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From: kayuucee@cvl.UUCP (Kenneth W. Crist Jr.)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Re: The Big Bus
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Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 15:01:56 EDT
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> In article <327@cylixd.UUCP> dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) writes:
> >"The Big Bus" and "Plan 9 from Outer Space" have been added to the
> >list of all-time totally bad movies. These will stay on the list unless
> >someone can mention something about them (direction, cinematography,
> >wit, humour, plot, etc.) that is above mediocre in some way.
> >
> 
> I saw The Big Bus several years ago and loved it!  I felt it was like an
> early, more down to earth, version of Airplane.  The total casualness with
> which some of the characters regarded their situations (like the truck in the
> Piano bar) as well as the concepts (a nuclear-rocket powered bus) and the
> ludicrous solutions ("Raise flags of all nations!") all contribute to this
> movie.  Not to mention (but of course I will) the "James book of Bombs"
> 
> 
> Eric Anderson, UC San Diego {elsewhere}!ihnp4!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc3!ewa

	I agree. This was a good movie that was a little ahead of it's time.
America was not right through with the disaster movie and so a parody of it
would not do too good, even on tv.
	The parts I liked best were:

		1) Ned Beatty coming into the room where the plutonium (or
other such radioactive fuel) was being placed into a protective container.
The waldos were stuck and so the fuel could not not be loaded properly. So,
Beatty walked in without any kind of shielding, walked over and finished
loading the fuel with his bare hands.

		2) Harold Gould is lying on the ground outside the bus
hanger after and accident. Some medal he was wearing got imbedded into
his chest and he can't (or won't) be moved. That night it begins to rain and
he is still lying out there under some kind of tarp while everyone else is
inside the hanger, dry. The next day when he is needed for something, Gould
pulls the medal out, gets up and goes and does whatever needs to be done.
Of course, he experiences no after effects.

						Ken Crist


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