[net.movies] Poltergeist

upstill (06/03/82)

  I saw one of the "sneak previews" of Poltergeist two weeks ago.  It
opens this Friday at a theater near you.
  Nano-review: massively entertaining.  I loved it.
  As one who has been passionately attached to the SF/fantasy genre 
since childhood, I have to say that Poltergeist is my movie.  Spielberg
has definitely reached the peak of his craft in terms of constructing
and executing a movie.  It's all there -- the slightly warped humor,
the little middle class tags we can relate to, the sense of the fantastic,
the relentless buildup from little eerie events to shivery spectacle.
I alternated between bursting out laughing and muttering exclamations
of awe to myself.  Of course I was completely unhyped and unprepared
for it all (which is one of the prime advantages of sneak previews).
  The technical credits on this film are just superb -- it is definitely
prime material for a first-rate theater with 70mm and Dolby sound; the
images on the screen are crystal clear.   ILM's special effects are
in a universe by themselves; I was stunned to learn that the budget of
the movie was moderate by Hollywood standards, only about 70% of the cost
of Close Encounters 3 1/2 years ago and half that of Empire.
  If these descriptions make the movie sound a little cold, that's the
way I can't help thinking about it...afterwards.  While it was running,
it blew me away.  Afterward, it became hard to see why I got so involved
on a gut level.  But I did, and I bet you will.

crose (06/07/82)

 I saw the movie. It was a great thriller. Dont miss it!
If you are in the mood to be scared, this is the movie to
see. The first half of the movie struck me as being very
~phony~. It all seemed a sort of spoof making fun of horror
movies, *until* the second half.....
Then you get really scared. The movie will have you
grinning or even laughing durning most of it.
The movie was so well done  that i even didnt go home and look in 
dark cornors of the house with a flashlight. 
Some of the highlights i though were when the
man peeled his face off and the skull showed,
or when the clown attacked the kid, or the whole movie
after that point!
 DONT MISS IT!!!!!

lute (06/07/82)

Now, can anyone tell me of a theatre near Piscataway, NJ where
"Poltergeist" is playing?

					Jim Collymore
					mhuxh!lute

Thomka.ES@sri-unix (06/08/82)

I also had seen "Poltergeist" and I liked it.  But I thought that some resolution of
the "hallowed" ground is needed.  Or that the Land Developer (whatever his
name was) should have gotten his just desserts,  after all why should our
"good guy's" family do all the suffering, especially the little girl.

	Chuck

p.s.
I thought it had some good middle-class humor in it. What with the teenage girl
(in referring to the Holiday Inn out on Highway XX) "oh yeah, I remember that
one."  At which time the mother was very perplexed to her daughter's meaning.