Subj : Re: The South shall rise again!
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 17:05:02

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
> news:Xns96D1531846E0Cndtcm@204.153.244.170: 
> 
>> weirdwolf wrote:
>> 
>>> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
>>> news:Xns96D151C36FC90ndtcm@ 204.153.244.170:
>>> 
>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
>>>>> news:Xns96D14F6D82522ndtcm@204.153.244.170: 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> John Iwaniszek wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
>>>>>>> news:Xns96D0BBB5189AEndtcm@ 68.1.17.6:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> In the form of an arsesoul sucking mummy that is.
>>>>>>>>> Whoever it was that recommended Bubba Ho-Tep I'ld just like to
>>>>>>>>> say "thank 
>>>>>>>>> you, thank you very much." I rather enjoyed it, now the
>>>>>>>>> question is did Elvis return like it promises at the end of the
>>>>>>>>> movie? Ted
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Not yet.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Bubba Ho-Tep rocks.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I started watching it once but the language was so bad that I had
>>>>>> to turn it off to keep Deb from becoming too angry with me.  I had
>>>>>> similar results with The Ladykillers. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> That wasn't "The Ladykillers" that was a piss poor imitation with
>>>>> no redeeming features. The real Ladykillers movie is English,black
>>>>> and whiie and stars Peter Sellers and Alec Guiness.
>>>>> I really do wish you Yanks wouldn't take our classic movies and
>>>>> fuck them up. You should check out the original version, your
>>>>> misses will have nothing at all to complain about. 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Next you will be saying you want Hollywood to come up with new and 
>>>> original ideas for movies. <scoff>
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Have you ever seen any of the old Ealing comedies?  They can be
>>> incredbly dark and yet the bad language and violence is almost
>>> non-exsistant. 
>>>  The Italian job remake, whilst a slick and smooth popcorn action
>>>  movie 
>>> had none of the humour that made the original such a classic.
>>>  Ted
>>>    
>>> 
>> 
>> No, I haven't, but I feel the same way about Hitchcock movies.
>> Today they seem to think more gore and bad language is what makes a
>> movie great.  Oh, and Matrix style scene revolving.
> 
> Check out the "Ladykillers" and "The man in the white suit" very very 
> English and made in that strange post-war period when all of Britain was 
> going through incredible social upheval."Kind hearts and coronets" has an 
> incredible performance by Alec Guinesses as a social climber killing his 
> way through members of his own family to become the Duke of Chalfont. 
> Guiness plays something like 10 roles as various members of the family.
>  For a lighter touch try Whiskey Galore,(based on a real story) or the 
> Titfield thunderbolt.

All 5 or so are now Netflixed. They better be good, Lime Boy.

(And looking at my queue, I see that the Yes, (Prime)Minister sets are coming 
up shortly. Woohooo!!!)

-- 
Jim

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