Don't ask.

Eliminate our Roadside Crash Stare curiosity, and tell us about it so we won't have to bother.

(sorry, Keanu moment there )

I know it's suppoed to be a girl version of Cocktail but who knows. But there's babes!!!!

So...pour forth, fella.
Inquiring minds want to know.

it's a long story so put up your feet, put on the Daniel2 cap and relax.

I went to the movies (of course, that much you guys already figured out right? well, anyway), with my two nephs. The rest didn't want to go because they all have brain damage and don't know when to accept an invatation or because their sister didn't come or ...whatever...on with the stroy. So, we were supposed to see Hollow Man a movie I have been eagerly waiting for. Of course my teenage nephew had to invide his friends which I don't mind except he didn't inform them what movie we were planning to see.

So naturally these hormone excessive creatures wanted to see Coyote Ugly. I agreed under the condition that we would watch Hollow Man afterwards. We got the tickets and I asked the girl for the 7:30 showing. (I know it's geeting long the story isn't it? Sowie). Unbeknownst to me she gave me the 7:00 ticket instead. While my little nephew went to eat the other kids went already inside.

At 7:05 Manan (my little neph) and I get to the theater and discover that the movie already started. Naturally the theater was dark and although I tried look for my other neph and his friends I couldn't locate them. So, manan and I just got some sits and watched the movie. Not a bad movie mind you but pretty much what Rocco said. Except there was no nudity. Funny, you would excpect a movie like that to have more nudity and sex than Hollow Man. But then again Hollow Man had a director who is desperatly trying to integrate full pornography into main stream film making. or perhaps he is just his swedish ole' self.And just maybe I am rabbling on, aren't I? You guys have to tell me these things. Ok, ok, I shall continue...where did I leave off...oh yeah, ok...

so after the movie we discover that my braindead neph and his clones where not in the theater at all. They must have sneaked into another movie. So here we are , inside a theater complex with 26 screens trying to find these morons. Luckily my neph had the cell phone, not that he ever needs it mind you just soemthing to show off with and my aunt let him.

So we leave the theater, Manan and I , call home to tell my aunt to call him, Chintan (my brainless neph), to come outside and meet us. Which of course was way too late to purchase the other tickets for Hollow Man because by this time it was sold out. Jeron, hush, I didn't want to get the tickets before. So, zip it.

Anyway, I haven't talked to my older neph since for I am just very mad at his behaviour and it is not a good idea to talk to him in this state of mind. I need to calm down first.

Thats' the story folks. I really didn't want you to ask for I didn't need this finger workout.I just wanted to see if someone els on this board saw the movie.

Now you can get back up, take off the Daniel2 cap and sent it back to England, and get back to work.

Bye, bye

Actually, HOLLOW MAN is the most conservative movie Verhoeven's ever made, of those I've seen, anyway (most of em). I'm not ready to write much about it yet, but I was amazed at how ordinary most of it is.

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Originally posted by Chris Kinsinger:
Uh...Scott. I believe you missed the point. We weren't asking for "A Day In The Life Of Scott", we wanted your review of [b]Coyote Ugly.

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Oh.

Ehm...what Rocco said.

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Originally posted by H Rocco:
Verhoeven is DUTCH! Although most of those European types are interchangeable anyway (here come Marian and Thor and Nicolai after me -- well try and find me! Whyncha swim the ocean, BUDS!)

Actually, HOLLOW MAN is the most conservative movie Verhoeven's ever made, of those I've seen, anyway (most of em). I'm not ready to write much about it yet, but I was amazed at how ordinary most of it is.

NP: HOLLOW MAN (it's Goldsmith, awright? I HAVE to have it! Running time is 51:29)

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Well, being someone who spend 13 years in Germany and happens to be half German (on my mother's side) I would take offense to that statement. Europeans are not readily interchangeable. That's almost like saying people of this continent are interchangeable. Now you know what that means right? I live in California. I don't have to swim the mighty ocean to find you. In fact, I just may be already outside your door.

As far as Verhoeven and most conservative film is concerned. I would give that title to Total Recall.

Bye, bye

Jeron

NP- Air Force One (G-Dog-smith) *****/*****

funny, when I worked in a local eatery, we called our quesadillas "Q-dogs"

Is Goldsmith the musical equivalent of a tasty quesadilla?

'sup yo?

you must have known I was kidding as well.

The fact is, that we are exposed to so few of the products from any given nation, be it film or television, that I think we get the impression not much is being made. More is made than we ever get to see, as I'm well aware of from studying the marquees and video stores in the various nations I've visited. Hence, most directors anywhere no doubt ARE interchangeable.

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Originally posted by H Rocco:
now that we got that out of the way... in what sense do you consider TOTAL RECALL the most "conservative" of Verhoeven's films? I think it's way wilder than HOLLOW MAN, although not always in a good way. I remain surprised at how ordinary and by-the-numbers HOLLOW MAN felt, especially towards the protracted finale.

NP: rented video of DUMB & DUMBER (I've never seen it, believe it or not, but I'm catching up on my Farrelly Bros -- last night it was KINGPIN)

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Sorry, I thought you were referring to the sexual, nudist parts of his movies. In that sense, Total Recall is very much tame. If memory serves correctly all you see is one bed scene and Schwarzeneggers butt.

As far as action is concerned, I agree with ya.

I wonder what on earth the David Cronenberg version of TOTAL RECALL would have been like (he was just one of many whose hands it passed through over the years.) And I wish they'd kept Dan O'Bannon's more ambiguous ending, the EXACT details of which escape me, but which was a lot more interesting and challenging than the rather standard wrap-up we got.

Verhoeven has certainly learned one thing when he pushes the envelopes: put in TOO MUCH of everything, and he's bound to be able to keep SOME of his excesses. There's little overt violence in HOLLOW MAN until the finale, and the sex/nudity aspects are quite underplayed, by his standards. I still wonder, though, why he wanted to make this movie, if he wasn't going to subvert the genre a little bit more. Sebastian might as well be Freddy Krueger by the end.