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- Subject: Re: Dracula Criticism
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.130607.4004@arizona.edu>
- From: nelson@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (Jeffrey J. Nelson)
- Date: 19 Nov 92 13:06:04 MST
- Reply-To: nelson@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (Jeffrey J. Nelson)
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- In article <flar.722137045@vincent2.iastate.edu>, flar@iastate.edu (Bradley M Armitage) writes:
- > In <1992Nov18.212106.26264@ra.msstate.edu> aw1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Andrew Wargo) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Nov18.121455.3998@arizona.edu> nelson@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (Jeffrey J. Nelson) writes:
- >>>In article <18NOV92.17391311@vax.clarku.edu>, rgoldberg@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >>>> [trendy thing to do is hate FFC's Dracula]
-
- I wrote:
- >>>Based on the fact that many of the critics has supported their
- >>>beliefs, some in great detail....
- >>>
- >>>Movie sucked.
- >>> - Jeff
-
- >> I can list off the top of my head 300 people who loved the movie.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- That's an aweful lot of names... do you know their phone numbers also?
-
-
- >>I was one of them. Now, for Jeff here...The movie may have sucked to you
- >>and a lot of other people..that's dandy. But, by posting your unqualified
- >>article, you quite obviously are unaccustomed to the idea of allowing a
- >>differing opinion to even quietly drift by your head. So, in the future,
- >>please continue to post your unqualified articles.
-
- You obviously missed the humor... Besides this is a contradiction
- with the first article. First I am accused of saying I hated the movie
- because everyone else hated it, now you say I disagree with
- everything I see. :)
-
- My point was merely that people HAVE been supporting their
- views, not just saying "I agree, movie sucked" without saying why.
- Many of the criticisms have been greater than 2 pages.
-
- As for actual reasons why I didn't like it.
- 1. Expected a version MUCH closer to Stoker
- 2. K. Reaves
- 3. Mina love affair
- 4. Origin of Dracula was stupid
- 5. FFC should not try to do humor, not even sure he *meant*
- to do humor
- 6. Makeup, effects, visuals too choppy. That is to say, some of
- it was good, but transitions were bad.
- 7. Plot?
- 8. Sound track could have been substantially better
- 9. Character development?
-
- FFC is *capable* of an incredible Dracula movie, this was not one.
-
-
- |> Ok, lets talk unqualified, stating that you can name 300 people, off the
- |> top of your head, is as unqualified as you get. I just flat don't
- |> believe you, not calling you a fibber, just exaggerating to make your
- |> point.
-
- Further, proof by authority is useless. Einstein hated quantum mechanics
- so should we throw it out? More than a billion people in China
- practically live off rice, should everyone? We can all have opinions,
- but it is the facts which are important.
-
- Movie sucked.
- - Jeff
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