Movie Expectations/spec effects

[brooksindy]

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From: brooksindy
Subject: Re: Movie Expectations/spec effects
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7594] Movie Expectations/spec effects
Date: 8/23/00 1:44 am  (ET)

>Harry Potter has important special effects but I truly think they'll
be good enough for all but the
>technophiles (i.e. those friends
 of Brooks and mine who love to sit through the
>movie not watching it but analyzing the effects.)

My dear woman, whom could you possibly mean in this wide-cast net? The
ones who thought the effects in Jurassic Park were grotesquely over-rated?

FWIW I agree with the assessment: bad effects can spoil a movie but good
effects cannot save it.

Actually, I have a soft spot in my heart for the movie about the car
with the license plate GEN 11, jsut as I do for successors of its ilk
such as _Hook_. It had a charm all its own, but on the whole the book
was indeed 'neater', not just 'better'. Conversely i avoided the movie of
_The Little Prince_ as i thought that was carrying things *way* too far.