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From: ewa@sdcc3.UUCP (Eric Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: The Big Bus
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Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 21:10:34 EDT
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In article <327@cylixd.UUCP> dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) writes:
>"The Big Bus" and "Plan 9 from Outer Space" have been added to the
>list of all-time totally bad movies. These will stay on the list unless
>someone can mention something about them (direction, cinematography,
>wit, humour, plot, etc.) that is above mediocre in some way.
>

I saw The Big Bus several years ago and loved it!  I felt it was like an
early, more down to earth, version of Airplane.  The total casualness with
which some of the characters regarded their situations (like the truck in the
Piano bar) as well as the concepts (a nuclear-rocket powered bus) and the
ludicrous solutions ("Raise flags of all nations!") all contribute to this
movie.  Not to mention (but of course I will) the "James book of Bombs"


Eric Anderson, UC San Diego {elsewhere}!ihnp4!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc3!ewa