Re: Official Trek XI Website Has Teaser Trailer

In article <13pmd7v95210hb6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 "Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Jaxtraw wrote:
> > Steven L. wrote:
> >> 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"
> > 
> > Everyone loves that one. Nobody who states it ever explains how they
can be
> > certain that they themselves have escaped brainwashing.
> 
> I remember a guy who did.  We were talking about events in the Middle 
> East.  He told me seriously that he doesn't listen to any Western news 
> media whatsoever because they're "all part of it."  Instead, he says, he

> uses the Internet to get the straight, unslanted truth direct from the 
> official Iranian news agency.

I know a lot of people that refuse to listen to any 'mainstream' news 
but believe anything they find on the internet.

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