karn@allegra.UUCP (Phil Karn) (02/08/84)
I'm sure there's going to be a lot of flaming on this topic, so I just
wanted to be the first to pan it.
I came home this evening to find the aforementioned made-for-TV movie on
CBS. It was a "fictionalized" account of the trials and tribulations of
the first three female shuttle astronauts.
Nano review: Space-adaptation-syndrome inducing (ie., nauseating)
Micro review: Charlie's Angels do The Right Stuff with Sensitivity and Feeling
Short review (lest I get too worked up):
This is exactly the kind of trash I've come to expect from network TV. I
just hope that the average person is intelligent enough to realize that
this movie is a pure Hollywood fantasy (i.e, complete bullshit). While
it purports to champion wonderful advances by women, it drips with
condescension, terrible acting and an incredibly corny, melodramatic
script. ("Will the brave young astronautess overcome the crushing loss
of her astronaut husband in an air crash? Will she stick with the
grueling program despite the hypochondriac ploys of her chauvinist pig
father who has tried to stop her every achievment in life? Can her
husband talk her out of dropping out of the program? Will she get out the
"ring around the collar" of her spacesuit without spoiling her hairdo?")
Ugh. Zero stars. Stinker of the week.
Your faithful movie reviewer,
Phil