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   Your Name to alms@last.inc   
   Re: Predator reboot   
   25 Jun 14 13:12:54   
   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , Alan Smithee   
    wrote:   
   > On 06/24/2014 06:31 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > > And the lazy hack generation continues to mine everything in cinema   
   > > history rather than actually come up with their own ideas ...   
   > >   
   > >       Shane Black to Write and Direct Predator Reboot!   
   > >       The Iron Man 3 helmer will take on the sci-fi action   
   > >       franchise   
   > >       http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=119877   
   >   
   > Ye gods! Ebert once pointed out that in one specific year *every* movie   
   > was a sequel, a reboot, or was based on a TV show, a book, or a play.   
   >   
   > (It was the year Pelican Brief came out)   
      
   "The Pelican Brief" was in 1993, so I'm not sure how true it was back   
   then, but it's certainly true now and only getting worse as more and   
   more lazy, talentless hacks move into "powerful" positions within   
   Hollyweird.  :-(   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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