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From: jon@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Jonathan Gingerich)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: BTTF FLAME
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Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 13:38:38 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 13 13:38:38 1985
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Fellow netters,
	I recently catalogued the last 75 entries on net.movies.  Of these,
1 was a poll, 3 were on videos (just short movies, right?!?), 4 were Kelvin
related, 4 were questions, 4 were miscellaneous about things unrelated to 
movies (L. Ron Hubbard's motives etc.), and 5 James Bond trivia.  18 were
miscellaneous movie related comments (dubbing, Hitchcock, etc.).  Only 6
could qualify as recommendations (4) or reviews (2).  A whopping 30 were in
reference to BTTF!!!

	Now I saw BTTF, and I thought it smacked of a typical Spielberg
school product - slick, shallow, and crass.  Does anyone really like Marty
better now that his parents can lavish a 4 by 4 on the brat so he can
go pork his girlfriend in the woods, than when he dealt with a
nerdy family?  The "careful touches" synchronizing the past and the
present appear to be a mere handful of details, while the implications
of time travel are completely ignored.  Sure this trivia is fun, but
not THAT interesting.  One gets the sad impression that net people can best
relate to a movie on a algebraic basis ( ... if there were two pines, and
you take away one ..8-)  I'm grateful the inane discussion of location and
time travel has disappeared, but couldn't we have less of BTTF and more reviews?

	Speaking of which, I thought Jerry Boyajian's snide reply to Gordon
Hamachi's "Year of the Dragon" review was disgraceful.  Aside from being off
the point, it takes a lot of presumption to make fun of someone who has, 
a. gone and watched a movie, b. written about it for the net, when it is not
clear the man has even seen the movie himself!

	I know, if I don't like it, I don't have to read it, but -hey- you
don't have to read this either!  I will try to put my money where my mouth
is and add a review of "Flesh and Blood" soon.


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