My Opinion on this Vegas Arguement

[High Priestess]

Originally Posted by xxxmx

how about a voluntary thread block? you know, where we all just stop paying attention to the unpleasantries of the ledge?

And allow people to have different opinions?? THAT IS CRAZY!!!

[High Priestess]

Originally Posted by kato

Hey sis,how about giving it a rest already?
I'm sorry I brought it up again.

So grow up & give it a rest then....

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by dissention

Spielberg is so ridiculously incompetent that it's kind of funny in a perverse way. He's just...bad. Lucas is equally bad, too, but Star Wars is entertaining, so I give him a slight break. He's a hack and I think he knows it, whereas Spielberg considers himself to be the God of Cinema.

Do you think Schindler's List was bad?

[High Priestess]

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

That's totally logical and I understand it completely, but I have this personal deal. In my real life, I tend to let people walk all over me, so I've sort of made this decision that I'm rarely going to keep my mouth shut on the internet when I have a problem with the way someone's treating me or others. Irrational, yeah, but aren't women in general?

.."too trusting..yes..but then women usually are"

[High Priestess]

Originally Posted by Lux

This person thrives on personal insults and the reactions to such. To resopnd at all is to fuel so it'll be closed shortly, you may aswell walk away before someone has to enforce it. I guess you just accept that you can't change or even reason with the insane (or just those who get on off on being insulted).

Not everyone thinks The Empress Has New Clothes!

[Serrart]

Originally Posted by dissention

I could never watch a Star Wars movie for the acting.

George Lucas has to be the worst director of actors in the world. I mean, it's scary. But Episode III is supposed to have some good acting (I never understood why everyone said Christensen was so bad in Episode II, I thought Samuel L. Jackson and Natalie Portman were the ones who stunk up the screen in that one) and have a much diferent tone than the others, so it should be interesting.

Luckily there's Ian McDarmid, even in Star Wars there must be at least a real actor.

Romy

[High Priestess]

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

"This simple thought repeating
Over and over again..."

"It goes on and on and on and on again..again."

[dissention]

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

Do you think Schindler's List was bad?

As bad as Shoah (which I could NEVER finish when it was shown in college and I wouldn't finish it for ten million bucks) and that says a helluva lot. There were some scenes that were truly heartbreaking, but as a film, it was wretched. I know it's some sort of taboo to call any film on the Holocaust "wretched," but oh well. From the black and white to the manipulation on the audience at the end to the Oscar bait feel to all of the proceedings, it does nothing for me.

[Serrart]

Originally Posted by Lux

I have no idea what's out at the moment. All I know is that I'm going to see the German film Downfall on Monday and that will be the first time I've ventured into a cinema in quite a while (for a reason other than escaping the Australian summer).

It's a good movie, conventional but good. Bruno Ganz is spectacular and also the two leading actresses, Alexandra Maria Lara (The secretary) and Juliane Köhler (Eva Braun).

Romy

[GypsySorcerer]

Ya'll and your Speilberg hate. I don't think he's brilliant, but he makes thoroughly enjoyable, entertaining flicks. IMHO, of course.

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by dissention

As bad as Shoah (which I could NEVER finish when it was shown in college and I wouldn't finish it for ten million bucks) and that says a helluva lot. There were some scenes that were truly heartbreaking, but as a film, it was wretched. I know it's some sort of taboo to call any film on the Holocaust "wretched," but oh well. From the black and white to the manipulation on the audience at the end to the Oscar bait feel to all of the proceedings, it does nothing for me.

I've heard that Shoah was good but I never sat through it.

So, are there any Speilberg films you like? As a whole?

My Mom's fave movie is Jaws. It's just her thing. But she will not speak of the sequels.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by Serrart

Luckily there's Ian McDarmid, even in Star Wars there must be at least a real actor.

Romy

But the thing is that I think Jackson, Portman, and Christensen are all fabulous actors. Just not necessarily in Star Wars.

[Johnny Stew]

Somehow I took a wrong turn and ended up in the school cafeteria.

High Priestess, as you have been told by several people several times, differences of opinion are accepted and welcomed here, but the continual baiting and harassment of Ledgies is not.

Either learn to interact with other Ledgies more respectfully and tactfully, or you won't have the option of posting here much longer.

[GypsySorcerer]

Originally Posted by dissention

As bad as Shoah (which I could NEVER finish when it was shown in college and I wouldn't finish it for ten million bucks) and that says a helluva lot. There were some scenes that were truly heartbreaking, but as a film, it was wretched. I know it's some sort of taboo to call any film on the Holocaust "wretched," but oh well. From the black and white to the manipulation on the audience at the end to the Oscar bait feel to all of the proceedings, it does nothing for me.

I can see why you think it's overrated, but I thought Neeson, and especially, Kingsley, were excellent.

[amber]

Originally Posted by dissention

But the thing is that I think Jackson, Portman, and Christensen are all fabulous actors. Just not necessarily in Star Wars.

I'm, uh, thinking there's not a lot to work with there, script wise...