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From: mck@ratex.UUCP (Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Best and Worst SF Films
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 23:20:59 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 22 23:20:59 1985
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     Well, here are my opinions [And the cry issues forth: 'WHO CARES!!']:

     The best movie that I've ever seen (SF or otherwise) is *Blade
Runner*.
     It should be seen in a good theater to be properly appreciated (the
time that I saw it in a cheap threater from a print with breaks, and that I
saw it on video-tape were both awful disappointments).  It develops a
world-view which is unrelentingly bleak -- until the climax of the
confrontation between Derrick and Batty, when, from the despair and horror,
a message of great beauty emerges.

     Now, I've seen *Plan 9 from Outer Space*, *They Saved Hitler's Brain*,
and *The Man with the Synthetic Brain*; these are all bad movies (the two
*Brain* movies involved splicing additional footage -- obviously filmed
some time after the main footage -- does anybody out there have details
about this?).  But a far worse film is *The Creeping Terror*; I've only
seen short excerpts, but they were god-awful.  Larry Cipriani has seen the
whole movie (as an existential experience I guess) and he assures me that
the excerpts are representative and that *Terror* is far worse than *Plan
9*.

[And the cry issues forth: WHAT DO YOU KNOW!!]

                                        DKMcK