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From: leeper@ahutb.UUCP (m.r.leeper)
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Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V10 #106
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Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 22:12:20 EST
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I can't find the original of this response so I will follow up on
Barry's response.  I am not responding to him but the original
submitter.  (If you follow that, perhaps you can explain it to me.)

 >I saw the film WIZARDS again recently.  Though admittedly it
 >has a number of flaws, this is perhaps my favorite
 >sf/fantasy movie, and it outdoes most of the mainstream
 >movies I can think of too.  Anyone else have any comment
 >here?
 >

I find that when I say I do like a film, I can often get three or four
responses that agree.  When I say I don't like a film and step back,
the net seems to turn into Anzio.  Well, once more sticking my head in
the lion's mouth, I didn't like WIZARDS.  Avatar was supposed to be for
everything good like guzzling liquor, having semi-clad maidens around,
cigars, etc.  He was anti-technology.  Except for perhaps the maidens
he was against everything I am for and for everything I am against.
And if he was against the evil use of technology for force, how does he
explain how he finally kills his brother.  Isn't that technology for
power at its worse?  This is another film that doesn't really have a
very clear idea what it is trying to say.  All it is saying is what the
author likes automatically leads to a better world and what he doesn't
like leads to chaos.  There were also charges at the time the film came
out that some of the characters (like Necron-90) were stolen from
another artist's work.  I don't remember clearly what the fuss was all
about, but it shows how sincere the preaching of the film was.

				Mark Leeper
				...ihnp4!ahutb!leeper