Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!unc!goodrum From: goodrum@unc.UUCP (Cloyd Goodrum) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.movies.sw Subject: Re: _Star_Wars_ (spoiler) Message-ID: <538@unc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 18:26:37 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.538 Posted: Wed Jul 3 18:26:37 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 06:38:09 EDT References: <2202@ut-sally.UUCP> <285@mit-vax.UUCP>Reply-To: goodrum@unc.UUCP (Cloyd Goodrum) Distribution: net.movies Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 32 Xref: watmath net.movies:6868 net.movies.sw:567 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