Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxn!gadfly From: gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Stranger Than Paradise Message-ID: <1138@ihuxn.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 00:16:49 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxn.1138 Posted: Wed Aug 14 00:16:49 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 21:58:49 EDT References: <620@usl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 24 -- > Has anyone out there seen this movie? It's really interesting, but I > can't decide exactly how I feel about it. I strongly reccomend it... > > Comments are invited. > -- > Joe Arceneaux I found it a total waste of time. But maybe that's what it was supposed to convey--a black-and-white, down-and-out, going-nowhere life in lumpen-ville, where the characters look upon a visit to Cleveland ("It's very beautiful.") as if it were Fiji. Well, you share their myopia and their misery. Bo-ring. Pilots have a saying: "Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing." Only by applying this logic could you call "Stranger Than Paradise" a good movie. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 13 Aug 85 [26 Thermidor An CXCIII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7753 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***