** It's been a while I've written anything of length to MoPo; write it off to
being too swamped to get into the fights and what-nots during the past 5-6
months.
** Meanwhile, you're right, Doug -- "Avatar's" story line has been done 1,000
times before, and that's my only objection to it. "A
David,
I agreed with your take, except I don't accept that a lifetime of film
history should be casually dismissed just because some teens and twenty
something newbies don't yet have that same kind of history. It's called
experience and experience is valuable, despite what the new kids on the
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To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Tue, February 16, 2010 5:42:31 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Revised/appended, discard previous: AVATAR
David,
I agreed with your take, except I don't accept that a lifetime of film history
should be casually dismissed just because some teens and twenty
bject: Re: [MOPO] Revised/appended, discard previous: AVATAR
I think because of Avatar, this will be an interesting year to watch the
Oscars. And it will be very interesting to see if Kathryn Bigelow will win for
best director. Which will be a historical event.
On a side note, the poster
David
Your e-mail brings back pleasant memories of my late father. He wasted a
zillion hours going to movies growing up (just as I did) and he had an
uncanny ability to guess where a movie was headed, because he had seen so
many similar ones before. We would watch together, and he would say, "I b
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