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| yambu |
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jeremy wrote: ....penguins have probably been living in the Antarctic for as long as there has been an Antarctic. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:18 am |
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jeremy wrote: Chilly,
The genus homo can trace its origins back about five million years. Penguins being great at catching fish, but not so hot on palaeontology and carbon dating, needed us to trace their ancestors back a good forty million years or so. Therefore, rather than 100 years you offered, I would suggest that penguins have probably been living in the Antarctic for as long as there has been an Antarctic.
I was being conservative in my timeframe.
As for taking the article literaly, I have no desire. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:51 am |
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chillywilly wrote: jeremy wrote: Chilly,
The genus homo can trace its origins back about five million years. Penguins being great at catching fish, but not so hot on palaeontology and carbon dating, needed us to trace their ancestors back a good forty million years or so. Therefore, rather than 100 years you offered, I would suggest that penguins have probably been living in the Antarctic for as long as there has been an Antarctic.
I was being conservative in my timeframe.
As for taking the article literaly, I have no desire.
100 years... with a standard deviation of about 40 million. Works for me! |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:32 am |
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| See! They've been violently desecrating Antarctica for 40 million years, and now look at the place! No wonder it's a treeless wasteland. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:24 pm |
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I between going to Wendover and shopping this weekend, we found time to sit down for a couple of DVDs.
Click
I've been a fan of Adam Sandler since his early years and even liked his dark serious role in Punch Drunk Love. So it was a given to rent Click. While I do miss his off-the-wall comedies like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, Click was still pretty enjoyable.
For me, the biggest homage to an older story/film was It's A Wonderful Life. This was pretty obvious towards the end of the film and while Adam is no Jimmy Stewart, the addition of Christopher Walken to the plot line made Sandler stand out. The role of Michael's (Sandler) wife was played by Kate Beckinsale, who was nice eye candy, although seemed someone mismatched against Sandler.
Overall, the movie moved along nicely and told a familar story, with a new modern twist.
Who Killed The Electric Car?
The obvious answer to this turned out to be not so assumed as the film played out, with various interviews, facts, numbers and tons of video footage helped show that not just one person or one company was to blame for the GM EV1 to be taken out of production.
While there are some that think it's silly to get emotional and excited about an electric car, they should really see this film. The grassroots efforts that many took to help save their EV1's was cool to watch.
Other electric cars were shown in this movie, but the main focus on the GM EV1 and how it was shown as a breakthough, only to be crushed up and shoved under the carpet, was worth the focus on this single model.
As documentarys go, this was well done and interesting. While Al Gore can probably still claim the top spot, Who Killed The Electric Car? is one that I expect to be included in the nominations come Oscar time. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:45 pm |
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I finally sat down and watched Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, which I always wanted to see from the title alone. Fortunately, the Mask of the Grey Death didn't take the title as an order.
It certainly lives up to the title, with three very large-breasted [It's a Russ Meyers film] go-go dancers racing hot-rods in the desert, considerable fatality, it zooms along at well over a hundred mph. It's very well-directed considering the low budget, well-edited, visually striking and utterly outrageous, with lots of truly amazing and often campy dialogue. It's very sexy despite there being no frontal nudity and only a couple of shower scenes showing some very shapely backsides. There's lots and lots of cleavage, including a fourth girl, the kidnap victim, who, in an admirable directoral decision, spends the entire movie in a bikini.
It's easy to make fun of, but ultimately it's vastly entertaining and made with a lot of love. It even has a story that works. It's certainly a movie everyone should see at least once. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:31 pm |
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Nothing like contemplating Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! to leave people speechless.
A couple of trivia bits: Although Tura Satana, Haji and Lori Williams played the three go-go dancers, it was Susan Bernard, who played the innocent kidnap victim, who became a Playboy centerfold. She may also have been the first Jewish playmate. She was married for a while to the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Jason Miller. Their son, Joshua John Miller is a minor actor. Jason Patric is Jason Miller's son by another marriage.
Haji has one of the oddest faces I've seen. When people talk of slanted eyes, they don't usually mean it literally. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:45 pm |
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Cassavetes' Gloria was on HDNet Movies and I watched it last night. This is one of those films that would never get old for me. I've seen it a good 5 or 6 times and it just gets better and better. Gena Rowlands is fabulous as this "tough" Mollster who just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and winds up being sole caretaker of a little 6-year old Puerto Rican boy, John Adames. I find it simply amazing that this is the only bit of trivia about him on IMDb:
Quote: For his first and only screen appearance (as a talkative captive in Gloria (1980)) Adames tied with Laurence Olivier in The Jazz Singer (1980) for the first-ever Worst Supporting Actor Razzie Award.
I mean, I've never seen Sir Larry's performance in TJS, but, I just can't believe that people would have found Adames performance anything shy of genius. Oh well. Different strokes and all that. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:00 pm |
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Syd, I saw the promos for F,P,F,F on TCM many times and will definitely watch it at some time. The promo was part of a piece about cult movies. The women of the movies were interviewed and they showed clips from the movie. Very interesting.
Wade, I saw Gloria for the first time about a month ago. Also on TCM, and mentioned it on here. I really liked it. It was on again and I watched it again. Rowlands was fantastic. I loved her. I didn't think the kid was great, but I didn't think he was bad either. |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:10 pm |
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ehle64 wrote: Cassavetes' Gloria was on HDNet Movies and I watched it last night. This is one of those films that would never get old for me. I've seen it a good 5 or 6 times and it just gets better and better. Gena Rowlands is fabulous as this "tough" Mollster who just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and winds up being sole caretaker of a little 6-year old Puerto Rican boy, John Adames.
You let a woman beat ya
She was so damn great in that film and UGH the remake with Sharon Stone was awful - even the little kid was terrible
I agree with you its very puzzling they thought John Adames performance was bad - perhaps they wanted to see him cry (which he didn't do - he got close when he mouths "My Mother, My Father, etc" soon after the Mob shooting) |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:16 pm |
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Trish wrote: You let a woman beat ya
OMG, that whole subway scene is so great. That look she's giving him as the doors close. . .
That's another thing I noticed about this film. It's essentially one giant chase scene, however, nothing ever feels rushed. Cassavetes takes the time to show that even though you're on the front page of the NY Post as a wanted person, you still have to bathe, sleep, get from place A to place B. My favorite scene is where, with all the shit she has to think about and do, she feels it neccessary to take Phil (the kid) to a cemetary for mourning the loss of his whole family. Every single frame of film, every syllable uttered, every gesture, step and line seemed so perfect and real to me in this scene. Powerful filmmaker and amazingly talented Actress makes for one helluva team. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:32 pm |
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YeeHaw!!!
Buy together from Amazon.com for $24.86.
Yes, the 1900 is the 5.25 hour long original version that lady_w and I saw @ AMMI last year. *happy, happy, joy, joy* |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 5:24 pm |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 5:53 pm |
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Whoa! I really wish it wasn't Xmas right now.
(Plus I've decided to move = come up with security deposit) |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:04 pm |
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I wanna move, too. 
Congrats, schweety! You deserve it. |
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