Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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