movie!)

Hey, live and let live, that's what I always say.

not live and let die?

Now, Stacey, I have never been and never will be a James Bond fan...

how bout a Beatles fan then???

The beatles have something out called, "live and let die"?

no, but Paul has a verbatim lyric...

There are so many movies I want to see next... I may just spend my entire holiday watching movies! Shakespeare in Love Elizabeth Gods and Monsters Patch Adams Thin Red Line Little Voice Central Station and I'm sure I've left out a couple.

I agree with the sentiment, but I've never heard of any of the movies.

You go, Charlotte, and report back here!! "Sh. in Love" and "Patch Adams" look really good. My husband saw "Elizabeth" but didn't care much for it--said it was for people who find "Masterpiece Theatre" too taxing.

Thought the plot was a little thin, did he?

He found it hardly scratched the surface--all dressed up nicely in costuming, but lacking substance. The Elizabethan period is one of his great interests, as are all things relating to the age of the Armada.

I'm glad to hear that. I was thinking of going to that movie.

I've been wanting to see "A Simple Plan" for weeks now. But it's only playing at one theater, way up on Research Blvd. Only one bus goes out that far. Being carless sucks. It's like America has no use anymore for people without cars.

Sounds like you're being discriminated against, George...maybe if you threaten them with a lawsuit, they'll send someone over to pick you up?

the movie i will be seeing next is city of angels *finally* got the video next to the tv and it's on my must do list for this evening.

so, how do you feel about fallen angels now, Wolf?

never thought about fallen angels in quite that way. always thought it meant they turned against God. the movie was very well done. i must say that nicholas cage and meg ryan (though i've never imagined them together) did very a wonderful job trying to portrait these difficult characters. i did manage to squirt out a few tears at choice scenes in the movie, but for the most part, i was disappointed.

not exactly to turn against God, Wolf, just choose to be different that what God made them to be... (besides, you got to post #69!)

oh yeah, i did, huh?

(that happens so much you don't even notice anymore?)

Took the girls to see "Bug's Life" at the $2 movie theater. It was very enjoyable, typical Disney. Also, rented "Blue" (French, subtitled), which is a movie only a film critic could love, and "Smoke" with William Hurt and Harvey Keitel. Interesting without being fascinating.

just watched "Great Expectations" with Gwyneth Paltrow(sp?) and Ethan Hawke(sp?)...what was with all the green?

haven't seen it yet. it was green???

was ethan pip? and gwyneth the old lady in the wedding dress? who played the convict?

yes...no that was Anne Bancroft...De Niro...

I like Ethan Hawke. My mom and I are going to the $2 movies this weekend to see "Blast from the Past." Where's Jim??

hi just like that, you blasted me into the present say hi to yer mom for me, 'k? tell her how hard i tried to make that flight outa Austin to get to Maryland to go to the movie with you two but that darn Ethan kept Billy Blankin' at my body, so i couldn't even board he stood between me and some of the deepest earthly delight known to the known world my chest was bruising (over my heart) as he asked, "what's her mom's name?" I said, "Uma," as he let me have another kickbox kick on the mouth the sorrow of separation pangs me to now make shabby (and tubby) adjustments and go see "Go" and "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" sometime this weekend, alone, dismal, broken, downhearted, crushed, crumpled, and crunched and crypted i mean Ethan is just so different off-screen my lips are swelling bigger than my thumbs

i can't say i'm a big fan of ethan's but he is a good actor. i watched gattaca about three times and i still find it interesting. don't care for uma very much. she was good in gattaca, IMMHO. watched 187 on max yesterday. whew! what an intense and scary movie. it made me think of my dad (as he teaches 7-8th grade english in a tough neighborhood).

I read good reviews for both "Go" and "Walking on the Moon." Come on, second run...

i've not heard of either one and i want to watch ever after because i'm a little girl at heart.

My girlfriend's husband saw it on a plane and told her that as soon as it came out on video, he was buying it. Isn't that sweet?? She's going to lend it to me. Saw "The Opposite of Sex" last night and loved it! What a clever script.

I want to see any movie. I don't really care what. Wouldn't matter which, I always miss those I really would like to see, anyway...

me, too

I watched "Burnt by the Sun" yesterday and really enjoyed it. It's a Russian film based on a true story about one of Stalin's generals who is betrayed by his wife's former lover. It sounds intense, but it was mostly light moments revolving around their family. Alexander, wer--what do you want to see?

probably not the right answer but, it depends on who I'm seeing it with

of course it does. what would you want to go see by yourself? i'm that way, some films i have to see alone because then i can allow myself to sink into it's fantasy.

probably wouldn't go see any by myself...

why? i've seen plenty by myself and it's great! i can cry without reservation!!

i can't say i've ever gone to a movie on my own. i think i'd feel too sad. but maybe that's just social conditioning :)

'cause going to the movie is something to share... if I want to watch something alone, I'll stay home...

I didn't know what topic to post this under on the movie conference, but it is just too funny. Roman Holy/Slayer What Saturday Night Fever did for Quiana, Plexiglas dancefloors and bad hair, Gladiator will do for killing Christians. Sitting in my stadium seat listening to an uncouth secular audience raucously cheer Gladiator, I felt like a rabbi at the Nuremberg rallies. But instead of the crowd whooping it up for an unattractive little man who, all for the want of a fistful of Prozac, killed off half of Europe, the audience at Gladiator was screaming for Christian blood. My blood. Using men with bulging biceps, bulging chests and, well, things that were bulging that no Christian woman should ever have thrust in her face, Gladiator will do more for homoerotic Christian mayhem than anything since Caligula first sashayed into the Colosseum. Gladiator, a film that manages to be crafty without craft, is littered with offensive antifamily propaganda and a level of vulgarity not commonly seen outside of Nevada. But what do you expect from a movie featuring an emperor called "Commodus" -- Latin for "toilet"? Russell Crowe stars as General Maximus, a downwardly mobile Roman who is forced into the most base of all professions -- show business. He entertains at amphitheaters throughout suburban Rome by decapitating Christians with an unrefined swagger too gruff to remind one of any genuine heterosexual males. Indeed, his technique clearly draws on the exaggeratedly robust manliness that can only be found in Women's Professional Basketball. What will every True Christian despise about this movie? Let's start with the vulgar name attached to the project. It doesn't take a cryptographer to unlock the salacious wordplay of the title to this trashy homage to amorality. Of the seven women from Bringing Integrity To Christian Homemakers who attended the screening with me, only one did not immediately pick up on the shockingly lewd subliminal message glaring down on us in twelve-foot letters. As my dear Sister-in-Christ, the 81-year-old Mrs. Helen Floribunda pointed out: "It really takes a sick, sick secular mind to give a movie a title like that just to get a puerile giggle out of good, wholesome Christians going around town saying 'Glad He Ate Her.'" Russell Crowe, here working in a Roman Temple Prostitute Superstore, shows that the film's budget was spent on special effects, not fabric. Let's talk about the sick way that the men dress for a minute. Most eschew the modesty of an ankle-length belted senatorial toga for a more racy gladiator miniskirt with leather/armor kick-pleats. It is a "look" perversely Jean Paul Gautier in its decedent homoeroticism and sassy mix of fabrics. Of course, there is a sick purpose behind the Carnaby Street altitude of the men's skirts, which are far too short for even a the most brazen female -- such as, say, a Catholic schoolgirl. The skirts provide ample opportunity for the voyeuristic Steadycam operators to brazenly play peek-a-boo with half the cast's crotches. Mrs. Bowers counted 86 salacious "genital bulge" shots -- 7 of which were in a decidedly turgid state. In fact, there may well have been more, but Mrs. Bowers was so utterly overwhelmed by how the character Maximus lived up to his name, she simply lost count. Thank the Lord I was proactive enough to pack a moist towelette in my Prada clutch. Yes, the film is prurient. But what can we expect from an amoral smut-mill like Hollywood? With Gladiator, Hollywood has shed any pretense that it has not been co-opted as the Joseph Goebbels of the Homosexual Agenda. The movie is confected of two things notoriously homosexual: (a) sweaty, muscular men impaling each other within moments of meeting; and (b) an exquisite placement of period furniture. This is Dream Works project -- a studio owned by three men who are, not coincidentally, all either Jewish, homosexual -- or both (just don't tell his wife). And the anti-Christian pedigree shows in every frame. There can only be one reason why Gladiator was made. It was conjured to whet the appetite of jaded Americans hungry for better production values in their Christian persecution. In a country anesthetized by virtual killing, what could be more exhilarating than a coliseum full of secular humanists drinking beer and watching real people of the Only True Faith dismembered? You don't need Diana Ross flying out in a helicopter during half-time after that! No doubt, the director hopes that once given a flavor for the buzz that follows watching godly Christians torn into pieces no larger than a Mariah Carey gown, bloodthirsty teenagers from Concord to Carmel will soon corral Pentecostals in high school gymnasiums every Friday night to watch them be mauled by pit bulls and livestock. Russell Crowe and a fellow gladiator use their swords to make a crucifix -- solely to mock the faith of the beautifully costumed Christians they are about to slaughter. History has been filled with Christian persecution. Sure, Christians have returned in kind. And, thanks to the Catholic Inquisition, done so with �lan and a flare for the diabolically painful that makes the Romans, frankly, appear somewhat amateurish. But our persecution was done for God, and therefore we tortured with love. By selling tickets at the Colosseum, the Romans invented the use of Christian persecution as a vehicle for making money. But the fact that they have left modern Christian television ministries this inventive legacy for financial growth does not mean we should let them off the hook! Surely, we are only a year away from devoted, yet wiry, Christians being pummeled on the mat at World Wide Wrestling in "Baptist Slapdowns" -- to the delight of atheist hillbillies with access to cable. Mark my words: when Ticketmaster begins selling seats to ball fields throughout this once great land to "Christians vs. Visiting Lions," you will look back and know that this "sport" was all started by that seemingly harmless homo movie Gladiator. Mrs. Bowers gives it a thumb down. A modern gladiator mocks a Baptist missionary with John 3:16 moments before snapping his head off to the delight of the trailer trash in the audience. � Betty Bowers 2000 All Rights Reserved The above was courtesy of Mrs. Betty Bowers from the award winning website Betty Bowers Is a Better Christian Than You. http://www.bettybowers.com/

That is hilarious, Cheryl. Don't know where to put satire, but I am happy you posted it!

"Bringing Integrity To Christian Homemakers"--ROFLMAO!!! Thanks for sharing, Cheryl!

MI-2 is what i'd like to see next. but i'd be happy with any movie that's been out in the last year or so!

I'd like to see High Fidelity but I'll wait for the video...

I got a couple of free passes for Mission Impossible 2 this afternoon.

Tom Cruise does nothing for me (I'm with Ree on this) but it just might be a guy flick. Report back and let us know if we should raid the cookie jar! My last theater movie was Shakespeare in Love and was the first one in a VERY long time. *shock* I have two Colin Firth movies I have waiting for me and I have not yet seen...I keep going back to Darcy......*sigh*

Actually didn't make it, work got in the way.