[net.sf-lovers] A four dollar movie??????

pugh@topaz.ARPA (07/10/85)

From: "pugh jon%e.mfenet"@LLL-MFE.ARPA


You obviously don't live in a metropolitan area that has learned to gouge
people like they have here in the Bay.  Heck, four bucks is matinee price!
(Athough in fairness, some places go down to two bucks for matinees and there
is even a local place that is two bucks ALWAYS.  Nice to know that capitalism
works somewhere, although the nicer theatres charge more and no way will you
get Dolby sound and 70mm at the Vine for $2.)

I would make an effort to bring back the days of 50 cent flicks, but we'd
have to watch Ronnie again, and heck, he ain't even worth it now that he's
on TV for free.  I guess we'll just have to suffer and hope they keep making
great flicks that deserve the money.

Like,

BBBB     A     CCC   K   K       FFFFF  U   U TTTTT  U   U  RRRR   EEEEE
B   B   A A   C   C  K  K        F      U   U   T    U   U  R   R  E
B   B  A   A  C      K K         F      U   U   T    U   U  R   R  E
BBBB   AAAAA  C      KK   to the FFFF   U   U   T    U   U  RRRR   EEEE
B   B  A   A  C      K K         F      U   U   T    U   U  R  R   E
B   B  A   A  C   C  K  K        F      U   U   T    U   U  R   R  E
BBBB   A   A   CCC   K   K       F       UUU    T     UUU   R    R EEEEE

What a great disguise for a plug, huh?

It's the best thing since screen editors and I feel that we who love it have
a responsibilty to show the movie producers what we like by seeing it again
and again and again.  This movie can handle it.  A lot of things can be seen
coming, if you know where to look.  Check it out!

For the technos out there who try to figure out and/or poke holes in the time
travel theories that we read, please check out Larry Niven's _The Theory and
Practice of Time Travel_ in his book, _All the Myriad Ways_.  He basically
proves that it is impossible, at least in the long run.  Time travel is a 
very unstable situation, as evidenced by nearly all stories using it.  It
is much more stable not to have a time machine, which is what I suspect is the
"real" situation.  Alas and alack...

(There are a few things I would change...)

Jon Pugh