Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!phri!timeinc!vax135!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!ukma!sean 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 Article-I.D.: ukma.1924 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) Organization: The White Tower @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 32 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. -- - Sean Casey UUCP: sean@ukma or - Department of Mathematics {cbosgd,anlams,hasmed}!ukma!sean - University of Kentucky ARPA: ukma!sean@ANL-MCS.ARPA