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To: Paul C. Jesup
I didn't insult you first. You're idiot line was the first insult in the chain, that's why I responded to it the way I did.

I never said that at all. I've said that without the music industry music as we know it will disappear because self publishing via the internet can't possibly reach as many people. Given that the RIAA is a lobbying organization funded by record labels and doesn't actually own anything I couldn't possibly have said that because it would be self contradictory.

Putting an amazingly stupid plot twist in a movie doesn't make it original. Original means going someplace nobody has gone before but they SHOULD have. No one should have gone down the alley the Matrix went down, not even them. Being "freed" from the chains then results in them being without food or shelter on a planet they can't live on outside the pods. That's why I say it was an incredibly stupid plot direction, the choice was remain in the illusional world or kill everyone, he made the stupid choice. Really watch Dark City, it's got nearly the same setup (1 year before Matrix BTW, another blow to Matrix's "originality") except they made it so the aliens were going to kill everybody when they got to the destination and breaking the machine was the only way to get the people in a position to defend themselves, see they don't all die by breaking the machine so the plot actually makes sense. I have no favorite character in the Matrix, they're all stupid.

It wasn't just my opinion, check out Jump the Shark, some liked it many didn't, the show got crappy ratings, my side won.

Actually I do love reality TV, I especially like the ones on Fox because they so horribly torture the participants. Making people pay for their 15 minutes with shame, degredation and emotional pain is funny. Especially because they volunteered.
207 posted on 04/29/2003 1:42:41 PM PDT by discostu (A cow don't make ham)
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To: discostu; Paul C. Jesup
Geez, guys, light en up! What I find utterly amazing is that I can post a silly little article about the remake of a really bad sci-fi show from the 70s (that I loved, by the way) and get over 200 replies and a flame spat (doesn't qualify as a war) in the space of about 5 hours.
210 posted on 04/29/2003 1:55:53 PM PDT by RayBob
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To: discostu
I've seen Dark City, good movie, that dealt with altering and swapping memories to find the human soul. The Matrix dealt with a war on two plains of reality; the Matrix and the Real World.
230 posted on 04/29/2003 2:51:18 PM PDT by Paul C. Jesup
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To: discostu
Actually I do love reality TV, I especially like the ones on Fox because they so horribly torture the participants.

No wonder you rub me the wrong way, you're a sadist.

231 posted on 04/29/2003 2:55:58 PM PDT by Paul C. Jesup
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