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Re: who was the 1st non-north american to possess mindstorms???
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Sun, 4 Oct 1998 21:24:17 GMT
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On Sun, 4 Oct 1998 06:36:40 GMT, Joshua Delahunty
<dulcaoin@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu> wrote:

Perhaps a Princess.... wrote:
You *can* cheapen films? I had never thought of them as worth anything
more than mind-fluff in the first place, for the most part...

Had he been there when I walked out of _Saving_Private_Ryan_, my eyes
damp and my mind reeling -- partially from my newly formed impression of

I did say for the most part. From what I hear, I would consider Saving
Private Ryan one of the few that are NOT "cheap" I have not seen it
yet. However, it is more the exception that, because we notice it,
proves how cheap most films are, than a proof that films are not
mind-fluff for the most part.

Yes, you _can_ cheapen film.  Perhaps you can't cheapen movies, but you
can _film_.

What is the difference, to you, between a film and a movie? If film is
defined, by you, to be the best of the movies, then I guess you are
right. To me, film and movie are synonyms, though.

Sarah
sarah@eskimo.com



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  Re: who was the 1st non-north american to possess mindstorms???
 
(...) I guess you're not going to the right films then. You only catch flicks? :-P There was a friend I had that I shared a house with when I first began college. After almost every film we saw together (most of them on video, where "flick" applies (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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