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hbrennan
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Philippines
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 Posted - 09/01/2005 : 10:57:20 PM
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And I loved reading that story, as a kid, too. Actually, I loved Bradbury's style, in general, and found his work to be "a medicine for melancholy" on many a lonely occasion. C'mon, Ben Kingsley - get it together - you were "Gandhi" for crying out loud"!
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sound_of_thunder/
"...yet it hadn't destroyed his brain."
re: Charles "The Butcher" Benton (1956)
http://henrybrennan.blogspot.com/ |
Edited by - hbrennan on 09/01/2005 11:19:16 PM
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 09/02/2005 : 02:16:22 AM
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Uh, yeah, but he was also in Species and Slipstream and plenty of other thankless sci-fi/horror pics.
It's a race to the bottom between Kingsley and his Slipstream co-star F. Murray Abraham: each Oscar winner determined to prove he can do a better job of overloading his resume with Jabootu-worthy fare.
But be advised, Ben and Fayid: Michael Caine is way ahead of you. |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 09/02/2005 : 05:20:42 AM
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At the Cinelandia message board it has received the worst reviews I ever read on it, all universally negative. And considering that the community is so diversi that even bad movies like the Fantastic Factory flicks or, ahem, European Gigolo receive mixed reviews, it's a kind of achievement.
The late Peter Hyams is the living proof that slome people just don't learn to retire on time. If his later stuff was signed by Renny Harlin or Walter Hill, we wouldn't notice the difference. |
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CobraCmdr
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
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Posted - 09/02/2005 : 07:47:51 AM
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Yeah, it looks like this is gonna suck, which is unfortunate. I loved that story as a kid. Bradbury is one of the only classic sci-fi writers I've ever really liked. I was a terrible science student, and for whatever reason I had almost no interest in space travel, so the works of people like Asimov (yeah I know, spelled wrong) and Clarke bored me to tears. Who wants to use futuristic machines to conduct a bunch of experiments when you can hunt freakin dinosaurs!
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twitterpate
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
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Posted - 09/02/2005 : 08:33:20 AM
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| Quite a charming literary review of the whole mess here, [url]http://www.grouchoreviews.com/index.php?module=Movie_Reviews&func=display&id=2342[/url]. |
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 09/02/2005 : 12:56:58 PM
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I also liked the STORY when I was young. It had been sdapted for a TV show around 1980 (I think) but the ending for THAT was heavy-handed and over-done while the ending for the short story was subtle (And GOOD).
"The Queen is testing poisons." CLEOPATRA, 1935 |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 09/02/2005 : 2:00:58 PM
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| Yeah, it's a hell of a story. But again, so are most of those by Philip K. Dick, and see what crappt movies they are making with them, "Minority Report" apart. |
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Bobby-G
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 09/02/2005 : 2:12:40 PM
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Maybe it's already been said somewhere, but when I read the reviews, the title THE SOUND OF BLUNDER comes to mind.
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 09/02/2005 : 2:52:27 PM
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| It has been renamed as well, in the above mentioned Spanish board, as EL SONIDO DEL PEDO, which, I'm telling you, it's not flattering. |
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hbrennan
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Philippines
1455 Posts |
Posted - 09/02/2005 : 4:57:20 PM
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originally posted by Neville:
it has been renamed as well, in the above mentioned Spanish board, as EL SONIDO DEL PEDO, which, I'm telling you, it's not flattering.
Would that be the "The Sound of Flatulence"? (to be polite) - my Spanish is a bit rusty.
"...yet it hadn't destroyed his brain."
re: Charles "The Butcher" Benton (1956)
http://henrybrennan.blogspot.com/ |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 09/03/2005 : 03:46:16 AM
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Not that rusty, that's exactly what it means.
Hey, if you are all that good with Spanish, I'm gonna have to consider posting in my native tongue from now on! |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 09/03/2005 : 04:41:27 AM
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| Returning to our object of discusion, a quick visit to [url]http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sound_of_thunder/[/url]shows an abysmal score of 7%. Only a small comedy called Underclassman ranks lower than this. |
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R. Dittmar
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 09/04/2005 : 4:27:22 PM
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Originally posted by zombiewhacker
It's a race to the bottom between Kingsley and his Slipstream co-star F. Murray Abraham: each Oscar winner determined to prove he can do a better job of overloading his resume with Jabootu-worthy fare.
As a point of fact, I have never been completely convinced that Ben Kinsley and F. Murray Abraham weren't actually the same person! If this movie Slipstream exists, perhaps it provides photographic evidence that they are actually two different people. |
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Ubiq
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 09/04/2005 : 5:56:06 PM
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Originally posted by R. Dittmar
If this movie Slipstream exists, perhaps it provides photographic evidence that they are actually two different people.
Oh, it decidely exists as I've seen it.
To my knowledge, the best use for it is for discussing Mark Hamill's live action career post-Star Wars. For example, "The Guyver might be bad, but at least it's not Slipstream."
BM: I should have mentioned this at the beginning. I solve my problems with violence. |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 09/05/2005 : 01:52:24 AM
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On a sidenote, Bob Peck was probably the best thing about Slipstream (he played the android there and also the game warden in Jurassic Park). He seemed to have a promising career ahead of him but sadly died of cancer not long after Jurassic Park came out.
The big difference between Kingsley and Abraham is that the former since his Oscar win will occasionally redeem himself by appearing in A-list films like Schindler's List. Abraham, by constrast, just keeps spiraling down and down and down. I'm probably the only person on Earth who liked By the Sword... but aside from that... |
Edited by - zombiewhacker on 09/05/2005 01:53:13 AM |
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Prankster
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
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Posted - 09/05/2005 : 02:31:17 AM
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Yes, but Bloodrayne will immediately invalidate everything good Kingsley has ever done when it comes out. Actually, it may pretty much invalidate everything good human civilization has ever done.
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