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E.T. is a stuuupid movie........

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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 07, 2013, 05:31:12 pm ---Sure it is,  that's Lucas'  problem.  99% of the films out there, once they are released, they are done.  To use a painterly analogy he keeps blending his colors on the canvas until they turn to mud instead of letting them dry a little. 

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To the artist it's never done.  They just stopped working on it so it could get printed for distribution.  The artists will continue to see things they would have done with it with more time.  The dialog could have been tweaked, the angles or lighting, one scene could have been edited better, etc.  It's never really "done" in the artist's eyes.

Is anyone's MAME cab ever really "done"?  Or do people simply stop tweaking it until they see something else that can be improved on it?

Howard_Casto:
Yes, for a BAD artist it's never done.  I've took many an art classs in my day and at one point I was thinking about making a career out of it.  One of the first things they drill into you is not to work your art to death.  You'll always have that feeling of wanting to do more, but you are supposed to resist that urge and let it go when you find a good stopping point. 

A mame cab is not art, it's a craft.  ;)

mcseforsale:
It's a hobby! 

AJ

Gray_Area:
While E.T. did emerge from

He also thought about a follow-up to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and began to develop a darker project he had planned with John Sayles called Night Skies in which malevolent aliens terrorize a family.

it would seem to have been intently crafted.

Sci-fi has always been bad. The premise of aliens coming down in the myriad ways they do is due to a human, and particularly american, naivete about the world, physics, and possible psychology. In simpler words: fantasy is largely the vanity of the conceiver.

Secondly, a [good] story defies genre and style. A good story doesn't have plot holes and such - like 'oh I don't know how to get to the park....cos, um, mom drives me...' but the other kids on their bikes know exactly how to get there, and somehow beat them there!  Or, 'we're all wearing masks in the OR.....don't know why but we are.....but wait he's gone into cardiac arrest....and.....we can jump him....but we have to take off our masks first!' And so forth.

Howard_Casto:
Elliot didn't know where the part was because of his explaination, he was probably one of those kids that takes a nap while in the car.  The other kids obviously did pay attention and/or they often rode to the park. 

The goverment people wore masks because of germs.  I mean considering Elliot was dying on the table for unknown reasons they kind of had reason to.  Taking off the masks was symbolic.  They were saying "I don't care what happens to me, we are going to save this kid!"  Practically of course they were getting in the way and annoying the doctors as they worked. 


ET just doesn't spell the plot out for you like other dumbed-down garbage released today. 

There might be some actual plot holes in ET, but you didn't mention any.  This is coming from a guy that picks apart every film he sees weather he wants to or not. 

If you want to see a bad, over-rated film, chocked full of plot holes, go watch the Avengers. 

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