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   Your Name to dtravel@sonic.net   
   Re: Star Wars VII: Is Kylo Ren really ..   
   30 Dec 15 18:47:24   
   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , Dimensional Traveler   
    wrote:   
   > On 12/29/2015 4:36 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > > In article , Gutless   
   > > Umbrella Carrying Sissy  wrote:   
   > >> Your Name  wrote in   
   > >> news:291220151042342329%YourName@YourISP.com:   
   > >>> In article   
   > >>> <9457ee4f-9710-4f61-af60-68cb8478a483@googlegroups.com>,   
   > >>>  wrote:   
   > >>>> On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 7:51:43 PM UTC-5, Gutless   
   > >>>> Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Expectations are running so high that a lot of people are   
   > >>>>> referring to him as "Jar Jar Abrams." (That joke will almost   
   > >>>>> certainly provide more amusement, both qualitatively and   
   > >>>>> quantitaviely, than the movie.)   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Well, Terry? Do you stand by this comment from November?   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Yep, it's certainly true that a lot of people are calling the   
   > >>> lazy, talentless hack "Jar Jar Abrams" ... me being one of them.   
   > >>>   :-)   
   > >>   
   > >> He's earned a lot of scorn for what he's done ot Star Trek, though   
   > >> he's gotten more than he deserves, mostly for the fact that what he   
   > >> made, while decent action movies, wasn't even remotely Star Trek.   
   > >>   
   > >> Now that I think about it, though, I'm more moderate in my hopes for   
   > >> the next two movies, especially the last one. As he demonstrated,   
   > >> quite vividly, with Alias and Lost, he's *much* better at starting   
   > >> interesting storiest han at finishing them.   
   > >   
   > > I don't think he's ever finished anything. He always seems to walk out   
   > > part way through to go and do something else, meanwhile leaving the   
   > > hopeless mess he made behind for someone else to attempt to fix up.   
   >   
   > I was going to say something similar.  Abrams has also reached a point   
   > of popularity in Hollywood where studios will hire Bad Robot just so   
   > they can slap his name in the credits somewhere.   
      
   You have to wonder why since he's a talentless hack who ruins   
   everything he touches ... then again, this is the same Hollyweird that   
   thinks creating idiotic "reboots" is actually a good idea.  :-\   
      
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