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From: ables@mcc-db.UUCP (King Ables)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Mask (from a 1984 discussion)
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Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 15:45:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 20 15:45:16 1985
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> My most recent pick as a must-see: `MASK'. Trust me. Take your SO.

Yuk.  Well, not to mean that it was a BAD movie, it was ok.  But that
was the problem, it was just OK.  This movie was just another kid-with-
a-mental/physical-deformity-who-beats-the-odds-(at least for a while)-
and-shows-everybody-what-a-great-guy-he-is movie.  Sure, it's a tear
jerker and all.  I saw it with my [then, but that's another story] SO
and it was nice.  My gripe with the movie was there was nothing that
was special about it to put it over all the other movies that have been
made like it (unless of course you could identify with some part of it,
my mom didn't hang around with bikers, though, so... :-)  ).  I never
saw Elephant Man, but this reminds me a lot of that.  I've heard from
some who saw both that EM had more unique points to make.

This one is ok, but it just doesn't stand out in my mind.  There's
nothing special about it.

The scene where he takes his tacks out of his map of Europe kinda got to me,
though.
-King
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