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From: jmi@devsim.mdcbbs.com ((JM Ivler) MDC - Douglas Aircraft Co. Long Beach, CA.)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: preliminary call for disussion: rec.arts.movies subgroups
Message-ID: <496.25976370@devsim.mdcbbs.com>
Date: 26 Dec 89 12:26:24 GMT
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In article <49987@bbn.COM>, rshapiro@BBN.COM (Richard Shapiro) writes:
> 
> What this means is that those of us with a broader and perhaps
> slightly more serious interest in the whole history of cinema are
> unable to use this group AT ALL, and there's really no hope of that
> situation ever changing. It seems clear to me that, if there is
> interest in a different kind of forum for movie talk, we'll need a new
> group to conduct it in. This pre-call-for-votes is an attempt to find
> out if there is any such interest.
> 
> As one concrete proposal (but only one), let me suggest r.a.m.classic
> which would be exclusively for the (serious) discussion of older
> Hollywood movies (not necessarily "great" movies). This group would
> have to be moderated, I think.
> 
> Is there any interest in such a group? How about a different subgroup?
> I just want to have a usable forum for talking about cinema in a more
> serious and more historical way than is possible on r.a.m. Any such
> forum is better than none at all.
> 
> Opinions?


Great idea... also would like to see REC.MOVIES.TECH to discuss the various 
aspects of film production, but that can wait... I have to agree that BTTF II 
and other first run movies seem to dominate the discussions and that due to the 
flow of traffic there can be up to 13 threads on a single current release. I 
would like to see another name besides .classic, but I am at a loss of what to 
call it... perhaps .vault as in 'film vault' the place that films go when out 
of first and second run. The .classic conotation seems to me to be a breeding 
ground for discontent as what is a classic to some people (for instance WHIFFS 
a rather lame movie with Eddie Albert) is trash to others.

Just a few thoughts... 

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