Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!barmar
From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Totally bad movies: Schick-Sunn Classics
Message-ID: <111@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 01:46:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.111
Posted: Thu Oct 17 01:46:56 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 18-Oct-85 01:26:31 EDT
References: <112@druhi.UUCP> <1805@saber.UUCP>
Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 20

In article <1805@saber.UUCP> msc@saber.UUCP (Mark Callow) writes:
>The one film of theirs [Schick-Sunn] that I have seen was so bad I've
>filed the title in the round file and cannot retrieve it.
>It was about a battle ship that travelled from 1942 to
>198? during an experiment to make it radar invisible.  It
>is one of the most boring films I've ever endured.  The
>acting was worse than amateurish, the special effects were 
>ludricous and tension was nonexistent.

This sounds like "The Philadelphia Experiment".  I just watched it last
week on cable.  While I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone paying
money to see it, I would not say that it was Totally Bad.  Hollywood has
always had trouble making good science fiction films, and this was just
one of their standard mediocre productions.  There were, however, a few
good "future shock" moments, although nothing like the "past shock" in
"Back to the Future".
-- 
    Barry Margolin
    ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics
    UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar