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- From: twain@milton.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: The Player (was Re: Academy Awards)
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 01:02:53 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- In article <1993Jan2.200530.13182@daimi.aau.dk> rorschak@daimi.aau.dk
- (Jesper Lauridsen) writes:
- >
- >Having seen 103 movies (video not counted) in 1992 I think that I qualify
- >as a "movie buff" (or on my way to be one), and I really can't see what
- >is so great about The Player. It was funny, entertaining, a bit predictable
- >but overall well made. Good professional work, but great? No.
- >
- A hilarious delight in and appreciation of THE PLAYER depends to
- a large extent on one's sense of movies as a separate art form,
- with its own history, and a profoundly satirical and even cynical
- understanding of exactly how deeply Americans have been affected in
- many aspects of both their public and their private lives.
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- Barbara, who has seen maybe six films this year and doesn't own a VCR
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- A *bit predictable*?? If there was anything predictable in THE PLAYER
- it came from its way of playing games with our knowledge of older and
- classic movies.
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