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From: Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com>
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Subject: Re: MT VOID, 07/11/25 -- Vol. 44, No. 2, Whole Number 2388
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2025 21:41:33 -0400
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On 7/13/25 8:54 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
> THE MT VOID
> 07/11/25 -- Vol. 44, No. 2, Whole Number 2388
> 

> TOPIC: Mini Reviews, Part 16 (film reviews by Evelyn C. Leeper)
> 
> Three more from Mark's list of neglected gems:
> 
> THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (1951): This "neglected science fiction
> film" is as topical now as ever. It is about how technology has
> unintended and unexpected results. In the film, it's the "perfect"
> cloth. Since then it's been the personal computer, the Internet,
> and now AI. There are three aspects it gets right. One is that the
> people who come up with technologies are not (necessarily) evil
> scientists trying to take over the world. The second is that
> (initially at least) many people see only the advantages of the
> discoveries/inventions. And the third is that there is resistance
> to all these discoveries/inventions by those who see them as
> disruptions to their way of life.

I love the ending (which I won't spoil here).

> VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1960): Mark called this a "forgotten" or a
> "neglected science fiction film", but I don't think I'd agree. I
> mean, yes, if you can have someone in the audience stand up at a
> panel on forgotten science fiction films and suggest FORBIDDEN
> PLANET, then okay, it's a forgotten science fiction film. But
> under the usual definition of forgotten, FORBIDDEN PLANET is not
> forgotten, and I don't think VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED is forgotten
> either.

There are some genuinely forgotten science fiction films, but I can't 
remember what they are.


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