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#57389 02/19/02 12:59 PM
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red rum red rum red rum ......

Do I hear Jack Nicholson nearby?


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Do I hear Jack Nicholson nearby?

Not Jack! Heeeerrrrrre's Johnnny!


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And remember Rubrick?...Mien Fuehrer I’m walking !!

And Max I thought the book Dr. Strangelove: Or How I learned to stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was great. Remember ? The author (some English guy (s)? was sued by the author of Fail Safe for stealing the storyline. Fail Safe the movie (Henry Fonda), though, wasn’t as gripping as Fail Safe the book.

Speaking of some english guy, I would very much like to know the name of one of my most favourite movies of all time. This is embarrassing but my embarrassment is overcome by my need to know...

Late one night some ten or so years ago after some social celebration I carried a bottle of wine to bed with me and turned on the TV.An english movie was being shown on HBO. The dialogue was hard to follow because the english talk prissily and my concentration was a bit blurred. But that wasn’t the problem. The movie was peopled by the most godawful cardboard jerks ever seen in moviedom. Unbelievable. A series of vignettes interrupted and punctuated by the moans and damming oaths of an old man while he sat on a toilet in a dark, dreary, dungeon. For an hour and a half I watched this ugliness, and to my reward I, didn’t turn it off. The movie, you see, was one hour and thirty-five minutes long.

I will dance at the next wedding of the person who will tell me the name of this movie so I can see it again.


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Dear Angel,

Nagh...someone's just jawin' open-mouthed next to ya'! Tell the sucker to shut his mouth!

Best ruminating,
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The dialogue was hard to follow because the english talk prissily and my concentration was a bit blurred. But that wasn’t the problem. The movie was peopled by the most godawful cardboard jerks ever seen in moviedom. Unbelievable. A series of vignettes interrupted and punctuated by the moans and damming oaths of an old man while he sat on a toilet in a dark, dreary, dungeon.

Well, Milum. You certainly gave us a lot to go on! No toilet pun intended

That coul dbe anything between Carry On, Hammer House of Horror or Steptoe and Son.

Details man. Give us details!!


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Dear Milum,

Did I miss something? What did you like about this movie with a bunch of cardboard jerks and an old man sitting on a toilet in a dungeon!

Very, very curious,
WonderWhirled


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Dear WonderWoman,

You, my dear, would love it. What with your penchant for the creative, you would be intellectually slapped hard with what this movie has to say. Trust me you should put this film near the top of the list of things that you must.

But as I was gonna tell Rubrick, I don't want to give the plot away and spoil the impact for others. But I will draw a parallel with what I see as the Moment of Epiphany in the movie Eyes Wired Shut. I'm a bit of a prude and have a reputation for walking out of movies that I consider profane. Several times I almost walked out during Eyes Wide Shut but, maybe it was Nicole Kidman in her underwear, didn't. And when she said "____" at the end, I said, "Ah HA"!

The full insight of this movie I am still considering but mainly it was a cathartic experience that succeeded in de-sexing sex.

The movie that I don't know the name of, did the same thing with the imagination of the human mind, in particular of fiction writers and poets.


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Rubrick::Kubrick

Nah, doesn't work, even with an attempt at Backus-Naur notation.

In Wellington a few years ago, one movie theatre put on a season of the world's worst movies. The only one I went to see, on recommendation, was called something like "The Return of the People-Munching Carpet". I can't remember the full name. But, really, it does have to be the absolute, mind-bogglingly, most b-a-a-a-a-a-a-d movie ever made. Imagine people throwing themselves into the maw of a long-pig loving, dysentery-green nylon carpet that was so obviously being manipulated from behind that ... Nah, you HAVE to see it!

The audience was, I'm sure meant to scream in horror. In fact, what was happening that the audience was screaming with laughter. Many, many jaffas were thrown at the screen. Took me right back to my childhood at Saturday matinees, it did!



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I need a Kiwi-to-Amuricun translation, please:

long-pig loving?

jaffas?


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RE: long-pig= naked ape

jaffas are still up for grabs.


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