The script itself is available on the web, including scenes that were shot but not used (wisely, I think): www.script-o-rama.com

mlw, did I read “Terms of Endearmentesque?” You don’t like Terms of Endearment?
(One of my favorites.) And I KNOW you don’t like Forrest Gump. If you ever attack
Cool Hand Luke, I’ll be prostrate, have to dial 911, and check into a hospital
for..for..shock, immune system shut down, and total organ transplants. (Can’t say I
was too nuts about American Beauty either. Sorry )

Hope that wasn't confusing. Every other way actually italicized the words and wouldn't show how to do it.

For bold, just replace the "i" with "b"

My impression was, judging from the style, that Night was trying too hard to be like Spielberg, which he isn't, and fell somewhere inbetween.

ah, but what other movie bothers to blow up contemporary capitalism in all its Roman excess and banality? I love how that snippet of Ben Hur is always tagged as obvious and corny whereas in reality it just opens up another window to what this movie is about. Gladiator movie: duh. It also connects cinematically to another movie on a wide scale with multiple characters fighting for their own self-interests (different realities in conflict with each other) in the shadow of a particular brand of war between faiths-- in Ben Hur it was outmoded Roman conquest ideology vs. Christianity and individual redemption whereas Any Given Sunday posits D'Amato's old school teamplayer ethics vs. the current mercenary approach that is swallowed anyway by the pitiless ironies of a system that buys, trades, sells without regard for character, honor, valuation of human beings. More fodder for the corporate beast (but what the hell it's still about feeding the collective-- capital the religion of our time). It's about football but on another plane its a superior view of the entertainment industry than Jerry Maguire (not that that's a difficult feat or anything). I'm going to appreciate a flic that has the balls to be personal as an affront to the usual commercial cynicism, and when Pacino blasts into an even more outraged grandstanding performance than usual fueled by the almost unbearably uncomfortable, intimate details of a man with crushed ideals but with that drive to hammer past the sh-te and grab his fate by the throat-- that's more than some thesis of powerful dramatic persuasion, it's a f'king inspiration.
(there, now I'm all manic and crazed!)

(and what an excellent scoring approach voiding the conventional underscore with separate composers handling different facets with individual styles and agendas, separate identities, from Robbie Robertson's Ghost Dance traditional tribal music for Rooney's smash-up with fate, to hip hop coarsenings of Trick Daddy and DMX, through Richard Horowitz' spiritualised commentary and Jamie Foxx' heartful concluding reflections)

When I first saw Sixth Sense, it was on my computer and in bad quality. I found it quite good, but after hearing so many good things about it (although I managed not to know anything about it in advance, I'd just heard that it is supposed to be very good), it was a bit of a let-down.

Michael: I think THE ENTITY is an underrated movie -- a borderline masterpiece. I don't mean you DON'T think that, I just had to get that off my chest.

Oh yeah, and Terms of Endearment was kind of sweet! Cool Hand Luke though.... that was like a classic or something, plus the Strother Martin "What we're dealing with here..." line is on the start of Guns N Roses Use Your Illusion II-- if Axl likes it, how bad could it be?

If you're wondering how I got it before the streetdate, it's just a simple reason in that importers of region 1 discs here have no need to be concerned about breaking streetdates so can sell it in advance. Thought's I'd answer that before anyone asks. hehe

The only thing I miss on this DVD would be the isolated score, however there IS and interview with James Newton-Howard in one of the discs supplements.

Dan (UK)

NP: The Insider (*****/*****)

NP: How the West Was Won *****/*****