The two brief times I was in Montreal (sister living there and studying at Concordia), I enjoyed the Euro-ness of Montreal as compared to Toronto. I'm not much of a night-life guy, and I'd probably go there to gorge myself on poutine

Besides, I'm a Leaf fan...you don't want to know me LOL j/k

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I was watching the montreal comdey fest on day. A comic who was born in Toronto, but lives in the states was up.

Americans always ask him whats the diffrence between Montreal and Toronto. So, he says to them he says, "Think of two brothers. One grew up to be a womanizing alkeholic, the other became an accountant."

The Leafs are my second faviorit team. First is the Habs. How can you not love a team that has 14 Cups and a city who has 24. We're also the home of Molson Beer, making great beer since 1786.

Life: No one gets out alive.

oh cool, just wondered...

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@Celtic: is that thing this thing:

'Tis. Except I'll be in Toronto. You go to Berkely? Good for you!

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What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
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@RILMS

Ah yes. Molson's Golden Ale. I remember going through a few of them in college whenever I had some money to burn ... so it wasn't all too often .

It's good stuff.

@Archy,

Hey! You're going to Berkeley to catch the show? Hope you have a blast!

@Mustang

You are not alone. But what happens, I think, is that FFC is credited with a legitimate box office hit that also deserved critical acclaim (Godfather 1). He made tons of money AND he made art, sort of. So the Hollywoodies mess their pants to try to get him to do it again. They throw money at him. He takes them up on it. The next effort stinks but.... the Hollywoodies cannot admit to that.... they've spent too much money (i.e. , Apocalypse Now), so they talk about it being too deep in meaning, too stratospheric in message for the regular guy.....blahdy blahdy blah blah.

Best example of his overratedness gone terribly terribly wrong..... Michael Cimino, his annointed disciple, and.... Heaven's Gate. My god what a horror! Worst of all Cimino thought Kris Kristoferson could act! Why mention him? Because FFC's aura of greatness protected Cimino with a mantle of genius. FFC is said to have really praised MC as the next FFC or something like that. Certainly, he broke the bank harder than FFC did in A.N.

Edited by - Indy11 on 2/26/2004 8:46:16 PM

just a proviso, im not going, thats not my ticket, i live in england and therefore am excluded from all forms of being a fan of something by law. I just saw this ticket and thought this might be what your going to.

@Archy,

Awww. Too bad. University of California at Berkeley is a great place to visit and meet other college students of the co-educational variety.

i will hear no criticism of FFC, along with Lucas he financed Kagemusha, which was the springboard for Ran, Kurosawa's greatest film and a true work of art, a masterpiece. FFC and Lucas (and Spielberg) both tremendously admire everything A.K. ever did, and much of his influence is in their work. Without A.K. there'd have been no Star Wars and no Godfather, y'know.

i understand the link to star wars, but maybe im missing the link to Godfather, seing how it was written by Mario Puzo. Oh and for the record, Godfather Pt II was better than Pt I in most people's eyes. Me? i like them both the same.

I don't have a preference for GF 1. Funny, I thought GF 2 was more interesting but, here, I am constantly reminded that GF 1 was the THE GF movie so I have yielded to the more movie avid ones I know.

FFC has a very large and very impressive filmography as director and as producer.
But .... he isn't a god. My point is that most of the time, he is talked of as if he is god and that's, well, ridiculous. Hushed and awed voices, the almost trance like look in the eyes.... And it was this godliness that begat MC.

If anyone has seen HG, he/she will know what I mean. The only redeeming thing about that movie, if redeeming at all, is the fact that a young Isabelle Huppert pretty much had all her scenes shot in the nude.

FFC is the first to deny being a "god." He looks up to Bergman, Fellini, Kurosawa and possibly Kubrick as gods. As do I.

@Taw: Stop comparing yourself to FFC

nah, i look cooler with a beard than he does.