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From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: R-rated article about people who can't enjoy a film
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Date: Sun, 2-Sep-84 16:14:21 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  2 16:14:21 1984
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>    I have two friends who are avid Eastwood fans.  Opening day
>    Dirty Harry films and the like.  They like anything with him
>    in it.  They hated this one.  I ain't goin' near it.

Good, because it wasn't a fucking Dirty Harry movie.  I thought it
was probably the best flick he's been in.  It was highly suspenseful
and pretty well done besides.  I realize that most people can't
deal with seeing Clint Eastwood kiss a child, macho men just
don't do that.  Probably didn't like the fact that you weren't
even sure if he was carrying a gun until about 2/3 through the
movie.  I can't understand the sentiments of another reader asking
"how many times is he going to make this movie?"  Anyone who
*did* think this was a Dirty Harry movie is in pretty sad shape,
too.  I have liked Dirty Harry movies too, but that doesn't mean
I can't deal with CE in a little different role.

Red Dawn:  Okay, people are really pissing me off with the things
they say about this movie.  First of all, many of the complaints
like "they didn't explain this or that" come from people who
obviously weren't paying fucking attention.  (Or maybe they were,
they saw it at a drive-in?)  At the very beginning of the movie,
I was saying to myself "this is bogus, why are the Russians doing
it this way, why is this happening like this?" etc.  But, in keeping
with my philosophy of giving things a chance, I decided to pay
close attention so I wouldn't miss anything.  As time went on,
it started making more sense to me why things happened they way
they did.  Of course, part of this is because I was watching things
carefully, instead of trying my damnedest to find holes so I
could display my uncanny abilities to tear a movie to pieces.  I
thought it was a pretty damn good flick.  Yes, I have seen better.
But I think the whole problem here is people are trying to be
critics when they barely have the capability to be a reviewer.
Oh, well.  I feel better now.
-- 
Randwulf  (Randy Haskins);  Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh