[golux]

What is with all the personal attacks? Why do you say I have a "pea-sized brain?"

What is a coup de gras...? Is that like when you get hit in the face with a scoop of Crisco?

Why do you repeatedly attack my intelligence whilst reminding me about movies I know as well as you do? Why do you use whence incorrectly?

Who needs to tell anyone on this forum who Riefenstahl was? Who actually describes Caligari as one of their all-time favorite films, other than perhaps a film studies grad who wants to appear to be the smartest person in the room?

Who doesn't understand that opinions differ about movies, and de gustibus non eat disputandum?

What is the point, after all, of screaming at a fellow Freeper in ALL CAPS about how they are stupid, etc., because they disagree with you about whether a movie is "good" or not?

In any case I will bet you dollars to doughnuts you are both single and have plenty of time to watch movies. Therefore may I recommend Birth of a Nation? The Director's cut. It's better than Rocky IV, or even Cats!

[miss marmelstein]

I didn’t call you pea-brained. I may have thought it...

[golux]

And had you ever actually eaten disputandum, you'd know precisely what I mean.

It, too: better than Cats.

I will now return to watching my VHS copy of "Whence I Camed."

[miss marmelstein]

I just wrote to you that my husband is a film teacher in NYC - so much for me being single. No pardons is married as well. And neither of us own cats, just to forestall your next voyage into being wrong.

[nopardons]

You personally attacked me, yet now play the victim? LOL

I not only used "whence" correctly, but, yet again you show just how uneducated you are!

Since you are either pretending to be really stupid, or you are! The phrase "coup de gras" , though of French origin, is part of the English language and is in common usage. So what's the matter with YOU?

I was never a "film student"; however, have always enjoyed and know about a vast panoply of movie genres, from their earliest days forward, and was mezmerized by THE CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIAGRI, from the first time I saw it as a kid. It used to be shown, on NYC ( and throughout the Tri-state area ) on T.V.! Anyone and everyone could watch it and didn't have to go to college to see it. So your reverse snobbery and silly personal attack, on me, over that being one of my favorite films, only makes you still look foolish and worse.

Your insulting assumptions ( YET MORE PERSONAL ATTACKS, WHICH YOU SO DISDAIN...NOT! )about miss marmelstein and me are laughable in the extreme! We're both very happily married, have watched and know about movies and grew up watching them in theatres and on T.V.! You only imagine that you are superior, clever, and "in the know", which all of your posts belie...in spades.

[nopardons]

Cats is a stage play, not a movie, and it stinks on ice!

BIRTH OF A NATION is a great film, because it introduced many techniques in movie making; however, it is rewritten/revisionist history, propaganda, anti-black, anti-Northener, racist claptrap, which I probably saw long before you ever heard of it.