riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (05/06/85)
No offense intended to those of you who've been raving about "The Gods Must Be Crazy," but I recently saw the movie and I thought it stank. Between the ads and what people had been saying in this newsgroup, I went into the movie expecting a charming and sensitive look into another culture -- an ethnological comedy of manners, perhaps. What I found instead was not only slapstick, but the lowest form of slapstick: awkward, crudely timed and with an annoying dependence on silly tricks using sped-up or reversed footage. Walt Disney did better at his absolute worst. This was the most disappointing movie I've been to in recent memory and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle --- riddle@ut-sally.UUCP, riddle@ut-sally.ARPA, riddle%zotz@ut-sally
jp@lanl.ARPA (06/02/85)
I enjoyed the movie The Gods Must be Crazy from a special viewpoint as a long time Land Rover owner. My wife says that it was even funnier from her point of view! Jim Potter jp@lanl.arpa