ddb@mrvax.DEC (DAVID DYER-BENNET MRO1-2/L14 DTN 231-4076) (06/25/84)
I agree with ihdev!rjv (Ron) about why movies are so full of holes -- the
people who could plug them just don't care, they know the product will
sell anyway.
So, instead of spending our time here discussing, flaming about, and
trying to rationalize away the holes in various movies, why don't we spend
our time reading and discussing some bood BOOKS? At least, in most books,
if there is a hole, there is a single person to blame, and you might even
be able to get an answer to questions about what alternatives he considered.
Note that there exist net.startrek and net.movies out there somewhere as
separate groups.... (-:
-- David Dyer-Bennet
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-- ARPA: decwrl!rhea!mrvax!ddb@{SU-Shasta,Berkeley}karl@dartvax.UUCP (S. Delage.) (06/27/84)
More to the point, instead of idly discussing what is so bad about
movies, and explaining that it is so bad because ``the product
will sell anyway'', why not hit the problem at its roots, and (a)
don't go to movies that you hear to be bad. ( of course, most
people prefer to make up their own minds about this, which leaves:
) (b) if it is bad, write to the producer/writer/anyone else you
can think of, and tell them. They do actually listen. Even
television people read mail, movie people must too.
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