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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (1042)	1/8/2001 1:35:39 AM
From: TH	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

Neocon, Yes "Cast Away" could have been a lot more. I want a happy ending for my 8 bucks -g- Of course Hanks didn't give me the happy ending in "Philadelphia", but it was worth it anyway. Jen really wants to see "O Brother" now the she read it is based on Homer. Who knows, the critics are often wrong, just bad reviews as a rule are affirmed. Its the positive ones you can't trust. I loved "Mary". I think highly of Matt Dillon, even if he has just been "Matt Dillon" in the last couple of movies. Did you ever watch Ben Stillers short-lived series? It was quite good, maybe a bit ahead of its time. What about Tom Green. This guy is wacked. His cancer special was too much (yes he actually got it and most people thought it was a scam, just like they did with Andy Kaufman). Anyway, Tom Green is really, really nuts. Its important just to see what the generation behind me thinks is funny, and I will admit it is funny. One additional note, I tape the "Tom Green Show", because I think watching any other part of MTV can cause excessive stupidity. "Traffic" next weekend for me. HAGO TH

To: Neocon who wrote (1042)	1/8/2001 2:49:00 PM
From: Raymond Clutts	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

Neo, I have a winner in the best films seen over the weekend category and it is, (drum roll please), "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." This is a film of really transcendent beauty. There is one scene involving a long shot of a hillside bamboo forest blowing gently in a breeze that finally gave me a framework for realizing that much Chinese art contains representative evocations of lush landscapes that didn't resemble anything else I had ever seen. The acting is superb, the script (though subtitled) is by turns moving and powerful (though somewhat melodramatic) and the action sequences are the best I've ever seen. And though it's not a chick flick in the classic sense, it features a love story at its core that is really quite touching. It's also a "conservative" movie in the sense that it venerates honor and loyalty in preference to self-gratification. I'd really recommend seeing this in the theatres because the cinematography is world class and it adds a real depth to the production to see it on a big screen.