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   Message 268 of 1,975   
   nizecubes to OtiGoji   
   Re: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly   
   11 Sep 03 02:09:19   
   
   From: marz@yahoo.com   
      
   Bravo and well said!   
      
   OtiGoji wrote:   
      
   > >rhandley shouted out loud:   
   > >we're talking about a series of films about a>giant fire-breathing dinosaur   
   >   
   > Yes, sir, you have put your thumb on the throbbing pulse of this thread. As I   
   > am wont to repeat "This isn't the Fine Arts department. We are talking about   
   a   
   > baroque Japanese Giant Critter Picture!"   
   >   
   > I think we fans might parse too much these preposterous Monster-on-the-loose   
   > movies.   
   >   
   > At the Egyptian shows of GXM and GMK last month, the audience loved both   
   movies   
   > laughing and cheering at all the right spots.   
   > They even loved Godzilla's flying leap at the climax of GXM that caused so   
   much   
   > consternation and hand-wringing in these internet forms. Some of the   
   arguments   
   > over the years have boggled my mind. I just want to enjoy the movies, as did   
   > the Egyptian audiences, without trying to prove to anyone which movie is   
   > "better" than another.   
   >   
   > The post about the silliness of the GMK plot element that had a single   
   reporter   
   > on a bicycle with a jerry-rigged portable PC/cell phone/TV stu   
   io-on-two-wheels   
   > (!) reminded me these movies exist in their own universe. Each Godzilla movie   
   > has at least one totally and ludicrously absurd premise.   
   > Please remember we are talking about a series of movies that has included a   
   > senario where alien cockroaches are trying to take over the world from their   
   > headquarters in a life-sized Godzilla-shaped building in a children's   
   amusement   
   > park.   
   >   
   > Please, let's enjoy these movies and leave the high school physics lessons   
   back   
   > at school.   
   >   
   > Otius "If you are mean enough to steal from the blind, help yourself." Gojius   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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