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From: howard@sfmag.UUCP (H.M.Moskovitz)
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Subject: Explorers - A Review (Spoiler)
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Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 11:08:26 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 11:08:26 1985
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			Explorers
	Review by: H. Moskovitz @ AT&T Info. Systems, Summit, NJ

Explorers
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Directed by Joe Dante (of Poltergeist fame)
Starring: No one I knew

	I was unfortunate enough to receive tickets to the NYC premier
of this film (invitation only). In a word, I, and everyone else I talked
to afterward, HATED this movie.
	The story itself is ludicrous: three Junior High School kids
have dreams in which they see electronic circuits that they later build.
The circuit they build is a force field (that they run using an Apple //c
computer). They use this force field to build a spaceship (out of an old
amusement park ride chair) and travel into space only to meet a pair of
adolescent aliens!
	The acting is so-so and the script horrendous! DUMB things like
a 14 year-old kid looking at a bunch of gibberish that flashes by his
CRT in 2 seconds and deciding that this circuit (which mysteriously
creates its own software despite that it's just a small collection
of resistors) is asking for coordinates in 3-dimensional space relative
to the computer, and 4 hours later this kid has his entire basement,
objects and all, parameterized into a 3-D vector graphic contour map!
	In general, the plot is dull and silly, the script insulting
and boring, and the entire alien encounter dumb and ridiculous. The
best part of the movie was an alien hamming it on stage, lip syncing
a Little Richard rocker (which, by the way, was hacked up into a music
video starring Robert Palmer of Power Station fame).
	I will use Dennis Cunnigham's (CBS) method of rating. He recently
rated a film a '2' on a 1-10 scale saying:
	"You may wonder about the 2. Well in the summer ALL movies auto-
matically get a 1 for air conditioning!"
	In this case the movie gets a 0. Normally it would get a 1, but
since it IS summer and the theater was stifling, it loses even that!
	Take your $5 and spend it on the rerun of E.T. or Gremlins.

					Howard Moskovitz
					AT&T Info. Systems
					attunix!howard