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By: Roxanne
Date: 8/1/99 9:10:13 PM
# Replies: 25
Anyone live through the riots to actually see it yet?
I am curious to see it...hope it's worth all the hulabuhloo...
Response #1
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 8/2/99 3:45:56 AM
I've heard two good reviews from sources I trust. Plus I dig cinema verite, because it means I get to say 'cinema verite,' and then people ask me what that means, and I can sigh the sigh of an underappreciated genius who has come into contact with The Stupid.
Michelle, one of my housemates, went and saw it and said she was totally creeped out, and was still getting over it hours later. This from a person who rents the most odd and 'fucked up' movies she can find (ever see 'Gummo'?)
Response #2
By: Da Sissop
Date: 8/2/99 7:09:05 AM
Now come on, be fair, Gummo wasn't in that many of the Marx Brothers' movies.
Response #3
By: Ralf
Date: 8/2/99 8:34:29 PM
Whelp, being from the OTHER side of the aisle from Homer, I'd have to give it a big thumbs down, and maybe a wedgie or two.
But then I haven't seen it, so I'm just mindlessly repeating what I've heard from some friends who saw it and NEARY DIED... of boredom. I was strongly urged, when it comes out on video, to FF thru the first 70 minutes or so.
Like that.
Response #4
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 8/3/99 11:33:22 PM
I've heard alternating opinions, all from friends I normally trust.
One left the theater and told me he couldn't imagine what all the fuss was about. He said it was fairly well done, but certainly not creepy or even remotely scary.
Another has already seen it TWICE, which, in-and-of-itself, is a miracle. Until last Friday (7/30), it was only playing on one screen at the River Oaks 3 and sold out every danged show. He thought it was the best film he's seen in years and obviously is a repeat viewer.
Me? I haven't seen a movie since Wild Wild West which I like to say I saw on a dare.
Response #5
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 8/7/99 1:17:01 AM
Jim West cannot be black. Sorry.
Response #6
By: sooz
Date: 8/7/99 1:45:20 PM
(stare)
Response #7
By: Ralf
Date: 8/8/99 12:08:12 PM
He was a very good Jim West. They even kinda addressed the absurdity of a black law-enforcement official in the post-civil war south.
He was even lynched -- sorta -- hollywood style, with a laugh track.
Response #8
By: sooz
Date: 8/8/99 6:43:18 PM
What are the odds that I would mention lynching in a previous post on the same day as Ralf, not knowing he referred to lynching in this post? He's in Atlanta and I'm in Austin, which I'm sure is somehow related to this phenomena.
Response #9
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 8/9/99 11:18:36 PM
GO SEE THE SIXTH SENSE!
Response #10
By: Ralf
Date: 8/10/99 7:59:24 AM
Did he just come running thru here?
Response #11
By: Shadow Sprite
Date: 8/10/99 11:32:07 AM
The Sixth Sense is very good, but the previews just gave way too much away...
Response #12
By: sooz
Date: 8/10/99 3:14:37 PM
Cool. I've seen no previews, heard no hype, know zero about it. I'll go.
Response #13
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 8/11/99 7:21:42 PM
Have you seen it yet?
Response #14
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 8/12/99 12:21:05 AM
How about now?
Response #15
By: Ralf
Date: 8/12/99 7:53:33 AM
Now?
Response #16
By: Roxanne
Date: 8/12/99 8:52:22 AM
Do you have to have seen the first five senses for the "Sixth Sense" to make sense?
Response #17
By: Shadow Sprite
Date: 8/12/99 9:23:44 AM
Which ones are the 'first five senses' again? At last count I had about 32 senses...
Response #18
By: Da Sissop
Date: 8/12/99 9:59:50 AM
It helps if you have already seen The Fifth Element, The Twelve Monkeys, and Die Hard Two.
Response #19
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 8/12/99 2:36:34 PM
*Never* see Die Hard II.
Response #20
By: sooz
Date: 8/12/99 11:50:04 PM
Y'all are making my head hurt.
Response #21
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 8/17/99 4:34:12 AM
You'll also need to be listening to Level 42 and Appollonia 6. And Mojo Nixon, just because.
Response #22
By: Roxanne
Date: 8/19/99 1:10:01 PM
Okay, I finally did it. I saw the "Blair Witch" movie.
'nuff said.
Response #23
By: Shadow Sprite
Date: 8/19/99 2:22:26 PM
And if you liked the 'Blair Witch Project' you've got to see The Blair Warner Project! ...Damn, I miss that Tootie.
Response #24
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 9/12/99 10:49:36 AM
Homey Colored: "Jim West cannot be black. Sorry."
Well,I have a VERY hard time buying a BLACK Treasury Agent in the 1870's
Response #25
By: Ralf
Date: 9/13/99 5:45:20 PM
Snicker. Actually, you probably COULD buy a black treasury agent back then. Even though emancipation happened in 1863, it wasn't widely enforced until the late 1870's.