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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
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Posted: Tue Aug  6 15:02:42 1985
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> _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
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