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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (120343)	1/1/2001 3:55:05 PM
From: TH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Neocon, Hmmm, sorry to hear about those "female complications" I thought those complications were raison d'etre. I was pretty big on the party thing for quite a few years. I had a lot of appetites -vbg- Good thing I gave up drinking about 8 years ago on this very day. That is another story and lets just say that some friends put together a list of people they thought I might want to apologize to...it was a long list. In any event I can relate and for some reason I just began to avoid crowds and bars, for the most part at least, like the plague. When I dance it is a form of punishment and/or torture for those who don't dance. Of course I could be overstating my own impact and it might just be entertainment-vbg- Like Billy Crystal said, "the white man's overbite". "Die Hard" was entertainment. I would never recommend it to anyone. I really like Bruce Willis and have from his mainstream start on the little screen. Still I can't find much about any of the "Die Hard" films that was positive. I have walked on glass and steel before. It was a part of job I did between my second and third years of college. I made tank treads and welded steel. A man can walk about 10 feet with a steel sliver in his foot. A man can walk about 5 feet with a glass shard. Same thing happened with the Bond films. The first 3-5 were great. Bond was just a very talented human at the upper range of the scale on many dimensions. Then he became Superman and you know the rest. The films Moore made in the late 70's and early 80's are not worth a second look. "Goldfinger", "From Russia With Love", and of course, "Dr. No" will always be classics. Bruce Willis is like Moore's Bond. Like I said I found no fault with "Gladiator" and was actually quite surprised that it lived up to the hype. "8mm" was lacking fiber. Seems to becoming a very common trait of a Nick Cage film. Cage's career is going in reverse. I remember him from a movie called "Valley Girl" in the early 80's and thought he was the best part of the film. Kind of the Tom Hanks thing you were talking about with the "Buddies" show on TV. Cage did some great stuff and was exceptional and hilarious in "Moonstruck". Believable and tragic in "Leaving Las Vegas". Then came "Con Air" (TRASH), "The Rock" (ditto), and the rest. "Face Off" was at least entertaining just to see that kind of over the top acting and I like John Woo, but I didn't recommend the film to a single person. Do I need to mention, "Gone in 60 seconds"? Which ironically is how long that film lasted at the box office. So maybe it is Cage that is screwing these films up. Sure seems like a trend. As for "Seven" and David Fincher in general, well I'm a fan. The films are flawed, but it does not matter to me. He has me hooked from the first frame. This is a guy who used to direct Madonna videos and was a small time guy with the Lucas filmworks. We will have to talk Fincher sometime. I am really looking forward to one of his future rumored projects called "Passengers". It won't be his next film, but it is the kind of story that he is attracted to. Its kind of a temporary "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" thing, but I doubt there will be any political statement. In any event I think Fincher is a great talent and expect much from him in the future, but only hope that he does not become afraid of making films that have smaller scale too. Thanks for clearing up black comedy. I know you can't say jungle anymore. I don't know why. Jungle or rain forest, whats the difference? "Tarzan of the Rain Forest"? How exactly is "jungle" offensive to anyone? No one says, "its a real rain forest out there". I used to have great fun with this Birkenstock wearing/tree hugging/granola eating vixen I was dating. I must have said jungle more times during our brief period together than I said in my entire life. I'm just that kind of guy -vbg- I can't remember the image of the sister skating. I can remember the pond scene from "Kane", but not this film. Odd. I really liked that film and I am embarrassed to admit it, but a women I dated for several years had some of her qualities. I choose to accept her behavior for all the wrong reasons, but I don't wish I had made any other choice. What did you think of "Wild Things"? "Mean Streets" has so much in it. I look forward to seeing it again and trying to look at it a little differently. Interesting thought regarding behavior outside the bounds of normal society. That is really too bad about your uncles. Quite a bunch and I can understand how you might not look forward to seeing some of them. Killing someone, on purpose or accident, can really mess some people up. At my first job out of college I said to one of the senior VPs that he should fire this senior dipstick on the 9th floor (uh yea I was a bit of a bold little putz in those days -vbg-) because the guy was useless and was screwing up my efforts. I found out later this guy had accidently killed someone sort of on company time and that essentially earned him a meal ticket for life from the owner of the company. Never mind that he was 95% responsible, just the fact that he was leaving a company function and was in that place at that time because of company objectives was enough. The guy who ran that company was a real man of honor, like few I have ever met. Anyway this accidental killer was one of the biggest pricks I have ever known. I tried to get some insight into his "prickness" and came to the conclusion that he thought he was damned already for his sins so why not live it up, in a manner of speaking. We choose our friends but not our family. If the same criteria was applied to our family as our friends then Thanksgiving dinner would be with a much smaller group. Have a great New Year. TH