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From: Todd.pasa@Xerox.ARPA
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Subject: Life Force
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Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 11:50:49 EDT
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From: Todd.pasa@Xerox.ARPA

from Donald.Schmitz@CMU-RI-ARM
>  the new movie Life Force, which had what I considered a good preview
and touts lots of people from big name movies, is in actuallity a poor B
movie. The plot has been blatantly ripped off from Alien and Dawn of the
Dead

I have not seen this film, but I understand that it is an adaptation of
an absolutely dreadful Colin Wilson novel called /The Space Vampires/.
(which predates Alien and Dawn of the Dead). It would not surprise me a
bit if Life Force was similarly horrid. The part about having lots of
big-name actors disturbs me though. It seems like the only SF films
(this one should probably be better classed as Sci-Fi) that get any
consistently decent actors nowadays are the ones that suck. Vehicles.
Give 'em lots of nifty special effects and the writers don't REALLY need
to paid that much, do they? Gah.

		- JohnnyT

"In space, no one can hear you blow chunks."