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   From: g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies   
      
   In message <89kuc85b65pk4fgd25tav06obgeq86n9hd@4ax.com>   
     Paul S  Person  wrote:   
   > On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:50:00 +0100, Troels Forchhammer   
   >  wrote:   
      
   >>In message    
   >>"Tahiri"  spoke these staves:   
   >>>   
   >>> Am I first? I have seen the film and overall I liked it.   
   >>   
   >>I saw it Saturday with the kids, and I also really liked it.   
   >>   
   >>It is not exactly a deep film in any sense of the word -- it's   
   >>hack&slash action-adventure and nothing else. No hidden depths, a lot   
   >>of video-game inspired aesthetics, but nothing exceptional. It is,   
   >>however, thoroughly entertaining -- a bit like a really good roller   
   >>coaster ride.   
      
   > Which reminds of something I meant to mention earlier:   
      
   > as often happens (the second /Indiana Jones/ movie is a good example   
   > of this occurring in other films), some of the action sequences look a   
   > lot like a trailer for a (roller-coaster based, indeed) theme park   
   > ride   
      
   > At least, that is how I interpret Action Sequences that involve   
   > watching people slide down something for what appears to be an   
   > unneccessarily prolonged period of time. Still, they were all done   
   > well and, in the end, no more obnoxious than the extended views of   
   > motors running in Sensurround movies.   
      
   I did find the extended sliding scene to be more than a little silly. If   
   you want to see one done right, watch The Empire Strikes Back. I did   
   enjoy the one in Temple of Doom though, since there was something else   
   going on and it wasn't that terribly long (not like say the three laps   
   of the Pod Race in Phantom Menace).   
      
   --   
   "Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of   
   belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical   
   system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up   
   on the spur of the moment?" Wen considered this for some time, and a   
   last said: "A fish!"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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