wix@bergil.DEC (Jack Wickwire) (08/03/84)
From: MONTY::KL2137::DYER-BENNET.DEAN "Pamela Dyer-Bennet" 30-JUL-1984 21:16 To: BERGIL::WIX Subj: here's another one.... ----- Delivered by TOPS-20 Message Services --- Date: 30 Jul 1984 2112-EDT From: Pamela Dyer-Bennet <DYER-BENNET.DEAN at KL2137> To: WIX at BERGIL Reply-to: DYER-BENNET.DEAN at KL2137 Subject: here's another one.... Message-ID: <"MS10(2123)+GLXLIB1(1136)" 12035568435.16.526.5013 at KL2137> Subject: Review of STIII in F&SF In case anybody's interested, there's a review of "The Search for Spock" in the September issue of *The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction*. For some reason, I take reviews therein more seriously than reviews elsewhere. Harlan Ellison has just started doing their movie reviews. I half expected him to tear the movie apart, that seeming to be his usual style. He takes a rather odd attitude. At the beginning and end of his remarks, he says, "Both the most and the least a responsible film critic can say is that the third *Star Trek* movie is out, and Trek fans will love it." He disparages the entire Star Trek fan phenomenon, saying it takes ST movies out of the realm of "Film, or Story, or even Art". Having absolved himself of the necessity of saying anything, he then praises Nimoy's directing, Christopher Lloyd's Klingon character, the sets on the Genesis planet, and the Klingon ship; and then accuses William Shatner of scene-hogging (!?!), dismisses Robin Curtis (can't blame him for that), and remarks that the plot makes no sense if examined closely. I'd expected either better or worse, but not this. Does ANYBODY outside of ST fandom take the ST movies seriously? ------- PDDB --------