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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Totally bad movies
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Date: Sat, 12-Oct-85 09:33:37 EDT
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In article <3098@hplabsb.UUCP> bl@hplabsb.UUCP writes:

>I offer a word of caution when nominating movies for the totally bad list.
>A boring movie does not make it totally bad.  Poor acting does not make it
>totally bad.  Poor special effects does not make it totally bad.  Bad story
>does not make it totally bad.  No plot does not make it totally bad.  It's
>the combination of all these factors that matters.  Several movies on the
>list are less than five years old; caution, it's very easy to bad mouth
>a movie because you don't like it.  DEAL OF THE CENTURY, HURCULEASE (SP?),
>and SHEENA do not belong on the list.

Au contraire, Pierre, you've described SHEENA to a Tee.

  (1)  The only non-boring parts occur when you are laughing at how bad it
       is.

  (2)  Poor acting?  Tanya Roberts acts?  Could have fooled me.

  (3)  Poor special effects?  During the "Attack of Killer Flamingoes" we
       see these people in a helocopter being beaten by what is obviously a
       flamingo head brandished as a club by a man behind the camera.

  (4)  Bad story?  Why do they always have to wait for a land rover to roll
       up so that they can perform their ancient healing ritual?

  (5)  No Plot? Well, it does seem to have something vaguely resembling a
       plot, but only in the form of something to drag the actors around.
       There's no way you can accuse it of making any sense at all.

I had a lot of fun watching SHEENA; but it's undeniably a Bad Movie.

Charley Wingate  umcp-cs!mangoe

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