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Re: Mmm Marathon movie
Posted By: Mark LevinDate: 5/17/02 7:29 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Mmm Marathon movie (:: Beer Can ::)

(For the duration of this posted, assume anything deleted was quoted in full and followed by "I agree" :P )

: These things ALL HAVE THEIR PROPER PLACE, and some stories are better suited
: to one medium, and not another

Depends on what you mean by "story". At a sufficiently low level nearly any story could be adapted to any medium, but that level is somewhat below the cutoff where a transformed story would be recognizable as a version of the original.

: Length is irrelevant, unless you're pushing 3.5 hours, and boredom isn't ever
: a factor, lest you've got some sort of mental disorder.

I wasn't bored during Ben-Hur :P

This would be an argument for structuring the movie as a set of movies or a miniseries.

: See also "Childhood's End," which is coming soon to a theatre near
: you, courtesy of BOYS DON'T CRY director Kim Pierce...

Seriously??? Got a URL anywhere?

: You really don't understand the dynamics of this stuff. I say that
: respectfully, because unless you're in the middle of it, all is not what
: it seems.

The problem is that with increasing innovation comes increasing risk. When faced with the choice of a new, fresh, different movie with unknown potential for audience acceptance and more of the same old dreck with a guaranteed population that WILL see it, he'll choose the latter. And it's only going to get worse as costs of making a feature film increase and our ability to measure the audience's tastes improve.

: Though Steven sure does like him some video games...

There is a brief piece of QT video floating around (unfortunately I think I lost it recently) of Oni producer Hamilton Chu chatting up Spielberg. Nothing seems to have come of this in the 3 years since it was filmed though :\

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                                                                                               Re: Mmm Marathon movieMark Levin 5/18/02 10:23 p.m.
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                             Re: speaking of fallout...Vid Boi 4/12/02 8:23 p.m.
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                                         Re: speaking of fallout...Daši Sveinsson 4/12/02 10:48 p.m.
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     Plot lines? whaddya think?Shotgun Pete 5/14/02 12:08 a.m.
           Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Mark Levin 5/14/02 2:23 a.m.
                 Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Jonah 5/14/02 7:33 a.m.
                       Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Boomer 5/14/02 9:04 a.m.
                             Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Will 5/16/02 7:04 p.m.
                       Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Pedrof 5/14/02 9:31 a.m.
                             Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Mark Levin 5/14/02 11:10 a.m.
                                   Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Yossarian 5/14/02 1:57 p.m.
                                         Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Steve Levinson 5/15/02 11:59 a.m.
                                               Re: yeah, but...Yossarian 5/15/02 1:58 p.m.
                                                     Re: yeah, but...Boomer 5/15/02 2:15 p.m.
                                                     Re: about the intricate plot.Shotgun Pete 5/15/02 3:30 p.m.
                             Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Jonah 5/14/02 2:29 p.m.
                                   Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Shotgun Pete 5/15/02 3:34 p.m.
                             Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Rick Blaine 5/14/02 11:33 p.m.
                                   Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Mark Levin 5/15/02 1:23 a.m.
                                         Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Rick Blaine 5/15/02 11:02 a.m.
                                               Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Mark Levin 5/15/02 11:23 a.m.
                                                     Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Rick Blaine 5/15/02 5:01 p.m.
                                                           Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Mark Levin 5/16/02 2:21 a.m.
                                                                 Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Rick Blaine 5/16/02 10:48 a.m.
                                                                       Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Tru7h 5/16/02 3:03 p.m.
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                                                                 Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Shotgun Pete 5/21/02 2:35 p.m.
                                               Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Shotgun Pete 5/21/02 2:32 p.m.
                 Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Rick Blaine 5/14/02 10:06 p.m.
           Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Rick Blaine 5/16/02 5:11 p.m.
                 Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Shotgun Pete 5/20/02 8:37 a.m.
                 Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Shotgun Pete 5/21/02 2:45 p.m.
           Re: movie plotJohn Denton 5/23/02 4:49 p.m.
                 Re: movie plotShotgun Pete 5/23/02 10:04 p.m.
                       Re: movie plotJohn Denton 5/23/02 11:06 p.m.
     Re: Marathon Movie (Not!)Mike 6/14/02 12:44 p.m.
           I Hope You're Aware Of What You Have Done...REB 6/14/02 4:30 p.m.
                 Re: I Hope You're Aware Of What You Have Done...Vid Boi 6/14/02 5:16 p.m.
                       Re: I Hope You're Aware Of What You Have Done...Boomer 6/14/02 7:07 p.m.
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                             TRU7TH and Reconciliation! *NM*Andrew Nagy 6/16/02 3:45 p.m.
                             Re: I Hope You're Aware Of What You Have Done...Jonah 6/17/02 2:52 a.m.
                                   Re: I Hope You're Aware Of What You Have Done...Boomer 6/17/02 7:07 a.m.
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