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From: lo@harvard.UUCP (Bert S.F. Lo)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Brazil
Message-ID: <703@harvard.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 11:56:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 11 11:56:16 1986
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In article <1381@fisher.UUCP>, tim@fisher.UUCP (Tim Snyder) writes:
> Oh, my heavens, this movie is jumpin'! Highly recommended for those
> who enjoy thoughtful movies, movies which generate discussion,
> movies which have elaborate scripts and elaborate sets, movies which
> allow you to be dropped into yourself fresh (without whatever process
> that made you what you are occurring), movies which document life's
> pieces accurately yet uniquely, and movies which ENTERTAIN in novel 
> ways.

I agree that this movie is great to watch and it is certainly extremely
entertaining, but for me, it had about as much depth/substance as a video.
I'm sure you could discuss all the effects and stunts and crazy use of the
camera and editing, but the movie doesn't really have any new or novel ideas
to discuss.

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