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Subj : Re: Robert Wise Dead At 91
To   : rec.arts.sf.movies,alt.startrek,alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From : gbell
Date : Tue Sep 20 2005 10:57:19

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos

"Dan Kimmel" <daniel.kimmel@rcn.com> writes:


>"ANIM8Rfsk" <ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net> wrote in message
>news:BF5032E5.51EC7%ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net...
>> in article Xns96D320FFDF1Knights.of.our.times@216.196.97.142, PzKfw Bob at
>> my2cents@worth.ca wrote on 9/15/05 9:00 PM:
>>
>> > "Marcovaldo" <Marcovaldo@worldnet.att.net> wrote in
>> > news:YolWe.46368$qY1.2615@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:

>> > West Side what? & The Sound of what? never heard of them.......kidding
>> > aside he should be remembered for TDTESS the most as it was the 1st good
>> > Sci Fi Movie.
>>
>> Uh
>>
>> Say WHAT?
>>
>> There are LOTS of good sci fi movies prior to TDTESS.
>>

>Well, not "LOTS" but there are several, especially "Metropolis" and "Things
>to Come."  I'd also include "Bride of Frankenstein" (and *do* when I teach
>SF film).

I'd grant you Bride of Frankenstein; the other two weren't that great.
Has there ever been as big a narrative cop-out as the end of Metropolis?

Visuals great for those two, Metropolis and TTC, but script and story
very so-so.

Graham

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