From: matrix29@charter.net   
      
   "Tom Carberry"  wrote in message   
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   > "Bruce Probst"  wrote in message   
   > news:48a0689e-2b1a-40e3-a628-3099d102cf6c@25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com...   
   >> ... the FAQ you just posted could do with a couple of updates.  One I   
   >> noticed is that it says the MST3K:TM DVD is out of print.  Another is   
   >> that it says that the new Eddie Murphy movie has the wrong title (it   
   >> should be "Meet Dave").   
   >>   
   >> "Meet Dave" got a pretty good review here on "The Movie Show", btw.   
   >> They particularly praised the script and Murphy's performance.   
   >>   
   >> Bruce   
   >> Melbourne, Australia   
   >   
   > Just about every review I've read has been negative.  It is supposed to be   
   > in a league with Norbit and Pluto Nash.  I think I'll wait for Netflix to   
   > get this one.   
   >   
   > Tom Carberry (#45505, and "..I thought the composting toilet had backed   
   > up--turns out it's this weeks experiment".)   
      
       Pluto Nash is watchable and moderately enjoyable.   
      
       If you don't pay much thought to physics issues, bizarrely incongruent   
   technology (they've got androids, but have not covered the moon with the   
   improved versions of cellphone towers), problems with mass reactive weapons   
   in a city with a lead-glass dome (not reinforced with a steel grid plus   
   Faraday cage on the inside and out), certain problems with "natural   
   resources" (making water and certain metals rather expensive on the moon),   
   and other nagging logical issues then the movie is no worse in entertainment   
   than "Independence Day" or "Spider-Man" (with rapid self-dehydrating   
   body-generated webbing) or "Blade Runner".  The cast performed well enough   
   to sell the movie to lose the 4th wall.  The technical quality of the movie   
   was perfectly acceptable.  The dialog was not bothersome and sold the   
   characters as believable.  It's not like this movie was the sole source of   
   screwed up basic lunar science in the entire history of movies.   
      
       For all of the bad reviews, I figured it was more of a negative-review   
   gang-bang given the generic 1960's Sci-Fi aspect of the plotline.   
      
       Given how generally willfully-ignorant the general populace is of   
   science and decent fiction, I am rather surprised that "Pluto Nash" was not   
   a sure-fire hit.  If "Meet the Spartans" and "Epic Movie" and "Highschool   
   Musical" can sell themselves to a profitable audience, then I cannot   
   browbeat "Pluto Nash" to review it much below a 50% watchability score and a   
   30% rewatchability score.   
      
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