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To: ReaganGirl
I think MarkWar would like to know why you got a Masters Degree in "made-up stuff" (mythology and philosophy) and didn't make a better use of your time watching Full Metal Jacket.
71 posted on 12/10/2001 10:31:12 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Well, I hardly consider the dialogues of Plato and Aristotle "Made up stuff." Even if you want to characterize mythology as "Made up stuff" you'd be surprised how much it has influenced western civilization.

I did in fact see full Metal Jacket and thought it a great film. I enjoy movies quite a bit but prefer to read because my feeble female mind is far superior in creating the characters and the scenes than most Hollywood film makers can rival.

For the record...I did see Harry Potter with my hubby yesterday and thought that it was wonderful. My nephew is too young now but I'll collect the books for him and give them to him when he's old enough for us to read them together.

74 posted on 12/10/2001 10:44:49 AM PST by ReaganGirl
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius; RosieCotton
>I think MarkWar would like to know why you got a Masters Degree in "made-up stuff" (mythology and philosophy) and didn't make a better use of your time watching Full Metal Jacket.

[laughs] Good ones. But, you know, Full Metal Jacket was "made-up stuff" too.

I hate to mix threads, but since you brought up the title "Paradise Lost" in your reply to me, have you seen the movie "Scream 3?" One of the characters in that movie is named "John Milton." And, as the characters attempt to puzzle out all the plot difficulties, one of them observes, "Milton's the key to all this!" (If you've visited my thread inspired by my _first_ post to a LoTR thread (Movie Subliminals -- The Rate of God (Accident? Purposeful?)) , SCREAM 3 is the movie that begins with a character named Christine being killed by a character named Roman... (For lurkers who don't know "Paradise Lost" it's a rather absurd attempt to re-tell sections of Genesis in the "style" of the Illiad.))

Anyway, back to this thread, I didn't think my point was too obtuse or very strained. There are widely accepted notions for what passes as "adult stuff" and what passes as "kid's stuff." Unless nobody told me, there are no hard and fast definitions of such things, but hard and fast definitions are not needed.

I only mentioned Full Metal Jacket as an example of _real_ adult stuff to contrast it with the attempt to pass off LoTR as adult stuff.

Mark W.

77 posted on 12/10/2001 11:18:19 AM PST by MarkWar
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