[net.movies] PLEASE STOP THE BAD MOVIES plus some More bad movie lists

brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (10/21/85)

Some Bad Movies:

1) Casablanca
	Hokey dialogue, bad direction, name stolen from a Marx Brothers
	Movie.

2) 2001
	No dialogue, No direction, I didn't understand all this black monolith
	stuff or the scenes with Moonwatcher.

3) Back to the Future
	A car that goes back in time?  Total lack of realism.

OK boys and girls, now will you all please STOP the bad movie listings?
They're almost as annoying as the "View to a Still" jokes.  The last thing
we want to see in this group is people venting old frustrations of movies
that ran years ago.  It's devolved from a discussion of films like Plan 9
to people listing what movies they didn't like and other people defending them.

And please, no "best movies of all time", either.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473

peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (10/23/85)

> of a pin. There is no difinitive proof that any movie is Totally Bad.

Sure there is. If it's so bad you laugh at it it's totally bad. You're
right that this whole thing has gotten out of hand, though. I thought
the idea was to find some more "gems" like Plan 9 and Terror of Tinytown:
bad movies you'd actually want to see just to say you'd seen them. I
would like to see some more of this genre... preferably at 2AM at a
Science Fiction Cnvention.
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shiva@duts.UUCP (10/23/85)

> OK boys and girls, now will you all please STOP the bad movie listings?
> And please, no "best movies of all time", either.

I second the motion. I think the bad movie topic has been clubbed to
death. It is quite endless, based on biased opinion (no shortage of
that in the world, is there? :-) ) and generates a lot of duplicate
mail. Besides it's sort of like arguing about angels on the head
of a pin. There is no difinitive proof that any movie is Totally Bad.
Ditto for best movies of all time.

Since I don't want to be accused of spoiling the fun with nothing
better to offer, I propose some topics:

           - general discussion on propriety, desirability,
                      quality, and other ty's  of sequals.
           - discussion of the evolution of themes in movies
                      (i.e. film noir, to western, to 'star wars'
                       to 'barbarian' to god knows what,and what's next?)
           - discussion of good foreign movies (I feel, alas, a not
                       very extensive topic. Flames anyone?)
           - Flames about the movie tastes of the major studios and
                       the great unwashed masses (alias moviegoers)
           - mindless blithering on the topic "Daffy Duck vs Cary Grant:
                       who's better?"

So anyway.......
-- 

                                          Shiva, Amdahl