| Title: | Movie Reviews and Discussion |
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| Moderator: | VAXCPU::michaud o.dec.com::tamara::eppes |
| Created: | Thu Jan 28 1993 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1249 |
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And now, something for us all to look forward to. Those cheerful folks
at HBO (the ones who have an advertisement in which they imply that
HBO-movie producers are much, much classier than feature-film
producers) are bringing us the remake we've all been waiting for: "The
Attack of the 50-Foot Woman".
Yep, the incredibly cheesy '58 flick is being remade, with Darryl
Hannah as the long drink of water. Sounds jolly, eh? According to the
article I read, her first reaction was, "No <bleep>ing way I'm doing
this," but then she read the script, and "the bigger she gets, the more
empowered she becomes....She learns that she deserves to be treated
like a full-grown woman, because now she's _really_ full-grown."
Christopher Guest is directing. The thing's supposed to air on HBO some
time this fall. Who knows, it might be wonderful; I'll be relying on
those of you who have HBO to keep us posted!
-b
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| 225.1 | Remind me | 42712::DUTTONS | Mon Jun 21 1993 12:18 | 5 | |
What does "long drink of water" mean?
Thanks
Sam
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| 225.2 | DSSDEV::RUST | Mon Jun 21 1993 13:37 | 3 | ||
"Tall person".
-b
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| 225.3 | Attack of the Scientific Morons | 22364::SHERMAN | empowerment requires truth | Wed Jul 07 1993 13:28 | 17 |
I love to hate movies like this because they cheerfully violate every
single law of science.
For instance: foe every doubling in size for an organism, the fracture
stress placed on its limbs _triples._ Thus, an 11-foot tall person's
femur, at every cross-section, has to handle three times the stress as
does an identical person of 5 1/2 feet. So, a _50_ foot person's legs
would snap like match sticks the first time she tried to stand up
(unless her legs were four times a thick, in proportion, as normal).
Get the picture?
Then, there's the problem of finding a toilet big enough ... but you
get the picture ...
ken
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