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16 [lbo-talk] why movies suck -- rank: 586

... tickets than Hollywood, but ticket prices are much higher in the US. Adjust by numbers of tickets, and the picture looks a bit less sucky. (2) The Lord of the Rings trilogy is an aesthetic masterpiece. "Finding Nemo" ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Tue Nov 17 12:53:24 PST 2009

17 [lbo-talk] why movies suck -- rank: 456

I'm curious about the criteria Doug & perhaps others are using to gauge quality. I've seen almost all of the movies on the list, and by & large they're reasonably amusing entertainments. Some of them, like the Spider-Man and Lord of the Rings movies, transcend ...

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Author:	Gary Mongiovi
Date:	Tue Nov 17 11:43:08 PST 2009

18 [lbo-talk] why movies suck -- rank: 771

... Most Movies Suck? A Wikipedia user put together a list of the 50 highest grossing movies of the decade; only nine of them are not sequels or adaptations, The Wrap points out. And, at a generous estimate, only ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 17 09:24:07 PST 2009

19 [lbo-talk] kids today -- rank: 521

... wrote: > > I read "Steal This Book" in high school in the early '70s, but I only > knew > > one other student who ... also read it - and he stole it from me. On the > other > > hand, just about everyone was reading, or had read, "The Lord of The > > Rings". If the Harry Potter and Meyer series had ...

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Author:	Mark Bennett
Date:	Sat Mar 7 08:54:07 PST 2009

20 [lbo-talk] kids today -- rank: 521

... wrote: > I read "Steal This Book" in high school in the early '70s, but I only knew > one other student who ... also read it - and he stole it from me.  On the other > hand, just about everyone was reading, or had read, "The Lord of The > Rings".  If the Harry Potter and Meyer series had ...

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Author:	socialismorbarbarism
Date:	Fri Mar 6 23:06:32 PST 2009

21 [lbo-talk] kids today -- rank: 552

I read "Steal This Book" in high school in the early '70s, but I only knew one other student who ... also read it - and he stole it from me. On the other hand, just about everyone was reading, or had read, "The Lord of The Rings". If the Harry Potter and Meyer series had ...

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Author:	Mark Bennett
Date:	Fri Mar 6 16:00:06 PST 2009

22 [lbo-talk] Great Conservative Films -- rank: 521

... maybe libertarian, not a bad flick). Nobody has mentioned On the Waterfront. Brazil is really anarchist, brilliant too IMO. I haven't seen the ones mentioned below, or if I have I don't remember them. It seems almost ridiculous to debate the message of Ghostbusters, which I find hysterically funny every time I watch it. But you could say the victory over Vigo in one of them was based on an ocean of love descending ...

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Author:	Max B. Sawicky
Date:	Fri Feb 13 18:05:42 PST 2009

23 [lbo-talk] "great" "conservative" movies -- rank: 648

... www.thesamedame.com/2009/02/national-review-movie-geniuses.html> The National Review = Movie Geniuses Film Criticism has reached its pinnacle in the form of The National Review's "Best Conservative Movies of the last 25 Years." Batman isn't Bruce Wayne, but ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 13 09:57:46 PST 2009

24 [lbo-talk] WGA Parodies the Bosses and the Bosses are really, really, really upset -- rank: 666

... like bullet point 2. But if you want to know the background to it see my last (too long) post in the "Joss Whedon, Union Militant" thread. You can find the letter that this is a parody of, quoted and connected to in that post. So this is from a parody website that the AMPTP was very upset about and wrote a letter to the public complaining about. (If it weren't for the ...

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Author:	Jerry Monaco
Date:	Thu Dec 13 16:02:06 PST 2007

25 [lbo-talk] Lord of the Rings musical in London -- rank: 910

NDTV.com http://www.ndtv.com/homepage/default.asp Lord of the Rings musical in London http://www.ndtvmusic.com/story.asp?id=ENTEN20070016272 People have read the book, seen the movie and now they watched the story unfold on ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Wed Jun 27 15:56:06 PDT 2007

26 [lbo-talk] "Citizen Kane" leads "Godfather" in movie poll -- rank: 592

... Spiegelman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Citizen Kane," Orson Welles' powerful portrait of an unscrupulous media baron, beat back an assault from "The Godfather," on Wednesday to retain its title as the greatest American film. Film critics, historians and experts voted "Kane" as the top U.S. film for the second time in a decade in a poll conducted by the American Film Institute. The results were revealed in a ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Fri Jun 22 13:39:26 PDT 2007

27 [lbo-talk] Mrs Dennis -- rank: 632

[pic at original - gotta hand it to the little guy...] <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world ... with lurve Sarah Baxter, Washington AN Essex girl may be the first lady with a tongue stud to have set her sights on the White House. The wife of Dennis Kucinich, a left- wing Democratic congressman and 2008 presidential ... is a 29- year-old hippie chick from Upminster at the end of London Underground s District line. Elizabeth Kucinich, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 21 14:00:50 PDT 2007

28 [lbo-talk] real movies for kids -- rank: 688

... kids, but for a general audience, which children will enjoy? Of course, there are different age brackets of kids, as well as levels of familiarity with the background involved. And there is also the all-important presence of an adult parent or guardian to help answer questions ...

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Author:	Louise Mowder
Date:	Sun Feb 11 10:32:21 PST 2007

29 [lbo-talk] Hollywood wins copyright suit in China -- rank: 503

... Hollywood movie studios have won a lawsuit in China over the posting of movie clips on the Internet, the Motion Picture Association said on Friday. A unit of Sohu.com Inc., which runs some of China's most popular Web portals, lost a suit ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Wed Feb 7 08:38:57 PST 2007

30 [lbo-talk] Max on the Internet Left -- rank: 598

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > >Fuck the healing. Oh, I envision a Golden Age of Comity ahead. Just look at the tremendous bipartisan enthusiasm about what a chic dresser Nancy Pelosi is. I will admit that it's easier on the eyes to contemplate Pelosi than, say, the incredible hulk Dennis Hastert, who always looked like some sort of orc from Lord of the Rings, though projecting less ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Wed Jan 17 21:55:40 PST 2007