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Subj : Re: Robert Wise Dead At 91
To   : rec.arts.sf.movies,alt.startrek,alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From : Dan Kimmel
Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 08:01:39

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


"G Bell" <gbell@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:dgomdv$q1n$1@scotsman.ed.ac.uk...
> "Dan Kimmel" <daniel.kimmel@rcn.com> writes:
>
>
> >"ANIM8Rfsk" <ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net> wrote in message
> >news:BF5032E5.51EC7%ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net...
> >> in article Xns96D320FFDF1Knights.of.our.times@216.196.97.142, PzKfw Bob
at
> >> my2cents@worth.ca wrote on 9/15/05 9:00 PM:
> >>
> >> > "Marcovaldo" <Marcovaldo@worldnet.att.net> wrote in
> >> > news:YolWe.46368$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.

You may not like the ending, but "Metropolis" is -- without question -- the
first SF epic and the greatest SF film of the silent era.  Anyone who is
serious about SF film *has* to see "Metropolis" as one of the classics of
the genre.  In spite of the happy ending, "Metropolis" has so much going for
it that it doesn't really matter.

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