Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!sb1!sb6!emory!gatech!spaf From: spaf@gatech.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Octopussy Message-ID: <226@gatech.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Jun-83 11:05:29 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.226 Posted: Tue Jun 14 11:05:29 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jun-83 02:28:29 EDT References: <193@princeton.UUCP> Organization: Georgia Tech, School of ICS Lines: 44 I wasn't claiming that Octopussy was a great movie on any global scale. I just said that if you like James Bond movies, this was very probably the best of the lot. As to exploiting women -- maybe. The movie showed a whole island full of women who could manage quite well in virtually any situation, including smuggling. Maybe they were exploiting 007? It's fantasy and not intended to be any reflection of reality. I mean, there were no women in the movie who *weren't* beautiful. We assumed that there is a company out there somewhere that manuactures them for James Bond flicks, because we haven't ever seen any like that around here! I'm all for caring, responsible relationships, but those just aren't part of a Bond movie (other than his long-standing relationships with Q and Moneypenny). There's a little wishful thinking of being Bond in all of us. I'd love to have an amphibious Lotus, although I could never afford the insurance and I don't know where I'd use it. It would be great fun to travel around the world and always be in control of the situation, rather than caught in a cab with a driver who speaks no English and who decides to take the scenic route and run up the fare while you die of dysentary in the back. I'd love to be able to find a beautiful, exciting woman and sweep her off her feet...but I wouldn't toss her away afterwards, that's for sure! That's the stuff of which escapism is made. If I wanted romance, I'd read a Harlequin paperback. If I wanted to deal with people in a more-or-less responsible manner (women *and* men) then I'd simply go about my everyday routine. But if I want to enjoy some mindless excitement and escapism, I'll go see a James Bond flick. Or a Star Wars movie. Not afraid to say I'll argue anything, -- "The soapbox of Gene Spafford" Spaf @ GATech (CS Net) Spaf.GATech @ UDel-Relay (ARPA) School of ICS ...!{sb1, allegra}!gatech!spaf (uucp) Georgia Tech ...!duke!mcnc!msdc!gatech!spaf Atlanta, GA 30332