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From: goodrum@unc.UUCP (Cloyd Goodrum)
Newsgroups: net.movies,net.movies.sw
Subject: Re: _Star_Wars_  (spoiler)
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Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 18:26:37 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  3 18:26:37 1985
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Summary: 

In article  barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:
>
>Am I the only one who realized that the SW review was a hack?  Or am I
>just making an unwarranted assumption?
>-- 

	It sure seems that way from the flames Kelvin Thompson's been getting,
doesn't it??  I have to confess that when he posted his review of 1984, I was
taken in. I suppose it is possible that there might be someone out there who
had never read nor heard of Orwell's novel.

	But is there ANYONE who has just now seen Star Wars and is so out of
touch that he thinks that anyone would be interested in reading a review of
it???? That's impossible.

	I think what must have happened is that Thompson realized that no
one realized his 1984 review was written with tongue firmly planted in
cheek and wrote the Star Wars review thinking "Now everyone in Netland
will know I was just kidding." Poor Kelvin. I would have thought the same
thing myself, but I would have been wrong.

	I'd like to see Thompson do some serious reviews. There's a lot
of junk that Hollywood has been dumping on us lately, and they should
be taken to task for it. I'll give you an example. A few weeks back I
went to see a movie about Rimbaud, my favorite French poet. It was nothing
but a bunch of scenes with Sylvester Stallone running around shooting people!!
And it wasn't even set in France. As if the historical inaccuracies weren't
bad enough, that even spelled Rimbaud's name wrong in the title. Sheesh.

>    Barry Margolin

	Cloyd Goodrum III