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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: A fresh take on the Star Wars films
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 11:58:54 -0400
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On 5/10/2024 4:03 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> On 5/8/2024 5:45 AM, trotsky wrote:
>>> On 5/7/24 3:04 PM, moviePig wrote:
>>>> On 5/7/2024 2:58 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 7 May 2024 13:33:28 -0400
>>>>> moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 5/7/2024 11:23 AM, Rhino wrote:
>>>>>>> A friend send me a link to this video today and it seemed to be very
>>>>>>> appropriate for this newsgroup so I'm posting it here:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnEIDUXSULI [11 minutes]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'd never thought of Star Wars as essentially being a silent film
>>>>>>> with music replacing dialog but the presenter makes a reasonably
>>>>>>> strong case for his argument. There are clips of interviews with
>>>>>>> John Williams giving his thoughts as well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 'Dialogue'.  Heh...
>>>>>>
>>>>> Is this your idea of a spelling flame?
>>>>>
>>>>> I know perfectly well that "dialogue" is the correct spelling everywhere
>>>>> in the Anglosphere *except* in the USA. which insists on the simplified
>>>>> spelling "dialog". I know and use both spellings. I just happened to
>>>>> use the American spelling today. So what?
>>>>
>>>> The dialogue in the first SW was laughable ...enjoyable only because
>>>> one could think the corn tongue-in-cheek, rather than the solemn
>>>> myth-making it turns out was intended.  The actors themselves were
>>>> astonished.
>>>
>>> Agreed.  How Cowboys and Indians in Space got to the level of hype it
>>> has is beyond me.
>>
>> STARSHIP TROOPERS was another universally popular movie that seems to
>> have evoked such a sharply schizoid audience reaction, with each of the
>> two camps finding the other's take inexplicable.
> 
> There are those who think Paul Verhoeven knows what he’s doing and then
> there are the rest of us who are correct.

Sharon Stone thinks he knew what he was doing...