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To: D. Long who wrote (2755)	11/10/2002 9:48:10 AM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6901

I haven't been to current grown-up movies in ages, if I watch them at all it's on pay-per-view, so when I pop a movie in the player it's one of the old reliables or something funny. Almost anything by Hitchcock or Mel Brooks, movie musicals with great dancing, one of the Thin Man series, Casablanca. My favorite scene from that is when Victor Lazlo tells the band to play the Marsellaise, chokes me up every time. My favorite line: Rick: "Just remember, this gun is pointed straight at your heart." Renault: "That is my least vulnerable spot." I liked Branaugh and Thompson too, and am looking forward to seeing him in the new Harry Potter (I see kid's movies a LOT) Ever see them in "Dead Again"? Offbeat, but they were worth watching in anything. BTW, my husband and SIL love "Princess Bride", and would laugh hysterically reciting: "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." :-)

To: D. Long who wrote (2755)	11/10/2002 12:14:58 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6901

I liked Fellowship of the Ring an awful lot, but there were WAAAAAAAAAAY too many orks.:( Looking forward to the next two. If you like fantasy, have you seen Reign of Fire? We missed it in the theater, and it did not stay long, but it's top notch. About dragons taking over the earth, and people fighting back for survival. I have no idea what Matthew McConaughey did to get so bulked up, but he's huge, and not very good at playing an action hero, so that's probably why it wasn't popular, but if you can get around that, and the holes in the plot, it's worth watching.

To: D. Long who wrote (2755)	11/10/2002 2:22:47 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

Something you said made me finally remember the name of another favorite of the last 25 years (there are many favorites in the last 50 years, but then, I do enjoy the classics): The Age of Innocence Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard E. Grant, Mary Beth Hurt, Miriam Margolyes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sian Phillips, Winona Ryder, Scott Wilson allwatchers.com

To: D. Long who wrote (2755)	11/10/2002 3:32:48 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

I was VERY happy with PJ's rendition of the first chapter of Lord of the Rings. My favorite book of the trilogy is Return of the King, so here's to December 2003! I thought FOTR was brilliant, but the pace was relentlessly rushed. So I am impatiently awaiting my copy of the the "extended edition" (PJ doesn't like the term "director's cut", saying they are both his cuts) to see how that plays. I am one of those Tolkien fans who got sucked in by the half-seen vistas of geography, history and poetry, so I was very pleased by how much of Middle Earth had been transferred onto the screen. There was a lot of detail in every scene that I wanted to see, and little time in the movie to see it. Very different from standard Hollywood fare like the Scorpion King, where you depend on fast cutting to keep you from being bored out of your mind: the scene is: Glistening hulk. Sword. Fire in the background. Got it. Next. No detail at all beyond what's built into the sets, not even a rudimentary attempt at character or plot. I don't think there are that many good fantasy films at all, but I'm very picky about that genre. "The Last Unicorn" and "Princess Bride" are good, "Lady Hawk" isn't bad. By way of fun fantasy, "Time Bandits" and "Baron Munchausen" are good diversions as well. :) Agreed, unless you count The Empire Strikes Back as fantasy (there's no science in Star Wars). I didn't care for The Princess Bride, but I liked Lady Hawk. I haven't seen the others. Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal was another good fantasy movie. Fantasy is hard to do well. Like science fiction, you have to invent the whole world, not just your characters and plot, and make it believable. Also, there is a predominate school of thought that Fantasy is not suitable for serious subjects and should not be taken seriously. (I don't agree at all, and I recommend reading Ursula LeGuin, who has some very good essays where she rebuts this notion) If the director feels this 'embarrasment' at taking Fantasy seriously in its own right, then he won't be able to prevent himself from giving the 'wink' to the actors to camp it up a little. Now, that's fine if the story was meant to be humorous or campy, but deadly if the story was meant to be about evil or heroism or friendship or some other serious subject.