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| Title: | Movie Reviews and Discussion |
| Notice: | Please do DIR/TITLE before starting a new topic on a movie! |
| Moderator: | VAXCPU::michaud o.dec.com::tamara::eppes |
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| Created: | Thu Jan 28 1993 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1249 |
| Total number of notes: | 16012 |
43.0. "Star Crystal" by ALPHA::reeves (Jon Reeves, ULTRIX compiler group) Tue Feb 16 1993 21:23
As long as I'm doing consumer advisories, one more: Star Crystal. This
was released in 1986; I'm assuming it's available on video, though I
saw it at a film festival. You've never heard of any of the people
involved, for a good reason.
An expedition to Mars picks up a strange rock that opens to reveal an
alien that takes over the ship. The special effects and cinematography
are OK, but everything else about this is utterly inept: the sets are
not believable, the directing is horribly self indulgent, the pacing is
lethargic, the script is cliche-ridden, and the acting is wooden at
best. Useful to calibrate the "1" level of "1-to-10" scales, I guess.
Otherwise, emphatically not recommended.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 43.1 | recommended | 51614::VAKTMASTERI | Older, budweiser! | Fri Mar 05 1993 12:27 | 12 |
| Is this the movie that Corman produced and had
the" famous" scene where one of the characters
asks the alien "can you communicate?"?
There's another great scene where the hero
makes love to one of the crew members while another
member is watching them on a monitor and another is
playing some kind of "futuristic space" clarinet.
Nice movie!
-H-
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| 43.2 | Different flicks? | QUARRY::reeves | Jon Reeves, ULTRIX compiler group | Mon Mar 15 1993 21:43 | 3 |
| Memory is (mercifully) fading on the details, but I think you're
thinking of a different movie. Corman was definitely not involved with
this one, and I don't recall any real love making -- just a lot of talking.
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| 43.3 | | DSSDEV::RUST | | Mon Mar 15 1993 22:17 | 9 |
| Re .1: That sounds vaguely familiar - especially the voyeur scene (was
the watcher playing with a yo-yo or something at the time?). An
otherwise forgettable flick, I think, which is probably why I can't
recall the name... (For some reason, a one-word title starting with 'G'
is tugging at my memory - which means it's probably an eight-word title
with no 'G's in it at all, the brain being the wonderfully obscure
relative-associative random-retrieval database that it is.)
-b
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