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- From: daves@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Dave Stow)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: The Player (was Re: Academy Awards)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.173430.25077@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 17:34:30 GMT
- References: <31DEC199210214769@utkvx1.utk.edu> <ISBELL.92Dec31125659@pop-tarts.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan1.004118.17257@siemens.com>
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- >Does it really apply to "movie buffs", or the the "artsy" crowd? When I saw
- >it, the audience was strikingly the latter. I think I was the only one in the
- >theater without a long black coat, crewcut, and little round glasses.
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- Well, with long hair, a leather jacket and no glasses I don't fall into
- the artsy crowd at all - but I loved "The Player".
-
- >That it did, but for me the pretentiousness spoiled it. Stupidity wrt animals
- >didn't help either -- the bastard killing the snake and later claiming that
- >he "almost died".
-
- Hmm, I think you missed something about that character... And maybe what
- the film was about. Still - each to their own.
-
- Dave
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