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   On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 9:15:42 AM UTC-6, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > On Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:05:12 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >Paul S Person  writes:   
   > >   
   > >> I finally rented this from Amazon and saw it last night.   
   > >>   
   > >> It is a well-done film and would be worth four stars except for one   
   > >> small problem: it is as dull as dishwater. Three stars, then.   
   > >>   
   > >> This may not be apparent unless you view it, as I did, as being in the   
   > >> same "realistic space movie" category as /Apollo 13/. Comparing the   
   > >> two shows the difference between a really good movie and one that is   
   > >> well-done but ... dispensible.   
   > >>   
   > >> IMHO, of course.   
   > >   
   > >And not a HO I share in the slightest. I had the same sense of constant   
   > >tension in the Martian as I did in Apollo 13.   
   > There is no need for you to share my HO. You are entitled to your own.   
   >   
   > I had the blahs all too much of the time.   
   >   
   > And, the moment they skipped the pre-launch tests because "they only   
   > catch a problem one time in twenty" I /knew/ the rocket was going to   
   > explode. It was cinematically inevitable.   
   >   
   > I will concede that the climax was a bit exciting, although, again, it   
   > was cinematically impossible for the attempt to fail. So any tension   
   > was of the "how do they manage it" rather than "will they manage it"   
   > variety.   
   >   
   > Just as, when I watched /The Bad Seed/, I shortly found I could tell   
   > when someone would be knocking at the door: the conversation was   
   > heading toward a point where two characters would be able to compare   
   > notes and figure what was going on, and /that/ couldn't be allowed.   
   > The knock at the door stopped the conversation every time -- and it   
   > never resumed from the point of interruption.   
   >   
   > The climax, while quite rushed, was, however, a suprise.   
   >   
   > The child abuse at the end was ... well, I am old enough to recognize   
   > that it was amusing to the audience, but I no longer find it so.   
   > >I'll say having any tension at all in Apollo 13 is a *real* tribute to   
   > >everyone involved in the film, since we all know how it came out decades   
   > >before the movie was made.   
   > Which is what makes it a /much/ better movie.   
   >   
   > And /2001/ did it better as well.   
   > --   
   > "I begin to envy Petronius."   
   > "I have envied him long since."   
      
      
      
      
   This is typical of most moviegoers now.  They expect nonstop CGI action, and   
   if it's a space movie, it's gotta have alien invaders.   
   People now don't want a movie where you have to think.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)