RE: [Leica]now:B&W photography

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

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