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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Big Chill
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Date: Sun, 7-Oct-84 00:44:26 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  7 00:44:26 1984
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Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma.
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I saw this just a few months ago for $2.  A disappointing movie, though not
intolerably bad as, say, "Terms of Endearment."

This was a completely schematic movie, with no tension and nothing new
to say.  Instead, the characters were ciphers with certain "characteristics"
provided by the screenwriters.  Perhaps this explains its popularity:
people brought themselves to the color-by-numbers characters, filling in
the empty spaces.

The complacency of this movie is enormous, doubly offensive because of its
pretense of self-examination.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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