wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (07/15/85)
Recently endured this movie, which I don't recall ever seeing before, or seeing any reference to, on a local independent TV station (channel 30, KDNL-TV, St. Louis, MO); this might mean it just came out in a syndication package or something, and you all will get the chance to see it too. Lucky you... Nano-review: Gasp, choke, barf... Probably the following contains *** SPOILERS *** (but how you can spoil something already rotten I don't know... :-): This movie has name stars: Cybill Shepherd, Jan-Michael Vincent, Martin Landau, Raymond Burr. I thought it might actually have possibilities, but, as I gazed in disbelief, I was disabused of that notion... Technical detail: At least the print that was aired locally had a defective sound track. The voices, especially in the first half of the movie, were muffled and distorted; when you upped the volume enough to hear them, the music blared out at a painful level. Plot: alien spacecraft appears, imbues certain individuals with mysterious rays, zaps a rock with a crystalline pattern, and disappears. Comes back 25 years later, and does nothing... (Really; Cybill and Jan-Michael get teleported into the spacecraft through a spacewarp-type tunnel, and all that seems to happen to them is that they are then beamed back to the ground a few feet from where they left. No big deal... happens every day, right?) Best scene: Martin Landau, as a hick sheriff, violently overacting (if Martin Landau grins and shouts, that is overacting, right?), complaining about the pop-top holes in beer cans being too small to dunk a do-nut through, and pouring beer over his do-nut instead. [Having just read all the Space:1999 Landau discussion meant I just *had* to post news of another Landau vehicle, right?] :-) This movie gets into cattle mutilation in a big way, too.... Was this a tax-loss or something? Regards, Will USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA