[kj] Book? Why, perhaps a film could be made that dramatized the old days?

[GREG SLAWSON]

     Glad to hear someone else enjoys it. It's a good example of how a movie can slowly build up to a good, long climax (sound sexy, eh?). Do you know some of the small parts/cameos?--The former TexAss governor's brother (great quote: "Einstein was probably one of them"), former leading astronomer/UFO scientist (no spoken part), and the synthesizer guy who was not an actor but a real sythesizer guy, who took extra time off work to "act" in the movie. Funny, the only flaw I've found in the film is when the scientist/technicians were supposed to be gawking at the aliens and were looking in different directions. 

     Here are some of my other fave films from the past 30 years or so: Awakenings (DiNero/Robin Williams in a casting/acting masterpiece), What About Bob (fave comedy, and I don't even like Bill Murray), Mr. Holland's Opus (ok, I am a teacher and of course love music--this movie was spot on), Born on the Forth of July (intense and mostly historicaly accurate), Dawn of the Dead (briefly spoke w/director George Romero last Wed as he did a signing at a punk rock record store), and for purely (communist) politics, They Live (no joke), City of Joy (about India), and for a recent film about a real communist, Denzel Washington in Great Debaters.
 


From: karen.weil at sddt.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 17:59:42 -0700
Subject: Re: [kj] Book? Why, perhaps a film could be made that dramatized the old days?




Yes, I agree with you, Greg. "Close" is a really entertaining film. And the usual Spielberg touch--feely-ness works in that case.
 
 
k.w.
SoCal

----- Original Message ----- 
From: GREG SLAWSON 
To: gathering 
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] Book? Why, perhaps a film could be made that dramatized the old days?

but Close Encounters of the Third Kind is in a league of it's own. I've watched it dozens of times and it's still good (and Douglass Trumbull's special effects were
great for the time)>
 


From: karen.weil at sddt.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 17:03:52 -0700
Subject: Re: [kj] Book? Why, perhaps a film could be made that dramatized the old days?




"Blade Runner" is a truly great film. The others are OK. 
 
k.w.
SoCal

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Paul Wady 
To: Gatherers Killing Joke Gatherers 
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:41 AM
Subject: Re: [kj] Book? Why, perhaps a film could be made that dramatized the old days?

Best science fiction film ever made.  Blade Runner?  Star Wars & Empire?  Solaris?  Pah!
 
(Here we go - frenzy!)






  


Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:37:52 +0000
From: jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] Book? Why, perhaps a film could be made that dramatized the old days?






Not quite. I watch it every five years or so, just to make sure. It's absolute crap. Arguably the most overrated film ever made, from arguably the most overrated director ever.
 
Jim.

--- On Wed, 14/4/10, GREG SLAWSON <gregslawson at msn.com> wrote:




Ah, one of those great movies that everyone loves but no one understands (what the hell were the apes at the beginning and the 
bedroom at the end all about?). The MUSIC was cool though...
 




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