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Reply #45 - Mar 3rd, 2013 at 11:17pm

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G.I. Joe wrote on Mar 3rd, 2013 at 3:47pm:
... I'm getting frustrated with all the festival crap intruding on the marathon. Enuff already! Anyway, on with the show!

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Motivational Growth: THIS is why I hate the festival crap so much!
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Theyre better than the festival sh.t we show!!

.... just please let the festival stuff show during the week before. too much crap is wasting space at the marathon. I'd rather see good old fashioned sci-fi than da Mold! 


Look, just because Garen has no idea what the good stuff is at the festival doesn't mean it should all be tarred with the same brush...
 
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Reply #46 - Mar 5th, 2013 at 2:25pm

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To be fair to the poster, Jay, I think he is just expressing the views of a lot of Marathoners that too many Festival films don't cut it on the Marathon schedule. Not sure how long you have been going, but, with the exception of TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN/INVASION and, maybe, LAWNMOWER MAN, the "premieres" at the Marathon don't have a very good record.

And, let's face it, a lot of the core Marathon crowd isn't very adventurous. They think even something like SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED isnt sci-fi.
 
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Reply #47 - Mar 5th, 2013 at 10:05pm

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Lord knows I tend to agree with the assessment of many of the premieres/festival films, but there's enough good in the festival portion that it deserves to grow, so it's worth pushing back when the whole thing is characterized as just crap.  Lord knows Garen hasn't been doing the Fest many favors with what he presents to the marathon crowd, but there's worthwhile stuff there.
 
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Reply #48 - Mar 22nd, 2013 at 2:14pm

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Here's the dingleberry who shouted out the ending of the Twilight Zone episode spotted at a screening of CITIZEN KANE at the Brattle:

http://www.gocomics.com/bliss/

(go to March 22, 2013 if reading this down the line)
 
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