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. -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA