jeff@tesla.UUCP (Jeff Frey) (08/13/83)
Proper appreciation of this movie requires some maturity, and/or som e experience with life. Mature snob.
oscar@utcsrgv.UUCP (Oscar M. Nierstrasz) (08/14/83)
My Dinner With Andre (Malle, Louis; USA; 1982) [**** !] 'Nuff said.
parker@psuvax.UUCP (08/15/83)
All this brouhaha over "My Dinner with Andre" is getting to be a bit much. It is not a great movie, merely a good one. Its idea is novel (no sex, no violence, no special effects, in fact, no plot). "My Dinner with Andre" is anything but a pretentious movie. I liked it as much as 1981's Renoir movie "Mon Oncle d'Amerique." Intelligent, with a pleasant cynicism, it is a two-hour dinner chat between two different fellows. Both are stereotypes, one of apathetic Middle America and the other of the est-"mellow"-"discover myself in California" genre. Curiously it is simultaneously self-mocking and serious. I loved it, but others are sure to find it tedious: Nothing happens. No blood is spilled. No one gets laid. Only relevant ideas are discussed, things that point to the heart of our existence. Bruce Parker Penn State
david@tekid.UUCP (David Hayes) (08/17/83)
In other words you are not cool unless you liked this movie? Mature I don't know but you got the snob part right. tekid!david
davidson@eosp1.UUCP (08/18/83)
As I understand it, you are supposed to like this movie or be immature? Didn't "maturity" (or the lack thereof) disappear as an insult after we got out of seventh grade? Even though I enjoy Douglas Hoftstader, I did not enjoy MDWA as a movie because it didn't work as a movie. Maybe the ideas would have been better in a different format. I'm sorry that I didn't enjoy it as much as many of you seem to have. Greg Davidson (working his next to last day at EOS)
michaelk@tekmdp.UUCP (Michael Kersenbrock) (08/19/83)
Will folks not contort things just to flame for fun? Whomever made the comment about needing to be mature to like "My Dinner with Andre" (not I) did not say you were immature if you didn't like it, he just said that if you did like it you probably mature. If grass is green, it does NOT follow that all green things are grass. By the way, the comment he actually made is probably true in my opinion. The thrust of this 100% verbal image movie concerned itself with lifestyles and values. This is not to say an immature person would not understand the movie, but such a person would likely not be concerned about such matters enough to sit through 2 hours of it. Mike Kersenbrock Tektronix Microcomputer Development Products Aloha, Oregon P.S.- I liked the movie, and recommend it (the movie was originally a play).