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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 07:06 PM
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Did you see the ads for the new movie, "Fun With Dick and Jane?"
remake of a Jane Fonda/George Segal stinker, IIRC

anyway, they just showed an ad, in which, driven by financial duress, take to robbing banks

guess what sort of disguise they use to rob the bank in the clip

I guarantee it'll make you VERY angry.....
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 07:09 PM
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1. Bill and Hillary...
just saw it.
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 07:11 PM
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2. Yep...saw it too
it's pathetic

I think "Hollywood" is trying to make amends for their "liberal" ways. :sarcasm:
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MrMonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 07:12 PM
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3. Whose mask did they use in the original?
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 07:16 PM
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5. Nixon, as I recall.... n/t
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urbanasaurus Donating Member (85 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 08:13 PM
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14. Maskage
Nixons, I think.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 08:30 AM
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18. Hi urbanasaurus!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 07:15 PM
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4. You know, I recently watched the original...it is a stinker...
...not one damn funny part. Hope this one bombs as well.
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insanity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 07:21 PM
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6. it didn't bother me at all
I don't think there is an intended juxtaposition comparing the Clintons to thieves, I think its just cheap humor.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 07:31 PM
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10. Plot: "Dick" (Jim Carey) is one of the employees of an Enron-like ...
... company whose financial life is ruined due to their fraudulent business practices. In a "turnabout is fair play" sense, he plots to get even with corrupt business.

It seems to me that the choice of masks might be symbolic - iconic of the "good guys" getting even.
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asjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 07:27 PM
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7. It wasn't a stinker. I loved that movie. Very
cleverly done and I thought it was funny. It might have been corn, but it was buttered.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 08:14 PM
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15. I liked that movie too
:D
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 07:27 PM
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8. Since Alec Baldwin is in it, I doubt it's a subversive reichbot plot.
:shrug:
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 07:30 PM
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9. Didn't they also do that in "Point Break"?
That movie with Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves, the two worst actors alive. :P :duck:
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 07:32 PM
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11. Have you ever seen Swayze's brother or cousin? make patrick look
like a shakespearean actor by comparison.
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MarsThe Cat Donating Member (978 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 07:34 PM
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12. jane fonda/george segal stinker?
i liked it.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 07:43 PM
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13. Another remake: Yours, Mine, and Ours with
Rene Russo and Randy Quaid. Ebert and Roeper both gave it thumbsdown.
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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 08:22 PM
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16. for those of you who saw it, how long ago, for one thing?
it really holds up like a Bush balloon

also, why did they have to pick THOSE two masks?

why not something like this?
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meganmonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 08:37 PM
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17. Doesn't make me angry
:shrug:
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 09:42 AM
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19. Please, not everything is politically motivated
Not everybody lives, eats and breathes politics. I imagine that this is the result of some gofer being given the command to "go get a couple of masks", and the poor schlep went and did just that.

What offends me more about this movie is that it is just one more example that Hollywood is running out of original ideas and is simply operating on formula right now.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 09:48 AM
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20. Don't make me angry at all, not one bit nosiree, not even a little.
What do I know? My hand hurts and I don't know why. I don't have enough money to go to the doctor. The heater core is clogged on my car so heat is gone. And I need to worry about the mask Jim Carry wears in a movie that doesn't come out till Giftmas week?:mad:

Think I'll go make some toast.
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