From: flar@iastate.edu (Bradley M Armitage)
Subject: Re: Dracula Criticism
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: world,local
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:37:25 GMT

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:
>>|> Why are people so pathetic?  And this is not meant to criticize anyone 
>>|> personally or to say that FFC's Dracula was the best movie of all time or 
>>|> anything.  But it seems like it's the trendy thing to do to anticipate this 
>>|> movie as if it were the Second Coming, and then to say it was the worst piece 
>>|> of trash ever after seeing it.  Kind of like when it becomes trendy to 
>>|> criticize trendiness.  Or when people want to look "different" so they pierce 
>>|> various body parts, dye their hair various colors, and wear MC's with 
>>|> white-out all over them, so they all end up looking the same!  Which is not to 
>>|> say that such a look is not appealing, either... it's just that it seems like 
>>|> it's becoming "cool" to criticize the film, to be like, "Well, I'm a REAL 
>>|> vampire fanatic, so of course it couldn't live up to MY expectations" kind of 
>>|> thing.  I happened to adore the movie, some people might not, whatever.  But 
>>|> I'm sure tyhis bulletin could be put to much better use than WHINING about 
>>|> it!!!
>>
>>Based on the fact that many of the critics has supported their
>>beliefs, some in great detail (and having seen the movie I know they
>>are correct), failure of the movie goes way beyond just a kind of
>>wanting to agree with everyone by criticizing it.
>>
>>Movie sucked.
>>			- Jeff

> I can list off the top of my head 300 people who loved the movie.
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>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 those unqualified articles.


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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.  As for Jeff's article, I rather enjoied it, and it was not!
unqualified, he very eloquently expressed how pathetic the movie
was.....

the movie sucked!

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