Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site wivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!wivax!rogers From: rogers@wivax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: The Brother from Another Planet Message-ID: <20108@wivax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 00:24:59 EDT Article-I.D.: wivax.20108 Posted: Mon Oct 15 00:24:59 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 07:37:00 EDT Sender: rogers@wivax.UUCP Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma. 01879 Lines: 35 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx This is my first posting to the net...I hope you will forgive any errors (regarding the mysterious first line for example). I think the group is great reading (for the most part, although I must agree that Joe-Bob (or whatever his name is) got old fast) -- lots of good reviews, discussions, information, etc. Now, the Brother. I really thought this movie was excellent. It's right up there with Repo Man. It succeeded in capturing the feeling of someone landing someplace *really different* that Moscow on the Hudson and Splash and the Wizard of Oz tried with varying degrees of success to get. It was hilarious, and at the same time captured the vulnerability, wonder, fear, and strangeness felt by the stranger in a strange land. It is quirky, but it is not a *special effects* movie. You might like it even if you are not the Star Wars type. A lot of *humanness* in this movie. On the subject of best movies of the eighties: The Stuntman Year of Living Dangerously Tender Mercies Repo Man I loved them all for really different reasons. Life is more like it is now than ever was. - Brenda Rogers