[net.movies] Whitney apologizes, offers truce.

dwhitney@uok.UUCP (07/22/84)

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uok!dwhitney    Jul 15 23:05:00 1984


I'll stay brief, because I'm as tired of arguin the subject as you people are
of reading my opinions.

I posted a response to a note which some people have obviously not read. In
it, I have apologized for some of the extraordinarily stupid things I have
posted in previous messages.  Of course, it asinine to say that any movie
with social content is snobbery, and everyone who has told me so is exactly
correct.  My tirades came from a knee-jerk reaction from a note posted some
weeks ago to the effect that all people discussing escapist films such as
Indiana Jones, Star Trek 3, etc., were just juvenile idiots who babbled
with low IQs.  I owe a sincere apology to those people I have angered,
and to simply restate my opinion as I originally meant it:

Please let people watch and enjoy the films they enjoy.  Be it escapist,
social or whatever.  But please dont lump all people into one category for
the films they like.  Not everyone likes Star Trek, not everyone likes
Terms of Endearment.  The difference in tastes is what makes the world
interesting, not just the movies.  Fans who enjoy Star Trek are not just
juvenile idiots, and the Terms fans are not snobs.  They are merely different
people with different tastes.

Again, I hope this ends the arguments, and offer this as a TRUCE!!

Friends????????????????

David Whitney
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