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Posted by Jason Black (Member # 684) on 07-24-2002, 11:14 PM:

About 20 minutes too long in my opinion. The faux rap video made the flick, again, IMO.

Flava-Flav (mini-me) was the shizzneeat.

Posted by Darren Crimmins (Member # 1116) on 07-25-2002, 02:28 PM:

I thought the movie was about 90 minutes too long! Only the intro and the ending were even remotely interesting. Specific jokes were way too long (especially the rap scene, in my opinion) and mostly already done in the first two. This movie, for me, is going to rank high on all-time crappy movie list.

Posted by Mike Schindler (Member # 1309) on 07-26-2002, 01:14 AM:

On the whole, I liked this movie. There were definitely parts which were not funny, and they seemed to go on forever. But the parts which were funny worked really really well. I especially liked the opening sequence and the rap video. The stuff with Britney Spears was great too. All of that being said, this was the worst of the three films, and I still think that the best Austin Powers piece is Brett Ratner's video for BEAUTIFUL STRANGER. Why don't they get him to make the next picture?

Posted by Dennis Benjamin (Member # 1137) on 07-27-2002, 01:50 AM:

I thought this was the best of the three.

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Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 07-27-2002, 04:36 PM:

I saw this in a packed house on opening night. I liked it. I don't ever need to see it again. I loved the parody at the beginning. The pace was off, They could have told the same jokes only faster. It's like they paused at the end of each joke seemingly saying "get it?" It should have been done much more rapid fire. It would have been fun to miss half the jokes and have to see the film again to get them all. But I don't need to see it again now do I?

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 07-28-2002, 12:11 AM:

Attendance: 2002/07/26 19:30, Carmike 10, Huntsville, AL, Auditorium 1 THX/DTS, Scope

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I saw this in a packed house on opening night. I liked it.

Same here, except I saw it on Friday night to guarantee a big crowd, which it was, and a very well-behaved one. I got a little worried after I'd read a couple of negative reviews before going to see this movie. The second Austin Powers movie is my favorite, and I'd say the first and third are about equal (very enjoyable). Next Wednesday night at my house, I'll be showing the first two Austin Powers movies to at least one person who has never seen them before, so it will be interesting to see the reaction.

I'm wondering how much the same format can be used over and over before they can't use it anymore. Have they done all they can with Austin Powers? Is the last one? Opinions anyone?

Presentation was excellent, with no notable defects in my rating system.

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Posted by Adam Fraser (Member # 1074) on 07-28-2002, 12:34 AM:

Cadillac 5 (Goodrich), Thursday July 25th, 1/3 full 300 person auditorium, SRD.

I liked the movie (what I could see of it). The entire movie was played on a screen with non movable masking and the scope image hung over onto the black masking about 1 foot on either side. Made the subtitles nearly impossible to understand without taking a second to figure out what the first few words in the sentence were.

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Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 07-28-2002, 05:18 PM:

07/28/2002, 12:10PM, Regal Cinema World 8, Eugene, #4, probably SDDS. Attendance about 25. Excellent presentation except AGAIN the surrounds were not working. Lately it seems like the surrounds are out of action in all their houses.

I admit I laughed my ass off at some of the stuff. I liked this one much more than 2. The opening sequence is funny as hell. Some of the stuff is very original, but some is stale and falls flat. I guess when you're doing a joke every 10 seconds, that's to be expected.

Adam: If subtitles were cut off on the sides, that theater must be REALLY cropping the scope image badly. There was plenty of room to spare on both sides even on the longest of the subtitles.

Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 07-28-2002, 05:31 PM:

I did not think the movie was as funny as the Second one. Seemed like there was just to many jokes that went to long.

There was a referance to the movie Bad News Bears This movie was released in 1976 not 1975.

Posted by Ken Lackner (Member # 1002) on 07-30-2002, 12:50 PM:

Hilarious!! I didn't like the story as much as the second one, but I thought it was at least as funny, if not funnier, than the second. My favorite jokes were the Preparation H (as soon as Dr. Evil started so say something like "it has gone through several preparations," I knew exactly where he was going!) and the Styx "Mr. Roboto" reference, to which only about a dozen people out of a full house laughed.

They certainly are repeating the same types of jokes. As Ozzy said, like the rocket that looks likes someone's...Johnson. I don't know how much more they can do, but I would love to see a fourth movie.

Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 08-12-2002, 02:39 PM:

If they're gonna kill off this franchise Goldmember is the way they're doing it.

All those superstar cameos? The Osbournes -- dropped in late in post-production to cash in on its hype? Pleeeze! And a lot of the humor made Goldmember a borderline R.

Another big 70's mistake: Austin going into his dad's pad in '75 with "A Fifth of Beethoven" -- which hit in '76.

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 08-13-2002, 02:12 PM:

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Another big 70's mistake: Austin going into his dad's pad in '75 with "A Fifth of Beethoven" -- which hit in '76.

Just like "American Woman", which didn't hit until spring 1970, used in the 1969 scene in Austin Powers 2.

I saw this movie again last Saturday at Regal River Oaks Cinema 8 in Decatur, AL. Like previous Austin Powers movies, I caught more on the second viewing that I missed on the first. Presentation was perfect. They've got a good trilogy now.

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Posted by Gracia L. Babbidge (Member # 582) on 08-14-2002, 01:36 PM:

I was certainly entertained by Goldmember.

Now, having said that, I do have some thoughts...

OK ... so where was the scene with Austin walking around in the buff, with strategically placed props hiding his 'naughty bits'? Where were the random 'psychedelic interludes' between scenes?
Oh, and why was the 'melons / tits / boobs' sequence so short?

...and when this film got screened at my theater, I was the only person that caught the Styx 'Mr Roboto' joke ... made me feel old! >_<

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Posted by John Westlund (Member # 913) on 08-20-2002, 02:35 PM:

Whats the name of the song that plays when the time machine goes back to 1975?

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 08-20-2002, 04:50 PM:

Trying to remember the scene -- was that when "Shining Star" by Earth, Wind and Fire played?

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Posted by John Westlund (Member # 913) on 08-20-2002, 04:56 PM:

Thats the song!!! Thanks

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 09-02-2002, 11:37 PM:

I finally saw this film at Mann's --oop, I mean Colorado Cinemas' Chinese Theater multiplex a few days ago in Aurora, CO. I was hanging out with fellow Film-Tech-er Joe Redifer and we were having a difficult time trying to pick a decent to film to watch in his former place of employment (nope, we didn't buy any concessions). It was too long a wait to see "Road to Perdition", so "Goldmember" it was.

The movie was shown in one of the smaller theaters with kinda-sorta stadium seating. Audio was DTS. The film sounded okay, but the DTS piano trailer on the front sounded really harsh. The bass level in this theater is turned up, but in a loose and boomy way --not in the tight and punchy way good LFE should sound. Joe said he thought he heard some bass leakage coming in from another auditorium. That might have been the case. However, a tornado touched down not too far away there in Aurora that day and I am kind of wondering if that wasn't what Joe really heard.

The opening sequence with all the A-list star cameos was a hoot. But much of the humor would come and go in hit and miss fashion. Some of my friends hated this film, but I actually liked it more than I had expected. I laughed the most at the subtitles parody. While a lot of people scoff at "bathroom humor", I like a good fart joke when it is delivered well. And "Goldmember" had a few jokes along that line. Some were funny and others were not. Still, the first Austin Powers movie had the best bathroom humor scene with Tom Arnold coaching Austin, "yeah you tell that turd who's the boss."

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-03-2002, 02:54 AM:

I thought the subtitle jokes were hilarious. Since I show a lot of movies nowadays that are not made in English, white subtitles are burned into the bottom of the frame. Often the subtitles will be over a white background scene and you can only make out a few words or letters. This is EXACTLY the way Mike Meyers made fun of them here, to great effect. I don't think I would have appreciated that as much had I not been an exibitor of movies featuring subtitles.

There were other funny things about the movie, and there were lots of failed attempts at funny that just didn't make any sense. I've seen all 3 movies and the initial conversation between Dr. Evil and his son wasn't funny at all. And I felt Fat Bastard was forced. He was in there just to be in there. But I did like his bit at the end after he went on the "Subway diet like Jared".

As for the audio the subwoofer's levels were way improperly set and the bass on the stage channels and probably even the DTS unit seemed turned up to the max as well. I have never heard a DTS trailer sound (or look) so bad. The trailer was scratched all to hell and shows that they are having problems upstairs. The print was a bit dirty, splices jumped, and reel 4 was scratched. But the DTS never ever cut out.

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 09-03-2002, 01:35 PM:

FWIW, laser-etched subtitles are usually quite readable, even over light areas of the scene. The high-powered laser completely removes the emulsion of the print, so the titles are "whiter than white", and the ridge of burned emulsion next to the letters gives them a "drop shadow" effect. Only problems are the slight focus shift between the image (in the emulsion layers) and the titles (no emulsion), and a charred effect in the letters if the power was set incorrectly.

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Posted by Peter Berrett (Member # 672) on 09-12-2002, 07:30 AM:

Hi all

I haven't seen Goldmember yet but I have some pertinent comments. First, several contributors mused over how long the Austin Powers franchise can continue. The answer is indefinently if the James Bond films are a guide. For the last thirty odd years the franchisors have been making the same film over and over again and so far nobody has noticed!

AS far as subtitles go our Multicultural broadcaster in Australia (SBS-TV) has an interesting subtitles policy namely:

From http://www.sbs.com.au/sbscorporate/index.html?id=388

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Why do you use different types of subtitles on SBS?
SBS adopted its distinctive colour, font and size of subtitles after extensive research. With colour material - films and documentaries - it was found that yellow letters with thin black borders provide the maximum degree of contrast. For black and white material we use white subtitles. As a rule, SBS prefers to subtitle all material to our standard, and frequently we reject overseas subtitled material and re-subtitle them. Exceptions to this practice occur when no unsubtitled print of a key program exists; where suitably qualified subtitlers for some minor languages or dialects can’t be found; and where the material’s topicality and expeditious broadcast leaves no time for our own subtitled version.

Yellow subtitles might sound a bit garish but they are very readable. The quality of subtitling is very high at SBS. SBS are to be commended for showing their films letterboxed as well.

cheers Peter

Posted by Peter Berrett (Member # 672) on 09-20-2002, 09:03 AM:

Attendance: Lunar Drive-in Dandenong Friday 20th September 2002.

Some things in this film worked and some didn't. I felt the rehashed stuff from previous films often didn't come off but things that worked really well included the opening scene, the cameos, the subtitle gags, the japanese angle, the sharks in the pool (classic bond stuff) and the submarine.

Overall I enjoyed it but it is a mixture of good and bad.

Rating 7/10

On a separate note tonight was my first visit to the newly inaugurated Dandenong Drive-in. Although it is still half finished the film presentation on the single available screen was FDR, the staff very friendly and the food quite good.

The only slight hiccup during the night was the car placement. The lack of poles to space the cars meant that staff had to direct people where to park. This was a bit inefficient and confusing at times. I'm sure that will get fixed eventually though.

Overall a good night out at quite a nice cosy little drive-in. As it will save me an hour in travel time over both Dromana and Coburg I think I shall be visiting there in the future. Congratulations to the operators for getting the show up and running. Goldmember was a good first film to see there.

cheers Peter

Posted by Brad Haven (Member # 954) on 09-23-2002, 10:43 AM:

The second austin powers film wasn't very good in my opinion so i wasn't expecting much of the third, but i was pleasantly surprized by this film, i was actually laughing out loud at most of the jokes.
The one thing i felt didn't work was the character Goldmember, he seemed very lifeless and unmemorable.
I now look foward to the next installment.

Posted by Arthur Allen (Member # 969) on 09-23-2002, 02:00 PM:

Pretty good, considering I had no expectations for it. The subtitle sequence was telegraphed too much, as if they didn't expect enough people to get it. I could see the Mr. Roboto joke coming a mile away too. Interesting how Scott looks like Ron Howard when he starts to go bald. It reminded me that Clint Howard could be coming up in the movie, and sure enough he did.

Does anyone remember the Osbournes sequence during the credits? The drive-in projectionist (who shall remain nameless) talked over that sequence so I couldn't hear it. Also he may have cut off the ending too soon after the text credits but before one more gag.