Responses to:
The Color Purple
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 85 17:24:09 edt
From: Liudvikas Bukys
Subject: Re: _The_Color_Purple_ (spoiler)
Though I have enjoyed the previous satirical reviews, I thought the
review of _The_Color_Purple_ was in particularly poor taste. Rape is
not a laughing matter. If you can't achieve the quality of the earlier
reviews (e.g., _Star_Wars_), maybe it's time to give it a rest.
Liudvikas Bukys
rochestesr!bukys (uucp) via allegra, decvax, seismo
bukys@rochester (arpa)
From: ihnp4!cbosgd!cbsck!cbscc!co
Posted-Date: 11 Sep 85 08:58:25 CDT (Wed)
Subject: Re: _The_Color_Purple_ (spoiler)
Is this movie based on the book The Color Purple by Alice Walker?
If so, is this a recently released movie?
Corinna Owens [... cbosgd!] cbscc!co
Posted-Date: Wed, 11 Sep 85 09:19:51 cdt
From: Rob Spray <rob%ct.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>
Subject: Hate mail
I bet you get a lot. This is some of the other kind.
Keep the reviews coming.
Rob Spray
ctvax!rob
From dsmith@osiris.Uiuc.ARPA Wed Sep 11 14:35:00 1985
Subject: Re: _The_Color_Purple_ (spoiler)
I believe that The Color Purple will be released in December.
From jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) Tue Sep 10 00:14:41 1985
Subject: What Kelvin Thompson is really doing
Organization: Relational Technology, Alameda CA
Kelvin Thompson has gotten a lot of flames for making fun of movies. May I
point out that he is making fun of movie reviewers, not the movies themselves?
My guess is that the people who take themselves most seriously as amateur
reviewers are the ones who fail to see the humor in Kelvin's reviews. It would
require them to laugh at themselves.
--
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak
From render@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA Fri Sep 13 14:14:00 1985
Subject: Re: What Kelvin Thompson is really doin
Jeff Lichtman writes:
>Kelvin Thompson has gotten a lot of flames for making fun of movies. May I
>point out that he is making fun of movie reviewers, not the movies themselves?
>My guess is that the people who take themselves most seriously as amateur
>reviewers are the ones who fail to see the humor in Kelvin's reviews. It
>would require them to laugh at themselves.
I know, I know, the only reason I don't like Thompson is that I am a
cretin with no appreciation for satiric writing. Now can you put a lid
on the constant chatter about him? It is bad enough having to skip his
articles, but now I am deluged with notes from people telling me to quit
being such a close-minded snob. I do not care for his reviews, but I keep
quiet about them. Can you, his loyal fans, do the same?
Hal Render
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Illinois
From fuji@ssc-vax.UUCP (Glen T Fujimori) Mon Sep 16 14:11:16 1985
Subject: Re: What Kelvin Thompson is really doing
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA
> Kelvin Thompson has gotten a lot of flames for making fun of movies. May I
> point out that he is making fun of movie reviewers, not the movies themselves?
> My guess is that the people who take themselves most seriously as amateur
> reviewers are the ones who fail to see the humor in Kelvin's reviews. It would
> require them to laugh at themselves.
> --
> Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
> aka Swazoo Koolak
Bravo! I've always said that the best way to judge a movie is to see it
yourself and to take what a "reviewer" says with a grain of salt...here's one
person who hopes Kelvin keeps poking fun.
--
Glen Fujimori
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From jon@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Jonathan Gingerich) Fri Sep 13 12:38:38 1985
Subject: BTTF FLAME
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
Fellow netters,
I recently catalogued the last 75 entries on net.movies. Of these,
1 was a poll, 3 were on videos (just short movies, right?!?), 4 were Kelvin
related, 4 were questions, 4 were miscellaneous about things unrelated to
movies (L. Ron Hubbard's motives etc.), and 5 James Bond trivia. 18 were
miscellaneous movie related comments (dubbing, Hitchcock, etc.). Only 6
could qualify as recommendations (4) or reviews (2). A whopping 30 were in
reference to BTTF!!!
Now I saw BTTF, and I thought it smacked of a typical Spielberg
school product - slick, shallow, and crass. Does anyone really like Marty
better now that his parents can lavish a 4 by 4 on the brat so he can
go pork his girlfriend in the woods, than when he dealt with a
nerdy family? The "careful touches" synchronizing the past and the
present appear to be a mere handful of details, while the implications
of time travel are completely ignored. Sure this trivia is fun, but
not THAT interesting. One gets the sad impression that net people can best
relate to a movie on a algebraic basis ( ... if there were two pines, and
you take away one ..8-) I'm grateful the inane discussion of location and
time travel has disappeared, but couldn't we have less of BTTF and more reviews?
Speaking of which, I thought Jerry Boyajian's snide reply to Gordon
Hamachi's "Year of the Dragon" review was disgraceful. Aside from being off
the point, it takes a lot of presumption to make fun of someone who has,
a. gone and watched a movie, b. written about it for the net, when it is not
clear the man has even seen the movie himself!
I know, if I don't like it, I don't have to read it, but -hey- you
don't have to read this either! I will try to put my money where my mouth
is and add a review of "Flesh and Blood" soon.
From brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Sun Sep 15 10:09:36 1985
Subject: Is there a closet net censor out there Killing Kelvin articles?
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Waterloo, Ontario
For all the talk about articles by Kelvin Thompson, I am yet to see one
(in original form) at my site. Is some self-appointed censor cancelling
these articles because he or she dislikes them?
--
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
From george@sysvis Fri Sep 27 14:14:00 1985
Subject: Re: Is there a closet net censor ou
>> For all the talk about articles by Kelvin Thompson, I am yet to see one
>> (in original form) at my site. Is some self-appointed censor cancelling
>> these articles because he or she dislikes them?
>> Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
> Me either. Ken Fricklas, AT&T Northglenn, Colorado
With the amount of self-righteousness and intolerance that exists on this
network, in all groups, it would surprise me greatly if ANY note or response
gets all the way through to the other end without censure, unless the topic is
so innocuous that it couldn't possibly offend anyone. So much for open intel-
lectual discussion forums where each individual can speak his (or her) mind
without fear of retribution. In particular, note the violence levels in net.-
flame. This is symptomatic of the general modality of a society (taken as a
whole) which cannot abide freedom of anything if it disagrees with the "accep-
ted" normals. Fear of changing "established" viewpoints/dogmas highly offends
those people who are unable to formulate their own opinions. The real cause
of this is closer to Orwell's 1984 than would first meet the eye. It really
reminds me a lot of the "Planet of the Apes" series, juxtaposed of course.
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