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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 323.1 | Out and worth seeing | 7299::PETERS | Be nice or be dog food | Mon Sep 27 1993 11:23 | 10 |
| Well this is the end of September and the good son is out. I went to
see it over the week end. This movie is quick and riveting. The movie
is 90 minutes long but it seemed like 5 minutes. The move starts and
never stops rarely slows down. You get one or two breathers to catch
your breath but every scene directly contributes to the ending. I have
never seen a little kid so vicious so purely evil without the use of
blood or gore. The movie is very suttle no blood or gore scenes. I
don't know why it got an R rating. One f***, a little blood at the
end, no sex, but a lot of implied violence. A very good movie.
Jeff Peters
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| 323.2 | two thumbs up | 5308::NELSON | | Mon Sep 27 1993 12:41 | 10 |
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I also liked the movie. I thought the ending was predictable, but it
was still exciting. I kept grabbing my significant other through the
whole movie. I think that's why he enjoyed it ;-)
Two thumbs up.
Anne
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| 323.3 | no mystery to me | 11843::WOOLNER | Your dinner is in the supermarket | Mon Sep 27 1993 13:48 | 10 |
| The trailer turned me off completely, and my 8-year-old daughter said
"I DON'T want to see THAT."
.1> I have never seen a little kid so vicious so purely evil...
> ...but a lot of implied violence
I think you've stated why the "R" - heck, I don't need to see this
stuff and I certainly don't want my daughter to see it!
Leslie
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| 323.4 | me too | VAXWRK::STHILAIRE | Food, Shelter & Diamonds | Mon Sep 27 1993 14:52 | 8 |
| re .3, yeah, it turned me off, too. (although, my daughter, at 19, is
old enough to decide for herself) :-)
The idea of kids being evil is a real downer for me, though. Bad
enough that some grown-ups are!
Lorna
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| 323.5 | | DSSDEV::RUST | | Mon Sep 27 1993 17:12 | 8 |
| When I heard the first preview for this, I thought, "Just another
remake of 'The Bad Seed'" - and some of the critics quoted in reviews
also draw that parallel. Does anyone know if the movie _is_ a remake of
'The Bad Seed'? [The original film version of 'Seed', while pretty much
a psychological thriller, did touch on the question of whether behavior
(and morality) can be inherited; i.e., can someone be born evil...]
-b
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| 323.6 | Supernatural? | RNDHSE::WALL | Show me, don't tell me | Tue Sep 28 1993 10:37 | 5 |
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The previews kind of cast it in a vein of "The Omen." Or is the kid
just rotten on a mundane level?
DFW
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| 323.7 | Normel Evil | 7299::PETERS | Be nice or be dog food | Tue Sep 28 1993 11:20 | 5 |
| I didn't see "Bad Seed" but from the title I would guess not. The kid's
father is shown to be a busy business man who cares about his family
but doesn't really spend much time with them. The kid is just evil in
a mundain way.
Jeff Peters
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| 323.8 | whatever her name is on TV didn't like it | VAXWRK::STHILAIRE | Food, Shelter & Diamonds | Tue Sep 28 1993 11:29 | 8 |
| Joyce Kulhaywik (spelling?), on Channel 4, in Boston, gave it a very
bad review last night on TV. She said the kid (whatever his name is
from Home Alone) gave a good performance, but other than that she
thought it was pretty bad. She said the movie never gives any reason
for why the kid is so rotten.
Lorna
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| 323.9 | FWIW, Siskel & Ebert also gave it two thumbs down | 12368::michaud | Jeff Michaud, Pathworks for NT | Tue Sep 28 1993 13:33 | 0 |
| 323.10 | | 7892::SLABOUNTY | Whose Line Is It Anyway? | Tue Sep 28 1993 14:36 | 8 |
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RE: -1
Then I'll probably like it. Right, Lorna? 8^)
GTI
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| 323.11 | | VAXWRK::STHILAIRE | Food, Shelter & Diamonds | Tue Sep 28 1993 14:52 | 4 |
| re .10, well, I don't know if it's *that* bad. :-)
Lorna
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| 323.12 | Who cares? | 38110::SNACCACHIAN | POWERSERGE | Wed Sep 29 1993 05:28 | 3 |
| Didn't Home Alone get really bad reviews. All it matters is how
much money the movie makes and if the individual who saw the movie liked
it. I never judge what movies I want to see by Critics.
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| 323.13 | i like hearing critics opinions | VAXWRK::STHILAIRE | Food, Shelter & Diamonds | Wed Sep 29 1993 12:28 | 10 |
| Well, I could tell by the review that I wouldn't like The Good Son, and
I thought Home Alone stunk, too.
I'll never underestimate the poor taste of the American public. :-)
(why else would Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis be stars?
not to mention Claude Van Damme)
Lorna
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| 323.14 | | 8475::BRUNO | Father Gregory | Tue Oct 05 1993 14:59 | 9 |
|
We saw it this past weekend. I enjoyed it. The scenery was quite
enjoyable. The plot was predictable, but entertaining. As was mentioned
earlier, the movie seems to be going at warp 6 sometimes. I found it difficult
to believe that it was a full 90 minutes in length.
Two and a half stars, out of four.
Greg
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| 323.15 | Factual Note | 46010::MARSHALL | Spitfire Drivers Do It Topless | Mon Oct 11 1993 09:27 | 9 |
| >> can someone be born evil
Nothing to do with the film, but the latest research apparently suggests that
such things as a tendency to steal are inherited, but that violence is
learned. This is the opposite of what most people expected.
Well, I thought it was interesting...
Scott
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| 323.16 | Henry is no Rhoda | 34838::VONIER | I Brake for Hallucinations | Mon Nov 22 1993 11:02 | 6 |
| I haven't seen this movie yet, but I have read the Bad Seed, seen the
original and the remake. From what I can see from the previews, this
movie is not based on the book. If you've never seen the original Bad
Seed, rent it, you won't be disappointed.
lv
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