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To: ManyMoose who wrote (150943)	12/14/2005 11:19:56 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

I don't trust a movie wherein sheepherders are called cowboys. I laughed when I saw the point about the sheep herders. It never occurred to me that these guys weren't cowboys. They look like cowboys. I never thought as cowboys as exclusively men who tend cattle. I thought they were ranch people, generally, characterized by their hats and horses. Sheep herders don't ride horses. They walk and carry staffs. <g> In order for a movie to appeal to me, the hero or heroine must have a strong sense of honor even if he is not necessarily a good guy. Movies that most appeal to me are the alternate universe type stories. Mostly they are scifi, but sometimes they're subcultures of ordinary life, like gay sheep herders. I can watch the movie and consider what it might be like to be a cyborg or a human servant to the dominant dog species, or a gay sheep herder. Not that I don't like your morality plays, only that I would feel confined by a steady diet of them. Movies that disturb me, and which I refuse to see, are those that attempt to reeducate me and change my core values and beliefs. I guess you would consider my movies to be reeducation attempts. I think of them as stimulating and mind expanding, mind experiments, quite the opposite of brain washing. Glass half full; glass half empty, I guess.