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In Reply to: Correction posted by cfraser on May 27, 2002 at 18:04:09:
...what you meant :-) Liked both film & book, though I read the book long before the movie of Get Shorty.I've always had a soft spot for Dune, even though it's a bit of a mess. I'm afraid I'm a Lynch fan through and through.
With HP, I think Columbus did OK, the material was, ummm, magical to start with. He could have made more of it, the movie tends to just go on when it should soar, but heck, it works. I don't expect visual poetry from CC. It was a great kids movie, and I must admit to a liking for good childrens films. I'm taking my neighbor's children to see Monsters Inc. at the dollar theater this weekend.
Don't be embarrassed about kid flicks. Have you seen what some inmates have admitted liking? Remember our cheesey movie lists a few weeks ago?
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I'm not embarassed about liking them, it's just they're not often mentioned here. I thought that by introducing a technical aspect to the presentation of one...well, you know.Frankly, I don't want to have to think a whole lot when watching a movie. A little bit is all right. And I don't mind being disturbed after watching a movie. That's good too. But I know that there's a lot of kid in me, and I very easily can and enjoy suspending belief for entertainment. Many would disagree, and want REVELATION and mind expansion, but my real life is just too bogged down with reality to want to choose that for leisure. I'm not unaware of what's going on, just don't need to pay to get a little clue...
That said, very often I have to go back to a DVD shortly after watching it to review some scenes, where I get the feeling I missed something important. So I guess I don't take them as lightly as I'd like to think.
This is where books excel, if you have a decent imagination, and no director can match the picture of characters you develop in your own mind, because they fit perfectly just for you.
She teaches in an inner elementary city school and she feels she has quite enough gritty, complex realism in her real life. BTW, she loves HP, as do many of her children. I've been supplying her with HP & LOTR posters. (The American Library Assoc. had very cool posters of the LOTR characters for their reading promotion.)Several of these kids, many of whom are LD, have started reading HP as a result of seeing the film. A few have even tackled LOTR as a result of seeing the film. My friend is delighted - it's not often these children pick up a book for pleasure.I like all kinds of films. I can be snotty, but I'm not offended by popcorn flicks. Sometimes I'm in the mood for a Memento, a Mullholland Drive, an Amorres Perros...some days I just want to relax at the movies. But I'm always annoyed by movies that dumb down. And I'm sick to death of car crashes and violence towards women. Enough!
BTW, I think some Kid flicks are quite fine on any terms...the Babe movies, James & The Giant Peach, many others.
Yeah, I'm not picky about the genre of movies really, I just like it to be a quality production, at least content-wise. I have many classic and foreign films on DVD here. The only ones that really bug me are the ones in which there's no/bad acting (the last two Star Wars come to mind), or which are a thinly disguised copy of another movie.Violence against women: I'm pretty sure I have never seen a movie with that gratuitously in it. I can't really count the beginning of Thelma and Louise, where it's necessary for the storyline. Not saying there's not a lot of it, but it doesn't seem to be in the movies I choose to view.
I'm a fairly voracious reader, and I mainly watch movies when I have no new "good" books to read, which seems to be more often these days, and I'm really getting into the DVD's.
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