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Analog Scott

In Reply to: Many of your arguments about plot similarly would eviscerate Batman, posted by tinear on July 17, 2004 at 17:22:55:

"Superman,"
Suprman what... the movie, the second movie, the third? The commics? The cartoon? The TV show?
"and...Hamlet."
You are joking now right? Please tell me you are joking about Hamlet sharing the obvious writing problems of Spiderman II.

You want absolutes,
No. I want reasonable, thought out set ups that are not so painfully contrived and ridiculous and used just to elicite a simple emotional response such as pity.
work a few mathematics puzzles.
Look just because Spiderman II is painfully wantring in the writing department doesn't mean all movies and literature is just as wanting.

In fiction, it helps to be able to check a few neutrons on the rational side and just "go with the emotional flow."
In this case one has to check them all at the door. I am willing to go with just about any writer's set of new rules of physics for the sake of a narrative myth. But the writer has to be true to hsi own mythology and more importantly he has to be true to the human spirit and human intelegence. Spiderman II fails miserably on all counts. You may as well just play the video game.

"No, not a great movie: I actually napped for a few moments at one point, but not a bad way to escape the heat and humidity"
My airconditioning works fine at home. I'd rather save my money than beat the heat by sitting infront of such drivel.
"(I do agree with your lambasting the fx: I think it's been downhill since computers took over; 2001 was my last enjoyable fx experience)."
Unfortunately many of the people behind the computers did not come to their position with much of a background in art, pre-computer effects or film making in general.

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Superman the movie, of course, which could - tinear 10:18:05 07/18/04 (1)
be discovered from the context (if I meant the 2 or 3, I'd have qualified: you didn't have a similar prob w/Batman?).
I was discussing plot: Hamlet's is weak and much of it is contrived. A guy walking around for 4 hours wondering if he should kill his Uncle whom a ghost has told him killed his Dad. Right. Brilliant.
If you know much of Shakey, you know he borrowed plot lines. He didn't care about it, he was after something bigger.
- Re: Superman the movie, of course, which could - Analog Scott 10:48:18 07/18/04 (0)
  "be discovered from the context (if I meant the 2 or 3, I'd have qualified:"
  OK, I just wasn't sure. I fail to see many of the kinds of problems in Superman that I cited in Spiderman II.IMO Superman is vastly superior to Spiderman II. The set ups were not contrived and illogical within the mythology that the movie establishes. Superman's/Clark Kent's problems do not defy basic human rationality as far as I can remember. I also have no recollection of such heavy handed shots as the ones I cited in Spiderman II nor do I recall such a chessy ending as per my complaints of Spiderman II. I fail to see any of the failings in Superman that I cited in Spiderman II based on my memory of Superman.
  
  "you didn't have a similar prob w/Batman?)."
  Actually I did but I thought it would be obvious via my comment on Superman. I didn't particularly like Batman either.
  
  "I was discussing plot: Hamlet's is weak and much of it is contrived."
  You are talking about one of the greatest plays ever written. I completely disagree with your opinion. The plot is one of the greatest ever written. But feel free to cite anything in the plot that is contrived other than the established mythology in the play.
  A guy walking around for 4 hours wondering if he should kill his Uncle whom a ghost has told him killed his Dad. Right. Brilliant.
  That is a really poor synopsis of the plot.
  
  "If you know much of Shakey, you know he borrowed plot lines."
  One can argue that plot lines are always borrowed. But please feel free to cite a play predating Hamlet that closely follows the plot of Hamlet.
  
  "He didn't care about it,"
  I think he did.
  "he was after something bigger."
  He was an artist of unique stature amoung all artists ever. He is the only one to arguably be the very best at his art. The comparison between Hamlet and Spiderman II is very hard for me to address without being just plain insulting. I think it is absurd.

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