Saw this last night with my wife. Overall a good movie, with a good job by Jim Carrey as a bit of a weirdo.

Story line moves along, with a few mellow twist that don't stretch the story.

I left feeling like I got my money's worth. A very rare occurance

I like the marketing campaign, if nothing else. I'll give it a shot.

This will have to be a Netflix type of movie for me....big Jim Carrey fan, but not a Joel Schumacher fan whatsoever.

LA Times

"How bad is The Number 23? It gives Batman & Robin a run for its money as the worst of the director's long career."

Oh, it's a Joel S Joint? Oh.. well, then never mind. Stupid shiny marketing, almost tricking me into watching the film. I'll put this on my never see list, unless I hear otherwise from credible sources.

i enjoyed this movie.

Yeah, something about the critic's reaction tells me that you aren't going to.

Wouldn't wanna find out for yourself. Cause you know, critics are always right.

I don't need critics to remind me of what a horrible director that Joel Schumacher is.

I liked The Incredible Shrinking Woman, St. Elmo's Fire, The Lost Boys and Flatliners, but he's sucked for a long time now.

I won't knock The Lost Boys.....I thought St. Elmo's Fire was just ok....never saw Incredible Shrinking Woman, and I don't mind Flatliners.

I forgot that he directed Falling Down, which I really enjoyed. But The Phantom of the Opera remake, the two Batman films, Bad Company, and 8MM are just terrible. And he gets credit for directing what I think is the worst film De Niro has ever been in (except for Rocky & Bullwinkle), Flawless.

qft, Mbreon. This isn't an issue of me blindly listening to critics. This is an issue of being completely familiar with a director's prior work. Now, if come critics or people who's opinion I value, love this movie, then I would give it a shot. Joel S is right up there with Micheal bay is asssucking

8MM was pretty cool. As a whole, though, I agree.

Through a long string of events my wife got to meet Joel Schumacher at an event for Phantom premier in Bangkok along with some of the cast etc. A whole 27 people invited so she spent about 2 hours with Schumacher. He is gayer than gay. Makes Richard Simmons seem macho. But a very nice guy and she enjoyed the time with him.

I also thought the Phantom of the Opera was a good film, if you like the play, the movie was spot on.


But 23, good flick, worth seeing.

My posts are so good they get posted twice

Saw it tonight. It was good. I would recommend it. Would have rather convinced my friends to see Zodiac instead, but it should hold you over till 300 on friday.

I saw it last night. Not good.


I am, however, quite surprised that in the scene where he's listing dates and occurances that involve the number 23, that 9/11 isn't mentioned. While he was talking during that scene I was thinking about that.

"9+11 is 20.. eh I guess no.... wait.. 9+11+2+0+0+1= 23. LoLzeRbEaMz!"

ya'll best recognize




http://www.nii.net/~obie/1988_interview.htm

This is an edited transcript of an interview which took place in Los Angeles on April 23, 1988. I would like to thank Bob Wilson and his wonderful wife Arlen for inviting me into their home, and special thanks to Bruce Eisner for helping to arrange it. The interview was broadcast on college radio station KFJC, 89.7 FM in Los Altos Hills, California five weeks later. --David A. Banton




DAB: This is David B, here in Los Angeles in the home of Robert Anton Wilson. It is April 23, 1988, a significant day in Robert Anton Wilson philosophy. What is the significance of 23?

RAW: Well, 23 is a part of the cosmic code. It's connected with so many synchronicities and weird coincidences that it must mean something, I just haven't figured out yet what it means! In several of my books, including the Illuminatus trilogy and Cosmic Trigger, I have given examples of a tremendous number of coincidences connected with 23. Take today as an example, April 23: this is the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, April 23, 1556 and his death, April 23, 1616. Also April 23, 1616, the same time Shakespeare died in England, Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, died in Spain. April 23, 1014 is when Brian Boru died, he was the first high king of Ireland to be a political as well as religious leader. He unified all Ireland and drove the Danes out, and on April 23, 1014 he was killed by one of the Danes after the battle of Clontarf, where he defeated the Danes for the final time, and liberated Ireland from foreign rule. August 23, 1170 is when the Normans came in, and Ireland has been under foreign rule again, in whole or in part, ever since. On Aug. 23, 1920 James Joyce was discussing coincidences with a friend in a Paris bar when he suddenly saw a giant black rat and fainted dead away. So that ties Joyce together with the invasion of Ireland, and Shakespeare, and Brian Boru. All of this is in (James Joyce's) Finnigan's Wake, by the way.