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   catpandaddy to Your Name   
   Re: "V" works...   
   19 Nov 09 17:46:50   
   
   From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   news:he47ll$prl$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
   >   
   > "Mike Hall"  wrote in message   
   > news:00a1075d-16d4-42d0-8bb6-a66e0692b488@s31g2000yqs.googlegroups.com...   
   >> On 17 Nov, 19:52, "Your Name"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > It aint "tough" at all. It's extremely easy. There's virtually zero   
   > talent   
   >> > or creativity in Hollyweird these days.   
   >>   
   >> Why do people think that the situation was ever different?  80% of all   
   >> films ever released to the mass audience stank to high heaven!   
   >> Another 19% had artistic merit but probably did not interest you   
   >> personally for various reasons (too girly, too manly etc.).  Only   
   >> about 1 or 2 films every year make me feel that I did not waste   
   >> valuable lifetime watching it.  From what I have read the situation   
   >> has never been different.  For years the studios were making money   
   >> from "actors" making funny faces in silent movies!  Those who have an   
   >> interest in keeping the myth alive call this a Golden Era in movie-   
   >> making!   
   >   
   > All true, but these days there's also very little actual creativity in   
   > Hollyweird. Most of them simply clone someone else's good idea and / or   
   > "remake" someone else's hard work into something barely recognisable while   
   > still re-using the same old name.   
   >   
   >   
      
   You almost over that yet?  Time to move on perhaps?   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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