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Ok, that name is familiar and I think we saw Leung in a couple other movies. From what I saw, I was very impressed and found him to be a find actor.

Chunking Express was one of the last films we watched in my Hong Kong film class. The first half was based on action films and we watched Enter the Dragon along with Supercop III with Jackie Chan and a Better Tomorrow with Chow Yun Fat, which owns as does Hard Boiled. On Chunking Express, I didn't really see what the two stories had to do with each other and I thought putting them in one film was really unnecessary. The male actor in the second half of the film, I forget his name, I thought was really good and gives a nice performance with a nice pitch. His was about the only charater I could get into and particulary liked. Honestly, I don't remember much of the first half of the movie and I can't say that it really caught my imagination.

who had a string of forgettable feuds in the mid-ninties, including one with forgettable wrestler HAKUSHI.

I adored the school and the city. I came from a small town and just fell in love with the atmosphere and surroundings when I first went over to visit the campus. I can't speak for the philosophy department, but on the whole I found Pitt to have some really solid programs and teachers as far as the arts and sciences branch went. I still have tons of friends there and try to visit when I can. To come back on topic a bit, Pitt has a lot of really cool and unique film courses. I took one on Hong Kong cinema and another on Orson Welles, hence me being well versed on Kane and his other works. They also had a director's course on Craven and Cronenberg that I was unable to take. Pittsburgh also has a nice underground film community and I took a screenwriting course through Pittsburgh Filmmakers.

I already have Bachelor's degrees from the University of Pittsburgh in film history and fiction writing. (Well, it's just film, but my concentration was more history than the actual mechanics of making.) I eventually want to get my teaching and master degrees so I can teach film and writing on a college level.

I think you can divide "horror films" up into more miniscule genres that any other; and that includes movies that could be labeled as suspense or thriller. It really gets into splitting hairs and I consider the Exorcist to be a horror film, but on the suspenseful drama side. I do agree that it is a little too talky and slow to get going, but I find the last half to be very well done and suspenseful with the acting, directing and basic staging. And a friend of mine and I, everytime we see a grand old British actor slumming later in life we say "he did the movie for scotch," because they usually come off as drunk and bored.

Real American was originally recorded for Windham and Rotunda to use as the US Express, but when they disbanded it was given to Hogan. Vince was tired of paying royalties for real songs and that's what lead him to have original music composed for his wrestlers. My guess would be that Hogan chaned to real American sometime in the Fall of '85.

who passed away last year as did DAVEY BOY SMITH.

Nah, they'll save that for the sequel.

who didn't give no nookie to SPIKE DUDLEY.

Best picture of '63 was Lawrence of Arabia. Winning over To Kill a Mockingbird, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Music Man and I think, Days of Wine and Roses (nope, just looked it up and it was the Longest Day. See, I'm not infallible.) Actually, I'm impressed that you've seen the original Get Carter. I found it very funny when Stallone was doing the remake and people was fawning over the original like it was some great film. Caine was much better in lighter films during that period, such as Alfie and The Italian Job. If you want to see Caine as a menacing villain, check out Dressed to Kill where he comes off as suitably psychotic yet proper. Probably the best British film I've seen is Peeping Tom, outside of The Third Man of course. I agree that the first half of Deer Hunter is slow, but it really helps in adding dramatic weight to the second half. The Deer Hunter was one of the first movies that really dealt with soldiers before becoming soldiers and how the effects of war wrecked their personalities and home lives. A little cliched by today's standards true. I also think this is one of the few times De Niro's performance could be called 'understated' and it really works here as I like his chemistry with Walken, especialy during the finale. Again, I think the first of the movie gets lost on today's audience as they are just not trained to watch a movie of that nature. The Exorcist has a reputation of being a great movie and actually was the harbinger of darker, more gritty and realistic horror films that started coming out in the seventies like The Omen. You have to remember that there was a time when the original Dracula and Frankenstein scared the hell out of people and caused national hysteria. Now you could barely call those movies suspenseful. You keep pushing the envelope and the envelope keeps getting farther out. Twenty years from now, someone will watch The Ring and fall asleep because it's scare tactics are not anythign they haven't seen a thousand times before. I do believe the days of gross out horror are mostly dead and a return to more suspenseful fare is hopefully coming. The Exorcist was certainly a product of its time and why I feel it holds up as a good film today, it's not the blood curdling horror movie it was originally. Although, I liked the Exorcist III so maybe I'm just an idiot. (II sucked, naturally, as it came during Richard Burton's "Fuck the Academy and their damn Oscars, I'm working for scotch" period.)

who had CRASH HOLLY very briefly as a follower of Mattitude.

Actually, the "it was just a dream" ending has been around since the dawn of storytelling and was a constant deus ex machina of fables and fairy tales during the medieval era. At the time of the film's release, Oz writer L. Frank Baum was unhappy with the ending and wrote a lengthy essay (I forget where it was published) demoaning the dream ending as a literary crutch in general.

I'm going to play Devil's Advocate here and make a case against The Wizard of Oz as being overrated. Not that I believe this though. By today's standards, The Wizard of Oz is a cheesy, dorky hokey little picture. Aside from "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (which a five year old could pick out on a keyboard) the songs are rather unimpressive and forgetable; certainly not on par with the Fred Astaire musicals and popular swing based pictures of the day. The acting is rather wooden and bland, even for a children's picture. The only person who doesn't have that problem is the Wicked Witch of the West who is over the top and scenery chewing that Robin Williams would tell her to tone it down. The movie went through four different directors and it really shows as the film seems to lack a focused creative vision and the use technicolor hides the fact that the direction, especially in the musical numbers, is lackluster and stilted for the most part. Finally, when has "oh, it was all just a dream" ever been a good ending?

You mean Andre choking out Bob Eucker. And I've seen the image of Hogan standing atop the cage and ripping his shirt from Wrestlemania II tons of times in clips and such. You can tell that's where it's from because he has the ribs taped. The problem with two is the overkill on celebrities and locales. Also, the talent got stretched a little thin over the three venues and that leads to some really weak matches, like Roberts vs. Wells and Uncle Elmer vs. Adrian Adonis.

Ok, Night Court on DVD I need. The rest not so much. I know it was a popular show, but I can't see a clamor to have it on DVD, especially since it really didn't hit its stride until the third season, although I enjoy a lot of the episodes with Ellen Foley. So if they go by season, you have to go through 2 seasons where they were getting their feet wet before hitting gold, but I guess Simpsons fans could say the same. I'm a tremendous fan of John Larroquette and I would kill for the first season of the the John Larroquette Show on DVD.

C'mon, I dug super pimp Deano macking on LITA.

Wrestlemania III is a perfect example of what wrestling was about during the '80's boom period. Hogan's heel turn is the setoff for the second boom and I think Rock vs. Foley from the Royal Rumble is a match that exemplifies that era; possibly even the Hunter vs. Austin 2/3 falls match from Backlash.

I'm not linking that ho in your sig when Dawn Marie is all the ho this thread needs. and of course Dawn Marie is linked to the greatest force ever in the wrestling industry...AL WILSON!

Then I'll take them on as the Memphis Eel. Not only is he a trash talker, but they won't have a clue what he's talking about. "Look 'a here now son, you ain't nothin' but a reefer smokin' porch monkey!"

who TAZZ likes to call a Manster.

Is this match writing or promo? Because if it's based on promos and such, the SWF might not whip as much ass as you think.

And which has more non-organic stuffing in them is anyone's guess. Sable recently put the moves on ZACH GOWAN and I'm sure there is a website devoted to milf amputee porn somewhere.

I don't ever want to see a cage match taking place in somebody's ass.