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To: Borges
Robocop.

And every other film he has done. One trick pony, with one overblown worldview message. Oliver Stone writ small.

A film is judged by camera movement and framing, editing rhythm.

No it isn't. A film is judged by how it connects to the audience. The rest is just technique and tricks. Only jaded critics feel the need to dismiss the content and concentrate on the execution of details. It's what makes them able to praise a canvas painted red by emoting over the brush stroke technique. It's a hollow and empty method of judgment, because it has nothing to do with the essence of the film.

It's why Star Wars IV is great, and Starship Troopers is dreck. Lucas connected with his audience, Verhoeven talked down to them and insulted their intelligence. No amount of pretty framing or editing is going to make that fact lost to the SF fanbase.

169 posted on 08/31/2007 12:26:21 PM PDT by LexBaird (Tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
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To: LexBaird
Verhoven has a sense of humor and irony. Stone assuredly does not. And they're stylistic polar opposites, Verhoeven is a descendant of classical Hollywood cinema of Vidor and Minnelli. Stone is a 'tripod-be-damned' slash and burn sensationalist. If you're claiming that popularity is the sole guage of artistic quality I obviously disagree. As every year has a raft of dreck that rakes in gazillions (more Shrek and Pirates of the Caribbean sequels than one can count).

P.S. Robocop was very popular.
171 posted on 08/31/2007 12:31:30 PM PDT by Borges
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