mck@ratex.UUCP (Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan) (02/23/85)
Well, here are my opinions [And the cry issues forth: 'WHO CARES!!']:
The best movie that I've ever seen (SF or otherwise) is *Blade
Runner*.
It should be seen in a good theater to be properly appreciated (the
time that I saw it in a cheap threater from a print with breaks, and that I
saw it on video-tape were both awful disappointments). It develops a
world-view which is unrelentingly bleak -- until the climax of the
confrontation between Derrick and Batty, when, from the despair and horror,
a message of great beauty emerges.
Now, I've seen *Plan 9 from Outer Space*, *They Saved Hitler's Brain*,
and *The Man with the Synthetic Brain*; these are all bad movies (the two
*Brain* movies involved splicing additional footage -- obviously filmed
some time after the main footage -- does anybody out there have details
about this?). But a far worse film is *The Creeping Terror*; I've only
seen short excerpts, but they were god-awful. Larry Cipriani has seen the
whole movie (as an existential experience I guess) and he assures me that
the excerpts are representative and that *Terror* is far worse than *Plan
9*.
[And the cry issues forth: WHAT DO YOU KNOW!!]
DKMcK