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To: Neeka who wrote (363)	3/20/2005 10:23:13 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 725

I'm not familiar with that one (The Usual Suspects). For some reason you put me in mind of Meg Ryan. Usually I like her movies, but two years ago she had one called "In The Cut" that I absolutely hated. Have you seen that one? Nicholas Cage usually puts out good movies, but "Leaving Las Vegas" really turned me off. Watching somebody sell his house so he could drink himself to death does not seem like a good use of my time. I like movies about people I can admire or aspire to. Movies that glorify mobsters, perverts, or murderers have no place in my time. There was a movie called Natural Born Killers that I thought was awful.

To: Neeka who wrote (363)	3/23/2005 4:52:25 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 725

"Are all the guy actors in "The Usual Suspect" gay? The reason I ask is that there were allot of overt and easily perceived references to gay sex in the trailers and featurettes." I think that must be limited to the "director's cut" because I have seen the movie five times and find no hint of gayness. All of the characters have spent time in prison so I suppose the threat of gayness overhangs them, but an actual desire on the part of a character to insert his penis into another man's anus or mouth is absent from the film, imo. Re "Angels And Demons," I consider it superior to "The DaVinci Code," it is a great read, you will spend the entire night awake reading it once you pick it up. It is very good. On movies in general, it seems to me that Hollywood has given up on making good movies. Week after week we are subjected to nothing but tripe, tripe and more tripe. I think the medium may be dead, for all practical purposes.