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Re: Vote against/for...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 7 Nov 2002 05:30:49 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli writes:
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> > -Mike Petrucelli
> > (who still can not figure out the idiotic revisionist policy of eliminating • all
> > references of the two towers in New York)
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> Are you referring to that stupid campaign to sue Peter Jackson for the name
> of the second film in the LoTR trilogy? If so, then I'm with you, in that I
> can't figure it out, either. It was really insensitive of Tolkien to name his
> books after the landmark that would be destroyed five decades after his book
> was written. What was he thinking?
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> Or are you referring to another dumb revisionist plan? (of which I'm sure
> there are many...)
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> Dave!
Actually I was referring to the removal of any reference of the World Trade
Center towers. I was particularly annoyed that the deleted scene of Spiderman
capturing a helicopter in a web between the the towers was not included on the
DVD. I still can not figure out why it was removed from the movie in the first
place. There are many more examples of this baffling policy all over the place.
-Mike Petrucelli
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) I thought that the appearences of the WTC in the Spider-man movie were for promotional purposes only and never intended for the final cut? As far as I know there were two promotional scenes, one was a poster of a larger than life spider (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Let's keep it in perspective; there has been no "removal of any reference" to the Towers. Last night on Spin City I saw a clear shot of them, and the syndicated Simpsons recently showed the episode in which the family treks to NYC and Homer (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Are you referring to that stupid campaign to sue Peter Jackson for the name of the second film in the LoTR trilogy? If so, then I'm with you, in that I can't figure it out, either. It was really insensitive of Tolkien to name his books after (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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