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different things
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here is a little survey about what
you can expect to find here...
1) venlo and elite-meeting, frank/ils
and freestyle/talent reporting
2) 2 brand new board reviews, the
first time of an euro-hq...
3) a couple of video-reviews by
chief-reviewer excell and also
by deltar/tsm
...and here is the usual venlo-report
this time it's frank/illusion
reporting for mamba<...
we (gotcha, peter/talent, deff and me
frank/illusion) drove off at 10.00
a.m. when peter wanted to refuel the
car he recognized that he forgot the
key. baha! what a joke. the trip to
venlo was quite funny and as we
entered the party-room we only saw
a lot of lamers and (l)amigas. some
of the few cool people this month
were:hobbit, reset/tcom, genesis,
mario van zeisst, trc, action, hitmen
, freestyle/talent and maybe a few
others. all in all it was... (+)
...like all the other lame meetings.
the snackbar was as usual the most
visited place beside the meeting.
only mamba came out at venlo and no
other cool stuff (demos,cracks...).
worth being mentioned, except bad
news no.3 which has been edited by
transcom. they put a genesis intro
in front of the mag and fooled omg
and genesis. it was quite funny to
read. we stood at venlo until the
end, coz someone wanted to beat up
infinity (???), but big boss (the fat
guy at the entrance) sent that guy
home. that was it for this month...
-frank of illusion- (+)
...and here is a little report
written by freestyle of talent...
'when i visited cologne in february
1991, i had two things in mind :
1. visiting venlo and meet some
friends
2. take part in the meeting of the
old group elite
before i start to refer on those 2
events i want to thank vincent/wow
and peter/i+t for driving me around
with their cars. (ed. the bill will
come later !!)
first i arranged a little meeting
with all old elite-members in venlo,
but when i arrived together with my
friend skywolf, i recognized that
noone of them, except mario van zeist
was present.
after the venlo-meeting, skywolf and
i drove back to cologne to zaz's
place: conan, general zoff and
logically zaz had assembled there...
they were very busy with playing on
amiga, so it was a bit difficult
to find any conversation at first.
but finally i managed to free them
from their amiga. so we all went
downtown to have a meal,in a pizzeria
a really funny conversation about the
actual and the old scene started.
after having eaten a pizza and
drinking some beer, we left to join
a little, domestic disco/bar.
there we met the good old beermann
(speecracker) together with his girl-
friend. after some more beer, we were
in the mood of joining another, much
bigger disco near bonn. the disco,
the music and the girls were really
great, but about 2 hours later it was
getting boring, because the music was
always the same and i got slowly but
surely tired. at about 5 am we left
the disco. conan and general zoff
drove back to bochum, skywolf and i
drove together with zaz back to
cologne where i took the train back
to switzerland without having slept
a single hour.
in my opinion it was really a cool
night with the coolies from elite
although the disco in bonn turned out
to be boring after some time.
to all dozens of mags, which wrote
that elite or strike force want to do
a comeback, which was a pure rumour
that started after my interview with
conan in one of the last mambas, i
have to say that the word comeback
is definately wrong. but it's still
possible that you will see some
releases from them in the near future
anyway...
thomas/talent
here's another of those radical
board reviews, this time we had a
closer look at the mad mad world...
board : mad mad world
group : paramount
sysop : damage inc.
number: XXXXXXXXXXXX
first a little introduction given by
the sysop himself:
i put the board up about 3.5 years
ago, i was nfi hq at first, but it
only lasted about 2 weeks, then i met
karate kid and tricket of dominators
and decided to go with dom.
macro nit & dogfriend were the two
main callers at that time...
i was dom for about 2 years, then the
lame english dudes got in dom. the
thought that they were so good (where
are they now ?? jade+icecube, hehe)
well, anyway, i kicked dom off and
about 2-3 weeks later i got paramount
and that lasted until now,
i get anywhere from 20-50 calls a day
(on a good day), all the cool euros
have n/a and a lot of the usa-dudes
have n/a too.
on the board i have 1-81, 1-71, 3-41,
1-8250 (2.5 megs)'
besides the usual subboards, also
an amiga- and a code-sub is available
for the newest uploads are usually
made by the paramount members,
especially sting who carries all the
0 dayers to the board.
the user-list shows a lot of people,
many of them didn't call for years(?)
(ed. i had a good love when i saw
stingray/crazy there)
nevertheless, some elite people are
calling the board, but i also don't
want conceil that about 30-50% of the
posts are made by paramount(pandora)
members only!
the board could certainly use some
fresh blood!
judgement
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users 60%
sysop's character 70%
subboards/posts 50%
speed 89%
total.............67%
ok, here another board review this
time it a euro board...
board : digital illusion
group : extasy
sysop : tmb (der perverse onkel)
number : XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
first a few words from the onkel...
press '+'
digital illusion was set up in
autumn/winter -90 as an extasy north
headquarters as an second euro board
with never never land (ed.that should
be up again when you read this, right
nam!?!?!?)
we run it with modded c-base v2.0
with moddings done by xtc freelancer
slade. all the nice grafix are also
here done by him. i'm in charge and
rockstar/xtc is my co-sysop here.
guess what press '+'
i'm hoping to get the new c-base
version 3.0 very soon and of 'cos we
have allready some plans to modify it
too.this board also contains some new
functions compared to the ordinary
cbase 2.0 like fast user scan and the
possibility to see how long you have
been on system.this board also has 3
different log-on screens & otherwise
also is very much based on grafix and
good outlook.
the board get's around 5-20 calls
each day.sometimes it's very busy on
subs and the sometimes it's dead slow
just like in all boards.i dont have
so much disk space here (3 1541 and
1 1581) but as soon as i get my
financial problems solved i'll invest
some more money on drives.the most
wares get here quit fast and it's
not such a big problem.
on the other hand the big problem is
the users.for all euro boards it's
very hard to get elite users.people
think that euro boards can't be cool
so that's why they don't bother to
call them.and euros don't have so
much pbx's to call
and americans just dispice euro
boards.but hey! euro boards are cool!
if just people would understand it
and would support these euro boards.
what i'm hoping is americans to call
euro boards when they have better
code situvations than euros.
so in short what i'm trying to say is
support euro boards!
we also would like to share this
board with some other group.if you
want an euro hq call this one and
let's see or leave me mail on us-bbs
with 2 elite groups a board has more
possibilities to be the best.
judgement :
users.............45%
sysop's character.81% (+) for
subboards/posts...56% the video-
speed.............50% reviews !
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total.............58%
look who's talking too
starring john travolta - kirstie alley
ok, no reason to try and fool you..
"look who's talking too" is a poor and
bad re-run of the $300 million success
"look who is talking". without any new
idea's the director (amy heckerling)
just added a baby sister, hoping that
most people around the globe would go
spend another $300 millions..
the maybe worst about "look 2" is that
bruce willis (mikey's voice) often
failing to correspond to the older
mikey's mouth movements, while little
julie (mikey's new kid-sister) has
the particular misfortune of speaking
through none other than roseanne barr.
the story, or maybe the lack of it,
centers around mikey's acceptance of
his little sister, and james (john t.)
and molly (kirstie a.) explosive
marriage, not helped alot by the arri-
val of molly's brother stuart, an un-
employed accountant with a penchant
for pulling a gun on james, under the
mistaken impression that he may be a
burglar. there are, though, some nice
comic sketches worth looking out for,
in particular mikey's terror of mr.
toilet-man (the voice of mel brooks)
and john travoltas mad dance at mikeys
playgroup over some kid's gym stuff.
this dance is sorta like the dance we
all remember from the hit movie called
"grease".. all in all, a poor re-run
with only one purpose, making an extra
bunch on an old story!
rating: **
- green card -
starring gerard depardieu
andie macdowell.
this movie is a romantic comedy in
line with "ghost", "pretty woman", and
not all that bad indeed..
george (gerard d.) is a french, and
need an u.s. immigration-green card if
he is to stay in america.
bronte (andie m.) is that quixotic
thing, a horticulturist determined to
green hair fingers in new york city,&
has set her heart on an appartment,
requiring her to fulfil just 1 further
condition, that she produce a husband!
a mutual friend makes the introduction
the knot is tied, and all would be wel
l, if it was not for the sudden atte-
ntions of the immigration people who
are trying hard to stop inauthentic
conjugal relations, this forces bronte
and george to live together, and act
as if they have been married for years
but to catch up with years of holiday
memorys, photos, letters.. well, it's
not all that easy, and the fact that
bronte and george can disagree about
almost everything makes it really hard
for love to bloom, and for the proper
immigration people to fall for the
trick...
rating: ****
- the godfather part iii -
starring al pacino - andy garcia
the 3'rd film in the "godfather" serie
is no small 1.1/2 hour flick, here you
will have to sit tight for 2.28 min
wich can seem to be a long time,if the
plot is wrong, but don't worry, anyone
who watched the previous 2 movies
about the corleone family, and enjoyed
it must get the ending aswell..
the plot is fast and simple, the power
full mafia family wanna get out of the
"high-risk" business, and become 1 of
the many "wall-street" companies, and
to do that, they need a deal with the
vatican (the church), but others who
also have interest in the "family" is
not lightly to let that happen.. here
we see a hot-headed andy garcia, as
the fast talking-killing "action"-man
of the family.. the movie is so close
to the former 2 films, that you expect
the director (ford coppola) to set
marlon brando back on stage. even if
you are not sitting on the edge of the
seat, you will still raise after the
2.28 minutes and think that you had a
plesant time, eventhough i surely hope
that this was the last movie in the
row of family-ties. i mean, 1 family
can only do so much, and i think that
this family have done quite enuff, we
don't want it to end up being called
"the neverending story" instead of
"godfather 4" ... andy garcia saves
the day, and the movie, coppolas
daughter (sofia coppola) should learn
to act before starring together with
such big stars as al pacino and andy
garcia.
rating: ***
in the making as we speak;
teenage mutant ninja turtles ii
elmstreet part 6; freddys dead
terminator ii (arnold schwarzenegger)
the city of joy (patrick swayze)
weekend at bernies part ii
star trek vi (oh no, not more!!)
free jack (emilio estevez,mick jagger)
memoirs of an invisible man
(a welcome return to chevy chase!)
that's it for this months reviews and
rumours, but be sure to catch the next
issue of mamba, where i review the
million selling "silence of the lambs"
untill then.... (c) excell for mamba.
march 1991 movie reviews
the silence of the lambs: orion pics.
the fbi is on the trail of one weird
serial killer. he skins the female
victims. to gain some insight to the
wonderful world of the whacky jack
crawford(scott glenn) assigns clarice
starling(jodie foster) to interview
genius killer dr. hannibal lecter(done
beautifully by anthony hopkins). what
transpires here is an exchange between
two ends of an intellectual spectrum.
hopkins as the polished all-knowing
and foster as the new trying-to-learn-
it-all. while not playing a dumb (+)
ass, she does come across as very new
to the subject and is enthralled as
well as sickened by the info she gets.
during the interviews hopkins is very
brightly lit, suggesting his genius,
and foster is somewhat filmed in the
shadows. nice touch...
somewhat late foster realises that she
has become the bait for the killer. in
the end, though, she does what she
has to do.
directed by jonathan demme; from the
novel written by thomas harris.
excellent film, a must see!
overall rating -- 90%
(+)
the doors: directed by o.stone
as a big fan of the doors in their hay
day, i was disappointed in stones way
of depicting jim morrison(val kilmer).
agreed, morrisons lyrics were above &
beyond the usual of the day, stone has
made them come from several different
types of drugs and not from his mind.
as a matter of fact, this film seems
to follow more of morrisons experiment
with whatever is handy than what he,
the man, really was like. the tunes
are well done, and kilmer does a fair
impression of morrison. too bad the
rest don't. kevin dillon as john dens-
more, kyle maclachlan as ray manzarek
meg ryan as pam courson(morrisons'
common law wife). after seeing meg in
when harry met sally and then this i
had to wonder if she'd been sampling
some of the stuff in the doors script
before signing...
a lot will be wasted on anyone under
the age of 35. your folks would/will
get more out of it.
overall rating -- 65%
see ya next month with reviews of the
newest out : warlock and classaction
burn the return...
