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From: david@bragvax.UUCP (David DiGiacomo)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Siskel/Ebert Unhappiness
Message-ID: <157@bragvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Jul-84 15:26:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 23 15:26:20 1984
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I was disappointed with the latest "At The Movies".  Siskel and Ebert
both gave "thumbs-up" to "Electric Dreams", which is obviously too dumb
to be bearable for anyone who has so much as played Lunar Lander on a
VIC-20.  It makes me wonder if these guys use manual typewriters at
work-- or if Gene expects his word processor to fall in love with
him after reading his column.  I also expected some mention of earlier
movies on a similar theme ("Demon Seed", anyway).

The next review was "The Last Starfighter" (Siskel gave it thumbs-up,
Ebert thumbs-down).  I was again disappointed, this time because the
computer graphics connection was not even mentioned.  Granted, special
effects technology should not be the basis for a movie review, but TLS
is a landmark and should be recognized as such.  Also, I think that the
presumably large numbers of home computer owners mentioned above might
well be interested in seeing the movie as a long Cray demo.
-- 
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