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- From: aw1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Andrew Wargo)
- Subject: Re: Dracula Criticism
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.212106.26264@ra.msstate.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:21:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.121455.3998@arizona.edu> nelson@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (Jeffrey J. Nelson) writes:
- >In article <18NOV92.17391311@vax.clarku.edu>, rgoldberg@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >|> Why are people so pathetic? And this is not meant to criticize anyone
- >|> personally or to say that FFC's Dracula was the best movie of all time or
- >|> anything. But it seems like it's the trendy thing to do to anticipate this
- >|> movie as if it were the Second Coming, and then to say it was the worst piece
- >|> of trash ever after seeing it. Kind of like when it becomes trendy to
- >|> criticize trendiness. Or when people want to look "different" so they pierce
- >|> various body parts, dye their hair various colors, and wear MC's with
- >|> white-out all over them, so they all end up looking the same! Which is not to
- >|> say that such a look is not appealing, either... it's just that it seems like
- >|> it's becoming "cool" to criticize the film, to be like, "Well, I'm a REAL
- >|> vampire fanatic, so of course it couldn't live up to MY expectations" kind of
- >|> thing. I happened to adore the movie, some people might not, whatever. But
- >|> I'm sure tyhis bulletin could be put to much better use than WHINING about
- >|> it!!!
- >
- >Based on the fact that many of the critics has supported their
- >beliefs, some in great detail (and having seen the movie I know they
- >are correct), failure of the movie goes way beyond just a kind of
- >wanting to agree with everyone by criticizing it.
- >
- >Movie sucked.
- > - Jeff
-
- I can list off the top of my head 300 people who loved the movie.
- I was one of them. Now, for Jeff here...The movie may have sucked to you
- and a lot of other people..that's dandy. But, by posting your unqualified
- article, you quite obviously are unaccustomed to the idea of allowing a
- differing opinion to even quietly drift by your head. So, in the future,
- please continue to post those unqualified articles.
-
-
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