Pynchon-l Movie Reviews

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

> >Oh, please, keep those reviews of movies you haven't seen
> >coming.  What, for instance, did you think of "Twister"?

and davemarc sez:
> I was touched--no, profoundly moved--during the scene in which Helen Hunt
> had to put her right hand on red.  The political implications of the move
> (and its alternative interpretation with regard to traffic law) were not
> lost on this viewer. 

Not having ever even heard of the film, I most emphatically agree!

>                 Of course, her performance pales beside those of Leni
> Riefenstahl in her mountain films, adored by the exquistely refined Nazi
> propagandists who directly inspired the unredeemably unrefined Stephen
> Spielberg.  

No no - Leni & the propagandists are refined, Spielberg is even more 
refined. Like the V2 was refined, and the Apollonian missions even 
more. And there isn't even any kind of judgement involved, yet.

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