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From: hsu@cvl.UUCP (Dave Hsu)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: Steven Spielberg: Slime Mold
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Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 18:45:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 11 18:45:21 1985
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> 
> Anyway, sure SSpielberg's stuff is unbelievable.  It's even corny.  So what?
> A lot of the people in them are doing things that many of us (But, obviously
> not you!) dream about.  When you were a kid, didn't you pretend you had a 
                          -------------------
Well, relatively speaking, I suppose I still am a kid.  At least I was when
I started reading this net.

> secret friend who could do all sorts of 'magical' things (ET), or have a 
> secret clubhouse where you pretended to be a spy (Goonies)?  When you're a
> kid, isn't authority bad?  Therefore, it's appealing to get away with 
> licking them at their own game...and then finding someone is authority 
> who agrees with what you are doing (Close Encounters).

Odd, I haven't had any authority problems lately. Maybe I was (am?) a dull kid.
Or maybe it's just the old Republicanism showing again.

> Everybody likes to
> think that in the right situation, they could be a hero, and when that
> situation comes up (of course, it never does for most of us), we think that
> we are up to the challenge, and can save the day (Indiana Jones/Raiders),
> and then when it's over, return to our drab normal lives again.

Whoa there...now you know as well as I that the whole thing was thought out
by George Lucas long before Spielberg got wind of it.  There's a lot more
Lucas in it than anybody else.  That's why I LIKED RotLA.

> All his movies are are escapism!  He does it better than anyone else (any
> George Lucas fans want to argue?), and that is what the people are looking
               (see above)
> for, so, let him!  If you think you can do better, go ahead!  Of course,
> his movies aren't for everybody (I really didn't like ET, though I can
> see its appeal), but they appeal to enough people to make them worthwhile!
> 
> BTW, how could you have seen so many of his movies "not in the theatre"?
> ET, Indiana Jones, Gremlins, Goonies, and who knows what else have never
> made it to Vidtape or cable TV yet. (Attention bootleg authorities, I think
> we have someone for you!!)

I DIDN'T see SO MANY of his movies.  Just a few were enough to convince me
not to see any of the entirely-Spielberg films you named (aside from clips
on movie review shows).  Yes, some of them have appeal.  That is, if you
really like to watch one or two not-entirely-sane people afloat in a sea
of improbable celluloid stereotypes.

> Oh yeah, I've been accused in the past of not really falling into the 
> net.flame milieu.  Sorry, here goes...fuck, shit, piss, penis envy,
> Republican. ;-)
    (also, see WAAAY above)
> Yours in better flaming...
> --Evan Marcus
> -- 

I guess I also just couldn't cut any fat off this article.  And I'll have
to leech of his net.flame qualifying section above.  Saaaay, anybody wanna
gripe about Andy Rooney? Or is there enough bandwidth on the net to handle
that kind of message flow?

days and days without Old Coke,
-dave