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From: tgd@clyde.UUCP (Thomas G. Dennehy)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Badfilm Fans?
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Date: Wed, 21-Sep-83 14:53:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 21 14:53:33 1983
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Even more bad films:

8. Dracula - John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, War Games) took everything
	good from the play and chucked it out the window.  Frank Langella
	seducing women in front of a backdrop of solar flares, Lawrence
	Olivier looking confused a lot.  Interiors using ALL the candles
	left over from Barry Lyndon.  Slow and methodical.

9. The Competition - Amy Irving and Richard Dreyfus making cow eyes at each
	other.  Will she let him win the piano competition?  Will he resolve
	his guilt over the financial burden his mediocre career has placed
	on his parents?  Who cares?

10. Young Doctors in Love - A miserable exercise to drag General Hospital
	stars past us.  What is Sean Young doing here?  She was so damn
	appealing in Blade Runner you'd figure she'd get some decent offers.
	Only good line: "How should I know - I'm a lawyer?"

11. National Lampoon's Reunion - even Candide wouldn't find anything nice
	to say about this turkey.

12. New York, New York - When Scorsese misses, he misses big.  If someone
	could explain the last 15 minutes to me, I'll be eternally
	grateful.  Almost redeemed by its lucid moments, but a titanic
	failure.

13. Annie - what a hoot!  Anne Reinking should have done this one under an
	assumed name.  Does the FBI have a relocation program for musical
	performers?

14. The Pirates of Penzance - good thing this was never released.  In a dead
	heat with "The Pirate Movie" for worst swashbuckling musical.
	Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline ought to know better.  Rex Smith
	deserved to be in it.

Why can't anyone make a good movie musical anymore??  Oliver worked, Cabaret
worked, All That Jazz worked us over :-), so it IS possible.  Musicals are
natural film vehicles.  They are intensely visual, have very little dialogue
to rework, and usually have enough holes in the book for a good scriptwriter
to work miracles. I zimply don't understand.

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	Tom Dennehy	BTL Whippany	{clyde!tgd}