Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-sem.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!brl-sem!jeffh From: jeffh@brl-sem.ARPA (the Shadow) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: _Pale_Rider_ (spoiler) Message-ID: <359@brl-sem.ARPA> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 15:02:42 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-sem.359 Posted: Tue Aug 6 15:02:42 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Aug-85 23:53:12 EDT References: <2574@ut-sally.UUCP> Reply-To: jeffh@brl-semnes (VLD/VMB).ARPA (the Shadow) Distribution: net Organization: only the Shadow knows Lines: 40 > _Pale_Rider_ is bad. > > Mishandled grievously ... amalgam ... Eisenstein's _Old_and_New_ or > Renoir's _Grand_Illusion_ ... shades into a meditation on the transcience > of not so much life as existence ... an ideologically ambivalent > dystopia. AHA!!! I knew it! Kelvin Thompson is not a real person. Kelvin Thompson is just the code name used for an experimental program at U of Texas to write critical reviews. This would explain: 1) Why Kelvin hasn't answered any of the many flames he (it) has recieved. [it isn't programmed to] 2) Why every review starts out with "_Fill_in_the_Blank_ is a bad movie." [an obvious bug] 3) Consistency problems: like calling _Star_Wars:_A_New_Hope_ worthwhile in one place, and trash in another. Or using `Orwellian' after pretending not to have read _1984_ [not necessarily a bug. real reviewers are never consistent] I must admit that it is nearly as good as most of the reviewers one reads in the newspapers. It says a lot for the future artificial intelligence; we can make programs as stupid as real people! The problem with this review must have come when the developers tried to fix the "this is a bad movie" bug and broke something else. > Mockery is still propoganda. You betchum, Pale Rider! "Never argue with a fool ... People might not know the difference!" the Shadow ARPA: UUCP: {seismo,decvax}!brl!jeffh