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From: 9212osd@houxa.UUCP (Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: another bad one, and a good one
Message-ID: <258@houxa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Sep-83 17:58:25 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 28 17:58:25 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Sep-83 03:34:46 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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How about "The Blob" as one of the all-time bad films?
Nobody has mentioned it yet. Remember, it starred(?) a
very young Steve McQueen.  The plot was stupid, another
horrrorr film with a cheap budget, and the acting was
amateur, to be polite.  I wonder how Steve got to be
such a big star after that one.  It was so bad that it was
funny.  I saw "The Blob" in a 24-hour SF marathon at MIT,
together with such jewels as "Barbarella" (sp?), etc., until I went
to bed, tired of laughing.

By the way, why don't we change the subject to good films.
One of my favorites is "The Seventh Seal" by Bergman. I've
seen it several times, but once I saw it as one of the LSC's
classics.  At the beginning they showed a classic short (has to be)
parody of Bergman's films called (I think) "The Duve" (Dove?).
In this one you can see Death playing badminton (not chess),
and other goodies.  But the funniest gimmick it right at the
beginning of the short. I'm not going to spoil it, but it took
almost a minute for the audience to realize what was going on, then
everybody broke out in laughter (not simultaneously). Anybody
knows what short I'm talking about and who was responsible for it?
-- 
Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz /AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawfords Corner Road
Room HO-3M-325	201-949-1532	Holmdel, New Jersey, 07733
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