Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/18

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Subject: RE: [Leica] RE: those movies
From: "Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:02:22 -0800

OK Jim,

I guess this is your way of telling us to get back on track....ehhh!? 

PK

- -----Original Message-----
From: Jim Brick [mailto:jimbrick@photoaccess.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 2:46 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] RE: those movies


I'm happy for all of you. I haven't seen any of these movies. Basically, no
desire. And after reading all of these posts, I don't suppose I'll ever see
them, unless at 35 thousand feet over the Atlantic. And then, I may sleep
instead.

Does Leica make MP cameras or lenses? Now if they were filmed with a
Summicron, I might give it a thought.  :)

Jim


At 02:27 PM 2/18/99 -0800, you wrote:
>It sucked!  Spielberg needs to go back to lighter movies.  Something with a
>storyline. SPR was fabrication in the biggest sense except for the first 30
>minutes which I assume close to accurate considering the expert consultants
>he had for the movie.  Its just that I find it entirely unecessary to
>subject an audience to 30 mins of it when 5 would do.  But that would make
>for a shorted movie and Spielberg likes them long winded....
>
>PK
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: B. D. Colen [mailto:bdcolen@earthlink.net]
>Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 12:27 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: RE: [Leica]now:B&W photography
>
>
>I know we shouldn't be doing this on the LUG...but....I enjoyed Titanic.
The
>script was a joke, the acting was a bigger joke, but it was a really
>wonderful evocation of a particular time and place - and had staggeringly
>good special effects. Which is to say, it's a Gone With The Wind for the
>90s---a sweeping epic whose greatest virtue is that it's a sweeping
>epic....but Academy Awards? For that old lady? Pathetic.....
>
>And I really don't know where Peter is coming from. The entire point of SPR
>was the blood and guts. It was real. It was horrifying. It was loud. It was
>disorienting. It was totally confusing. It was war.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark
>Rabiner
>Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 3:13 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica]now:B&W photography
>
>
>"Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" wrote:
>>
>> BD,
>>
>> I vote for James Cameron.  At least there isn't 30 minutes of blood and
>guts
>> all over the screen.  Even when he did Terminator 2
>snip
>
>Titanic made me puke. I think Linda Hamilton knows something.
>Terminators' were great though. Titanic made me more than puke, I am
>ready to join discussion groups to sit around and creatively badmouth it
>in my spare time.
>Mark Rabiner