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From: jrathman@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN
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Date: Sun, 3-Feb-85 17:46:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  3 17:46:00 1985
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Nf-From: uokvax!jrathman    Feb  3 16:46:00 1985








	I actually sat through this cinimatic atrocity (OF UNKNOWN
	ORIGIN) just last night and found it to be an "unexpected"
	farce.  The basic man vs. rat idea might have been great
	if made for a 30 min. Twilight Zone episode, but two hours
	of such nonsense was too much.

	At one point, our would-be hero pounds the ceiling in frustration,
	using a copy of Moby Dick and another time he dozes in front
	of the TV, which is showing "The Old Man And The Sea" - any movie
	making such audacious comparisons of itself with some of the
	classic "man vs. beast" stories should as such be expected
	to provide some fresh insights, but instead we follow our
	hero through one ludicrous incident after another, showing this
	particular film to be the pretentious piece of garbage it
	really is.

	On a -4 to +4 scale??  I'll give it a -3 just because something
	this bad has a strange fascination all its own.


	Jim Rathman
	uokvax!jrathman