Wonderland

[Cecil]

dont trust that guy. its actually a remake

[NEON MERCURY]

...i know how to make this film flop and loose every ounce of cred..


.... if the song by john mayer "body is a wonderland" is heard anywhere in this film...




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[edison]

...i know how to make this film flop and loose every once of cred..


.... if the song by john mayer "body is a wonderland" is heard anywhere in this film...

The word of the day is "Ounce."

[Banky]

is this the sequal to Boogie Nights?

yes, Banky.  Wonderland is the sequel to Boogie Nights.

i was kidding but thanks


I was watching BIg urban Myth Show and it says that Mark Walburg has a 3rd nipple and that you can see it in Boogie Nights.

[NEON MERCURY]

I was watching BIg urban Myth Show

.that show has good information but the way the idiot raps it out is so stupid/mtv-ish.....

[BonBon85]

So I went to a screening of this movie my school had on Friday. It was kind of funny because the very first question somebody asked the director was essentially "why did you make this when Boogie Nights covered most of this". The movie's another one of those new drug films that feels the need to constantly speed up and slow down.  I found the dialogue in the movie to be rather trite (especially from the Dylan McDermot character). And there's a long steadicam shot in a party scene.

[coffeebeetle]

Uh-oh.  I'm beginning to get a bad feeling about this film.

[Find Your Magali]

From USA Today's Mike Clark:

But overall, the movie is as bankrupt as Holmes' wallet must have been near the end when he died of AIDS-related illness in 1988. Holmes was the inspiration for Mark Wahlberg's character in 1997's Boogie Nights, and you still have to marvel at Nights writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson for taking this subculture and coming up with the best movie of its year.

[Holden Pike]

Saw Wonderland over the weekend. It's not a bad movie, but the material and melieu are so well-trodden, and there's simply nothing new added this time. The Rashomon-type narrative was really unnecessary here, and if one felt compelled to go and tell this story, there should have been some fresher elements added to the mix. If they couldn't find a better, more interesting way to tell it, it didn't need to be done at all.

It's OK overall, it's not insultingly horrible or something you'd walk out of, but nothing to rush right out and see immedately either. You won't be kicking yourself if you even wait for DVD. I thought Kilmer was fine, but nothing revalatory, and it's certainly not his best work.

Grade: C+

[TheVoiceOfNick]

If you guys want to see the "real" John Holmes, I suggest you watch the documentary "Exhausted"... PTA actually got inspiration for Boogie Nights from this doc, and some of the scenes in Exhausted are copied almost exactly in Boogie Nights.

[©brad]

how r the sex scenes, excellent?

[BonBon85]

I only remember one quick sex scene at the beginning of the movie and that was it. Not too exciting.

[Holden Pike]

Holmes was out of porn by the time the murders happened at Wonderland. That's not what this movie is about.

In Wonderland, Kilmer's Holmes does bang a chick in Princess Leia's bathroom in the opening minutes, but that's about it.

[markums2k]

how r the sex scenes [in Exhausted], excellent?

Quick cuts of Holmes 'most memorable' scenes.  A choice cumshot here and there.  Mostly lots of bullshit talk from the master himself.

"...borrow a cup of sugar; an occasional fuck..."

If pubic hair frightens you, better pass on this one.

Of course, maybe you're joking about wanting to know, and I'm acting like some crazy freak.  Oh well...  

[Jeremy Blackman]

Roger Ebert says:

Parts of this story, much altered, have been told already in Paul Thomas Anderson's incomparably better film "Boogie Nights" (1997). Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) was the Holmes character there, and Heather Graham's Roller Girl is I guess something like Dawn.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/wkp-news-wonderland17f.html