RE: Epic is now mundane. (Laid back rant)

2002-10-07 Thread Jean-Louis Couturier
De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Objet : Epic is now mundane. (Laid back rant) Just expect that no matter how spectacular or how close to the book the movie Startide Rising is going to be, someone you know is going to say, It was OK. What's next? The only way to avoid

Re: Epic is now mundane. (Laid back rant)

2002-10-07 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 10/7/2002 10:42:29 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What makes the original _Star Wars_ so good and the new ones so bland isn't the special effects: it's the characters themselves. Translation: GL ran out of Japanese samurai movies and British

RE: Epic is now mundane. (Laid back rant)

2002-10-07 Thread Joe Hale
, 2002 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Epic is now mundane. (Laid back rant) In a message dated 10/7/2002 10:42:29 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What makes the original _Star Wars_ so good and the new ones so bland isn't the special effects: it's

Re: Epic is now mundane. (Laid back rant)

2002-10-07 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 10/7/2002 2:38:34 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I disagree. The characters in Star Wars are cardboard cutouts. The plot is pure space opera. What made Star Wars great was the special effects and the music. I take it this is to [EMAIL

RE: Epic is now mundane. (Laid back rant)

2002-10-07 Thread Joe Hale
is now mundane. (Laid back rant) In a message dated 10/7/2002 2:38:34 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I disagree. The characters in Star Wars are cardboard cutouts. The plot is pure space opera. What made Star Wars great was the special effects and the music. I

Re: Epic is now mundane. (Laid back rant)

2002-10-07 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Joe Hale wrote: Brin is going to write a plotline to Star Wars III? The same Brin who calls the movies insidious and vile? Yes, and this plotline would make a final link between the Uplift Universe and the SW Universe. He will prove that the Jedis are, in fact, the Progenitors that

Re: Epic is now mundane. (Laid back rant)

2002-10-07 Thread Russell Chapman
Joe Hale wrote: Brin is going to write a plotline to Star Wars III? The same Brin who calls the movies insidious and vile? Think of it as a patch to some bad software. Doesn't fix it properly, but makes it run better than before. It's quite unique and left-field, but does improve the whole I

Re: Epic is now mundane. (Laid back rant)

2002-10-07 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 10/7/2002 6:08:55 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brin is going to write a plotline to Star Wars III? The same Brin who calls the movies insidious and vile? Read from his webpage. He says he has a way to clean up the moral mess for the last

Epic is now mundane. (Laid back rant)

2002-10-04 Thread Medievalbk
Today at a used bookstore that is actually a used media store but won't change their name because it just wouldn't be as cool, I saw a used DVD of Lord of the Rings. Already. If we all totally twist the English language, I'm thinking of redoing the slogan of the king of kitchen gadgets: See