NBC Press Release
Dave Locke
spoilers.
It's another "minus" moment, Gil...
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Lori
proclaim:
>On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 21:28:08 -0500, Dave Locke <Em...@below.sig> thus
>spake:
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>>The Links has the NBC Press Release for the movie. Yes, it has
>>spoilers.
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>>It's another "minus" moment, Gil...
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>Okay, that thing I said about being hopeful? Forget I said it.
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>Todd
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Oh God. No.
I should *not* read spoilers. I keep telling myself this, it will
ruin the film for me... but they are so... hard... to ... resist!
Ok, that's it, I'm off to bed, enough damage has been done for one
day.
Lori
Kay
Dave Locke wrote:
> The Links has the NBC Press Release for the movie. Yes, it has
> spoilers.
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> It's another "minus" moment, Gil...
Damn.... why oh why do I want to subject myself to this torture? I've
already watched the show go down the toilet once, I just watched Chris
Carter wrap up "Millennium" *really* nicely in the worst X-files episode I
have ever seen, and now I have to be there when Homicide comes back to
life only to shoot itself in the foot?
I haven't actually read any of the spoilers, just Gil's little plus and
minus summation based on what he's read so far and I am horrified. I'm
expecting the absolute worst.
-Kay (hoping to be pleasantly surprised when the movie just "doesn't
suck.")
Todd
spake:
>The Links has the NBC Press Release for the movie. Yes, it has
>spoilers.
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>It's another "minus" moment, Gil...
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shado...@my-deja.com
Dave Locke <Em...@below.sig> wrote:
> The Links has the NBC Press Release for the movie. Yes, it has
> spoilers.
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> It's another "minus" moment, Gil...
Tossing in some spoiler space here....
That should be enough.
Just a few comments on that press release.
First of all, I'm really concerned that the main way they are hyping
this movie is by promoting the guest stars (who from what I can tell,
will have relatively small roles) in the first paragraph. To me, it
says that TPTB don't have much hope of drawing people into this movie
any other way. Who the heck are they trying to market this movie at
anyway? You've got to be a pretty desperate fan of either Jason
Priestly or Ed Begley, Jr. to watch a whole 2 hour movie just for a few
minutes or air time by either actor. Shouldn't the story line, and/or
the return of Andre and the rest of the old cast be a bigger selling
point than a couple of guest stars?
Then they include a paragraph about some guy from Oz playing a TV
cameraman, even though they don't mention his whole name anywhere.
(That's some pretty poor editing on their part, which really makes their
promo dept look bad, but that's just me.) But if we've got this other
guy in here, what the heck is our Emmy winning buddy Brodie going to be
doing? Looks like there's going to be some major plot contrivances
here, but we know that already.
Still not having much hope for this to turn out well.
Kathryn
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Before you buy.
Keith Gow
shado...@my-deja.com wrote in message <823fec$ftt$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>...
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>Shouldn't the story line, and/or
>the return of Andre and the rest of the old cast be a bigger selling
>point than a couple of guest stars?
You would think so, but NBC aren't thinkers, they're wankers.
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>Then they include a paragraph about some guy from Oz playing a TV
>cameraman, even though they don't mention his whole name anywhere.
>(That's some pretty poor editing on their part, which really makes their
>promo dept look bad, but that's just me.) But if we've got this other
>guy in here, what the heck is our Emmy winning buddy Brodie going to be
>doing? Looks like there's going to be some major plot contrivances
>here, but we know that already.
The plot contrivances are what concern me, too. 20-odd stars in a 90 minute
telemovie centred around a shooting of one of the major characters *and* it
will wrap up storylines from the final season? I'm sure it will get done,
but will it get done well?
There has been a suggestion that Fontana et al have nothing to prove with
this movie - ie. there will be no kowtowing to NBC's wishes and that we'll
get pure Homicide. But pure Homicide is about 8 (approx.) detectives and
their *routine*, not about 20 people coming back just to hang around the
sides... two dead detectives included!?!
And as far as the guest cameos are concerned - I don't give a damn! If NBC
want to use them to publicize the movie, they can go right ahead. We here
will all be watching for other reasons... well, most of us will.
Keith (an Australian fan who is waiting patiently for season 7 to start in
the new year, despite the vitriol in this ng and who holds no hope of ever
seeing this new HLOTS movie on the local teev because we never got last
year's Law & Order movie "Exiled")
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Kayleigh19
>Keith (an Australian fan who is waiting patiently for season 7 to start in
>the new year, despite the vitriol in this ng and who holds no hope of ever
>seeing this new HLOTS movie on the local teev because we never got last
>year's Law & Order movie "Exiled")
I suggest that you get REAL chummy with someone who has both a compatible VCR
system and a large heart. (I guess that lets most of us out....)
Kayleigh
Steve Schafer
>I suggest that you get REAL chummy with someone who has both a compatible VCR
>system and a large heart. (I guess that lets most of us out....)
Because of the VCR or the heart?
-Steve
Keith Gow
Kayleigh19 wrote in message
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>I suggest that you get REAL chummy with someone who has both a compatible
VCR
>system and a large heart. (I guess that lets most of us out....)
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I've got an NTSC compatible video and television, so all I'm looking for is
someone with a big heart. Any ideas?
Keith
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Kayleigh19
>I've got an NTSC compatible video and television, so all I'm looking for is
>someone with a big heart. Any ideas?
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>Keith
Most of us would do it out of the goodness of our collective hearts. Some
would charge for postage and maybe cost of the tape. I would, but since my one
VCR is in peices, being cleaned by my cybergeek husband at the present time,
I'm of no help to you. Hopefully, it will be reassembled (and in working
order) by the time the movie rolls around. I wouldn't stake your chance of
seeing the movie on me, however. In addition to being a humorless sociopath,
I'm also notoriously absent-minded.
Kayleigh
uk...@earthlink.net
Dave Locke <Em...@below.sig> wrote:
> The Links has the NBC Press Release for the movie. Yes, it has
> spoilers.
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> It's another "minus" moment, Gil...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
Okay, it's okay, it could be okay. "Quirky," yeah, that's it, it could
be kinda quirky in a Homicidey kinda way...
Jason Priestly, for dog's sake...Fontana, you fucking bastard...no, I'm
okay, seriously...
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Shel
RCB
Who shouldn't read this stuff at four in the morning.
uk...@earthlink.net
kayle...@aol.com (Kayleigh19) wrote:
> I suggest that you get REAL chummy with someone who has both a
compatible VCR
> system and a large heart. (I guess that lets most of us out....)
What is this "heart" of which you speak?
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Shel
RCB
Dave Locke
> kayle...@aol.com (Kayleigh19) wrote:
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> > compatible VCR system and a large heart. (I guess that lets
> > most of us out....)
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> What is this "heart" of which you speak?
Robert Bloch, author of "Psycho" and some truly wonderful humor and a
very funny toastmaster at SF conventions, in response to the
accusation that he had the heart of a small boy, responded that yes he
did and he kept it in a jar on his desk.
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Kayleigh19
>> I suggest that you get REAL chummy with someone who has both a
>compatible VCR
>> system and a large heart. (I guess that lets most of us out....)
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>What is this "heart" of which you speak?
Don't worry about it, babe....It's for those weaker members of the herd....
Kayleigh
Shelshka
Keith Gow wrote in message <94409816...@weblink.solutions.net.au>...
>There has been a suggestion that Fontana et al have nothing to prove with
>this movie - ie. there will be no kowtowing to NBC's wishes and that we'll
>get pure Homicide
<mass snippage>
That wasn't a suggestion, Keith. That was an expression of wild,
unreasonable, blind hope.
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Still clinging.
Gilgamesh
: In article <5r194sssvm78i67dk...@4ax.com>,
: Dave Locke <Em...@below.sig> wrote:
: > The Links has the NBC Press Release for the movie. Yes, it has
: > spoilers.
: >
: > It's another "minus" moment, Gil...
:
: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
:
: Okay, it's okay, it could be okay. "Quirky," yeah, that's it, it could
: be kinda quirky in a Homicidey kinda way...
:
: Jason Priestly, for dog's sake...Fontana, you fucking bastard...no, I'm
: okay, seriously...
There's something about these spoilers which affect some of us in a
negative fashion. I'm tempted to give them up if some weren't so damn
funny in a black humor sort of manner.
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Gilgamesh <gilg...@fnworlds.com> [] Demunge: Make it one world
Keith Gow
Shelshka wrote in message <82huk9$cu5$1...@nntp8.atl.mindspring.net>...
Consider me one of the blind, wild and unreasonable then, Shel. Gosh it's
good to be in like-minded company.
Keith
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