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Now Rubrick, we all have odd tastes we can't account for at times.
For some reason beyond my understanding I love watching the movie Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and singing along with the lyrics...and it's so cheesy. [shrug emoticon]
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02/19/2002 12:35 AM
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> Romper-Stomper was pretty gritty, though, although perhaps a leedle less generic.
Spot on.
One of the things I noted about OWW (what an apt acronym!!) was that New Zealand and South Auckland were never mentioned in the movie. Of course the localities were taken for granted by all Ozzildians, received at a subliminal level, but I'll bet that a few members of overseas audiences were unsure where the film was shot. Some probably thought it was Hawaii, Fiji or maybe even the Caribbean. This ploy enables the story and the message of the film to apply to life in any ghetto of the world.
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02/19/2002 2:10 AM
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I loved the book, but the movie was even better, IMHO. The funny thing about Robin Williams, I like it when he's not trying to be funny. When he is being funny, he's a hoot and a half. It just seems that he never gets due recognition for the serious, though. I'm thinking "What Dreams May Come". I still cry every time I see it.
Another that fits this category,"Anatomy of a Murder". Jimmy Stewart and Lee Remmick. She was the perfect 1950's out-of-her-element hussy in the wilds of the Upper Penninsula of Michigan. Jimmy, the perfect backwater lawyer, ready to be taken in by a pretty face and bullet breasts.
And, of course, "Johnny Got His Gun". The book and the movie were pretty equal. The definitive anti-war movie.
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02/19/2002 9:04 AM
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Then of course there's oh Brother Where Art Thou?. Well, it's sure funnier than the Odyssey!
Especially the KKK dance routine. I was in howls!
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02/19/2002 9:16 AM
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Have to disagree with whoever above said that the movie A Clockwork Orange was better than the book. The book was different to the movie, but, IMHO, much more chilling. Guess it's subjective, huh!
They showed a Kubrick season last year at my local arthouse. It was pretty impossible to get to all of them in two weeks but 2001 in 70mm is impressive no matter what you think of the film!!
I didn't get to see A Clockwork Orange (preferring to see Barry Lyndon with my girlfriend) but the programme blurb mentioned that he was inspired (perhaps not the correct use of this word) by the rape of his wife. The experience must have convinced him to make a far more graphical film.
BTW A Clockwork Orange is one of only three films to have been banned in Ireland by the censor. The other two are Lolita (Also Kubrick) and, more strangely (but not when you think about it) The Life of Brian. All of the bans have since been lifted.
The funny thing is I've seen them several times thanks to cross-channel television!
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02/19/2002 9:18 AM
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but whoa. That's enough for me to be convinced he was one freaky dude.Yeah, great huh? That's his appeal to me. 
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02/19/2002 9:20 AM
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For some reason beyond my understanding I love watching the movie Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and singing along with the lyrics...and it's so cheesy. [shrug emoticon]
Oooooooohhhhhhh, I love to dance a little sidestep! [coming out of the woodwork emoticon]
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02/19/2002 9:23 AM
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I loved the movie, and it's hard to imagine a print version of Sellers.
Ja, Mein Fuehrer! I mean, Mr. President....
Am I destined to spend all morning writing one-liners from Kubrick films???
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02/19/2002 12:04 PM
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Is it just coincidence? Am I to dismiss it as accidental that you even posted with a Subject line of "Eyes Wide Shut" in the Usages that send us screaming thread? Ladies and Gentlemen, I offer that we may have a poster from beyond the grave! Cleverly disguised by the replacement of a single letter (which, come to think of it, could be accomplished as an alteration with one swift stroke of the pen - it's not hard to make an R out of a K), and in our presence to defend his own hono(u)r.
So tell us, Freaky Dude, just what were you thinking?
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02/19/2002 12:31 PM
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02/19/2002 12:59 PM
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red rum red rum red rum ......
Do I hear Jack Nicholson nearby?
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02/19/2002 1:34 PM
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Do I hear Jack Nicholson nearby?
Not Jack! Heeeerrrrrre's Johnnny!
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02/19/2002 2:18 PM
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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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02/19/2002 2:19 PM
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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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02/19/2002 2:27 PM
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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 intendedThat coul dbe anything between Carry On, Hammer House of Horror or Steptoe and Son. Details man. Give us details!! 
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02/19/2002 3:03 PM
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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,
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02/19/2002 5:42 PM
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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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02/19/2002 7:55 PM
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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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02/19/2002 11:17 PM
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I need a Kiwi-to-Amuricun translation, please:
long-pig loving?
jaffas?
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02/19/2002 11:20 PM
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RE: long-pig= naked ape
jaffas are still up for grabs.
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02/19/2002 11:26 PM
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jaffas are still up for grabs
I do hope so! (Jaffas are little balls of chocolate in a hard orange shell)
You speak my language! Please explain more, this is something I have never heard of and it sounds wonderful! [drooling-e]
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02/19/2002 11:54 PM
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They *threw* chocolate?! Blasphemy!!
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02/20/2002 12:01 AM
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02/20/2002 12:32 AM
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But, but, Max. Tis chocolate. 
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02/20/2002 12:59 AM
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I thought "long pig" was a euphemism for human meat, as eaten by cannibals. Am I mistaken/psychotic?
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02/20/2002 9:36 PM
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Gawd, if I'd known the soul-searching I was about to unleash I would have used "human flesh" and "lifesavers"! Musk-flavoured or otherwise.
bel, since you're so entranced by it, let me tell you that jaffa is a combination of chocolate and orange flavours. My fav, actually, although that didn't stop me throwing jaffas at the screen in the movie theatres ...
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02/21/2002 12:14 AM
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Oh, now I shall never understand you all, at the top of the world. Not only do you throw chocolate, but you throw chocolate with essences of orange. Oh the humanity!  The theatre owners must have really been in a snit after each representation. That reminds me of the corner cinema when I was a child. From 9:00 to 15:00 they showed kiddy movies (19:00 to 23:00, porn). When the crowd got too rowdy the owner would throw open the lights and threaten to call our mothers if we didn't pipe down and behave ourselves. She was a big beefy woman with one eyebrow that stretched from one ear to the other and the beginnings of a beard, so we were pretty quite after that. No throwing of anything (and certainly NOT chocolate).
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02/21/2002 12:14 AM
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Oh, and can I have some??
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02/21/2002 1:47 PM
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ahhhhhhhh jaffa cakes, sponge base, chocolate top , orange filling , the only "biscuits" that i would spend my pocket money on instead of candy, back in the days when i was knee high to a grasshopper........in fact i am going to buy a pack right now and eat the bloody lot!!
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02/21/2002 6:58 PM
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in fact i am going to buy a pack right now and eat the bloody lot!!Be sure to throw at least some at the TV, Dunc ...
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02/22/2002 12:43 PM
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only if we get beat by the bloody kiwis tonight!!!!!!!! will you be tuning into sky sports at 12:30AM?
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02/22/2002 1:38 PM
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only if... (E.A.)
better buy another packet, Dunc!
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02/22/2002 4:54 PM
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yeah....probably....sigh
hoping for heroics from my homeboy Flintoff
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Isn't that a kind of Israeli orange? Or a violinist? Or a napple?
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02/22/2002 11:58 PM
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Jaffa is the old port-city near which Tel Aviv was built. I've always assumed the orange was named for it.
btw, the native pronunciation of the city name is yafa (hebrew doesn't have a "j" sound; e.g., "jerusalam" = yarushalayim). I mention this because yafa is the hebrew word for "beautiful". I presume that's the source of the city name, but have no further information.
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02/23/2002 4:13 AM
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Yup ASp. I know they sell Jaffa oranges here at certain times of the year. I couldn't tell you when though. I know when our fruit ripen but am seriously ignorant as to ripening of fruit from other countries. They just show up in the produce section - like magic (imagine awed music here).
EDIT: oh, and I just remembered (this is the next morning) that there are also Jaffa Dates. So now I'm thinking that this may be an importer's name.
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will you be tuning into sky sports at 12:30AM?No I didn't - but now I'm glad I didn't. Once again, we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. So what's new? 
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Milum, I think the film that you're trying not to remember is Alain Resnais's Providence (1977) which starred John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, and Ellen Burstyn. The script was by David Mercer.
Unfortunately I don't know when my next wedding will be -- I'll just check with my wife!
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