Re: Actor Roy Scheider dies at 75

Anim8rFSK wrote:

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>  peachy a****e passion <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Anim8rFSK wrote:
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>>>>Anim8rFSK wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>I was dicussing the movie Jaws yesterday with a friend and we
were 
>>>>>>>>>agreed
>>>>>>>>>that it was an excellent movie.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Glad we got that settled.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>There is a school of thought that disagrees; that says ALL SS films
are
>>>>>>>crap, and we misremember them as being good, but if we went back
and
>>>>>>>watched them again, we'd realize they were always awful.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I don't necessarily agree with this, certainly not in the case of
Jaws
>>>>>>>which is a fine film, although I'd say it has merit for Jurassic
Park.
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>>>>>>See Jurassic Park again.....I was surprised how well it held up and
how 
>>>>>>perfect the prehistoric beasts were....the raptors still scared hell
out 
>>>>>>of 
>>>>>>me in the kitchen. 
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>>>>>The robot dinosaurs are fun, but the script is atrocious, especially
if 
>>>>>you've read the book.  The kids swap personalities between the stuff 
>>>>>shot on location and the stuff shot on stages, and there's a
bottomless 
>>>>>pit along the T-Rex fence that comes and goes.
>>>>>
>>>>>But the moment the film lost me was 'Mr. DNA'
>>>>>
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>>>>   Curious.  Why then?
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>>>Did you read the book? Mr. DNA was such a total change in tone, it was 
>>>all over at that point.
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>>   No.  If I'd read the book... well, I don't see movies of books I 
>>really like.  They always disappoint.
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>>   There was certainly the presence of all the things you noted - I was 
>>just curious about why Mr. DNA would have been such a harbinger of doom.

>>  He was a little cartoon guy, after all.
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> Well, let's say there's a Sherlock Holmes story you're famliar with.  
> And come the big scene where Holmes reveals how he figured out who the 
> killer was, the filmmakers chose to have an animated Jerry Mouse run in 
> and explain it to everybody while Holmes stood there with a stupid grin 
> on his face saying "I wish I was smart enough to have thought of that"
> 
> That's approximately how much of a change "Mr. DNA" was.
> 

   Fair enough.

  I get more and more glad I didn't read the book.