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Archive for February 2nd, 2009

A great movie that keeps getting better

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What could be more appropriate for Feb. 2 than a (long) look at the classic Harold Ramis/Bill Murray comedy GROUNDHOG DAY?

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 Nothing, of course. So here’s the link. I read somewhere that Muray’s character spends the equivalent of 10,000 years stuck in that small town on that same day.

You know part of it was filmed in Loves Park, right?

What’s Zack saying?

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Seems the ol’ Movie Man site needs a little more WATCHMEN-related knews! So here’s an interesting interview with director Zack Snyder from none other than The New York Times.

 Here’s the craziest quote, with Snyder discussing the possibility of a sequel:

“No, no. I don’t know how you would do that. We never did it, but we were going to do a limited release Bazooka bubble gum. I wanted Dave [Gibbons] to draw a comic book for me, and you had to collect all of them to make it make sense. I think it’s three panels per bubble gum, and you had to get 10 gums to make it all. And I was going to make a thing called Planet Rorschach. So you see this planet, and it’s covered with New York City. It’s like a planet of New York City. There’s no suburbs. There’s one giant Empire State Building, like Mount Olympus, in the middle of it. And hovering above the needle is Manhattan, blue, glowing. But the planet’s going, “Hurm, hurm, hurm, hurm, hurm, hurm.” You can’t tell, it’s this big, deafening, “Hurm.” And as you get close, you go down into the city and the whole world is populated with Rorschachs. And they’re all bumping into each other, going, “Hurm, hurm, no compromise, hurm, hurm, Armageddon.” That’s basically it. So I was like, “Is that the movie you guys want to make?” “


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