Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Night Of The Comet Message-ID: <6178@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 14:03:10 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6178 Posted: Thu Nov 29 14:03:10 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Dec-84 06:50:36 EST References: <663@sjuvax.UUCP> <38900017@ctvax.UUCP> <3205@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 23 > Actually, the recursive dream (nightmare) idea was done much > better in "An American Werewolf in London". In "Werewolf" > it helped reinforce the feeling of the onset of lycanthropy. > You *knew* something strange was happening. In "The Night > of the Comet" it was just a chance to show a little flesh > and give us a little scare. The moment I saw the scene, > I immediately said "what a rip-off!, they stole this idea > from John Landis". If John Landis stole it from someone else, > I am unaware of it. If I want to see rip-offs, I'll go see > a Brian DePalma film (in a recent movie article, the reviewer > called him "A hack of all trades"). I guess I just expect > a little more originality. Oh well. > > Gordon Strong > ihnp4!mit-eddie!gs > GS@MIT-XX I remember watching a movie with Humphrey Bogart with a double-flashback. In the movie, the head of a group of Free-French bomber crews was flashing back to Humphrey Bogart telling a story on a ship at the time of the German occupation of France where he flashes back to being in Guinea. -Ron