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- Subject: re: Top 5? 10? 15? We'll see...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.173352.133@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 17:33:52 GMT
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- TK>>This is just a starter. And now, films to avoid:
- TK>>ANYTHING DIRECTED BY LAWRENCE KASDAN (All his films are ripoffs of movies by
- TK>>> John Sayles, a much more gifted director. Case in point: THE BIG
- TK>> CHILL rips off THE RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS SEVEN).
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- PK>I have to make an exception with Grand Canyon.
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- Grand Canyon is a ripoff, too! Want a real film about the trauma of urban
- life? Rent CITY OF HOPE (1991), directed by--guess who--John Sayles.
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- This is not to be confused with CITY OF JOY (1991), a very bad Patrick Swayze
- movie.
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- Thanks for the correction on the dates of VERTIGO and NORTH BY NORTHWEST,
- tho. My source was wrong, and has been beaten.
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- Happy Trails,
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- Todd @ Brandeis
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