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- From: jdooley@maemaster.eng.uci.edu (John R. Dooley)
- Subject: Re: Q on A Few Good Men: Poison???
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- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 17:24:19 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.083855.372@news.uwyo.edu> <C03pHI.A9o@newsflash.concordia.ca>
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- In article <C03pHI.A9o@newsflash.concordia.ca> williaml@cs.concordia.ca (LEE william) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.083855.372@news.uwyo.edu> rtravsky@news.uwyo.edu (Rich Travsky) writes:
- >>Something that really bothered me about this film was the "poison"
- >>plot device. Were these two marines toxicologists or something?
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- >Another point I found weak was the justification for Demi Moore in trusting
- >these two marines.
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- This movie really was weak - a major disappointment.
- Virtually nothing about it made sense. The top performance
- (by a long shot) was by the Texas A&M military drill team.
- One great (though maybe unintentional) metaphor for the
- entire movie - the magazine stand owner and Cruise
- talking in cliches.
-
- John D.
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