Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dataio.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!uw-june!entropy!dataio!bright From: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: GOONIES Message-ID: <688@dataio.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 05:21:57 EDT Article-I.D.: dataio.688 Posted: Thu Jun 27 05:21:57 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 00:02:40 EDT Reply-To: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright) Organization: Data I/O Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 23 In article <829@mtgzz.UUCP> leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) writes: > Spielberg is now rich and powerful enough that he doesn't have to >listen to anyone telling him that something is a dumb idea. Pity--he needs >it desperately. He continually undercuts the credibility of his story by >throwing in absurdities. In one scene,he has somebody shaking a waterpipe >somehow create a geyser to blow somebody off a toilet. The gag brought >giggles from a few of the eight-year-olds in the audience and for the rest >of us it looked pretty stupid. One of the kids is a walking bag of the >children's equivalent of James Bond gizmos. That's stupid right there. Yet >if you figure the total volume necessary for all that the kid is supposedly >wearing, there is no room in the clothing for the kid. The gizmos are used >with a Road-runner level of believability, too. Some other ridiculous things about the movie: o 300 year old ropes lying in the damp still will hold wait. o a 300 year old ship still floats, still has sails that hold air, etc. o the kid with all the gizmos reminded me of Batman with 'I just happened to have on my utility belt...'. o the kids seemed to be way out in the country in one scene, and under the city in the next, just by walking a few steps in the tunnels. o where did the power come from to operate the organ?