crm@duke.UUCP (10/03/83)
Saw Big Chill on Saturday night. LOVED IT!! I think it's a good candidate for BP in the Oscars next year. Everyone should see it twice, since it had fine acting, wonderful writing, good cinematography, and some attractive skin towards the end ( both sexes, I think my wife wants to leave me for the Tom Selleck clone).
sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) (10/07/84)
I saw this just a few months ago for $2. A disappointing movie, though not
intolerably bad as, say, "Terms of Endearment."
This was a completely schematic movie, with no tension and nothing new
to say. Instead, the characters were ciphers with certain "characteristics"
provided by the screenwriters. Perhaps this explains its popularity:
people brought themselves to the color-by-numbers characters, filling in
the empty spaces.
The complacency of this movie is enormous, doubly offensive because of its
pretense of self-examination.
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/Steve Dyer
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