From: garpal@shaw.ca   
      
       "Hokey" to me is what I call 'over acting' and/or 'unrealistic'   
   situations created by the director to 'later in the movie' put everyone in   
   jeopardy. For example, don't leave your guns around if you are in a possible   
   dangerous situation where one might need them. The danger is the key and the   
   story line makes that obvious. And then the actors leave their protection   
   (the guns) in a place they cannot get to and because of that they are left   
   in jeopardy. A movie like this, to me, is "Hokey" because it is directed at   
   adult audiences. "Old Yeller" was, in my opinion, directed at children so,   
   to me, is not hokey for that reason.   
      
      
   >>   
   >> But then I am willing to learn and just   
   >> what is 'hokey'?   
   >> Cheers,   
   >   
   > "Hokey" would be those films that are falsely or overly sentimental -- "Old   
   > Yeller" is "hokey."   
       I may have seen "2001: A space Odyssey " and "Dr. Strangelove" but can't   
   remember the story line so cannot comment.   
   >   
   > Have you ever given Kubrick's films consideration? "2001: A Space Odyssey" is   
   > ground-breaking. "Dr. Strangelove" is superb black comedy and satire, and   
   > essential to understanding the early 1960s.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)