Re: Bye Bye, Life/Goodbye, Happiness/Hello Loneliness/I Think I'm Gonna Die

In article <for9j4$omd$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>In article <foqh59$sul$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Michael Alan Chary <mchary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>In article <foq773$43e$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>	I also missed THE FRENCH CONNECTION and I think he was in that
>>>as well. Also SORCEROR, whose ads looked interesting when I was a teen.
>>
>>It is interesting, but it's a remake of "The Wages of Fear."
>>
>>>	In the 1970s, we got to see one (1) film per year, so I missed
>>>a lot of the great films of that decade and I have not yet caught up. 
>>
>>Well, the top ten since I assume you've seen the famous classics, like 
>>Star Wars and Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Rocky Horror
Picture 
>>Show and Chinatown and The Godfather
>
>	CHINATOWN I saw because I saw a lot of movies in the 1980s 
>and early 1990s and one of them was the TWO JAKES. That felt to me
>like the inferior sequel to a good film, so I tracked down the 
>original movies to see if I was right.

And your verdict?

>
>	THE GODFATHER I've never seen because I have an irrational
>prejudice against most mob films.

I, myself, have never been able to sit through Gone with the Wind all the 
way through.
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