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Do you love Hitler' Do you love Springtime' If yes to both, click here for THE PRODUCERS trailer!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with a trailer for the musical adaptation of the Broadway show which was an adaptation of Mel Brooks' film THE PRODUCERS! This is the official trailer up at Sony's website, yet for some damn reason it looks like a bootleg or like it was ripped off a 1989 Toshiba TV. But you can still see the trailer, so click the link below and have at it! (Thanks to Sir Whoopee for the heads up!)
CLICK IT HERE! SCHNELL!
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this trailer was halarious
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His acting is subperb, anyone see Big..holy crap what a movie
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maybe the poor quality is meant to be atmospheric, 60's like.
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Love the original, live in Podunk, Oregon, so I never saw the play, but this will at least be a lot of fun.
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I usually despise Lane and Broderick but this looks pretty good... no doubt the better it is, the bigger bomb it will be. Few people have the taste for such old-fashioned Broadway stylings these days...
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If this didn't have a good reputation from Broadway, people would be bashing it here. You think it is supposed to be great, so you suddenly think it looks great. The Emperor has no clothes! This looks dumb and gay and stupid, too.
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you know, i went to see "robin hood: men in tights" in the theater, and it brought me to the realization that mel brooks was out of touch. sad, because blazing saddles was so funny. why are we remaking this film, by the way? and filming it to look old, to boot? isn't this a little unnecessary? or am i missing the topical subtext which makes it relevant in today's turbulent times?
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But what do I know? I said Cutthroat Island would bomb, too!
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One of my favorite comedies ever, even though it's flawed and almost everything that takes place in the desert is terrible. I'll see this, if only to see Uma lookin' hot.
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if Lucas is still going to be a bastard and not allow a sequel, that is.
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it's gonna be just like the producers movie what?
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No Mostel. No Wilder! No Kenneth MARS! NO DICK SHAWN!! No..NO...LEE MERIDETH!!!!!! If anyone thinks that Uma beats Lee Merideth, they are SAD! As for casting whores....Will Ferrill is REALLY begining to wear out his welcome. No worries about this eclipsing the original, no matter how many dance routines they do. The deliveries were the flattest I've seen in years. This makes me pine for the days of Robin Hood Men In Tights!
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Great fucking line Quint, very "first degree" of you...
Simon Wiesenthal's body is not even cold yet.
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pull your head out of your ass. What the hell has Simon Wiesenthal got to do with this? This is a report about a comedy film for chrissake. Not a love letter to hitler. YOU are the moron.
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she looks friggin' hot. So this is basically The Producers but with songs. Just like Little Shop of Horrors. A movie based on a musical based on a movie.
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Sep 21, 2005 5:10:22 AM CDT
It was back in the 70s that disco ruled, US politicians had long
by salvatoregravano
...and Mel Brooks was still funny.
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"Simon Wiesenthal's body is not even cold yet. Moron."
I just loved that remark. Fun stuff.
We all dug Wiesenthal. He was like a real life superhero. RIP.
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Hey I love the original film too but I can
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Sep 21, 2005 6:48:19 AM CDT
Even the original, non-musical version of this film is dated...
by zardoz
the only thing that saves the original is the fact that it was made in '68. The gay jokes and the sex jokes seem so-O-o cliched, daah-ling. And I guess I'm one of the few people who haven't seen Broadway's new Odd Couple hoofing and singing the new version. Meh; I'm underwhelmed by the trailer, but I digs me some Uma, though. I mean Ulla! Uma! Ulla! Uma! Ulla! Oprah? No, Uma! Ulla..!
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trailer isnt great, its like theyre afraid to sell it as a musical, but im sure the film will be a blast.
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Only without Gene Wilder and Zero Mustel.
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Seriously, is there a single heterosexual male in America that really wants to go see this?
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If so then IT CAN FUCK ITSELF!
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It's the original, just with some songs added in. They even have the same shot of the two of them in the fountain. And while I like Will Ferell, he's no Kenneth Mars, at least as far as the trailer showed.
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Another remake.
Another attempt to cash in.
They've decided to put me off it completely by putting Will Ferrell in it. What a completely talentless bag of shit he is. He has one character that seems to sell to you American Idiots by the bucket load.
They've made Nathan Lane look exactly like Zero Mostel. Instead of giving it their own spin on the character, they've just pulled it straight from the original. Matthew Broderick can only play one character too. Himself.
The only time I've seen him in a film I've enjoyed in Election, but I felt the character was written to be Broderick at a school, rather than Broderick becoming the character. Broderick is no Wilder.
If your remaking something, change it a little, don't just add more songs and make it a musical.
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Great googly-moogly, what is with you people. It's the stunning sold-out Broadway show put to film. Have you geeks ever even seen a Broadway musical? I mean actually got off your fat butt and waited in line for 2 hours for dicount tickets at the TKTS booth? This looks great although I'm no fan of Uma. She's an LBFA. (Looks Better Far Away).
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If I want to see a Broadway or West End show, I'll go to Broadway or the West End.
I don't see the need to film a movie that is a stage adaptation of a movie.
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Oh, and the trailer looks good too.
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There, I said it. The hammy over acting, the cheesy, nonsensical songs ...I'm sure there's a lot of talent that goes into it all but the only reason it all works is because it's live and it's Broadway and everyone's suposed to like it. None of that shit translates to film. The Rent preview I saw last night was embarrassingly cheesy. Anyway, I saw the Opening Night episode of curb your enthusiasm so I get the gist.
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Unless it's Star Trek: The Musical, I doubt most of the posters here could have any appreciation for a broadway show. Come on people, there's a whole world out there that doesn't involve kung fu movies and the Sci Fi Channel.
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...and it's on Broadway. This is borderline disrespectful treatment of the original film, which inspired the musical even though it was making fun of musicals. Skip this. Rent Brooks' The Producers. Come to think of it, this site still owes me a disc of that movie. Hey, Mori...
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I personally don't think you can really judge RENT by the advertising. A lot of RENT just doesn't work out of context.
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There is a reason that some of us here are looking forward to this. It looks GOOD. Yeah, it's got the same story as the original, but with over a dozen new songs. Some of us are interested in that. Yeah, it's dated. So's that giant monkey movie coming out. Gawd, the original of that was done in the 1930s -- what are they thinking? Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick are hardly icons of the geek audience -- I mean, what did they ever do in the genre, apart from War Games, Ladyhawke, Godzilla, The Stepford Wives, Inspector Gadget, The Lion King, The Wizard Of Oz In Concert, and bit parts in about a dozen other flicks? Who would be interested in a movie with Uma Thurman, anyway? And it's not like "Springtime For Hitler" is one of the most revered comedy concepts of all time. Oh, wait, yeah, it is. I can truly understand if you don't like Broadway, or musicals, or remakes, or anyone involved in the making of these films... BUT YOR DISLIKE OF THEM DOESN'T INTRINSICALLY MAKE THEM BAD. Ron Howard's THE GRINCH is bad. BATTLEFIELD EARTH is bad. Not because they're fanciful imaginings different from your own, but because they were poorly made. BATMAN & ROBIN is so bad it's good -- that's an A-list MST3K party of badness. Once a-fuckin'-gain, IF YOUR AREN'T THE AUDIENCE, DON'T SEE IT.
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Whoa Ms. Thurman.
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it's finally happened. the final seal of the apocalypse has been broken. "you're lieben me baby!"
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Sep 21, 2005 10:43:04 AM CDT
The Truly Ironic Thing Is That Uwe Boll Actually Follows THE PRO
by zombiesolutions
seriously, apparently there is some kind of loophole in german banking laws that makes it possible to make big bucks from massive flops; that's how Boll continues to ge work. now, i wonder if Herr Boll will be driven to ruin in a similar fashion?
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As someone else pointed out, The Producers is not the first time this path (film to stage musical back to film) has happened before. Little Shop of Horrors paved this path (the movie musical of that rules IMHO). And Hairspray is next, so watch out.
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Dated? It's not dated - did you hear how much money it made on Broadway? Can you possibly excavate your head from your own ass without your mother's help? Good lord, I'm all for bithcing, but at least come from some plane of sanity. Dated - How can something at the height of popularity be dated? Some of you need to think a little before your fingers hit the keys. I am a huge derider of musicals. I find them trite. But this, this was damn funny. It'll have several nominations I predict.
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Ohmigod, I think we have a winner here to cross two genres: hardcore closet sci fi geeks and hardcore out-of-the-closet musical theater freaks! I want songs, now! "The glass is half full, but I'm half Vulcan." "Master of the Shuttlecraft." "Here today, Gorn tomorrow." A klingon kick-dance line ala Rockettes! BRILLIANT!!!
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Why? Because major stage productions cannot travel to most of the towns in the world. Do you think this film is being made for those in NYC who had a chance to see the original stage production? No. Neither is it being made for those major cities that can host an extended run. If you live in Twin Falls, ID or Fargo, ND, or Biloxi MS, or a thousand other towns the chance of you seeing a major Broadway production is practically nil. Movie musicals, and other Broadway adaptions (Neil Simon plays, farces like Noises Off or dramas like the recently released Proof), have always been made for those people who don't have the opportunity to travel to NYC, or get to a major city for a show's 2-4 week run. There is a reason this is being made, and it's not just money, and it's not just another remake.
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but, i do believe in Her! that is -- as a creative metaphor for the collective conciousness, intelligence, mystery, and infinite singuarity-in-diversity of the universe. NOT as a literal and separate being. wasn't that part of Jesus' whole point? that everyone is God? everyone is a part of Her? all separateness is an illusion, etc.? "whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers (and sisters), that you do unto me" blah blah and so forth and so on? all relgions are the same. they all say the same thing merely using different symbols. (btw, i agree that this remake of a remake is totally unecessary and kind of upsetting to me. nevertheless, i bet it will be funny. just nowhere near as good as the original.)
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Sep 21, 2005 11:47:32 AM CDT
Yeah, make Spaceballs 2 already!! Get Rick Moranis back (althou
by alexmaui2
Spaceballs is actually more realistic than Episodes 1, 2 and 3 put together. At least Mel Brooks doesn't fanny around with gay 'blue screen'.
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I saw the show on Broadway with Lane and Broderick (from front row center from cancellations day of show). It was one of my best Broadway experiences. Nathan Lane was amazing in a role I believed could only be Zero. The show was funny and wonderful and the songs were great, ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH LANE. Everything he did was magic, although Matthew Broderick was a little over the top for my tastes. The trailer emphasizes the elements of old movie, the bankable stars (Broderick, Thurman and Ferrell)and tries to disguise that it is a musical. Hollywood is still afraid of musicals.
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It is already a great movie, and it was a great movie that made fun of the pointlessness of musicals and their audiences. I guess irony went out when unoriginality and money came in. And These two are far, far, far from Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder.
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It is already a great movie, and it was a great movie that made fun of the pointlessness of musicals and their audiences. I guess irony went out when unoriginality and money came in. And These two are far, far, far from Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder.
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I can see it being a huge hit. It has a built in audience allready and musicals can be hits.
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is merely accentuated by the lack of the original film's truly magnifent cameo of Mr. Belvedere as Roger Elizabeth Debree. Also, the idea of either Nathan Lane or Broderick becoming aroused by Uma's gyrations is probably the funniest concept this trailer has going for it. Of course, Mostel was the biggest (quite literally) mo of his day, so Lane's ironic foray into heterosexuality is consistently logical in that sense.
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I agree, just go watch the original. No one can top Kenneth Mars in that film. Am I the only one who hasn't liked ANY of the recent musicals (I like some of the old ones...)? I thought "Chicago" was awful (except for John C. Reily). I hated "Moulin Rouge". And I have a special place of hatred reserved for "Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera." (Joel Schumacher managed to find a way to make a Broadway musical even more gay - when they took off the mask, they guy had a f***ing pimple!) But I digress. "Star Trek: The Musical" Great! Kirk comes out and yells "Khhhaaannn!" and holds that note for three minutes.
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I agree and have been lobbying for this for ages. I can't believe it hasn't already been done. I guess they're waiting for Shatner and Nimoy to grow old(er) and/or die first. A musical comedy will be the salvation of Star Trek.
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...but the trailer just doesn't cut the mustard.
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Sep 21, 2005 4:40:59 PM CDT
Um...I love the original so I'm having trouble understanding
by deadwood dan
...why exactly the Broadway play was such a hit? Because if it was anything like this looks, it seems to be crap.
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the trailer for this is horrable (and I dont just mean quality wise) the broadway show is not like the movie, its simular but they changed a lot of things and also updated the jokes. You cant really change the hitler references though cause the whole joke of the whole thing WAS it was a broadway show about hitler in a prominatly jewish industry. It might not be that hollywoods afraid of musicals so much as trailer makers have no freaking clue how to handle trailers for musicals. The only one whos done it good was the RENT trailer but even there it was a case of the song worked well as a trailer and RENT its self has few speaking lines so all you can do IS play a song from the show as the full trailer.
Look at Chicago though and there they changed the whole show from the stage to the movie to give more speaking lines (and to drop of all things the running joke about the reporter being a woman whos actually a man)
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Sep 21, 2005 6:47:27 PM CDT
You know, sadly, I'm not surprised by the hate on the board
by johnny ahab
I am a geek in many senses. I have been reading comics since the 70s. Watching zombie & horror flicks since then too. I've met Bruce Campbell and worked in the film industry for a short while too. And yes, I am a theater geek as well. I lived in New York City for 16 years, and was seeing theater in the city for 5 years before that. I've seen everything from experimental weirdness to big silly Broadway musicals. And I can safely say that the 2 hours I spent at the St. James Theater watching the musical version of "The Producers" was literally the most fun I've had at the theater ever. Laughed till I ached. But it wasn't just brilliantly funny -- I was constantly amazed by the unrelenting inventiveness of director Susan Stroman. Just when I thought she couldn't be more theatrically clever, she'd pull something else out of her hat. (The dream song/dance number with Matthew Broderick literally pulling chorus girls out of his filing cabinet as his grey drab accounting office explodes with his imagination of what it's like to be a producer was priceless, among other scenes.) I can understand people looking at the trailer and just doing a flat comparison to the earlier film. Part of the joy in seeing theater is watching other actors play the same role someone else has done, seeing other directors infuse a work with their sensibilities -- that's how I'm looking at this. Sure it's dated and different, but I will never forget the two hours of inspired lunacy I witnessed a few years back, and I will happily see this movie when it opens. Open minds, people. Open minds.
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Sep 21, 2005 9:15:48 PM CDT
The problem with theater is the writers and directors dealing wi
by eriamjh
Let me be the first to say I am a middle-aged married heterosexual, looking forward to the PRODUCERS like nobody's business, like musicals and broadway as much as I like intelligent adult science fiction. BUT... theater (especially musical theater) is the stomping ground for coming-out-of-the-closet writers and directors of the art world. Let's take a look at descriptions to what's playing in Chicago's theater scene right now, and try to pinpoint the issues these playwrites have come to terms with themselves - by inflicting on audiences to let them know that THEY ARE QUEER AND THEY ARE HERE!!! ++++++ " A KISS FROM ALEXANDER"-Alexander the Great returns from the underworld to star in a gay off-Broadway farce based on his life, then falls for the show's author-director. ++++++ POONIE'S CABARET This monthly showcase honors dancer Poonie Dodson, who died of AIDS-related complications in the early 90s. and benefits gay charities with comic, erotic, and varied performances ranging from dance to drag.++++++ "THE BAD SEED--THE MUSICAL" Corn Productions' laugh-out-loud spoof of the 1954 suspense drama stars the Berwyn mother-daughter team of "Tiff and Mom" (coauthors Robert Bouwman and Todd Schaner in drag) as a prepubescent serial killer and her distraught mother. This parody...++++++ ECHOES OF ANOTHER MAN The brain of a famous artist is transplanted into the body of a young golfer, in Mia McCullough's new drama. ++++++ "NAKED BOYS SINGING!" Eight actors display the full monty while singing about how they know the audience has come to see "not crudity but gratuitous nudity"--and there's plenty of that (plus a little soft-shoe)+++++ And don't get me started about the BLUE MAN GROUP!
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I love the musical. Seen it twice on stage. But, this trailer is flat. They need to get to the heart of the musical numbers, like the great CHICAGO trailer a few years back (one of the best trailers ever)
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Sep 22, 2005 6:27:17 AM CDT
This is the most brilliant musical score of the past thirty year
by willowfan2001
I listen to it in my car every couple of months. "Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Nazi Party." I'll be first in line on the 26th of December.
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...trying to work out who is going to see this other than fans from the play/liveshow/remake/whatever.Isn't Will Ferrel playing the mad German in it?Oh,God help us.....how long has it been since we saw a 'cer-azy gerrie' in a movie?Having dated a couple of Germans,I can say that they don't find it that funny at all and the two girls I dated seemed genuinely upset at these stereotypes.Insert germans have no sense of humour link here......I liked the original,found it funny,the show is good....this film...nah thanks...Uma needs a hit,this isn't gonna be it...that rhymes...badly.
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Phantom of the Opera was a bomb yes, but the film came out at least 10 years too late. Everyone forgot/didn't care about it anymore no matter how much of a smash it was in the early 90's. It's too bad, Webber wanted it made years earlier, but was stuck in a legal battle and couldn't get it made until 04'.
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Sep 22, 2005 11:09:08 AM CDT
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA vs. PREDATOR: The Action-Musical
by zombiesolutions
a joint directorial effort by Paul WS Anderson and Uwe Boll. thrill to the enchanment of pulse pounding action romance as The Phantom of the Opera locks horns with that "ugly mothaphucka" we all know and love -- the Predator. will will win? ask the shareholders, cause we don't even bother to write shit anymore. its' all just remakes and the occasional "vs." movie. take that, rumored box office slump!
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...but my wife persuaded me to go to this and I laughed my enormous man-titties off. If the movie is half as good as the stage production, this will have them rolling in the aisles. Then again, I saw it in London with Lee Evans - who was brilliant and very nearly a match for Gene Wilder - I find it harder to imagine Broderick in the role, even though he did it first.
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meth freaks the lot of them.
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The movie made more than twice it's budget back worldwide. For a movie without major stars and not a whole lot of advertising, it did pretty well. It didn't really have a real opening weekend since it opened in different places in different times so it was hard to gauge it's popularity, but it made money slowly but consistently during it's release period.
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Should realize that this looks pretty damn good. Between this and Rent, it's a good year for musical movies
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I still say Phantom is not nearly as popular as it was in the early 90's when it peaked. It packs them in on broadway? So does almost every damn show. In the early 90's, you had Phantom shows in every big city in North America. The time to do it was then and Webber tried, but couldn't film it.
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People on the talkback, bitch, moan, complain practically about every film and tv show. As will smith said about being black in hollywood, the only colour hollywood cares about is green. This explains, even though the simpsons is the most hated programm on this site. People forget the simpsons makes a fortune for the Murdoch empire. The smartest thing Mel Brooks ever did was to put the Producers on Broadway. 12 tonys and a hundred million later. Brooks is now a very wealthy man.
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Hate the playa, not the game. Wait. Or are you supposed to hate the game and leave the playa alone? I always get that confused. Anyway, sig heil, motherfuckers. I'm Audi.
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Sep 23, 2005 8:07:57 PM CDT
Sorry, but if one thing history has proven, it's that NO ONE
by iamjack'suserid
Whether your British, German, French, Spanish, American, Russia or ANYONE, you've got dried blood on you. And it ain't from picking your nose too hard.
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Sep 26, 2005 3:52:25 PM CDT
I saw the play with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, and I enj
by k-pobuibo
I'm an Internet Geek, and I still liked it. Ditching Cady Huffman in favor of Uma may not be the best move, but I flat out refuse to patronize any movie that features that one-note hack Will Ferrell. Once you've seen one sketch he's in, you've seen them all. Every character he's played is a variation of the 'borderline psychotic that has no clue that no one likes him' character he was on everything he did on SNL. Way not to be versatile, Will!
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Normally, I'd be with you. But think about it. What is Liebkind but a borderline psychotic that has no clue that no one likes him? It's a perfect bit of casting, for once in Will Ferrell's sad, sad career.
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