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From: showard@udenva.UUCP (showard)
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Subject: Re: Criticizing the critics - out of the closet...
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Date: Tue, 21-May-85 16:19:09 EDT
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> 1) Jupiter ==> star ending was also in the book, don't blame the movie.
     
   That's irrelevant.  It was in the movie; it was stupid; therefore the
movie contains a stupid plot device.

> 2) Yes, ending was ...not up to the rest, but compare with the ending
>    of the immortal 2001, it was probably better - unless you think that
> a totally irrelevany, unintelligible ending is a good thing just so they
>   leave the theater thinking.

   2001 ended the way it should have--ambiguous, like the rest of the film.
2010, on the other hand, gave me the impression of:  well, we've got all this
stuff left over from the first film to clear up, and we've got all this US-
USSR conflict, and we've shot 89 minutes--let's whip up a happy ending.
 
> 3) I didn't measure the obelisk thingys. You really did?
 
   No, but I can tell the basic proportions of rectangular solids well enough
to know that they were FAR too long (or too thin).

> 
> "It's the thought, if any, that counts!"  Dick Grantges  hound!rfg

--Steve Howard, aka Mr. Blore, the DJ who would not die
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