Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!mit-eddi!zzz From: zzz@mit-eddi.UUCP (Mike Konopik) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: SupermanIII (spoiler: dont worry, you wont see it anyway) Message-ID: <311@mit-eddi.UUCP> Date: Sat, 25-Jun-83 03:03:59 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.311 Posted: Sat Jun 25 03:03:59 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jun-83 21:52:21 EDT References: fortune.1168 Lines: 44 As erewhon seems to agree, this movie sucked. But still, I'd like to put in a couple of comments of my own: 1) Had I known the movie was sooo bad, I *might* have paid the bucks just to see the opening sequence (esp. that amazing blonde). 2) One thing made me wince with disgust: when Richard plummeted off the roof on those skis and landed on the atrium's slanted roof -- even if it was made of this incredibly moby glass and he didn't break through, the force on his legs woulda turned 'em to jelly! And landing on the pavement like that would have turned his shins into literal splinters! 3) Suppose for a moment that the computer could have been real (okay?). Now how on earth was that thing supposed to be generated from a couple of pencil sketches (no schematics, either) in less than 3 days? And where did the stupid thing get the power to turn itself back on? 4) Bad taste in mouth #2: The special effects folks really goofed, not to mention insulting even nominal intelligence, when they had the dude turn a tornado "inside out" or "upside down"... And that was about the most bogus-looking tornado I ever saw... 5) BTiM #3: How the heck did Vulcan know when it found the remains of Krypton when it didn't know what it was looking for? 6) Oh yeah, and where'd Pryor's character come up with the bucks for this computer course when his unemployment got cut off? It just cuts to him in this school writing (gak) BASIC that does stuff that "can't be done", and he "doesn't know" how he did it -- uh huh, right... W'all damn. Y'all could keep cutting this movie for hours (maybe you should see it to generate lots of party conversation on how bogus it is?), since just about every scene has something in it that is just plain stupid... I did get a real kick out of the Olympics scene, and also from the way he kept hacking those poor Italian dudes. And again, that cause-and-effect beginning stuff was pretty hilarious. Retrospective Flaming, -Mike PS: Who WAS that gorgeous blonde, anyhow?