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Moriarty's RUMBLINGS FROM THE LAB #31 RE: MUMMY 2, SPROCKETS, THE GIFT, OCEAN'S 11, RETURN OF THE JOKER, DR. DEMENTO!!!

batman will rule by batman1111	Mar 16th, 2000 03:56:53 AM
batman return of the joker will be great to bad we have to wiat
Ocean's 11........... by Nightwing007	Mar 16th, 2000 04:03:48 AM
I don't know about anyone else, but Soderbergh's films may just be some the best things in theatres the coming year.
sort the music out by reni	Mar 16th, 2000 04:22:05 AM
Moriarty, quit wasting money on jokey cd's and buy some real music - Rhino have just released Best of The Faces 1970-73 for 15 dollars. That's a bargain at half the price...
i hope this message stays up at the top because ding dang it, IM by baff	Mar 16th, 2000 04:26:00 AM
thanx moriatry for clearing up why the hell your continued rambling was not posted on saturday. i just thought i went insane or something. anyway i am always looking forward to anything batman animated but since i live in australia i guess i should wait until we get batman beyond down here, let alone the dang movie. ps Harry, where is your Fantasia 2000 review huh? where is it? hasnt that ebert thing been on tv or something? i dunno cause once again, your hemisphere is foreign to me,so this is just a reminder if youve forgotten. by the way, i really like the joker but i dont really like him as the head gotham villain. i think catwoman is the best by far. The relation between her and batman could be so much more intriguing than it is in the animated series or in batman returns. they both got really close to the perrrfect (i am SO sorry) catwoman/batman thing but for me didnt live up to the fullest potential. In RETURNS she had to split villain time with the penguin and in BATMAN:tas she shares quality screen time with ALL of them and she has only been in about five or six epiodes whilst the joker gets the cream of the crop (maybe it is just that im upset with him for taking up the precious time that my catwoman could be occupying). i also thought that the mummy was a great load of fun as a movie and got exactly wanted i wanted out of it. very satisfying indeed. ANYWAY, your not the ONLY one who can go on a mindless rant, moriatry. maybe harry can give me my own column were i can g...aw forget it, ill put u out if your misery now. This has been a sentence were i pretend to be User ID Indeed!(im actually baff though!shhhh;)
Re: Jon-lee-ander by Gag Halfrunt	Mar 16th, 2000 05:43:15 AM
Could you perhaps consider using punctuation in your post. You know, things like ,. etc. It's a tall order, obviously, but may actually help people to understand what you're saying.
To read makes our speaking English good by Astro Pud	Mar 16th, 2000 05:48:53 AM
Over the last twenty-five years, I have read the scripts drunk, concussed, stoned, with a live stoat in my underpants and once on regional television with my trousers round my ankles and a Lithuanian prostitute under the news desk. Still these things make no sense to me.
Henry Phillips by Sir Chuck	Mar 16th, 2000 05:58:12 AM
Heard him on the "Bob & Tom" show earlier this week, as a matter of fact. Funny stuff -- not up to par with Heywood Banks, but better than others.
moriarty, you're WRONG, WRONG, WRONG by frogswarm	Mar 16th, 2000 06:31:25 AM
Hilary Swank is not in the lead role in THE GIFT. It's the absolutely gorgeous Cate Blanchett. I know Swank is in the film, but she's only one of the supporting characters.Supposedly so is Katie Holmes. I haven't read the script, but maybe you can re-read it (or post it!) and give us the correct scoop.
Dr. Demento by ellid	Mar 16th, 2000 06:38:21 AM
The Canadian sketch was always touted on Dr. Demento as "Last Will and TEMPERAMENT," which makes a lot more sense. "And I leave my entire vast fortune to the people of Calgary so they can move some place decent!!!!!"
the mummy 2 by jak flash 2000	Mar 16th, 2000 06:49:26 AM
I think Steve Sommers is a great director and the mummy 2 will be bloody cool. NUFF SAID. Oh and before I forget X men will alsdo rule so to hell with you all.
Least Anticipated Film Of The Year by Slugworth	Mar 16th, 2000 06:52:14 AM
SPROCKETS!!! Mike Meyers can make a 5 minute "spockets" sketch seem tedious and boring. This is one movie I will wait for video, and then not rent.
The Frantics by samson shillitoe	Mar 16th, 2000 08:33:13 AM
Moriarty - should you ever see a show called 4 ON THE FLOOR appear late night in some cable graveyard, tune it. That was the name of the Frantics short-lived, pre-KIDS IN THE HALL sketch comedy show that deserves a better fate than the obscurity to which is is condemned outside of Canada. And for all its visual pleasures and sense of B-Movie elan, THE MUMMY was poorly-written, so I'm not surprised at all by your initial report on M2.
Reading Comprehension Day On The AICN Talk Back by mrbeaks	Mar 16th, 2000 09:08:16 AM
First, we have Gag taking Jon-lee-ander to task for a paucity of punctuation, when his post has commas and periods aplenty, and, now, we have the above moron berating Moriarty for failing to identify Cate Blanchett as the star of THE GIFT even though Moriarty plainly states that Ms. Blanchett will be portraying THE CENTRAL CHARACTER IN THE SCRIPT! Madness! Oh, and good rumblings, Moriarty. I especially enjoyed your review of Scott Frank's MICRONAUTS script. Sounds like a winner! Can't wait to see what Blake Edwards does with it.
The gift has already been done! by jak flash 2000	Mar 16th, 2000 09:44:13 AM
Years ago (1989) there was a tv show called the gift. It was about a young boy who inherited powers to read peoples minds. He eventully reads his fathers mind and sees a robbary will soon take place. He is also stalked by a man whom once lost the gift hundreds of years ago and the man has come back to claim it. It does exist its listed in the timeout film book. Maybe a remake would be good though. But for now I say Sam Raimi goes and does Spidey. I think he would do the film great (Both films). Go Raimi.
Man kicked in groin and vomits. by Wesley Snipes	Mar 16th, 2000 09:57:54 AM
The Dieter flick sounds great!
MORIARITY! You never told us about ... by BraveCapt.	Mar 16th, 2000 09:58:06 AM
the Stan Lee Media party that you and Harry went to (at least I don't think you told us about it)before you left for ShoWest. I'd really like to hear about that! If you can give us a report, that's be super-swell. BraveCapt.
Can't stop the music by Powerslave	Mar 16th, 2000 10:05:24 AM
For some truly inspired hilarity - or inanity - you owe it to yourself to check out "Spaced Out!" It's a "greatest hits" compilation of the works of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner. "Bilbo Baggins" is on there, as well as the Shatner gems "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds," "Mister Tambourine Man," and "King Henry V." One of the greatest comedy albums of all time.****The Rock in 'Mummy 2?' Please. Arching your eyebrows, shouting worn-out buzzwords into a microphone, and wrestling about with sweaty, mostly-naked men is not acting. Oh well. If 'The Mummy 2' doesn't work out, The Rock can always join the XFL; I'm sure they can always use another Canadian Football League reject.
THEY BETTER NOT KILL OFF TIM DRAKE! by Drath	Mar 16th, 2000 11:06:24 AM
That would just suck since the character has more potential and HE DOESN'T DIE IN THE COMICS! THAT is Jason Todd, who they should have used if killing Robin was in the cards. And considering how great a Young Justice show would be with these writers(or Peter David!), I pray they don't paint themselves into a corner here. It would just suck. This isn't Se7en!
Mummy2 by CANARYKING	Mar 16th, 2000 11:15:43 AM
I really hope you're wrong about the Mummy 2. I'm really looking forward to it but have always feared that it might just be a rehash of the first movie . Here's hoping that it improves before it hits the screen.
Just a thought about Batman by Bigbody	Mar 16th, 2000 11:37:00 AM
It may sound stupid after I write it out but what if Tim Drake turned into the Joker. I mean they said something about the Joker looking like he never aged. Then this would be a reason why Bruce hung up the bat suit. He's sidekick turned on him. Yeah it does sound stupid out loud. This was just something that was running around my head after I read the section about Batman
Sorry but I must disagree with you, Moriarty, on Ocean's 11 by STAX	Mar 16th, 2000 11:42:48 AM
I read that Steve Carpenter draft, too, and found nothing to fawn over in it. The characters were PAPER THIN and were trying too hard to be recall the Rat Pack for their own good. That Sammy Davis, Jr character is, well, too much like Sammy right down to saying "baby" and "cat." It's hokey like that. I haven't heard much of this bad buzz about Griffin's draft that you mention except from Jeffrey Wells, who panned it over at his reel.com column. If this script -- which I admit I rather liked but thought needed further work -- is as bad as you feel then I can't help but wonder why this is the one that landed Soderberg, Clooney, Pitt, Julia, and Wahlberg and got the project green-lit while Carpenter's wasn't able to attract anybody but Jerry Weintraub. I liked Carpenter's to a degree but it was basically HBO's Rat Pack movie crossed with Con Air. I reviewed a comparison of these two O-11 drafts over at my site FlixBurg if you're curious. Thanks for your time. http://members.xoom.com/FlixBu rg/
Raimi may pull it off by Terry_1978	Mar 16th, 2000 02:50:24 PM
At first, I thought that the spider-man flick would need someone who's more fantasy oriented at the helm, (Spielberg, Burton, Richard Donner, etc.) but Raimi may be actually be more able to take the story to greater heights. There have always been various plot twists and what not in the spider-man world, and instead of making it just a full on CGI over-budget hype fest, adding some intricate details about the characters, such as why they act the way they do and what goes through their minds as they're doing it could be done much better by Raimi.
by Saulot	Mar 16th, 2000 03:08:29 PM
When I thought of SPROCKETS, I used to think it was the durn-funniest thing on T.V. But a little while ago, I actually watched an SNL repeat in which SPROCKETS was on. Ugh! Maybe it was just that sketch, but it was terrible! The sketch was painful after two minutes; now they're turning it into a feature-length movie? No! Smack Lorne Micheals, if you must, but I will not have any more SNL movies! He's scraping the bottom of the barrel for his latest SNL movies ("Superstar", "A Night at the Roxbury", "It's Pat"). Following this trend, _any_ sketch that was on SNL for at least three episodes will have a movie in the works? What's next?!? Ninety minutes of "Hey, Remember the 80s?", "The Ambigously Gay Duo", or those Spartan cheerleaders are movies I don't want to see. Stop the flow of crap!--Saulot--
RE: Traffic and Ocean's 11 by All Thumbs	Mar 16th, 2000 03:09:14 PM
I read Michael Douglas is now the drug-czar in "Traffic." Shame on Harrison Ford for missing out on what could have been a defining moment in his career rival to "Star Wars" and the Indiana Jones movies. It would have been a great turn-around from the self-righteous roles he's been playing lately. (See "Airforce One") I'm not sure how I feel about Douglas as the czar, though, because to me he'll have to work hard not to portray the slime-ball/jerk he usually plays in his movies. I'm not saying that I can't distinguish character from actor, I'm saying either he's been typecast or else he brings an air of slimey-ness to those characters that wasn't in the original script. I just can't see him as a man torn between being the "good guy" enforcer and the concerned parent of a drug-addicted child.***"Ocean's 11" is driving me nuts. First, I was totally against a remake. Then I heard the name Soderbergh and some of the possible cast and I said, "Ok. I think this might be a good remake because it won't try to totally remake shot-for-shot and could have the chemistry of 'Out of Sight' to boot! It will be Soderbergh's movie, not the Rat Pack poorly reincarnated." Now...I'm apprehensive, but I think I'll wait until you tell us more about the script changes, Moriarty, before making any judgements.
Bo Welch by Elgyn6655321	Mar 16th, 2000 04:00:29 PM
...is a great production designer. Wonder how he`ll serve "Sprockets" as his debut. I could not believe they even made the last couple SNL movies (A Night At the Roxbury, Superstar). Who the hell thinks those characters are SO funny that they`d watch a 2 hour movie of it! I thought making an "It`s Pat!" movie was stretching it thin, but THIS is friggin` crazy. [BTW - Remember "Coneheads"?]
Yoda by BobBarker	Mar 16th, 2000 05:07:18 PM
Probably the only weird al song that was less funny than the original. Lola is flippin' hilarious. A local cat from here in Charlotte who does some damn funny songs is Tim Wilson. Check out his CD's, real cool stuff.
"The Gift" of Keanu keanu Keanu by Miss Lavendar	Mar 16th, 2000 05:40:26 PM
The female movie going population rejoices that Keanu will be in the Gift. He will portray Redneck wifebeater Donnie w/ his own personal Keanuesqe touch. I can't wait for next year's Academy awards. OH and we also have Driven and The Replacements to look forward to in the coming months. Boyfriends/husbands get ready to divvy up the cash for the tickets.
If Keanue is a gift, can I exchange him? by All Thumbs	Mar 16th, 2000 06:11:07 PM
Sorry, I couldn't resist. Like Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves just does not flip my switch, if you know what I mean.
Patriot! by The Insider	Mar 16th, 2000 06:52:52 PM
www.inlinefirst.com landed a review of the Patriot with loads of spoilers (I got the link from cinescape) from Omega Prime Alpha.
Hats Off! by RoyHarper	Mar 16th, 2000 09:44:32 PM
Tim. Wilson. Rules.
Would you like to touch my monkey?? by Wheel99	Mar 16th, 2000 09:59:27 PM
Sprockets will kick ass. Mike Meyers hasnt made an unfunny movie yet. I remember watching a sprockets sketch with a segment called Germany's Most disturbing home videos. It was a fucking riot!!!!! If anyone could pull this off its Mike Meyers, and by the sound of the script review it sounds like he does!!!!
Re: Dr. Demento and Stations playing him. by Zone Zero	Mar 16th, 2000 10:03:26 PM
I live in Minneapolis (Obviously) and need to know where his show airs. It's bigging the frack out of me that I can't find him anywhere!!
Dr. Demento/ Boot To The Head by MisspentYouth	Mar 16th, 2000 11:04:02 PM
Oh come on now, Moriarty... You should have had "Boot to the head" in your vocab for years now... Check out the two disc "Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary" box from Rhino... I think "Boot To The Head" is on disc two... And it's giggle-maniacally funny.
Why Bruce hung up his cape by Dlhstar	Mar 17th, 2000 01:00:46 AM
I always assumed that Bruce hung up his cape because he was forced to resort to using (at the most, just pointing) a gun to stop a criminal..(Pilot of BM Beyond). Anyway, I always thought they should have given the second Robin the Jason Todd name to go with the origin. It would also be a great storyline where Batman could reflect on his failure in allowing children to help him in his very adult war on crime, effectivly distancing himself from both Batgirl and Nightwing for a season or so, then we could bring in the real Tim Drake. Perhaps Tim's fate in BM Beyond is to be the one crippled by the Joker instead of Barbera... BTW: Has there ever been a debut of Dick AS Robin story in the animated series (Ala The Gauntlet one-shot?)
I will still flip your switch, just like I do for all the female by darthpsychotic	Mar 17th, 2000 01:08:19 AM
for $100 dollars. I am a grunge heartthrob!!!. Now, seriously, maybe, whenever I think Keanu "Whoa" Reeves, I also think Joey "Whoa" Lawerence. When I first seen Keanu "Whoa" Reeves it was in one of my most beloved psychotic movies, River's Edge, which also starred Ione Skye. However, most other people first view of Keanu "Whoa" Reeves, it was in BILL and TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURES and BILL and TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY. Do you remember the Saturday morning cartoon also called BILL and TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURES? In retrospect, THAT cartoon didn't receive the acclaim it should have. I hope the Cartoon Network acquires the series for broadcast. Whoa!
My first Keanu "Whoa" Reeves experience... by All Thumbs	Mar 17th, 2000 01:52:21 AM
My first Keanu experience is also the one I think he actually put some acting talent behind: "Parenthood." Ah, "Parenthood," another good Steve Martin flick that has Keanu cast as a Keanu-esque young slacker with a heart of gold who spouts off some wisdom about growing up without even knowing it. Also, he gets it on with Martha Plimpton, who says one of the best insults ever: "Well I thought someone should be having sex around here with something that doesn't require batteries." Great line.****Actors who DO flip my switch, in case anyone cares: Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton, Indiana Jones-style Harrison Ford, long-haired Tom Cruise, Matt Damon and Hyde from "That 70's Show" (though I think that's a case of character over the actual actor and I also think the guy who plays Eric is cute, too...he's going to be in Traffic, BTW)
R.I.P. Batman TAS by Schwinn	Mar 17th, 2000 02:27:10 AM
Batman and all his incarnations will be sorely missed. I can't believe that one of the greatest animated programs in history is being rubbed out by a poorly drawn anime show about an electric rodent. sigh. Well, I'm countin' the days until ROTJ's (apologies to George Lucas)video (and keep your fingers crossed, DVD) release. Best wishes to Harry and his whole crew and a big FUCK YOU to the suits at WB. Peace out from SATX.
The gift has already been done !possable spoiler! by jak flash 2000	Mar 17th, 2000 07:27:08 AM
Sorry people someone deleted my post. So here it is again. The gift was a tv film made years ago about a young boy who suddenly inherits a gift to read peoples minds. Then later he sees a robbary will take place and he finds out his father has some involement in it. It was very good and it is refrenced in the time out film guide later people.
The ONE SNL Movie that MUST be made... by Slugworth	Mar 17th, 2000 10:08:46 AM
Okay. SNL movies are getting worse and worse. I have already commented about my feelings on Sprockets. Generally speaking I never want to see another SNL movie made, with one exception: CHURCH LADY THE MOVIE. Concept, the Church Lady dies and goes to heaven where she and St Peter, review her life. Simple concept to set up Dana Carveys comedy. Dana Carvey is quite possibly the funniest, most talented comedian without a steady gig right now. Its a shame. The fact that Adam Sandler get 20 million a film to crap out really bad movies and Dana Carvey hasn't had any big projects lately is proof in and of itself that the we live in an unfair universe. Anyone know what Carvey has been up to lately?
Concerning the bastardization of Batman by monkeylucifer	Mar 17th, 2000 10:48:09 AM
Now, that commercial with Batman for the Onstar system REALLY gets on my nerves now, and let me tell you why: WHY THE FUCK IS HE FLYING IN AT THE BEGINNING?!?!?! I know he could be swinging in, but for the love of mike, it looks like he's flying. It does strike me, though that Tim Burton's Batman has easily become the most recognizable incarnation of the dark knight detective, and that's a shame, as the animated stuff should have continued to carry the torch, and have more support from Warner Brothers. Paul Dini could easily gather a solid team and do a Batman film a year, and make it high quality entertainment, what a spectacular treatment of the franchise that would be.
Yes, stupid people don't deserve to market Batman by Drath	Mar 17th, 2000 11:22:36 AM
The animated Batman is never going to be recognized as superior so long as the heads of WB still don't get animation for adults. Stupid people who are so out of touch its laughable. And to DIHistar, there's never been an animated episode that shows Dick Grayson putting on the costume for the first time. But there was Robin's Reckoning, which told all that really needed to be told about how Dick lost his parents and how he learned Bruce Wayne's secret. Man, the more I think about it the angrier I get. Barbra Gordon was crippled, they should show that! I know she's walking around in the future, but a device to help her walk could easily explain that(they can do everything else in the future). I wish they would have incorporated more of the comics' continuity, particularly since Batman seemed to have suffered a loss like Jason Todd by the time Tim Drake came around. But if they kill off Drake and cut short the present day continuity then I will cry. I mean, come on, it's the equivalent of the animation people saying, "It's really over, and we're never coming back. This incarnation is finished." Damn shame if they go that way. The stupid in-bred idiots of WB win.
Touch it!! Hold it!! TUFSHEN MINE ALFSHPLINKY!!!!! by kindablue28	Mar 17th, 2000 12:53:18 PM
I heard about the prospect of the Sprockets movie, and at first I wasn't too keen on it. But tend to agree with Moriarty. Plus Moriarty doesn't usually GUSH so much about a script like this. So my only logical deduction is that this has some potential to be pretty diggety darn cool...if they hold to the script. As far as other SNL movies go, they're currently developing "The Ladies Man" movie. Now there's one you could wipe yer ass with.
Mein Gott in Himmel! by PowderKeg	Mar 17th, 2000 03:24:05 PM
Sprockets was by far my fave SNL skit series from that period. It wasn't your typical mainstream comedy, so I was surprised to hear of a movie in the works. I'm sure the script is as good as this article says, but I'm also expecting it to go through rewrites and become more hollywood crap that resorts to fart jokes and gets a PG-13.
Ah yes, the fart jokes.... by monkeylucifer	Mar 17th, 2000 03:33:16 PM
Please more humor involving the vapors...you do know what the vapors means don't your? Where I come from it means pointless arguing.
Thank God for Paul Dini and the gang by Dark Knight	Mar 17th, 2000 06:58:56 PM
I thank the maker everyday that the miracle that is the Batman animated series and all its reincarnations managed to come to life in the corporate cess pool that is the WB. It inspires me everyday that miracles do happen and you can take comic material and transfer it to other mediums. Comics are the fairy tales, myths and dreams of our time. Please oh egocentric apes of the WB, give these geniuses there do turn at the live action movie. And to satisfy your egos, you will earn more money than you can dream of as they weave there magic over the greatest character of all time. Even Shakespeare himself would want to write Batman.
Is it just me, or...... by NM Movie Man	Mar 19th, 2000 02:34:13 AM
Has Moriarty just totally brainwashed "Harry Knowles?", do you peeps remember the good old days?, when Harry would review every movie that would come out, and he was like part of us, now hes always out with moriarty who seems to think hes some kind of cartoon character or something, and then Harry is always doing the Ebert thing, or something else that is more important than the site, i mean, remember when he would hype, Dogma and Magnolia?, well where the hell is his review for them?, well shit i dont know, i just miss the old Harry, i hope Father Geek dont get drunk and ban me, that would suck, but it would prove that this site doesnt believe in free speach, but then again, what has this site become the last few months? NMMM Outtie

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