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Re: Alien and gravity
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Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:50:36 GMT
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In article <GC1Gq5.LCE@lugnet.com>, Dave Schuler <orrex@excite.com> wrote:
> There's not much good to be said about that (those?) movie(s)! I'd say Dr.
> Frankenfurter is Curry's best role to date, and certainly the role (like
> Connery's James Bond) that he'll spend the rest of his career getting out from
> under!
He's been in a few good movies, though, too. Okay, well, one. (The Hunt for
Red October; Curry played the doctor/only surviving officer not "in" on the
plan)
> John Rhys Davies was also in The Unnameable II, and let's not forget (much as
> we might wish we could) the awful made-for-TV movie of The Hulk/Daredevil, in
> which he played The Kingpin. He's had some great roles, but he's been in some
> real crap, too--and more of the latter than the former, I'd suggest.
Probably just Sturgeon's Law in action. If you take roles in enough movies,
10% of them won't be crap. :) Unless you believe that Sturgeon's Law applies
recursively...
> Sliders isn't much of a recommendation for me; I never got into it because I
> couldn't stand any of the characters. I was always disappointed that they
> never "Slid" onto an Earth where no oxygen atmosphere ever formed. Why didn't
> they make that one? 8^)
I think that one would have to be the series finale. :)
-JDF
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J.D. Forinash ,-.
foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu ( <
The more you learn, the better your luck gets. `-'
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| (...) There's not much good to be said about that (those?) movie(s)! I'd say Dr. Frankenfurter is Curry's best role to date, and certainly the role (like Connery's James Bond) that he'll spend the rest of his career getting out from under! (...) (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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