Subject: Re: Lynch - CRITICISM!!!
From: js9g@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (S.H. Snyder Jr.)
Date: 1990-12-04, 12:35
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <28216@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>, gln@cs.arizona.edu (Gary
Newell) writes:
|>Path: ut-emx!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!arizona!gln
|>From: gln@cs.arizona.edu (Gary Newell)
|>Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
|>Subject: Re: Lynch - CRITICISM!!!
|>Message-ID: <28216@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>
|>Date: 4 Dec 90 02:04:48 GMT
|>References: <28197@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>
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|>In article <1990Dec3.172554.267@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu>,
wilson@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu (Peter D. Wilson) writes:
|>> In article <28197@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>, gln@cs.arizona.edu (Gary
Newell) writes:
|>> > [summary of TP criticism deleted...]
|>> > [don't bitch, you've read it all before.]
|>
|>>   A movie can have absolutely no plot and still be good, though.
|>
|>For example? I cannot think of a movie with *no* plot that can
|>be considered good - strange yes, unique yes, but good? I don't know...
|>
|>
|>gln

For one:
Koyaanisquatsi.
No plot.
No dialogue.
No actors (per se, still it has many characters...)
And yet, quite a film. Even a sequel!

Notice, please, gln, that I am stating that it is a _good_ film, not 
necessarily a film you would like.  Be aware of the distinction I am
drawing here.
                                                                           
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