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Re: Monday Morning Diversion
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Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:29:02 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> And after puzzling out that you meant The 5th Element...there was a deep
> philosphical message?
There was an attempt at one (that's the whole point of the way the ending played
out, and the name of the movie itself), though it fell pretty flat.
> MST3Ked? Why do I get this feeling you have to be an Uber-Geek to get the
> reference? One of these days I'm going to have to learn to seak "Initial"...
MST3K = Mystery Science Theatre 3000. They take all of the worst movies that
they can get their hands on and ridicule them from beginning to end.
> You shot off your mouth through the entire movie?
No. I (along with others, including the owner's then-girlfriend) made several
witty comments and cutting observations during the entire original Robotech
series, which a small group of us were watching in the lobby of our dorm. I
kept my observations to myself during the entire WC movie because I was sitting
right behind friends who had paid money in the meager hopes of actually enjoying
that movie in its own right. If it had been anyone else, we probably wouldn't
have been sitting right next to each other (I don't think there were more than
10-20 people in the entire theatre...on opening night...at an evening show) and
we could have torn into it with no remorse, knowing that there were enough
vacant seats around us that we would be able to do so without anyone else
caring.
> No VI - they should have all retired.
I liked it a lot. Probably something to do with the fact that the Klingons were
so much better than Doktir Em'et B'roun from The Search For Plot.
> I think that will change. There needs to be a little distance in time to get
> perspective.
Maybe it will, and maybe it won't. Batman will still hold weight as the first
serious comic book movie, and it could receive an associative status boost from
Batman Begins.
> I'm stunned that you even ask.
Really? Granted, it's not Shakespeare, but in my experience, those who really
feel that the OT dialogue didn't work are those who didn't like the OT movies
much at all.
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| (...) Well, few are the sci-fi films that successfully carry a deep philosophical message. The Star Wars OT, for instance, seemed to suggest that you can be as evil, sadistic, and murderous as you want, as long as you kill one bad guy before you (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I think it is a matter of perception. You regard it as a deep philsophical message, and perhaps that is a fair depiction of it, but I regarded it simply as a step back from trivializing it. The movie was uneven all the way through, so this was (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) And after puzzling out that you meant The 5th Element...there was a deep philosphical message? (rhetorical alert) :-) (...) Pardon me, poor choice of words. "...landmark game in its time" is what I meant to say. Wing Commander the game was (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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