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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: BRAZIL
Message-ID: <129@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 00:10:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  7 00:10:53 1986
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Mark Leeper writes:

>  [Brazil] was the best science fiction film
>of 1985.  A recent FILM COMMENT takes Universal to task for releasing STICK,
>JAMES JOYCE'S WOMEN, CREATOR, MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE, DREAM CHILD, WILD
>GEESE II, and HOLOCAUST COVENANT in 1985, while deciding BRAZIL was
>unreleasable.  Universal is absolutely right.  A film this good probably
>will not attract enough of the teenage audience to make it profitable.  It
>will play at your local art theater a week and then disappear, like SMILE or
>STUNT MAN.  And just like these films, people will be rediscovering BRAZIL
>for years to come.

In fact Mark's prediction has proven quite wrong, at least in this area.
Brazil has been playing for over a month now in general release here, and
shows no signs of disappearing anytime soon.  In contrast, CREATOR and
MORONS didn't last but a few weeks (MORONS died in a week), and I never even
saw an ad for any of the others listed (except DREAMCHILD, which if I
remeber correctly has only shown up recently).  Mark seems to forget that
teenagers all over America tune into video shows and MTV all the time, where
they show things as weird and grotesque as one cares to imagine.

Of course, maybe this says something about Washingtonians....

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