Re: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days

2008-03-14 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
Well it will come a day when there will not be real actors, they will all be computers. Loren Faeth wrote: Computers work for less money and are much less temperamental and difficult to deal with than real actors and actresses. Movies of the future will have animes, not actors in them

Re: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days

2008-03-14 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
Well, then there is the fact that now they just remake everything. Dukes of Hazzard, Amityville Horrory, The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, I could go on and on, thats just what popped into my head right off the bat. Loren Faeth wrote: Amen Last movie I went to wuz star wars II. Last

Re: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days

2008-03-14 Thread OK Don
You're supposed to suspend disbelief when watching movies --- (I know, it's harder every year). -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics. -Benjamin Disraeli and/or Mark Twain '90 300D, '87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78 450SLC, '97 Ply Grand Voyager

Re: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days

2008-03-14 Thread Jeff Zedic
On 14/03/2008, OK Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're supposed to suspend disbelief when watching movies --- (I know, it's harder every year). It's supposed to be the other way around. The movie is supposed to be good enough to make us suspend our disbelief. Most of the new stuff is

Re: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days

2008-03-14 Thread Gary Hurst
it's always been the case that most films are formula crap made to appeal to enough of the lowest common denominator to make lots of money. and it has always been the case that some good films are made despite this model. go see the good films. skip the dukes of hazard remakes. On Fri, Mar 14,

Re: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days

2008-03-14 Thread Alex Chamberlain
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Gary Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's always been the case that most films are formula crap made to appeal to enough of the lowest common denominator to make lots of money. and it has always been the case that some good films are made despite this model.

Re: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days

2008-03-14 Thread Gary Hurst
that's exactly what biases it. the bad movies do not survive. the good ones are shown over and over and studied and commented on. it is easy to watch citizen kane and learn more about it's greatness every time we hear peter bogdanovich say i remember one time when orson was living in my

Re: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days

2008-03-14 Thread Gary Hurst
List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 1:02 AM Subject: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days Im sorry, I just had to find out if anybody else feels the same about movies these days as I do? For example, I just watched this latest Die Hard movie, which has whole 10

Re: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days

2008-03-14 Thread LarryT
mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 1:02 AM Subject: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days Im sorry, I just had to find out if anybody else feels the same about movies these days as I do? For example, I just watched this latest Die Hard movie, which has whole 10-20 minute

Re: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days

2008-03-14 Thread Rich Thomas
I've done that. --R Gary Hurst wrote: leslie nielson used to do the thing where he shot some guy with an assault rifle off a tower at 150 yards from the hip with his snub nose .38. really summed up the nonsense of all the shootouts you saw on tv and in films

Re: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days

2008-03-14 Thread Curt Raymond
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Re: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days

2008-03-14 Thread Tom Hargrave
How do you disturb the disturbed? Tom www.kegkits.com - Original Message - From: Curt Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: 3/14/08 4:51 PM To: Diesel List mercedes@okiebenz.com CC: Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days They have, at least once, maybe twice. Remember

Re: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days

2008-03-14 Thread Tom Hargrave
Message - From: LarryT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: 3/14/08 2:42 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com CC: Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days Hi Kaleb, Couldn't agree more! Everytime I see someone outrun an explosive blast I laugh out loud. *Someone* who

[MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days

2008-03-13 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
Im sorry, I just had to find out if anybody else feels the same about movies these days as I do? For example, I just watched this latest Die Hard movie, which has whole 10-20 minute scenes that are nothing but computer animation. None of the action is realistic at all. Not like the original

Re: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days

2008-03-13 Thread Loren Faeth
Amen Last movie I went to wuz star wars II. Last movie I went to before that wuz Starwars. Even most movies on tv are crap. Only ones I watch regularly are old movies (mostly BW) and Westerns before Hang em high. (ie Clint was young or unborn) Nothing on network tc at all. History

Re: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days

2008-03-13 Thread Loren Faeth
Computers work for less money and are much less temperamental and difficult to deal with than real actors and actresses. Movies of the future will have animes, not actors in them At 12:02 AM 3/14/2008, you wrote: Im sorry, I just had to find out if anybody else feels the same about movies

Re: [MBZ] OT, movies are unrealistic these days

2008-03-13 Thread Hendrik Fay
Well that's because Bruce Willis is busy stopping an asteroid hitting the Earth and couldn't do the whole movie. Yippee yayyee Hendrik who likes to watch world movies, especially Asian action flicks Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: Im sorry, I just had to find out if anybody else feels the same about