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Raf

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  1. The speculation that the former and disgraced president of the Way now lives in a home owned by TWI is fair game. A photo of said home with enough information to identify its location is not fair game. This is my opinion. Official positions may vary.
  2. Literally. In the opening scene of ROTK, I could not tell when they started using the CGI Gollum on screen.
  3. Bernard Hill was outstanding. Come to think of it, Sean Bean got robbed in FOTR, and Andy Serkis was robbed in both sequels (I use the term loosely).
  4. Spoiler below: Highlight with the mouse if you want to read it, but it discusses details of the movie that you won't want to know before you see it... I guess you're right. But then, I figured out the ending to the Sixth Sense about 30 minutes into the movie. As for Mystic River, the moment the mute showed up in the grocery store, my date and I looked at each other and nodded as if to say "He did it." Then, as the movie progressed, it seemed that he did it to keep his brother from running off with the girl. Later we find that wasn't the motive, so we got the motive wrong but we got the killer right. I loved what they did with Tim Robbins character, because I never felt that he was guilty, but I was dying to know how he got those cuts.
  5. It's not funny. I mean, I'm listening to it, and it's not funny. Not even slightly. If Mel Brooks, Woody Allen and the ZAZ team all deconstructed and rewrote it, it still wouldn't be funny. At all. But hey, to each his own.
  6. I didn't realize that she won the Golden Globe award for Best Actress by the time I posted that message. She was so deserving.
  7. I have all four (including The Hobbit) in a boxed set. Not themed to the movies, but they don't have Alan Lee's wondrous illustrations, either. If I'm not mistaken, the Lord of the Rings comes to about 1,000 pages.
  8. Well, at least Johnny Depp got nominated for Pirates of the Caribbean. Whew! I thought for SURE he would get snubbed. the fu@!(?
  9. As an acting vehicle, this movie must be seen. Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden and Laura Linney all deliver for director Clint Eastwood. As a murder mystery, its only flaw is that you can figure out the killer's identity almost from the first moment he/she appears on the screen. You spend your time wondering what the killer's motive was, only to find out you were wrong about the motive (but not the killer's identity). The mystery is good, but it's the acting that carries this movie.
  10. Excellent movie. There's a scene in which Ben Kingsley is shown working at a gas station/convenience store. I remember seeing it and thinking... Hillary was right! Ok, never mind. Anyway, Excellent movie. If you can like a movie without necessarily liking any of its main characters, so much the better. Everyone in this movie is deeply flawed, though one of them crosses the line to being off his rocker. Highly recommended.
  11. Any movie that can make Charlize Theron unattractive in a nude scene gets an automatic Best Picture nomination from me. Seriously, she is outstanding, and the movie is compelling. You're forgiven if its subject matter (real-life female serial killer) puts you off. But if you can stomach the plot (and all of its stomach churning, brutal honesty), you will be rewarded with a powerful, powerful film.
  12. Finally finished the first book. hey, I have a busy schedule. I'm lucky I finished it at all. bravo to Peter Jackson for ending the first movie about one chapter into the second book.
  13. The Air Supply song and the Billy Squier song are very, very different. Savage Garden: To the Moon and Back.
  14. You know how you buy an album (?) or CD for one or two songs, and then you hear the rest of the songs on the CD and some of them are bad but others are really, really good - yet they never got any airplay (or hardly any)? These are songs that didn't quite become "hits," but are really good songs. I call them "Greatest Misses." What are yours? Running on Ice, Billy Joel James, Billy Joel Temptation, Billy Joel Baby Grand, Billy Joel and Ray Charles How Can I Not Love You, Joy Enriquez Only Love, Linda Eder The Edge of Forever, The Dream Academy Lonely is the Night, Air Supply
  15. Yes, Ginger, but were they superduper sad sorry preacher men? You see, that's the question.
  16. I kept nothing from PFAL. I told it everything it wanted to know. Ahhhh. Ambiguity. The devil's volleyball.
  17. The easy way is Geocities. You don't get to choose your own web address, but it's ridiculously easy to design your page. You'll have to set up a yahoo account to get started, if you don't have one already. So, if your yahoo account name is "LIVINGEPISTLES" then your web site will be "www.geocities.com/livingepistles"
  18. http://www.dvdtown.com/easteregg/Memento_L...ition/9777/328/
  19. Currently 8 degrees in Hell and snowing.
  20. But you forgot to answer the fundamental question: How do you take your coffee? (My way of saying welcome to the Cafe).
  21. But, but,... what happened to the editor of The Sun?
  22. This is one of my favorite web sites. I thought I'd give it a plug.
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