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post #1 of 22
8/5/04 at 10:31pm
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Two seasons down. Time to move into Fall. Post your Fall Releases here!

Also, there was such a number of potential blockbuster for summer that a traditionla poll can't fit them all. Instead, PM me with you top three films from the summer releases and after everyone votes, I'll list the top five vote getters.
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post #2 of 22
8/6/04 at 2:36am
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Hell Froze Over
Horror/Comedy (AKA Splatstick), US, Rated R - (Director's Unrated Cut coming to DVD)
Director - Ryuhei Kitamura
Starring - Omar Epps - Ezekial "Easy" Walton, Point guard for the Orlando Sunburn, Predestined to be a demon slayer
Zach Braff - Donnie Jensen, Props Manager for Almond Ave Live, In love with Marianne, completely useless under stress
Chiaki Kuriyama - Mine Yakamura, Japanese tourist and 5.6.7.8's groupie who's following the band on their American tour, martial arts master
Angela Bettis - Marianne Berinski, plays Debbie Sunshine in Almond Ave Live east Coast Tour, innocent and naive, Loves Donnie
Co-Starring - Steve Carell as The Devil, the dark lord Satan who's cocky and exstatic about bring on Armagedon, even if it involves freezing the Earth
Patrice O'Neal - Orlando Cartwright, overweight and overpaid center for the Orlando Sunburn, cronically injured and bench ridden, best friend to Easy
Sam Rockwell - Ulf Necrolux, Bass Player for the Swedish Death Metal band Necrobestialsex, cowardly coke addict
Danny Glover - Coach Rollins, Coach of the Orlando Sunburn, surprisingly spry and agressive, willing to die to win a championship
Christina Ricci - Nadine Atomic, drummer for Necrobestialsex, oversexed and slightly insane
James Marsters as Rat Jesus, vain lead singer for Necrobestialsex, dabbles in the black arts and gets in way over his head
Ricky Gervais as Gil Levine, pathetic time share salesman who's a complete loser and also a survivalist/gun nut who's close to snapping
Stuart Townsend as Boyd Patterson, cocky shooting gaurd for the Orlando Sunburst, contentious relationship with Easy
and The 5.6.7.8's as Themselves, coolest all girl retro rock band in Japan, also happen to be weapons masters and magic weilding monster hunters.
Makeup and Creature Effects by Stan Winston Studios
Soundtrack featuring The 5.6.7.8's, Andre 3000, Mos Def and more!
Summary - During the worst blizzard to hit the East Coast in seventy years, a professional baskestball team, the cast of a Seasame Street Live type show, a pair of rock bands and various tourists and traveling salsemen are trapped in a Pennsylvanian hotel. As the night wears on and the storms worsens, strange things begins to happen. Noises, then vandalism, then disappearances cause the stranded to question whether something is afoot. As tensions begin to mount, conditions worsen. It soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem at the Marrimount Hotel. No one knows who or what has brought death to the Marimount, but it soon becomes clear that it isn't natural. As the bodies begin to mount and possession becomes all too common, a band of mismatched survivors make their stand against the evil at work (lead by Satan himself) , including a pair of performers in over their head, a group a Japanese rockers and their groupie who seem far too prepared for such things and a basketball player who may be a prophesized saviour. But can this motley crew turn back a tide that includes zombified bellhops, demonic puppets, vampiric ice skaters, psychotic salesmen, horrific rockers and flaming basketball hurling abominations? Time and destiny will tell. Hell Froze Over draws on influences like Demon Knight, Meet the Feebles and Wild Zero, promising to be one over the top freakout that is sure please fans of cult and mainstream horror films alike. Be ready for the gore, the chaos and the insanity this Halloween.
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post #3 of 22
8/6/04 at 2:14pm


Down the Line
Status: Greenlit
Genre: Sports/Drama
Directed by: Robert Rodriguez
Starring:
Jay Hernandez..........Frankie Hernandez
Co-Starring:
Claire Danes.............Emily Richards
William L. Petersen...Manager
Burt Reynolds...........Team Owner
Timothy Daly.................Veteran Right Fielder

Summary:
Frankie Hernandez, a young collegiate Arizona baseball player (Hernandez) is drafted by the Seattle Mariners and quickly moves up the ranks when a veteran right fielder (Daly) is injured early in the season. His newly wedded wife, Emily (Danes), becomes worried that the sudden lift to the majors has gotten to Frankie's head. One morning before practice, Frankie wakes up to coughing coming from the bathroom and discovers that Emily is pregnant. Frankie explodes and Emily leaves him standing in the middle of the room dumbfounded. Days pass and on a rainy evening Frankie comes to his mothers apartment (where Emily is staying) only to have Emily tell him that she is leaving him and moving back to Arizona after three months of marriage. Frankie spirals out of control and starts to miss practice and meetings with his manager (Petersen) whom becomes concerned about his welfare. Frankie is called to a meeting with the team owner (Reynolds) and given an ultimatum. Clean up his act and be sent to the minors or be fired.
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Shooting Season(s): Late winter, spring
Release: Fall
(Complete soundtrack featuring music by Moby)



Second Street
Status: Greenlit
Genre: Drama/Period
Directed by: Curtis Hanson
Starring:
Lindsay Lohan..........Sarah Fleming
Shia LaBeouf............Tommy Hayes
Sandra Bullock..........Judy Hayes
Mark Ruffalo.............Steve Hayes
Lauren Graham........Sandra Gordon
Neal McDonough......Jack Gordon
Co-Starring
Bruce Campbell........Mike Fleming

Summary:
Pressured by his father (Ruffalo) to decide on a career path, Tommy Hayes (LeBeouf) finds support in a new neighbor, Sarah Fleming (Lohan). During the summer their relationship blossoms, but both sets of parents (Ruffalo/Bullock, McDonough/Graham) come to disapprove their newly-founded love.
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Shooting Season(s): Winter/Spring
Release: Fall



AKIMBO (Sanjuro-themed project)
Status: Greenlit
Genre: Action/Drama
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Starring:
Jason Lee.......................Detective Steven Falls
Co-Starring:
Frances McDormand.......Beth Powers
Jennifer Garner..............Lindsey Powers
Seth Green....................Detective Brown
Paul Giamatti.................Detective Martin
Stanley Tucci.................Frank Powers
Steve Buscemi...............James Dagwood
Rob Schneider...............Danny Silvo

Summary:
A dispirited detective (Lee) helps a young detective (Green) and his partner (Giamatti) save his uncle (Tucci), who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt businessman (Buscemi).
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Shooting Season(s): Winter, spring
Release: Fall
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post #4 of 22
8/6/04 at 9:49pm
Taliesin Productions Presents
An Alex Cox Picture



DC Vertigo's iconic chain-smoking bastard mage comes to the big screen in this adaptation of Garth Ennis's seminal "Dangerous Habits" arc. Diagonosed with terminal cancer, dark magician and con artist John Constantine (Paul Bettany, "Master & Commander) embarks on a quest that takes him through his past (including his "origin" at the infamous Newcastle massacre and early adventures based on the early work of Alan Moore and Jamie Delano) and present in search of a cure. When he realizes that he's either killed or betrayed everyone he ever depended on, John must face down the triumvurate of demons led by the First (Daniel Day Lewis, "Gangs of New York") to pull off the con to end all cons. Also starring Sean Bean as John's best friend and chauffeur Chaz, Martine McCutchenson ("Love Actually") as Kit, an old flame of John who reappears in his life during his travels, and Bill Nighy ("Underworld," "Love Actually") as Matt, a cancer patient John befriends. Written by Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), based on the comic by Garth Ennis and characters created by Alan Moore and Jamie Delano. Music by Howard Shore and featuring a classic punk soundtrack with The Buzzcocks, The Sex Pistols, Billy Bragg, The Clash, Talking Heads, and "Down Right Bastard", a brand-new single from the reunited Pogues.

Starrring
Paul Bettany-John Constantine

Co-Starring
Sean Bean-Chaz
Bill Nighy-Matt
Martine McCutchenson-Kit
Billy Connolly-Brendan
Daniel Day-Lewis-The First of the Three

Cameos
Heath Ledger (Gabriel, The Snob)
Amber Tamblyn (Ellie)

GO TO HELL
HALLOWEEN
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post #5 of 22
8/6/04 at 11:54pm
"Hell Froze Over" sounds like the story where the basketball team, Marilyn Manson (The band) and the cast of "Sesame Street Live" were stuck in the same hotel and one of the players says "Isn't this like the cantina scene from 'Star Wars'?" Hee hee. (true story)

Five Youmas Fall Slate-When the studio lives up to the name...sorta.


(Original European poster...could not find a descent English-language logo without Michael Crawford's name on it.)

Dance of the Vampires (Horror Musical, US-German, PG-13, 123 minutes)
Directed by-Todd Haynes
Starring-David Bowie...Count Von Kvorlock
Adrien Brody.....Alfred
Christy Carlson-Romano....Sarah
Rene Auberjonois....Prof. Abromius (Played him in the broadway version)
Supporting-Ron Orbach...Chagall, Sarah's dad (Played him in the broadway version)
Mary Pat Gleason.....Rebecca, Sarah's mom
Sophia Myles...Magda, the Maid Chagall is having an affair with
Jimmy Fallon.....Herbert, the count's son who is "out of the coffin"
Kevin J. O'Connor.....Krakol, the hunchback (Yes, it's typecasting....)
Cameos-Patton Oswalt...The Village Idiot
Plot: A musical version of the story of two Vampire hunters deemed crazy by their peers, a girl who wants something more, and the Vampire lord that wants to give that to her.
Vamp makeup by Greg Cannom, Costume designs by Gabriella Pescucci.
Shooting: Winter/Spring
Release: Fall (Halloween)

Ten Years Later (Sequel to "Thank God He Met Lizzie", Rom-com/Drama, US-Australian, R, 95 minutes)
Directed by: Shawn Levy
Starring: Richard Roxburgh.....Guy
Cate Blanchett.....Lizzie
Frances O'Connor.....Jenny
Plot: At Guy and Lizzie's 10th anniversary party, Guy can't stop thinking about a time 5 years ago when he was on business in Southern California, and he ran into Jenny, who is now residing as an artist there. Between the festivities of the party, we flash back to his time in Los Angeles where he is temped to cheat on his wife with the first girl he truly had a meaningful relationship with.
Shooting: Summer
Release: Fall
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post #6 of 22
8/7/04 at 4:02am
Preacher: Gone to Texas



directed by: Walter Hill

Cast

Starring:

Timothy Olyphant - Rev Jesse Custer
Naomi Watts - Tulip O' Hare
Robert Carlyle - Poinsias Cassidy

Co-starring:

Scott Glenn - The Saint of Killers
Kieran Culkin - Arseface
Sid Haig - Sheriff Hugo Root
Cloris Leachman - Gran'ma L'Angelle
Tom Sizemore - Jody
William Sanderson - T.C.

Makeup Effects by: KNB EFX

The Word and other Special Effects by: ILM

Summary: It was the time of the Preacher, and their was a story to tell. Down on his luck Preacher Jesse Custer is disgusted by the gross hypocrites that fill his little chapel every Sunday. He hates his job, his life and everything that he has touched with a passion. All except for John Wayne movies, Bill Hicks and a good bottle of liquor.

That was until the day he burned his congregation alive with a single word. Ol' Jesse Custer has found himself entered into a new game of Heaven and Hell all on the account of an angel and demon that couldn't keep their hands off each other. Their baby, Genesis, has become bonded through Jesse and now he is trying to deal with these new found powers.

Armed with the Word, Jesse meets up with his old girlfriend Tulip and their bizarre new Irish friend Cassidy and hit the road. Along the way, Jesse learns about his power. "The Word", whatever ol' Jesse Custer says...you have to follow it.

Now the trio chased across Texas by the evil Sheriff Root and his son Arseface, have to also deal with the strange old lady and her two redneck assistants that has taken quite an interest in Jesse.

This is the first in a series of six films surrounding the Time of Preacher.

Let's just hope that we're all around for the end of it.


Release Date: First Friday in October

Arseface says if you see only one movie out of this Draft, see Preacher

Izzts Azzztazztikkkk - Arseface
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post #7 of 22
8/7/04 at 4:03am
Planetary



directed by: Brian DePalma


Cast

Starring:

Harrison Ford - Elijah Snow
Thandie Newton - Jakita Wagner
Matthew Lillard - The Drummer

Co-starring:

Willem Dafoe - Dr. Randall Dowling
Allison Doody - Kim Suskind
James Franco - William Leather
Powers Boothe - John Stone, Agent of S.T.O.R.M.
Ming Na Wen - Anna Hark
Ray Liotta - Doc Brass
Phillip Michael Thomas - Ambrose Chase
Brendan Fraser - Jim Wilder

Special Effects by: ILM

Summary: It's a strange world, and an organization of archaeologists are trying to keep it that way. A wealthy organization has been charged with finding a man that could be capable of unlocking the greatest mysteries of the twentieth century. A secret city for US Mutations and horrible accident. An island full of creatures that would have their way with Godzilla. A secret team of heroes that have created a computer that allows them to rewrite reality. An Asian millionaire who discovers a ship that can travel through time and space in the middle of downtown Hong Kong.

All of these things are tied together by one giant open conspiracy. The problem is...there is another organization trying to solve this mystery, before the Planetary group can. Four sinister bastards of the Space Age have made it their mission to destroy all wonder in the world in their quest to conquer. Can the Planetary team stop them?

This fall get ready to meet...

...The easily bored Jakita Wagner....
...The enigmatic amnesiac Elijah Snow...

and

....The Drummer.


All over the World and onto your local movie theater screen...

This November.
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post #8 of 22
8/7/04 at 4:04am
The Legend of Zelda



directed by: Hayao Miyazaki



Cast

Starring:

Patrick Fugit - Link
Christopher Lee - Ganondorf/Agahnim

Co-Starring:

Alexis Bledel - Princess Zelda
Cloris Leachman - Impa
Stacy Keach - Link's Uncle
Mike Judge - Sahasrahla

Summary: Late one night Link awakes to find that his uncle has left for Hyrule Castle. Following his Uncle's path...Link arrives to find his Uncle in mortal combat with the dread wizard Agahnim. Before Link's eyes, his Uncle his cut down as Agahnim escapes with the Hylian Princess Zelda.

Taking up his uncle's sword and shield, Link sets out to rescue the Princess Zelda and to kill the dread wizard Agahnim. With the help of Zelda's nursemaid Impa and wise old wizard Sahasrahla, Link learns of the Triforce and its mystical powers. Agahnim has sent out the forces of evil to capture the broken pieces of the former magical talisman, but Link must stop them.

Through rugged terrain, abandoned palaces and underground labyrinths...Link goes on an adventure to rescue the Princess and save his beloved home of Hyrule.

Release Date: Christmas Day
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post #9 of 22
8/8/04 at 1:54am
Anna, you should probally know that Christy Carlson Romano is getting massacred by the critics for her performance as Belle in Beauty and the Beast. If you want to do a successful musical, you might want to get someone who can sing the high notes--and "Total Eclipse of the Heart" has a lot of high notes.
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post #10 of 22
8/8/04 at 10:36am
Dude, they actually did an episode of "Kim Possible" where we find out she couldn't hit the high notes...

And besides, musical directors do change things in the music to accomidate a person's range...
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post #11 of 22
8/8/04 at 8:25pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by Countess Anna loves Aussie Dracula
"Hell Froze Over" sounds like the story where the basketball team, Marilyn Manson (The band) and the cast of "Sesame Street Live" were stuck in the same hotel and one of the players says "Isn't this like the cantina scene from 'Star Wars'?" Hee hee. (true story)
You completely rule. I can't believe someone else remembers that story. It was a quote from Jon Koncak when he was playing for Orlando. It happened when those record breaking blizzards were tearing up the East Coast about eight years ago or so. I read about all of those people getting stuck in a hotel together and got the idea for this movie from it. I've been wanting to write the script for years.


Also, you may want to hold back your christmas releases, Anderson. I may be wrong here, but I was assuming that the Winter scedule was for December/ January and all the oscar bait and christmas blockbusters.
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post #12 of 22
8/8/04 at 9:12pm
Detekka-Tive Bozo Pictures Fall Slate:

The Prisoner (based on the cult T.V. show)
A secret agent (Clive Owen) storms into the office of his superior and resigns from the bureau for reasons unknown. He returns home and, as he packs for a trip, his apartment is gassed. The agent is rendered unconscious.

When he wakes up, he is in a quaint beach community known only as "The Village". He is taken to the supposed head of The Village, a charmingly sinister man known only as Number 2 (Brian Cox). Number 2 explains that he is being kept in The Village, because they want "information" from him, such as why did he retire. The agent is being referred to only as Number Six, to which he replies "I am not a number! I am a free man!" and storms out.

A battle of wits ensues. Number Six keeps trying to escape from The Village but is thwarted by the creepy round "thing" that holds dominion over the entire place. Number Six meets up with a mysterious and beauty woman, Number 20 (Emily Watson) who may or may not be trusted.

Will Number Six escape? Will he discover the identity of the unseen Number One? Find out on September 23rd.

Directed by Darren Aronofsky


Scarlets (horror film)
A clinical trial for an experimental drug goes awry at a small women's college , and suddenly, the entire campus is overrun by zombies! A small group of girls manages to hide out in the school library as the rest of the school is being ravaged. The group consists of Pam, the physics student (Sara Tanaka); Karen the softball jock (Katherine Isabelle); Jordi the theater major (Lauren Ambrose); Margaret the Bible student (Heather Matarazzo) and two snotty sorority bitches, Barbara and Valerie (Mischa Barton and Michelle Trachtenberg). As more zombies become aware of their presence in the library, their situation becomes more desperate. All the girls have at their disposal are a few propane torches leftover from some construction workers and a whole bunch of flammable books. Who will survive and what will be left of them? Find out on October 28th (just in time for Halloween)

Directed Kathryn Bigelow
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post #13 of 22
8/9/04 at 5:33am
Dead Man's Boots

Directed by Andrew Lau

Starring:
Wesley Snipes as Interpol Agent Damien Bailey
Michelle Yeoh as Inspector Kelly Ling
Andy Lau as Victor Chu, undercover agent for the Hong Kong Police
Chow Yun Fat as Tony Zhao, Triad boss

Supporting:
Ben Kingsley as Superintendent Edward Garnier
Maggie Cheung as Cecilia Zhao, Tony's wife
Jackie Chan as The Tramp


Synopsis:
With word of a major arms deal taking place, Interpol agent Damian Bailey is dispatched to Hong Kong. Inspector Kelly Ling has been working for years to catch Triad Boss Tony Zhao, but after all this time it sees to be working out too perfectly. After four years undercover, Victor Chu is finally in a position to take Zhao down. But with Tony gone, it would be so easy to take over.


Release Date: Early October
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post #14 of 22
8/10/04 at 12:37pm
Updated above.

Now with pictures!
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post #15 of 22
8/10/04 at 10:35pm
Thread Starter 
I was going to do a zombie movie for October, but I didn't really have a specfic story in mind and after reading the synopsis for Scarlets, I think I'll probably just let it go. I'll go see Ratty's film instead of making my own.
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post #16 of 22
8/10/04 at 11:47pm
Some may have noticed that I "accidently" omitted my baseball film from the summer schedule that it was originally scheduled for. Kind of glad I did. (For obvious reasons.)
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post #17 of 22
8/11/04 at 9:53am
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I was going to do a zombie movie for October, but I didn't really have a specfic story in mind and after reading the synopsis for Scarlets, I think I'll probably just let it go. I'll go see Ratty's film instead of making my own.
We can never have too many zombie movies. That's like having too much love!
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post #18 of 22
8/11/04 at 6:58pm
A film by David Lynch

Starring:
Gary Oldman as Stuart Connell, 47 year old divorced advertising executive.
Nikki Reed as Jude Leach, 16 year old runaway.
Samantha Morton as Millicent Radford, psychic detective.
Ethan Hawke as Oscar Radford, Millicent's brother and the second half of Radford & Radford Investigations.

In Support:
Kevin Spacey as Tony Fields, a nice man from the Government.
Charlize Theron Audrey Keech
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Marcel Ojigwe
Eddie Izzard as Philip Michaels, a psychic, friend to Oscar and Millicent's late father and proprietor of the Morning Star bar.
Judi Dench as Sylvia Pennington
Jack Davenport as Detective Constable Tom Hutcheson, Metropolitan Police Special Branch.


Stuart Connell is a vampire. He knows because a polite man from the government told him, and really, is there any other explanation for what's been going on lately. He's cast adrift, having to leave his life behind and deal with a society which if it believed in what he was would rather he was properly dead. Jude is a runaway, leaving her parents after they tried to lock her up because of the voices in her head. Voices, it transpires, that are real. Not the best time to be vulnerable and alone in London when there's a killer on the loose. A killer the police cannot catch, that only psychic detectives Oscar and Meredith Radford (siblings not married) can hope to find and hopefully stop.
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post #19 of 22
8/11/04 at 10:35pm
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A Confederacy of Dunces
Comedy, US, Rated R
Director - Terry Zwigoff
Starring - Will Ferrell as Ignatius Reilly
Mos Def as Jones
Co-Starring - Maggie Gyllenhaal as Myrna Mynkoff
Christina Ricci as Lana Lee
Ricky Gervais as Officer Mancuso
Olympia Dukakis as Mrs Reilly
Franka Potente as Darlene
Al Pacino as Mr Levy
Summary - Meet Ignatius Reilly (Will Ferrell) a contemptuous hypochondriac, deadbeat ideologue, and a gluttonous moocher. He's mountainous college graduate living off his mother's welfare check in her home on one of New Orleans seedy back streets. He spends most of his time waxing melodramatically philosophic, hiding out in the squalor of his bedroom, filling Big Chief writing tablets with his unique brand of Luddite/medievalist/anti-Enlightenment thought and penning incendiary letters to his sex-crazed ex-college-girlfriend Myrna Minkoff (Maggie Gyllenhaal). His beleaguered mother (Olympia Dukakis) by turns dotes and turns on him in their schizophrenic dance between adult child and aging parent.
Waiting on Canal Street for his mother to come back from an arthritis consultation with her doctor, Ignatius gets hauled off by Officer Mancuso (Ricky Gervais) who thinks the mustachioed mountain in tweed trousers, plaid flannel shirt and trademark green hunting cap looks suspicious. Thus begins a tailspin into one misadventure followed by another and another ad infinitum. Ignatius and his mother, traumatized by the event, step into a sleazy strip joint and drink themselves silly. As they leave, Mrs. Reilly promptly plows her Plymouth into a building.
The dollars in damages they need to pay for their little accident cannot be met by Mrs. Reilly's meager welfare check. So it is that Ignatius grudgingly begins a series of jobs that suck him ever-deeper into the seamy underbelly of 1960s New Orleans. Ignatius' impact leaves the poor souls in his wake insensible and gaping. His work at Levy Pants (file clerk) and for Paradise Vendors (hotdog-pushcart man) bring Ignatius to lead a workers' revolt and become an unwitting soft-core-porn distribution stooge. His arrogance (and flatulence) touch the people he encounters in horrible ways, yet his indignant, malicious blunders make it possible for those he's injured (intentionally or not) to come out better at the far end of the story.
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post #20 of 22
10/15/04 at 3:30pm
It sucks that I missed all of this, home PC got trashed and work got too busy, but looks like some interesting projects came of this. Hope everyone had fun with it.
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post #21 of 22
10/15/04 at 4:37pm
Give or take a run-in with the Bear draft people...it was pretty fun.
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post #22 of 22
10/15/04 at 5:35pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Anderson
Give or take a run-in with the Bear draft people...it was pretty fun.
Yes it was.
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