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Post by spaniard on Aug 15, 2006 22:27:28 GMT -5
Thank you, I'm honored as well. I already have that page added to favorites, my exams are getting close and I will take a closer and longer look later, when I won't feel so guilty for not being reading my text books only.
VDO vixen...what a name for a business card! That would shock everybody for sure.
I don't know if this magnet is still on sale, saw it time ago but I'm sure there are more magnets and mousepads. Goren on a mousepad...I don't think people would like a cop watching them while they look for pornog...books, looking for books.
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Post by spaniard on Aug 15, 2006 22:35:56 GMT -5
Talking about buying on the internet, I bought Claire Dolan and Happy accidents a week ago on amazon and it hasn't been shipped yet. Are the movies so rare that they need more than a week to find them? they say they have them in stock, they should have sent them already.
This is the first time I buy a movie I haven't seen before but it is the only way because his movies are so independent that they almost never cross the ocean. We'll see if I like them, Happy Accidents looks very amusing. I will have the chance to watch Case of Evil soon on tv, a channel is airing all the tv shows about Holmes of the last 10 years.
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Post by Patcat on Aug 16, 2006 8:56:07 GMT -5
If you don't request the faster delivery, it can take two weeks for Amazon to deliver items. You probably know you can check on your order's progress by logging in and just clicking on it.
Patcat
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Post by spaniard on Aug 16, 2006 9:26:40 GMT -5
the problem is not the mail, it never takes more than 6 days from the moment it is shipped, what is strange is that they usually ship my orders in less than 24 hours and this one is still there after more than a week.
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Post by madger on Aug 16, 2006 9:36:42 GMT -5
They like to ship all at once, so if they were out of stock on one item, that will hold up the whole shipment, within reason, if its going to be back ordered for a while they will ship the rest of the stuff, no extra charge. madger
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Post by spaniard on Aug 16, 2006 12:22:47 GMT -5
they said they had everything in stock, that´s why I was wondering. Anyway, I just got the mail saying that soon I will get my stuff, on Sept 22nd! if they call that soon I don´t want to know what they call late. Nah, I´m just kidding, they always give extra long periods and then I get my stuff always in less than a week.
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Post by sarahlee on Aug 17, 2006 22:05:41 GMT -5
<spaniard> I predict you will love "Happy Accidents"--if my professour had explained time travel to me like that, (diner scene) and was VDO, I'd have a nobel prize by now. "Case of Evil" is another good one. I'm a Holmes fan, but two minutes into the movie and I'm rooting for the bad guy. (Moriarty)
I just got back from a lovely interlude in San Francisco. The weather was sunny and cool, the scenery gorgeous, and the company was marvelous. NO billboards! What a concept. I arrived the day after the earthquake, (mild one) after the heat wave, and left the day before the terror scare. My host even took pity on crazy me and DVR'd CI for me. I am a blessed woman.
caseyswife has the best avatar, but mine is a close second! (Gotcha!)
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Post by spaniard on Aug 17, 2006 23:24:41 GMT -5
I love romantic time travels and in part this is the reason why I bought this movie, the book The Time Traveler´s Wife is my favorite. I was very disappointed when I knew that Aniston and Pitt had bought the rights for the screen. Something tells me that these two are not interested in making a romantic movie together . It is not that I wanted to see them being Henry and Clare but I wanted to make this story worldwide and unless they sell the rights... I'm a Holmes and Doyle fan and I'm willing to see Case of Evil. Sarah, you avatar is great and intelligent because you can see and read so you deserve more than a second place, a second and a half place.
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Post by Patcat on Aug 18, 2006 8:31:19 GMT -5
A CASE OF EVIL is...interesting (g).
It's not really a Sherlock Holmes movie--it's a movie with characters called Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, but not really them. I know that a lot of Holmes fans really hated it. But I like it in an odd way. Part of it is because of Mr. D'Onofrio's wildly over the top performance as Moriarty, but I guess that the filmmakers knew what they were getting when they cast him. He certainly seems to be having a lot of fun. What bothers me is the casting of Richard E. Grant as Mycroft. Mr. Grant would make a superb Holmes, what with that profile and his ability to play dark, intelligent characters. And he keeps circling around it.
Patcat
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Post by spaniard on Aug 18, 2006 8:44:47 GMT -5
D'Onofrio as Moriarty, ok, Richard E. Grant as Mycroft, I can take it but...James D'Arcy as Holmes? looks like a kid playing with grown-ups. Way too young for my taste, I always imagined Holmes tall, thin, long boned face and around 50, not a brat-looking actor. Although I have to be fair, I'm partial because nobody beats Basil Rathbone.
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Post by caseyswife on Aug 18, 2006 14:35:06 GMT -5
Sarahlee, no VDO avatar could ever be in second place! They all rule because The Man rules!! caseyswife
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Post by janetcatbird on Aug 18, 2006 14:49:02 GMT -5
I did not like "Case of Evil" at all, and I'm not even a diehard Holmes fan. Looked to me like one big excuse for screwy cinematography. Did that even have a plot? I just remember blurry scenery, D'Onofrio acting hokey menacing, and young obnoxious Holmes going on drug trips. (I know that opium was a factor for Holmes in the books, but I think they went overboard.) Yuck.
First week of class is over. Most of the dorm is going to see "Snakes on a Plane" tonight, I'm staying right here. Pop in a movie, listen to music, maybe get in a last bit of fun reading before it all piles on. Too muggy to sit outside just now, but once it cools off I am so heading for a bench on the walkway.
--Catbird
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Post by NikkiGreen on Aug 18, 2006 15:08:38 GMT -5
A kind soul sent me a copy of "A Case of Evil" after it first ran on USA. I only watched in once; couldn't even tell you where the tape is, to be quite honest. I didn't care for it much either. Catbird, how come your classes have already started? In British Columbia, the new school year (elementary, secondary and post-secondary) doesn't start until September. The day after Labour Day, to be exact. You seem to have gotten a good roommate, this year.
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Post by Patcat on Aug 18, 2006 15:13:09 GMT -5
Actually, Holmes took cocaine and morphine. He visited an opium den in the course of one story (THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP), but there's no evidence he took it.
I'm a little obsessive compulsive about Holmes, for which I apologize.
Patcat
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Post by spaniard on Aug 18, 2006 15:40:02 GMT -5
I love Holmes, the real Holmes books, I read them all at the hospital and fell in love with it. It was the only book able to take me somewhere far away from my evil nurses. by the way, I talk about the hospital like if it was serious and it wasn´t, just an arm that made me go to rehabilitation for the whole summer. Yeah, I´m wild, I´ve been through rehab, like those drunk actors! I know it´s different but it is not when I explain it I usually don´t watch movies based on Holmes because if the plot is new, it is usually lame and if they take it from a real Doyle book, I get mad when they ignore important details and characters. I saw a Holmes movie made by Rupert Everett and... please don´t make me curse. But anyway, I will give Case of Evil a chance because I´m that openminded (and I would do whatever to run away from my text books).
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