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From: mls@husky.uucp (Mark Stevans)
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Subject: Re: The Big Bus (Bad Movies)
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Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 17:13:35 EDT
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I vote to remove "The Big Bus" from the list of bad movies.  When a movie is
humorous, whether intentional or not, it is not "totally bad".  At the time
of its release, it was an effective parody of the disaster films that were
springing up after the Posedion Adventure made money.  Look at it this way:
given a few six-packs and some popcorn, which would you rather see: "The
Towering Inferno", or "The Big Bus"?

I think that "Silent Night, Deadly Night" belongs at the top of the list of
totally bad movies.  It is my reference "0" on my movie scale.  However,
I think it is possibly interesting from one standpoint: whoever wrote the
screenplay views the depicted flavor of strict Catholic upbringing as being
extremely disgusting, destructive, insane, and hateful.  He then projects this
quite skillfully into a disgusting, destructive, insane, and hateful movie.

Oh, I just remembered something: there was a scene in "SNDN" where this
girl, after making out on a pool table (of all things), walks to the front
door of her house, opens it wide, and stands there, casually exposing herself
topless to a entire suburban street, just to let the cat in.  That scene is so
irreal and ridiculous that it makes it difficult to view the makers of SNDN as
other than

	1.	A bunch of guys fooling around, trying to make history's
		most terrible movie, or
	2.	totally out of touch with reality.

					Mark Stevans
					ritcv!husky!mls