Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Best/Worst Films of the 80's Message-ID: <1541@nsc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 16:09:31 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.1541 Posted: Fri Oct 5 16:09:31 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 05:39:43 EDT References: <1050@orca.UUCP> <380@ihuxo.UUCP> <4389@fortune.UUCP> Organization: The Warlocks Cave, Walden Puddle Lines: 23 > "The Big Chill" definitely overated. Plus the soundtrack was a > mismatch - the actors were so lame and old and tired that they > sucked the energy out of the songs. I think you simply missed the entire point of the movie. I found the movie full of energy, not lame and old and tired. It's not exactly Indiana Jones, that's for sure, but it is a movie that makes you sit up and think about things. One of its strongest points was the soundtrack-- the music was very carefully picked to make unspoken comments about life and society based on what is was playing through. The BEST thing about 'the Big Chill' was that it was about real people, no more, no less. These aren't superheroes, or Neil Simon weirdoes, they are people who could be your neighbors. This movie is right up with 'My Dinner With Andre', 'Return of the Secacus Seven', and 'When you coming back to the 5 and dime, Jimmy dean' for making you excercise your mind instead of your glands at the theater. Wonderful stuff, much too rare.... chq -- From the Department of Bistromatics: Chuq Von Rospach {amd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA What do I know, after all I'm just a begonia...