Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!Todd.pasa@Xerox.ARPA From: Todd.pasa@Xerox.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Life Force Message-ID: <2458@topaz.ARPA> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 11:50:49 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2458 Posted: Mon Jul 1 11:50:49 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jul-85 05:30:43 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 21 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."