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to: Geo.
from: John Cuccia
date: 2007-01-13 10:35:56
subject: Re: You want to export this?

From: John Cuccia 

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:11:35 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>Syriana was not a great movie, it's sort of a docudrama type thing about the
>oil industry.

That's the problem, Geo.  It doesn't in any way resemble the oil industry
that I spent 24 years working in.  It was pure fantasy shot in
pseudo-documentary style (just like Traffic, by the way).

>It does a lot of bouncing around making it hard to follow if
>you don't pay attention.

I followed it easily; it wasn't as complex as it pretended to bet, just a
few interwoven plot lines. No matter, it was too implausible for me to
enjoy.

>V on the other hand is entertainment. It's a comic book type movie sort of
>like the shadow.

You are seriously mistaken if you think Syriana isn't  a comic book. Hell
most comic books are more realistic than that movie.

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