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RE: Don't say I never spoiled anything for you (aka beaten down n ugget)
(touchee touchee)...
Some consider the internet to be just a soap box... others a place to learn
(hence the silence). Don't get me wrong... the Godzilla / Dino thing is an
nice diversion from the norm for a little while. I'm just glad i was not on
the list when the Jurasic Park films came out... Sorry, I did not know this
was a PRIVATE club.
Don F. Inman
Engineer
Control Law Design and Analysis
Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems
817-763-1550
don.f.inman@lmco.com
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From: Larry Dunn[SMTP:larrydunn@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 8:45 AM
To: don.f.inman@lmco.com
Subject: RE: Don't say I never spoiled anything for you (aka
beaten down n ugget)
Most of the people who subscribe AND CONTRIBUTE (including me)
don't.
Then there's the dead weight . . .
>Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 08:37:29 -0500
>Reply-To: don.f.inman@lmco.com
>From: "Inman, Don F" <don.f.inman@lmco.com>
>To: "'dinosaur@usc.edu'" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
>Subject: RE: Don't say I never spoiled anything for you (aka beaten
down n ugget)
>
>I doubt you would feel that way if ALL subscribers cluttered this
list
with
>apriori movie reviews and other fodder... Last i have to say on the
matter.
>
>Still beaten down on G-day minus one
>
>Don F. Inman
>Engineer
>Control Law Design and Analysis
>Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems
>817-763-1550
>don.f.inman@lmco.com
>
>
>
>----------
>From: Larry Dunn[SMTP:larrydunn@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 8:32 AM
>To: don.f.inman@lmco.com
>Subject: RE: Don't say I never spoiled anything for you
>
>Better that than "SILENCE"
>
>>Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 08:28:49 -0500
>>From: "Inman, Don F" <don.f.inman@lmco.com>
>>Subject: RE: Don't say I never spoiled anything for you
>>To: "Inman, Don F" <don.f.inman@lmco.com>,
>> "'Larry Dunn'" <larrydunn@hotmail.com>
>>
>>That would be "WAY off topic..."
>>
>>Don F. Inman
>>Engineer
>>Control Law Design and Analysis
>>Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems
>>817-763-1550
>>don.f.inman@lmco.com
>>
>>
>>
>> ----------
>> From: Larry Dunn[SMTP:larrydunn@hotmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 8:22 AM
>> To: don.f.inman@lmco.com
>> Subject: RE: Don't say I never spoiled anything for
you
>>
>> I love it when lurkers who contribute nothing pipe in to
chastise
>>the
>> regulars when they go off topic! Now that's rich.
>>
>> >Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 08:17:24 -0500
>> >Reply-To: don.f.inman@lmco.com
>> >From: "Inman, Don F" <don.f.inman@lmco.com>
>> >To: dinosaur@usc.edu, "'larrydunn@hotmail.com'"
>><larrydunn@hotmail.com>
>> >Subject: RE: Don't say I never spoiled anything for you
>> >
>> >Usually, i am just an observer on this list... But now, on
this
>> occassion, i
>> >can truly say that you both missed the point (of this
list...)
>> >
>> >Beaten down on G-day minus one
>> >
>> >Don F. Inman
>> >Engineer
>> >Control Law Design and Analysis
>> >Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems
>> >817-763-1550
>> >don.f.inman@lmco.com
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ----------
>> > From: Larry Dunn[SMTP:larrydunn@hotmail.com]
>> > Reply To: larrydunn@hotmail.com
>> > Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 8:09 AM
>> > To: dinosaur@usc.edu
>> > Subject: Re: Don't say I never spoiled
anything for
>>you
>> >
>> > From: Chris Campbell <sankarah@ou.edu>
>> >
>> > >You guys are missing the point.
>> >
>> > I think that depends on what point you're trying to
make.
>> >
>> > > Watch the original Godzilla movies.
>> > >You won't find great plots or characterization,
except
>>perhaps in
>> >the
>> > >original (Japanese) film. Star Wars is a mythic
adventure
>>with
>> >space
>> > >vehicles and alien races as props. Indiana Jones
is one of
>>the
>> > defining
>> > >films of the action/adventure genre. Godzilla is
something
>> >altogether
>> > >different. The yardstick isn't good
action/adventure or
>>science
>> > fantasy
>> > >films; it's not even crappy big-budget
extraveganzas made
>>by the
>> >same
>> > >people. The only valid measure here is prior
Godzilla
>>work. If it
>> > >follows in that tradition, fine. It's done its
job,
>>regardless of
>> > >whether or not it's done in the framework of a good
story.
>>
>> >
>> > Well then, I'd suggest that it's you who's missed
the point.
>>You're
>> >
>> > confusing how entertaining a movie is with how
faithful it
>>is to its
>> >
>> > genre, two *very* different things.
>> >
>> > Just because a movie is a genre movie doesn't
require you to
>>judge
>> >it
>> > based *exclusively* or even *primarily* on its prior
genre
>>criteria;
>> >
>> > Sony didn't make this movie for the fanboys; they
made it
>>for a huge
>> >
>> > audience, many of whom are either unfamiliar with
the
>>Japanese kid's
>> >
>> > movies or actively dislike them.
>> >
>> > Sony doesn't want you to say, "boy, that sucked and
so I'm
>>not
>> >coming
>> > back, but I admit it was much better than the
Japanese
>>movies;" they
>> >
>> > want you to say "wow, that was really fun; I'm
coming back
>>next
>> > weekend."
>> >
>> > So when you're in the theater, don't be afraid to
ask
>>yourself,
>> >"hmmm,
>> > was that entertaining or moronic?" Forget about
genre
>>unless you're
>> >a
>> > fanboy.
>> >
>> > By the way, one of America's premier paleontologists
has
>>reminded me
>> >not
>> > to forget the TV movie GARGANTUA airing, by some
>>coincidence, this
>> > weekend. I think it's Tommy Lee's biopic. Well,
since he
>>says so,
>> >I'll
>> > add it to Dinosaur TV Week, coming in the next hour
or so.
>> >
>> > Larry
>> >
>> >
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