Re: Official Trek XI Website Has Teaser Trailer

Jaxtraw wrote:
> Anim8rFSK wrote:
>> In article <479a306c$1$85784$e4fe514c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>  "Wouter Valentijn" <liam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> Anim8rFSK wrote:
>>>> In article <4798e211$0$85779$e4fe514c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>>> "Wouter Valentijn" <liam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> GeneK wrote:
>>>>>> RuPEDski wrote:
>>>>>>> THERE is an attempt to change the
>>>>>>> monster formula through the Blair Witch filming technique.
>>>>>>> Problem is....it's a disaster! Ridiculous lines and the
>>>>>>> extremely stretched "i'm still filiming!!" premise, make any
>>>>>>> "reality" impact negligible.
>>>>>> If that was the attempt it was doomed from the start.
>>>>>> "Blair Witch" achieved its measure of success from
>>>>>> the fact that a fairly large number of people bought
>>>>>> into its gimmick that the film was actually real (even
>>>>>> after it was pointed out that several of the "missing
>>>>>> students" in the so-called "footage" had made other
>>>>>> films after BWP).  It was a one-time phenomenon.
>>>>>>
>>>>> People actually thought BW was real???
>>>> That's what the movie's publicity department would have us believe.
>>> Twisted.
>> I'm reminded of the stories that circulated when THE EXORCIST first
>> came out, about the couple that came out of the theater and checked
>> themselves into a mental health facility.  Clearly that never
>> happened, but if the studio publicity department didn't come up with
>> it, I bet they wish they had.
> 
> There seems to be a fascination with the idea that movies and media
cause
> greater effects on viewers than they really do. It seems to be largely
> promoted by censorship activists.

It also tends to be an excuse promoted by various failed political causes:
"The reason why no one voted for our candidate [or marched in our 
demonstration], is that the 'sheeple' do only what the media tells them 
to do"


-- 
Steven L.
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