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Re: What's in a name?
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Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:45:48 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Dave Schuler wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Steven D. Weiser wrote:
   In lugnet.harrypotter, Dave Schuler wrote:
   Check out the name of Noah Hathaway’s character in this fine cinematic outing.

   I never heard of this movie, but I did notice Anne Lockharts name also. 2 former stars of Battlestar Galactica.

The last name Potter is very common, in movies and real life.

I think that they should re-release it as “Harry Potter vs. The Troll.” How do you think Ms. Rowling would respond?

   Troll must have done really crappy or was direct to video and still crappy.

It preceded the “direct to video” phenomenon, but it was indeed astonishingly bad. After Howard the Duck, this is probably the worst film I ever saw in the theater (well, other than Attack of the Clones.)

Dave!

First of all, I saw Troll it wasn’t that bad, up there with Goolies and Critters. And second, Howard the Duck was and still is coolness. That’s a classic. I still use random quotes in conversation. scene: they’re shooting guns at howard and the bumbling lab assistant yells, HOWARD.. DUCK!! and howard responds with AND PROUD OF IT!! just classic.

my .02

e.



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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Erick Jensen wrote: Perhaps my sense of irony has been dulled, but it appears to me that your post is serious! Good heavens! (...) That's hardly a glowing recommendation. That's like saying "Phantom Menace wasn't that bad, (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)

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(...) I think that they should re-release it as "Harry Potter vs. The Troll." How do you think Ms. Rowling would respond? (...) It preceded the "direct to video" phenomenon, but it was indeed astonishingly bad. After (URL) Howard the Duck,> this is (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)

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