--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > wrote: <snip> > > Sometimes you don't even need many props or special > > effects to create a believable, "lived in" SciFi universe. > > "A Boy and His Dog" > > Gosh! I haven't thought about that movie in about 25 years! It's > the movie that made Don Johnson famous.
Fantastic movie. Did it really make him famous, though? I thought it was "Miami Vice"; he made "Boy and His Dog" about a decade earlier. Two of my favorites are "Soylent Green" and "Colossus: The Forbin Project." Both are fairly conventional early '70s films stylistically, but with top-drawer direction, intelligent scripts, and superb acting, so they don't seem dated. Possibly inspired by a brilliant against-type performance from Edward G. Robinson, Charlton Heston has what may be his best acting role in "Soylent Green." "Colossus" has a no-name cast except for Eric Braeden, who went on to make a name for himself in soap opera roles. It's a pretty standard evil- supercomputer plot, but quite imaginatively done, with a knockout quasi-theological twist at the end (which no review I've read seems to have noticed). To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
