peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (10/23/85)
I just saw "The Brother from Another Planet". Folks, this movie is actually
good Science Fiction! There are two characters here that are probably the
first believable aliens I've seen on the screen. I'm talking about the two
bad guys...
They absolutely steal the movie. At first they seem to be standard issue
alien bounty hunters (:->), but it became increasingly obvious as the film
progressed that they were quite literally bloodhounds. As an example, the way
they react to the hero's territorial markings (graffiti) is beautiful,
straight out of a textbook. By the end of the movie you can tell that they,
too, are not only slaves but effectively domestic animals, bred for the purpose
from some hunting carnivore. I'm amazed that this movie hasn't been better
recieved by the SF crowd... all I'd heard of it was "oh yes, nice twist, the
alien's black".
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Name: Peter da Silva
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IAEF: ...!kitty!baylor!peterkato@utcsri.UUCP (John Kitamura) (11/04/85)
> I just saw "The Brother from Another Planet". Folks, this movie is actually > good Science Fiction! There are two characters here that are probably the > first believable aliens I've seen on the screen. I'm talking about the two > bad guys... And the main `bad guy' is actually the director John Sayles. John Kitamura/University of Toronto