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From: lew@ihuxr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Date: Tue, 31-May-83 18:05:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 31 18:05:52 1983
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I saw "Something Wicked This Way Comes" over the weekend and I liked it
quite a bit. I think several reviewers have remarked that the special
effects are used judiciously, and I concur. It is very stylized, which
makes it vulnerable to charges of "wooden acting", but I thought that
this tone was important to the movie. It is a morality play and not
a slice of life.

There were several scenes that I found especially effective, notably
the schoolteacher before the mirror and Jason Robards's temptation
in the library. The former gave me a chill with almost no special
effects at all, and the latter was a good example of an effect being
used to support a scene, instead of being made the centerpiece.

With people going gaga over all the pyrotechnical movies out these
days, I think this movie is a refreshing change. It satisfies by
giving you something a little different instead of trying to give
you more than anybody ever gave you before of what you've already
had plenty of.

	Lew Mammel, Jr. ihuxr!lew