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Re: who was the 1st non-north american to possess mindstorms???
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Sun, 4 Oct 1998 00:06:17 GMT
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Mike Stanley wrote:
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> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 14:28:23 GMT, sarah@eskimo.com (Perhaps a
> Princess....) wrote:
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> > > Never saw Space Boy, but the mention of Willow makes me wonder if
> > > anyone else has considered the possibility that this trilogy that will
> > > be coming out might just totally suck? I didn't really grow up with
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> > I liked WIllow...
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> Yeah, Rachael liked it too. I think it's a chick movie, if I can
> quote my friend Jack and his term for anything that doesn't quite fit
> into his preferred horror/action/sci-fi genre 100%. :)
"Chick Flick" is the more common term, AFAIK. Though I've never liked
the term "flick" to refer to films (it really cheapens them in my mind),
here it's warranted because the rhyme fits in well with the entire term.
_Willow_ was a chick flick -- there was an overriding romantic element
to the plot, it had the faeries, the dwarves and the witch. Definitely
chick flick material. VERY GOOD (IMHO) CF, but a CF nonetheless.
Hmmm... Perhaps { Star Wars -> Willow : Town System -> Paradisa } ? An
interesting hypothesis, no?
[What's that you say? I've strayed off topic by mentioning LEGO? ;-P]
> I don't remember much from it, but I thought the character that the
> dude who played Iceman in Top Gun played was interesting. Liked him
> better in The Saint, though, if that was the same guy.
Val Kilmer was Iceman in _Top_Gun_, Mad Mardigan in _Willow_, and
recently played Simon Templar in _The_Saint_. All the same fellow.
Great actor; truly amazing talent.
_The_Saint_ is another fun film to discuss. It's a really polar film:
people seem to have a really positive or negative reaction to it. A
laserdisc copy as given to me as a gift, and I'm rather lukewarm on it,
actually. I think I'd really not like the film much (as much as I liked
her limited role in _The_Karate_Kid_, I don't much care for Elisabeth
Shue's acting abilities), but the presentation on LD, and the fact that
it was well constructed with a great score tears at me a bit.
-- joshua
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