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From: [email protected]
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf-lovers
Subject: NIGHTFLYERS
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Date: 27 Oct 87 04:08:02 GMT
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NIGHTFLYERS: SF we have seen many times before. Computer out of
control takes over spaceship, the crew must stop it! There is more to
it than that, but that is basically what it boils down to. In
watching this movie I got the feeling I was watching a 1945 B-movie.
The costumes - ridiculous, the sets - ridiculous (I mean we are
suppose to believe that this is taken place in the far of future and
they are cooking in a modern day microwave, gas stoves, etc...). I
found myself talking to myself (well, I do that alot anyway, but
that's beside the point). The physics in this movie was...yes,
ridiculous! One scene the side of the ship is blown out. Three crew
members and everything else in that compartment are being blown around
like someone just opened an airline door. You know, being sucked out
and everything. I have seen this before in other SF movies. I would
like to know from someone with better knowledge if this is possible?
(I guess since the cabin is pressurized, when there is an opening it's
like a balloon spewing out air...I don't know?). What I do know is
that after about ten minutes without oxygen the 2 surviving members
would have been brain dead, but no, they simply crawl to an exit.
Also, there is a scene where the ship is falling apart - keep in mind
that the ship already has this gigantic hole in the side - well
anyway, pieces of the ship are raining down on our heros due to the
effect of gravity, I guess but, what gravity?!! Not to mention the
last 2 survivors are *walking* around without *pressure suits*.
I guess two young guys walking out behind me summed the movie up
best. When asked by an usher "How'd you like the movie?", their
response was, "It was jive!".
R. Haxton
Univ. of DC
Computer Science
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From: [email protected] (Kimiye)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.sf-lovers
Subject: NIGHTFLYERS review
Keywords: movie, review, science fiction Hollywood style
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Date: 5 Nov 87 15:11:15 GMT
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I read the George R.R. Martin novella last year and was looking
forward to the movie. He seemed to have taken the best ideas from
ALIEN and 2001 and combined them with a drawing room murder
mystery--not the most original science fiction but great drama.
Unfortunately, I couldn't even recognize his novella in
NIGHTFLYERS. Instead of interesting and different female characters,
we got three women who looked so much alike I couldn't figure out who
was supposed to be whom (all blond, beautiful cheerleader types). The
male characters went to the other extreme, with emphasis on physical
differences (giant black chef, diminutive blond wimp) rather than
character.
The special effects seemed decently done (I admit I wasn't
concentrating) but the logic of what occurred was absent. I was too
appalled at people without spacesuits conversing in a spaceship with
the hull breached above them to notice whether the underpinnings were
showing.
But it was the ambience of the movie that proved to be the most
crushingly boring part. Maybe we could call it spaghetti space opera.
It's that dark, monotonous pacing that I associate with poorly dubbed
Italian s-f or horror movies (the kind Commander USA features). I
began wishing for major faux pas (sp? false steps) so I could find
_something_ to enjoy in this picture. Well, there was one howler when
a couple of women were trying to break into the ship's computer,
getting garbled machine language, and one of them suggested, "Look for
a menu!"
This is the kind of film that gives science fiction a bad name. I
rate it 2.5 on a scale of 10. Don't even rent the video (probably due
next month).
Kimiye {ihnp4, ulysses, houxm, clyde, cpsc6a, mtune, moss}!ablnc!kimi
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