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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Most disappointing films.
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:51:46 -0800
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On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:18:40 -0500, Bice <eichler2@comcast.net> wrote:

>On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:33:36 -0500, William Hyde
><wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>In a conversation the other day I came up with a list of these, and to=20
>>my surprise they were all SF/F.
>>
>>(1) The Return of the Jedi
>>
>>(2) The Lord of the Rings (Bakshi version)
>>
>>(3) Dune (Lynch version).
>>
>>Not that I haven't seen far worse movies, but in each of these cases I=20
>>was expecting something better.
>
>
>For me it's movies that look like they could be decent sci-fi movies
>but turn out to be lame horror flicks.
>
>A while back someone on the current films newsgroup was really talking
>up the movie "Sunshine", saying what a great science fiction movie it
>was. So I found it on DVD and watched it. Started off with a stupid
>premise (a mission to re-ignite the sun with a nuclear bomb) and went
>downhill from there. Turned into a really bad slasher flick in the
>end. Terrible movie.

If it's the one I am thinking of, I agree with you.

The version I saw had unfinished CGI right smack dab in the middle.
Does the DVD version have it, or did they fix it? (If you don't know,
then it doesn't -- if it were there you would remember it. It's that
bad.)
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"