Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVERY SO OFTEN, an epically bad film reaches the screen (indeed, usually just one screen) which is guaranteed to drive one out of the theater within 40 minutes, the approximate time it takes to finish your popcorn and pop. Yes, five dollars is wasted, but it's no use throwing good time after bad money. And bad money it is that is paid for a showing of James Joyce's Women...
...bad is this movie? Imagine yourself at an Adams House party, and listening the entire evening to the emphatically casual dropping of supposedly famous artsy names. This movie is hardly more subtle in its eagerness to describe Hemingway's galoshes and Proust's knowledge of South American parrots...
...Wacker awarded "most creative" to a Stoughton North proctorial group's design of a child listening to a walkman, but was quick to add, "I have only one objection to this entry: the young man is smoking, and that's bad for your health...
THIS IS A MOVIE with bad guys and good guys, bad forces and good forces, and it isn't tough to tell who's who. What's tough is to try to figure out why this film actually exists...
...historical reality of the cowboy but the myth as it came to them in books and movies, the cowboy according to Zane Grey and John Wayne. Americans, tutored in the lore from childhood, almost unconsciously see cowboy stories as morality plays. Good guys do battle with bad guys. Right generally triumphs. The bad guys end in the hands of the law. In the American understanding of the myth, cowboys may sometimes operate outside the law or in the absence of the law, but they represent justice. Gene Autry, a movie cowboy of that generation that always looked amazingly well laundered...