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Old 01-06-2010, 10:14 PM   #92
Flint
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Originally Posted by dar512 View Post
Ok. I'm glad you explained that again, 'cause that's not how I read this:
Oh, that's an easy fix. Read the full post, not just the second part. Here:
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I’m not trying to be non-conformist, I simply don’t think I can enjoy the movie when the act of watching it has been forced to be an analysis of what I am seeing on the screen versus the expectations created by an unrelenting, overly specific media campaign. The entire movie will be an out-of-the-moment experience. A meta-movie, about itself.

That, and when I actually saw a preview of the movie, it looked dumb. The recently-reformed, reluctant hero fights against impossible odds to save the idyllic utopian society from being destroyed by the military-industrial, shoot-em-up bad guys? Wow. My life won’t be complete until I see how that turns out.
See? Two different points. You are correct in noticing that if you chop the post in half, half of it will be missing.
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