Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-vlnvax!schneider From: schneider@vlnvax.DEC Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: re: Comfort and Joy Message-ID: <146@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 11:44:45 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.146 Posted: Wed Dec 5 11:44:45 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 01:42:11 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 36 I feel I have to reply in defense of Bill Forsyth, who makes movies I truly enjoy. Based on her blanket statement below, Baby Sister ought to stick to her movies of the Star Wars genre if she resents being made to think a little... > I saw comfort and joy in Chicago and walked out after the first hour. > Unless you have an ice cream fetish, there is nothing of interest in > the entire film. > > (Note: I am just the sister of the person whose login appears on > this note and I am just visiting, so please do not respond.) Before Comfort and Joy I also enjoyed Local Hero and Gregory's Girl by Forsyth. The latest two by this Scot (L.H. and C&J) I find stick with me long after I've seen them in a manner few movies in the last decade have. No multi-million dollar budgets here, but LH offered breathtaking views of the Scottish countryside while C&J explored a bit of urban Scotland (perhaps Edinburgh). I found a similar theme across the two movies: very real, likeable people caught in absurd situations and faced with decisions that the audience accompanies them through. The absurd is prominent but the lead roles take the audience through it with a good-natured, toungue-in-cheek attitude. Believe me, Comfort and Joy has a far wider appeal than the ice cream fetish crowd. What's more the original review here is the first notion of dissent I've seen, read or heard to this or Forsyth's other movies. PS: There are no big name actors here but how many noticed Gregory's best friend playing the garage mechanic who offered to bang out Dicky Bird's dented BMW, and was Dicky Bird also in the Australian film, Don's Party? Daniel Schneider DEC, Marlboro, MA {...vlnvax}::decwrl::rhea ::vlnvax::schneider