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Subject: Re: Most disappointing films.
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:54:31 -0500
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On 2/18/2025 8:18 AM, Bice 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
>> 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
>> 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.
> 
>    -- Bob

The plot was lame, but the visuals and music were very good.

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