Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2024 08:33:32 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4lib6j5q4uml2bfcuid56fsjmbcc8vsfme@4ax.com> References: <64M0O.89975$TyYf.65665@fx15.iad> <5v966j5uq8sncmvdpedjl7gl0dd7bta2td@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2024 17:33:35 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7b346750d6fcc7fea14fac30ce76a134"; logging-data="3792578"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/40YBUnDjIP/0QhHlllxLhoOYRGr0sjUI=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:z6uqVIjt/M9KrTs+AFTF7GcTCHg= Bytes: 2446 On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 20:54:07 -0700, Dimensional Traveler wrote: >On 6/7/2024 9:29 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote: >> Paul S Person writes: >>> On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 09:29:15 +0100, Robert Carnegie >>=20 >>> >>> I don't think I ever said it was a big film. It was a film about a >>> young man who leaves his small town for the big city and eventually >>> saves the town from dying of thirst. It has some action, but the = story >>> is, how should I say this?, rather ordinary.=3D20 >>> >>> When the second reboot Bond film (/Qantum of Solace/) come out, it = was >>> roundly ridiculed for treater water as a vital resource. >>=20 >> Cite? >>=20 >> Ever seen Chinatown? >>=20 >Oh hell, the southwestern US states, various Native American groups and=20 >Mexico have been legally fighting over the water from the Colorado River= =20 >for _decades_. These films go beyond mere legal wrangling. Not quite to open war, though. --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"