From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!p500vax:rob
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: The Outsiders
Article-I.D.: p500vax.183
Posted: Tue Apr  5 11:56:28 1983
Received: Wed Apr  6 03:14:25 1983


My little brother (16 or 17) thought it was the best movie ever made and
couldn't imagine that it could have a fault. The San Jose Mercury gave it
3.5 stars (out of 4) and said it was in the same league as Last Picture
Show (a totally irresponsible claim) and Rebel Without a Cause (such a
preposterous claim that I hate to repeat it even in this context). I hope
that some critic will eventually stand up and represent it as the
meandering, shallow, summer teen-faire that it is. How a film with virtually
no character development, absolutely vapid, child-like philosophizing, rigid
characterization, and only the most simplistic and heavy-handed antagonisms
could be in any way associated with some of the most notable statements in
contemporary cinema of existential conflict and the American way of life is
totally beyond me. I must have slept through the entire movie (I won't call
it a film). 
Rob.