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From: cde@cornell.UUCP (Carl Eichenlaub)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: BAD films
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Date: Fri, 21-Oct-83 16:34:57 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 21 16:34:57 1983
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    Has anybody else ever seen, or even heard of a film called
Wanda Nevada?  One night several years ago this was the only
film in town I hadn't seen.  I was so itchy to see a film that
I decided to chance it.  The result was one of the strangest moviegoing
experiences of my life.  I was the ONLY person in a theater with
roughly 300 empty seats.  As the film started, it quickly bacame 
clear why.  I must have been the only one in town who hadn't heard
about this turkey.  It starred Brooke Shields and Peter Fonda and
had a brief cameo by Henry Fonda.  The story started with Peter
winning Brooke in a poker game, and it went rapidly downhill from
there.  The details of the plot aren't really worth relating.  It
was the overall feel of the film that was so unusual.  It SEEMED
to be a slick, high-budget adventure flick, but the script, direction,
acting and storyline were so amateurish that I couldn't help thinking
that someone had given LOTS of money to a high-school filmmaking
class.  I very nearly left the theater, but the thought of the film
running in an empty auditorium was too ironic for me to bear.  Besides,
it was very educational.  It opened my eyes to how bad a film can get.
Needless to say, it sank without a trace.  I can only wonder at the
wisdom of the decision to ever show it anywhere at all.  It might make
a good bad film, as it seemed to take itself fairly seriously as a
lighthearted adventure while it was really absurdly clumsy.  I wonder
if I am the only customer ever to pay to see this thing, or has
someone else got any recolection of it?

Carl D. Eichenlaub
Cornell University