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From: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Cocoon  (with SPOILER)
Message-ID: <1924@ukma.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 03:09:06 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 28 03:09:06 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 03:59:36 EDT
Reply-To: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey)
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I kind of have mixed feelings about the movie.  It WAS a good movie, a
nice way to spend a summer night, but it kind of let me down in
places.  It seemed while I was watching it that I never forgot I was
watching a movie.  One of the things that makes movies so magic for me
is that feeling that I'm there, that I'm a part of it.  Cocoon just
didn't do that for me.  It had great moments, but it had not great ones
too.  It got very boring at times (esp.  the ballroom scene).

*** SPOILER *** SPOILER *** SPOILER *** SPOILER *** SPOILER *** SPOILER ***

What really annoyed me about the movie was the ending.  I REALLY wanted
the boy and the boat owner to get to go, and got let down.

The kid can't seem to relate to other kids, and everyone he knows is
leaving.  He should go.  His mom?  Bring her too!  But nooooo.

Look at the situation about the guy who owns the boat.  Here we have a
wonderful interstellar romance and he decides to stay. Wha?
Massive letdown. The Coast Guard has him for not following orders, he is
responsible for the deaths of thirty or so senior citizens, and he will
be found with gobs of money on him.  He has no future on earth.  But
no, he doesn't go.  Arrrgghhhh!  Maybe they will spring him from prison.

Oh well.


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-  Sean Casey				UUCP:	sean@ukma   or
-  Department of Mathematics			{cbosgd,anlams,hasmed}!ukma!sean
-  University of Kentucky		ARPA:	ukma!sean@ANL-MCS.ARPA