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| 653.1 | Re: .0, how about giving us a review of it? | NETRIX::michaud | Johnny Depp | Tue Sep 20 1994 11:01 | 0 |
| 653.2 | | 27958::TOMAO | | Tue Sep 20 1994 13:21 | 4 |
| Steely Dan is English slang for a used condom - at least that was the
'trivia' I had once heard about it.
Jt
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| 653.3 | a very cheap rental | 16913::MEUSE_DA | | Tue Sep 20 1994 13:26 | 12 |
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If that's the one with Peter Weller (Robocop), then I rented it for 39
cents quite awhile ago.
It was bizarre, but I found it boring and kept hitting the FF quite
a bit. Don't recall much of what the heck it was about...lots of
oooozing things in it.
Some people liked it though.
Dave
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| 653.4 | | DSSDEV::RUST | | Tue Sep 20 1994 14:35 | 13 |
| "Naked Lunch" was based (not nearly as loosely as one might have hoped)
on the life and writings of William S. Burroughs, famous for a number
of gritty and/or surreal works including "Naked Lunch" and "Junkie".
(Burroughs may currently be glimpsed in an athletic-shoe commercial -
go figure). I haven't read many of Burroughs' other works, but the
impression I got from the two I mentioned is that he can juxtapose
bitterly painful subjects with cackling humor, plus occasional bursts
of nausea. I think the film did a pretty good job of depicting someone
wandering between the factual and fantasy elements of the writer's
life; it left me feeling vague confusion with just a touch of despair,
which I think is about right for the subject matter.
-b
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| 653.5 | | 38118::LUCHT | Cool weather, stronger beer | Tue Sep 20 1994 14:38 | 10 |
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RE: -1
I'm glad you said it. By buddy asked me if I
liked it. I replied "I don't know." That's
the confusing part.
Kev --
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| 653.6 | | 45347::SUMMERFIELD | Synthetic Chiefs with T.V. Smiles | Wed Sep 21 1994 05:15 | 9 |
| The thing to remember is that Naked Lunch is more a film about
Burroughs writing Naked Lunch than it is a film of the book Naked
Lunch. It certainly captures the confused, despairing, distorted
feel of the book.
With reference to Steely Dan, I believe it is a vibrator, not a
used condom.
Clive
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| 653.7 | the surreal as metaphor | REGENT::POWERS | | Wed Sep 21 1994 10:03 | 10 |
| I observe that all artists think that their art is different from other
artists' arts, in that they have special pressures, that their muses call
differently, whatever.
I saw Naked Lunch as the writers' view of their art, sort of a cliquish
presentation, a collection of "in jokes" by and about writers
and their tools (the obsession with typewriters, for example).
Did I like it? I don't know either, but I wouldn't bother watching it again.
- tom]
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| 653.8 | Ahhhhhhh | 38346::SCHIAVONE | How can I laugh tomorrow, | Wed Sep 21 1994 12:24 | 4 |
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Steely Dan is an erection, is it not?
/Cap'n Quad
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| 653.9 | | DSSDEV::RUST | | Wed Sep 21 1994 13:18 | 4 |
| Re the true meaning of Steely Dan: this sounds like a job for JOYOFLEX.
[Or MUSIC, or something.]
-b-the-moderator
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| 653.10 | I'm going to flip all the cards | OBSESS::BEAUPRE | Duck and Cover | Wed Sep 21 1994 18:00 | 9 |
| People, it's not a vibrator, a used condom, or a republican -- it's
a dildo. Or a broken vibrator, if you will. Or if you won't, for
that matter.
There's no way in hell a movie could be made of the book, so
Cronenberg chose to center the film around Bill writing the
book. Sort of. Not for everyone. Ok, not for most people. Hell,
it probably only works for about 19 people. I really liked it,
but I wouldn't recommend it.
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| 653.11 | Let's play William Tell, honey . . . | 36058::CARROLLJ | Even a clown knows when to strike | Wed Sep 21 1994 20:36 | 8 |
| re -.1
Correct on all accounts. "I liked it, but wouldn't recommend it."
pretty much sums it up, except I *did* recommend it to my
ex-girlfriend's extremely conservative parents once. Wish I'd had the
chance to find out their reactions :-)
- Jimbo
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| 653.12 | | 38118::LUCHT | Cool weather, stronger beer | Thu Sep 22 1994 07:16 | 7 |
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> I *did* recommend it to my ex-girlfriend's extremely
conservative parents once.
That is a riot!!!
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| 653.13 | | 36905::BUCHMAN | UNIX refugee in a VMS world | Fri Sep 23 1994 18:02 | 10 |
| > > I *did* recommend it to my ex-girlfriend's extremely
> > conservative parents once.
> That is a riot!!!
Reminds me of when my fairly conservative father got "A Clockwork
Orange" from the local library. My very conservative mother asked him
what it was about, and he said "Some science fiction movie, I think."
I don't think either lasted beyond the first half hour.
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| 653.14 | But I digress... | 38346::SCHIAVONE | How can I laugh tomorrow, | Sat Sep 24 1994 09:27 | 5 |
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I once recommended Blue Velvet to a born again...I bet that went over
well
/Cap'n Quad
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| 653.15 | | METALX::SWANSON | Ride The Lightning | Sun Nov 19 1995 16:47 | 25 |
| Very strange movie! I just rented it last night.
For those who don't know what it's about. As best as I can describe,
it's about this guy who's a bug exterminator, and he finds out his
wife is shooting up his bug poison, and getting high from it.
He tries it, and starts doing it too. Then he starts hallucinating.
Or is he... it's so hard to tell fantasy from reality in this movie
because it's so bizzarre!
Something terrible happens, and he has to go to this place called The
Interzone. In there, he has to write lots of "reports". His
typewriter likes what he types on it, and it turns into a giant
cockroach, who starts talking to him.
At some point, he must use another typewriter because his precious one
has been kidnapped. The new typewriter also turns into a creature,
only this one excretes some goop out of it's tentacales that he gets
high on. Very very strange movie, but I liked it I have to admit
(despite it's numerous homosexual references).
Definately not a movie for everyone though!
Ken
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