Posted by moviePig on 07/21/07 22:54

On Jul 21, 6:18 pm, "Jim Beaver" <jumble...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
> "moviePig" <pwall...@moviepig.com> wrote in message
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> > On Jul 21, 7:42 am, "Jim Beaver" <jumble...@prodigy.spam> wrote:
> >> "Dave" <dap...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> >> > Compared to any other ones you also dislike, what 1 or 2 (live action
> >> > or animated)
> >> > film franchises do you regard as the most overrated one/s and please
> >> > say why, for each one mentioned.
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> >> STAR WARS. I saw the first three when they came out and was increasingly
> >> bewildered by what audiences could find to like in them beyond a certain
> >> (initial) fun with the special effects. Years later, I went back and saw
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> >> couple of them again and wondered why I had not hated them any more in
> >> the
> >> first place. I cannot bring myself to see the new batch. While there
> >> are a
> >> couple of Gene Autry movies I've enjoyed less, there are no Roy Rogers
> >> movies I've enjoyed less.
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> > Imo, the first SW was indeed "initial fun" (with special effects)...
> > but, thereafter, we were asked to care, which was an intergalactic sea-
> > change...
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> > Meanwhile, though, if you're able to compare kids' movies (like Roy's
> > and Gene's) watched at a single-digit age with those from 20-and-up,
> > then you're a better man than I am Gunga Din (Charlie Brown, etc.)...
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> Who said I saw Roy's and Gene's movies as a kid? I didn't. I saw Roy's TV
> show as a kid, but not the movies. I saw the Rogers and Autry films
> contemporaneously with the Lucas movies, more or less. I try to be pretty
> careful in my comparisons. I.E., I didn't compare Star Wars unfavorably to
> High School Confidential, which I've only seen as a single digiter. That
> wouldn't be fair. ;-)

(Btw, nice to see you're not deadwood at HBO... popping up throughout
my Mon. evenings... including ENTOURAGE and CONCHORDS eventually, no
doubt...)

All right, I give up. How did you manage a Roy/Gene festival in '77?
(If the answer is Sat. morning tv, make something up...)

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