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David Stambaugh
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From: Eugene, Oregon
Registered: Jan 2002


 - posted 03-03-2002 04:48 PM      Profile for David Stambaugh   Author's Homepage   Email David Stambaugh   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
03/03/02, Cinemark 17, Springfield OR, 12:20PM, #5, scope, DTS. Presentation would have rated Very Good except for a vertical scratch about 15" long at the top of the image, start to finish. About 25 people in attendance.

Call me soft in the head, but I kind of liked this movie, even Kevin Costner's performance. Costner is a doctor in a big city hospital, his wife is also a doctor, off doing good in the jungle of Venezuela (or someplace like that). She dies (or does she?) in a bus crash during a rainstorm. Costner starts seeing and hearing things that make him think she is reaching out to him from the dead, as it were. He pursues these visions etc. and the film reaches a kind of surprising and audience-satisfying conclusion (if completely far-fetched). Lots of near-death beyond-the-grave mumbo-jumbo along the way. But it kind of worked for me and I went along with it.

This is not a great movie, and it will go away quickly, but it does seem like it would appeal to an older more mature audience who likes this kind of sappy stuff. Wait, did I just describe myself? Never mind, disregard that last part.


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John Pytlak
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David noted: "Very Good except for a vertical scratch about 15" long at the top of the image, start to finish."

Likely a "loop scratch" due to threading an incorrect loop size. Every frame gets a short vertical scratch in the same location.

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David Stambaugh
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 - posted 03-03-2002 05:04 PM      Profile for David Stambaugh   Author's Homepage   Email David Stambaugh   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
John, I always send a comment card "review" to the GM at the theater, good experience or bad. I will mention this to him.

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Michael Brown
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From: Bradford, England
Registered: May 2001


 - posted 06-09-2002 06:54 AM      Profile for Michael Brown   Email Michael Brown   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Must be cursed the presentation was ok apart from it was in SR in an SRD auditorium. (so not really ok at all)

Yeah thought it was one of Costner's better films. I liked all of the supernatural elements. I went in not knowing about the film and it was a pleasant suprise.

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