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CMJ, since you're out in Hollywood, have you heard any scuttlebutt as to when they will release the movie "Prozac Nation" with Cristina Ricci? Hasn't it been in the can for quite a while now? Just curious.....

Seems he has been so much in the shadows as most USA Vice President usually are, but he just really shined for all of us Americans in his terrific eulogy for our late President. To you older nestors, any of this service being televised now from the Rotunda bringing back other memories?

Oh yes, the great Bruce Campbell in those flicks. Fellow movie buffs listen to me: Go to Blockbusters and rent "Mystic River" today. Unbelievable great movie with an unbelievable all star cast. Watched it last night as I was listening to more rain fall here in Parker County with a lake forming outside my house. May not make it to work today as a result of white water rushing past my place down to a pond about 25 yards in front of my house that was full from last week's rain. FFR, I may be giving your collegues a call soon.

And a late, great president once said about abortion and I paraphrase: "Seems the only ones talking about abortion are the living." Of course, I don't have to talk about religion or politics to piss off some ultra-sensitives posters/readers/lurkers/trolls who may need to consider another hobby other than college smack boards. I don't understand posters who dwell on other posters instead of sport topics. What I sometimes don't like about our country's leadership is how they sometimes legislate things as to where we have to bow to minority will (not taking race here either); and at the majority's expense. If I live in Vatican City, I pretty darn well better respect the Catholic church whether I'm of that faith or not. I surely would not call Catholics the infidel and expect to be a very popular person in Vatican City. And as Forrest Gump said: "That's all I'm going to say about that."

Watched the DVD "Monster" a few days ago. This movie which produced the Best Actress award at the most recent Academy Awards. Cristina Ricci did a good job of acting as well in this movie. (Does that girl have the biggest roundest eyes in the history of Hollywood or what)? Talk about a dark, spooky, "female" serial killer of a movie. though, taken from the true story of a woman in Florida who did all those killings of all those men? WHOA! That movie should do for men thinking about fooling around on their spouse or girlfriend what Jaws did for those who never made the decision to never got back in the ocean for a swim.

In special commemoration of Memorial Day, of course. Plus this year even more special as the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. was dedicated yesterday and being celebrated all this weekend and from now on as far at that goes.

Master and Commander is a great movie! Bought the DVD the first day it became available. Russell Crowe almost has a Richard Burton'esque air about him. Anyone else notice that? I work with a a striking young English girl here at the college and she agreed with me on the R. Burton part.

Was at WalMart last night and purchased the 1997 movie "The Net" with Sandra Bullock. Wonder why this Austin, Texas, beauty is still a single woman is beyond me. "The Net" is a very entertaining and suspenseful movie about how one's life (Bullock's) is erased from existence. Its theme of how the internet, computers, etc, have most everything we do recorded is kinda' bothersome and almost spooky in a way. Dennis Miller plays the part of Bullock's psychiatrist in this movie. I had forgotten that he was in the movie as I saw it when it first came out.

HUH? TV sitcoms and Cedric Benson? I'm outta here going to eat some Parker County T-bone. Have a nice evening all!

Thanks Topper1974, good to get some objective reviews from other Sun Belters! Welcome to GoMeanGreen.com's M-O-V-I-E-O-L-A !

Chris Walken is one spooky looking individual, but he was superb in Stephen King's "Dead Zone."

"Miracle" Watched the DVD last night on our USA Olympic team's gigantic victory over Russia at Lake Placid. Kurt Russell may have had his best performance from any other movie I've seen him in and that counts "Backdraft" among that group. UNT's MEAN JOE GREENE IS IN "MIRACLE" ! ! ! ! That is, they show part of his "Thanks, Mean Joe" Coca Cola commercial in the movie "Miracle"...BTW, that commercial won a Cleo Award.

meangreendork, where can I rent such movies? My Blockbuster's never heard of them, of course, we're talking a Blockbuster's in Parker County, too.

REVISED AND EXPANDED: eagle60, "The Alamo" will obviously do much better on DVD than what it did at the theatre. I'll buy a copy to go alongside my John Wayne DVD copy of "The Alamo." I am with you, eagle60, I loved the movie although the critics (and the general public) seemed not to. Most non Texans would be introduced for the first time on cinema what followed the fall of the Alamo, ie, the very decisive Battle of San Jacinto which (as you know) gave us our independence from Mexico and whose subject matter was the last 1/3'rd of "The Alamo." The Battle of San Jacinto, considered one of the world's 10 most decisive battles has rarely been shown on in depth on film. This one shown in this latest rendition of "The Alamo" was pretty darn exciting to watch and I thought Dennis Quaid's portrayal of General Sam Houston was as good as it gets, almost worth the price of admission alone. All Americans should appreciate Sam Houston and his "Texicans" for with that victory against Santa Anna and his army eventually gave our country almost half its entire land mass. There I go, another braggin' Texan, eh? Being from the Houston area, most every Spring my grade school class would take an annual sojourn to the San Jacinto battlefield, the "Washington-monument like" ** San Jacinto Monument and the vintage World War II Battleship Texas nearby just off the Houston Ship Channel. FUN! FUN! FUN! Jeez! The fun we kids had on that old WWII battleship. Espeically when we could sit on the anti-aircraft guns and revolve around on its axis just like they did in the World War II movies. Battleship Texas park officials eventually locked the anti-aircraft guns so kids (and, uh, "BIG" kids) couldn't do all that revolving around on them, though. The trip to the aforementioned Houston area historical sites was an annual event each Spring for my class. I suppose our teachers couldn't think of much else to do in the Houston area that would be considered educational and would also get them out of the classroom, too! LOL! (We did sneak in a couple trips to the Hermann Park Zoo, though). BACK TO THE ALAMO: Touchstone Pictures should have left Ron Howard as director of this movie, but because of their not wanting to accomodate Howard's requests for the making of this movie they are now trying to recoop their losses. ** Some federales in Washington D.C. got pissed at us Texans for building the San Jacinto monument to look almost identical to the Washington Monument BUT also.......making it "TALLER" than the Washington Monument is what got em' the most! As G(T)NT always ends his post: GOD BLESS TEXAS!

Of course everything is available out there sooner in Los Angeles, CMJ! Hey, CMJ, the rest of us in these here United States are usually only about 10 years behind all of you in California! LOL! I have been looking for it and I just guess Weatherford's WalMart just didn't order when they could have 2 years ago, maybe that's it? Hope all is well for you. When you coming back to Texas for a visit? PS. CMJ, many I presume would not have liked "God's and Generals' because of maybe what they'd think is a bit too religious a Stonewall Jackson, perhaps? For some reason, politics and religion make Americans real tense. I thought Robert Duvall did his usual best as Robert E. Lee in "G's and G's", though. The soundtrack for both movies are simply great and the opening credits of "God's and General's with the female vocalists is as good as they come IMO. Who was that female vocalists? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Just last night I viewed "The Fogs of War" DVD/movie/documentary about Kennedy/Johnson Secretrary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and it was such a surreal feeling for me watching that man talk about life in Washington D.C. during his time on Capitol Hill. I had visited D.C. as a 12 year old just 1 week before Martin Luther King's big march in August of 1963. Was in the Senate chamber and saw Barry Goldwater on the Senate floor. Of course, he ran against LBJ the next year and got slaughtered in a landslide. BUT.....McNamara's description of himself personally taking Jackie Kennedy out to Arlington National Cemetary to find a spot to bury her husband would make most choke up (as he did in this movie). Wish others from the 'Nation would share their favorite movies. I would rather listen to what regular people like ourselves have to say about them than any movie critic myself.

Thanks Texas Stranger, I am going to Blockbusters this morning and will get both. I like the actors in both of the movies you have described. Thanks for the tip! PMG

What if all 100,000 showed up? FFR, you'll need a bigger BBQ'er!

The DVD version of "Gettysburg" is finally out and now available. I got my copy at WalMart. The movie first came out in 1993 and it stars Jeff Daniels (as Colonel Joshua Chamberlain), Martin Sheen (as Robert E. Lee), Tom Berringer (as James Longstreet), Sam Elliott (General John Buford) and Stephen Lang (Pickettt) plus a cast of many faces you will recognize. The making of this movie only found on the DVD version is superb. Ken Burns (PBS producer/director of "Civil War") and Shelby Foote (famous Civil War author) narrate "the Making Of Gettysburg--The Movie." The soundtrack of this movie composed by Randy Edelman will just flat give you goose bumps. There is also another special featurette called "The Battle of Gettysburg" which is narrated by Lesley Nielsen. (Aren't DVD's and all the extras on many of the movies now on DVD the best thing since movies went talkie)? "Gettysburg" is the prequal to "Gods and Generals" (Robert Duvall as R.E. Lee in this one) and even Texas Senator Phil Gramm has a cameo in G's & G's. All of you Civil War (or War Between the States) buffs will love both of these movies and I'd bet if you are a Civil War buff you would have most likely already seen them. Non Civil War buffs will equally be impressed. Both productions were under-written by Ted Turner and he has a cameo appearance in both. I have both DVD's in my library. I believe the 3'rd movie of the trilogy is now or soon to be made. ........................................................................................................................................................................... QUESTION? ? ? ? ? Do any of you have any DVD/VHS or movies presently at the theatre you would recommend that you could give a mini-description of? If so...please share with us, OK? ........................................................................................................................................................................... ** MOVIEOLA? This was the name of a CD and compilation of British composer John Barry's best movie themes. Barry wrote the movie theme scores of "Out of Africa,", "Born Free", "Dances With Wolves" , "Somewhere In Time" and many of the Bond movies among others. "IF" you can find the CD "Movieola" and you like some of the best movie themes in cinematic history--buy it!

The latest version of "The Alamo" started slowly but finished fast. Billy Bob Thornton was great as Tennessean Davy Crocket! Dennis Quaid was even more superb as Sam Houston, almost uncanny was his likeness of Sam Houston from early photos of "General Sam." See it for yourselves--you'll be glad you did! PS: For you who did see it over the weekend--your thoughts?

JayDub, thanks for that photo link of sweet Norah.... Hell, CUSA ought to let NORTH TEXAS in their league based on the fact that our Denton campus is crawlin' with many co-eds just as pretty as our own sweet Norah Jones. Makes a guy want to go back to school for another degree (no matter the age)!

I think you are correct about those guys being on the Letterman show AND.... IronMan4, from now on I am going to be like in the movie "Saving Private Ryan" when Private Ryan asks the character played by Tom Hanks about he and his lady's special times when Hanks replies, "Nope, there are just some things I choose to keep to myself." And So-oooooo "the raven haired beauty" of UNT College of Music fame now only resides in my heart and in my fantasies (since that's as close as I will ever get to that cute young little heifer in the first place)! Quickly, where's my gol' darned blood pressure medication!

Saw this in today's TV section of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. UNT has had many of its College of Music alums on Saturday Night Live thru the decades leading off with Lou Marini who was a sax player in UNT's multi-Grammy nominated One O'Clock Lab Band member & of both Blues Brothers Movie fame as the saxophone player, ie, the in the first movie was the one playing the sax in the cafe scene with Aretha Franklin; anyway, UNT alum Lou Marini was in SNL's original band back in the mid 1970's when the show first aired on NBC.

When I was a kid, it snowed 2 years in a row on Valentine's Day in the Houstoin area. Have super 8 film of all our neighborhood kids building snowmen. Its 7:03 am and the snow is coming down hard here in the west Metroplex, ie, Weatherford (just west of Fort Worth). Happy Snowy Valentine's Day!

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