Dave Spiceland wrote: > Ah...ah...ahhhh... I haven't seen the movie yet. I don't know who > lives, dies, etc. PLEASE put a spoiler alert in the subject heading or at > the beginning of the message if you give away any or all of the ending. I > wasn't one of those 10 ga-zillion folks who ran to the theatre last > weekend. I plan to fight the crowds soon, but I'll be a little more than > irritated now since I have a pretty good idea who survives <grr>. Point taken, my apologies to any who feel that their experience with LW will suffer becuase of my disclosure. Perhaps now you will wait a while before atttedning, and thus deny Amblin some few dollars as it shoots for yet another first-weekend record, with little long-term market presence. but hat is another matter entirely. Briefly, I would liek to conted that I gave away nothing that was not obvious about the film's resolution, considering it's direcotr, theme, origin, niche, etc. ANother Screen-L member alluded to this: >The most interesting thing about the film was its reversion to an old >Spielberg film--the primacy of Family and especially the Responsibility >of the Father. No, I don't mean Goldblum--although his character fits >in her. I mean the male T. rex! Given the manner in which Spielberg strained the itneral credibility of JP in order to preserve the family group he constructed from unlikely elements(Dern, Neill, kids), I see little reason to suspect that he would permit serious harm to come to any member of the parallel structure in LW. Can it be "family entertainment" if the family is disrupted permanently ? LW bears much resemblance to a rollercoaster, in that we do not expect any lasting dmamge from the visceral excitement the ride provides us. Other people (latinos, foreigners, strangers)get eaten -- not sympathetic characters with whom we are meant to engage for the duration. Let us know what you think of the iron-clad family and species solidarity displayed by the rex's, and how that contrasts with the actions of the human characters. To return to my original concern, there seems clear consensus that this mixing of professions is old hat and will continue. How 'bout this for thought: what message comes across when people who have spent the last few days creditably reacting to 'nothing' (visual graphic constructs, mock-ups, etc), are too exhasuted to pay attention to the news (truth, official information ?) ? Joe Lamantia ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.sa.ua.edu/screensite