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From: tino@hou2f.UUCP (A.TINO)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Brazil
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Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 08:48:09 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  6 08:48:09 1986
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>Oh yay. FINALLY someone else appears who disliked the movie as much as I. Yes, 
>I think heavy drugs would have helped. Then I at least could have hallucinated
>some semblance of a plot. I had to go out and ingest multiple beers after the
>movie in order to wash its terrible memory away. Yuck ick boring stupid blah.
>
>This is one of those movies destined to be a cult classic. Kinda reminds me of
>the children's story, "The Emporor's New Clothes." In that story, the Emporer
>walks down the street clad only in his birthday suit, but no one says anything.
>They're all chicken to admit what they believe to be true--because no one else
>will say the guy's stark naked. I think A LOT of people think this movie    
>sucks, but are afraid to say anything because the movie won the L.A. critics'
>award. Hell, what do L.A. critics know, anyway....! Feel free to express your
>opinion--I think there's a lot of folks out there who feel the way you and I
>do...

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You're not alone.  I also found Brazil extremely tedious viewing.  True,
some of the sets and props were very clever, but even the most convoluted duct
system in the world wasn't enough to save this dog.