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| Title: | Movie Reviews and Discussion |
| Notice: | Please do DIR/TITLE before starting a new topic on a movie! |
| Moderator: | VAXCPU::michaud o.dec.com::tamara::eppes |
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| Created: | Thu Jan 28 1993 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1249 |
| Total number of notes: | 16012 |
300.0. "1492 - Conquest of Paradise" by 12368::michaud (Jeff Michaud, DECnet/OSI) Tue Aug 17 1993 12:50
This one stars Gerard Depado as Christopher Columbus,
Siguroney Weaver as the Queen of Spain, and Armando
Asante as some noble (and yes, I probably spelt all
their names wrong :-)
Same old story, Columbus gets the queen to let him
sail west w/3 boats. He finds some islands, becomes
governer of the island over the natives, chaos breaks
out, Columbus gets sent to jail, he talks to the queen
who lets him out and Columbus grows old. This is
dragged out for 2 1/2 hours.
FWIW, saw Princess Diana arrive for the London opening
of this film (think it was this one, or could of been
the other Columbus film that came out last year).
I wonder if she was also as bored ....
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| 300.1 | For future reference: | QUARRY::reeves | Jon Reeves, ULTRIX compiler group | Tue Aug 17 1993 20:09 | 9 |
| Yup, 3 for 3, Jeff.
Gerard Depardieu
Sigourney Weaver
Armand Assante
and before anyone tries:
Tcheky Karyo (played Pinzon)
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| 300.2 | 4 out of 5... | CDROM::SHIPLEY | I'll be back for breakfast | Fri Jan 14 1994 14:11 | 6 |
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I seem to be the only person I've come across who actually enjoyed
the film. Is is because I'm a Depardieu fan? Or Ridley Scott?
(It was Ridley Scott wasn't it??)
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| 300.3 | eh | DECWET::JWHITE | this sucks! change it or kill me | Fri Jan 14 1994 17:27 | 4 |
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i didn't like it (saw it on video), but i didn't hate it either.
some pretty cool scenes, but pretty haphazard otherwise.
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| 300.4 | | 44234::GGOODMAN | Loonatic | Fri Jan 14 1994 17:38 | 6 |
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Can't imagine it being any good on video. A typical Ridley Scott film
where you needed the big screen for the atmosphere. I've seen it twice
on the big screen and both times thoroughly enjoyed it.
Graham.
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