[ajug-members] James Gosling and a Movie

[Burr Sutter]

Did you guys look at the list? There are some interesting movies that ship in Aug/Sept as well.

Wicker Man (Nicholas Cage)
Gridiron Gang (The Rock)
Pulse (web-based horror film has some geek appeal)
Perhaps we can ask for a sneak peek of All the Kings Men (Sean Penn, Jude Law) or Jackass: Number Two (Johnny Knoxville)

Of course there is Snakes (Snacks?) on a Plane and DOA: Dead or Alive for some really "cerebral" movie watching.  (check out DOA's short description, funny stuff)

If we really wanted to keep the female audience happy there is "The Guardian" with Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher.

If ya'll don't come up with a consensus we'll be watching
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Or 
Barnyard ;-)



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From: ajug-members-bounces at ajug.org [mailto:ajug-members-bounces at ajug.org] On Behalf Of Howard Kapustein
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 12:15 PM
To: ajug-members at ajug.org
Subject: Re: [ajug-members] James Gosling and a Movie

Fortunately I have a spouse who shares most of my tastes (though she unequivocally draws the line at the mere thought of RoadHouse:-)

But for a broader audience...

The American President?
Wedding Crashers?
The last bond flick? Pierce, Halle, actually had a good plot, scenery, action (with the sword fight ranking tops:-)


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Sent: Sun Aug 13 07:47:10 2006
Subject: Re: [ajug-members] James Gosling and a Movie

If I remember correctly, this event was first billed as a "date night".
The film choices, however, have been overwhelmingly geek-centric. How
many of us could convince our non-technical partners to watch the Matrix
(again) or Revolution OS? (Yes, Dan, I realize the suggestion was at
least partly tongue-in-cheek, but it highlights the point.)

We might be better off with something like Mission Impossible III: for
the non-technical guys we've got an action film; for the non-technical
women there's, well, Tom Cruise. Or, perhaps, a classic such as Citizen
Kane, Casablanca or Notorious. Another approach would be a foreign film
such as Amadovar's recent Volver or Truffaut's The 400 Blows.

Just a suggestion.

-- Robert Watkins
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