usadaca@uiucuxc.UUCP (06/01/84)
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uiucuxc!usadaca Jun 1 14:45:00 1984
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I'm not actually going to review IJ&TOD - one of the first reviews
I saw on the net said almost exactly what I would have said (lots of
fun, worth the $$, but inferior to "Raiders"). But I do want to respond
to one point repeatedly raised in the negative reviews - violence. Some
of the comments I've seen make IJ&TOD sound like a Grand Guignol, and
that's too extreme. Yes, there is violence in IJ&TOD, some of it very
graphic. There was also very graphic violence in "Raiders", though, and
IJ&TOD was really not much different in this regard. Yet many commentators
have given the impression that it's far worse.
I can't tell you whether IJ&TOD will be too bloody for your
tastes; but I do say it's not as extreme as some have made it sound.
Kenn Barry
NASA-Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA
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/* ---------- */louie@cvl.UUCP (Louis A. Mamakos) (06/03/84)
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I agree - I just watched my tape of Raiders again last night, and the two
films compare (wrt violence) more than you'd expect. A bunch of people get
snuffed in Raiders too. I found Temple of Doom a little more `intense' in
places (insects and 'dinner').
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Internet: louie@cvl.ARPA uucp: ...!{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!cvl!louiebarry@ames-lm.UUCP (Kenn Barry) (06/06/84)
[<+>]
I'm not actually going to review IJ&TOD - one of the first reviews
I saw on the net said almost exactly what I would have said (lots of
fun, worth the $$, but inferior to "Raiders"). But I do want to respond
to one point repeatedly raised in the negative reviews - violence. Some
of the comments I've seen make IJ&TOD sound like a Grand Guignol, and
that's too extreme. Yes, there is violence in IJ&TOD, some of it very
graphic. There was also very graphic violence in "Raiders", though, and
IJ&TOD was really not much different in this regard. Yet many commentators
have given the impression that it's far worse.
I can't tell you whether IJ&TOD will be too bloody for your
tastes; but I do say it's not as extreme as some have made it sound.
Kenn Barry
NASA-Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA
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