jon@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Jonathan Gingerich) (09/13/85)
Fellow netters, I recently catalogued the last 75 entries on net.movies. Of these, 1 was a poll, 3 were on videos (just short movies, right?!?), 4 were Kelvin related, 4 were questions, 4 were miscellaneous about things unrelated to movies (L. Ron Hubbard's motives etc.), and 5 James Bond trivia. 18 were miscellaneous movie related comments (dubbing, Hitchcock, etc.). Only 6 could qualify as recommendations (4) or reviews (2). A whopping 30 were in reference to BTTF!!! Now I saw BTTF, and I thought it smacked of a typical Spielberg school product - slick, shallow, and crass. Does anyone really like Marty better now that his parents can lavish a 4 by 4 on the brat so he can go pork his girlfriend in the woods, than when he dealt with a nerdy family? The "careful touches" synchronizing the past and the present appear to be a mere handful of details, while the implications of time travel are completely ignored. Sure this trivia is fun, but not THAT interesting. One gets the sad impression that net people can best relate to a movie on a algebraic basis ( ... if there were two pines, and you take away one ..8-) I'm grateful the inane discussion of location and time travel has disappeared, but couldn't we have less of BTTF and more reviews? Speaking of which, I thought Jerry Boyajian's snide reply to Gordon Hamachi's "Year of the Dragon" review was disgraceful. Aside from being off the point, it takes a lot of presumption to make fun of someone who has, a. gone and watched a movie, b. written about it for the net, when it is not clear the man has even seen the movie himself! I know, if I don't like it, I don't have to read it, but -hey- you don't have to read this either! I will try to put my money where my mouth is and add a review of "Flesh and Blood" soon.