Fallingstar wrote:
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Don't you think that it's quite a coincidence that Hines is supposed to have met with an executive from Dreamworks a few years back and again what has Hines been up to ever since he announced he was making the film in 2001. There's quite a few questions about Pendragon - you can't deny that surely.
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And in his "Fan Q & A", Timothy Hines says:
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Their version stars C. Thomas Howell who was in E.T. and was the star of the Outsiders, in which Tom Cruise played a supporting role. Their version also stars Jake Busey, son of Gary Busey, who's playing in Spielberg's Into The West series running right now. <snip> What does all this mean?
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WHY YES, I SEE IT ALL NOW!! The scales have fallen from my eyes! Thank you Fallingstar and Mr. Hines, I now realize the ENTIRE UNIVERSE is a conspiracy spanning BILLIONS OF YEARS, dating from the Big Bang, and UNTOLD TRILLIONS OF STARS, along with EVERY SINGLE SENTIENT BEING IN ALL THE GALAXIES (those of us who aren't aware of it are merely puppets of the Orbital Mind Control Lasers, of course). All this has been to one end: TO GET A HANDFUL OF WELLS FANS UPSET!! And wow, has this universal conspiracy succeeded in spades!!
Want more proof? Spielberg made a movie about flying saucers, and everyone knows that the gray aliens that travel in those practice human abduction and mind control (using anal probes, of course). Surely that can't be just a coincidence! I mean, who else COULD HAVE built the Orbital Mind Control Lasers? And of course the fact that some people who have worked with Cruise and Spielberg and Hines have met one another or even worked together *has* to be a conspiracy. (It *can't* just be that they work in the same country in the same industry, in which people change jobs frequently.) Hey, here's an even stronger so-called coincidence: AT THIS VERY MOMENT BOTH SPIELBERG AND HINES ARE WEARING CLOTHES MADE IN CHINA AND ARE CARRYING AMERICAN MONEY IN THEIR POCKETS!! Wow, that can't *possibly* be just a coincidence!!!
Fallingstar wrote:
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Think about it - Paramount WOULD have a lot to gain by doing this - such as bringing in extra revenue from dvd sales [ it wouldn't hurt Spielbergs film as it's a limited release and different to Spielbergs film ] and also Paramount would control the title HG WELLS THE WAR OF THE WORLDS along with WAR OF THE WORLDS and as I suspect HG WELLS WAR OF THE WORLDS. There's other reasons too.
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Here we have a fine example of the "doublethink" necessary to believe in conspiracy so-called "theories" (*real* theories have facts supporting them). Fallingstar, on the one hand you say-- or more accurately, insinuate-- Hines deliberately set about to make his film bad and that it received only a very limited release, but OTOH you insinuate the motive was to make more money off WotW. Personally, I have a problem with the cognitive dissonance of that.
Hey, did you like Oliver Stone's "JFK"? Personally I found the idea that half the U.S. government was in on a plot to kill John F. Kennedy was insulting to my intelligence, but it sounds like you'd have no problem believing that.
Fallingstar wrote:
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Paramount would have a lot to gain by being behind Hines WOTW release
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So you keep saying, but you have yet to give a rational reason why, nor give any documented example of where any film-maker has *ever* engaged in such a counterproductive and pointless arrangement. In the *real* world, makers of big expensive films want to avoid competition with any too-similar films coming out at the same time. It's only the low-budget quickie film-makers that try to release a similar film at the same time, to capitalize on the "bigger" film's advertising.
Fallingstar wrote:
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Also, do you honestly think the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings films would have become so big if it wasn't for the fans.
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Yes. I hate to be the one to burst your bubble Fallingstar, but before the release of "Star Wars" in 1977 there *were* no Star Wars fans. "Star Wars" was so good it created its *own* fans, becoming the biggest "sleeper hit" of all times. And I believe Jackson's LOTR trilogy was that good too.
Fallingstar wrote:
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Well for a start that article from SyFy portal says the film only had a limited release
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OK, fair points, I shouldn't have called a release thru Wal-Mart and Amazon.com a "wide release". I heard it was to be available at Blockbuster, but haven't heard anyone say they actually found a copy there.