mikevp@proper.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) (07/21/84)
Re: the message saying "The characterizations are poor (in The Last Starfighter), but this is SF, so who cares". This is one of my major complaints with the way Hollyweird handles SF attempts. I can't judge TLSf, as I haven't seen it yet, but I don't like it at all when movie makers take the attiude that since this is "just sci-fi", then all the rules of character development, plot, logic, etc., can just be thrown out the window. The worst abortion along these lines that I have seen recently is the last "V" movie. There are certainly other things in good SF that may be at least as important as the usual stuff-- ideas, for instance-- but Hollyweird SF very rarely has any ideas worthy of a sea cucumber anyway. I'm new at this network. Should this have been posted to net.flame?