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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Still More on Totally Bad Movies
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Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 14:18:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  9 14:18:51 1985
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I fear that this "bad movie" stuff is liable to turn into a very
high volume topic very quickly.  Do we really want to do this
in a newsgroup?  If we start taking network-wide votes and nominations
and all these sorts of things, we could be flooded in no time.  This
topic, though interesting, has certainly been covered in many books
and might not be the greatest topic to start churning away here.
After all, it's almost totally based on pure opinion, and if we start
flaming about opinions and trying to keep lists we're going to generate
an awful lot of volume at exactly the wrong time!  

--Lauren--

P.S.  I'll add one note regarding the previous list, and then try
to drop out of this discussion.  The movie "Candy" listed in that
message is NOT the one that was shown at the SLC Usenix conference.
The one shown at the conference is a superb, cult work with a screenplay
by Buck Henry and an almost all-star cast.

See?  There are millions of comments like this we could make about
these films.  If we all start making them, we'll flood the network.
I'd like to recommend that we end this "bad movie" discussion, or
at least limit it in some manner, before it gets way out of hand!

--LW--