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[David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>]

You need to have Shea address this--Event Horizon is one of his pet peeves.

The most damning movie review I ever heard was by Siskel and Ebert for "I
still Know What You Did Last Summer." They contended that any film that
can't even get its name correct (the sequel to "I Know What You Did Last
Summer" should have been named "I know what You Did the Summer Before Last"
since it takes place the next year).

I believe it was the late Gene Siskel (who would have been suffering from a
terminal brain cancer at the time) who said (something of the effect that)
the worst part of having sat through the film was knowing he could never
regain the two hours he had lost watching it. Ebert then added that if a
million people watched the move, at two hours each, that was two million
man-hours that could have been spent to better human civilization, but had
been squandered. How about that for social commentary?

David

On 5/27/03 1:09 PM, "Bill Geschwind" <geschwin AT email.unc.edu> wrote:

> I'm not going to argue that Event Horizon is a not bad movie; however
> what makes you say that it is the worst movie ever created? What
> criteria did you use to come to that conclusion? What makes it worse
> than other cinematographic stinkers, of which there are plenty?
> 
> - Bill
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of David
> Minton
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 12:06 PM
> To: InterNetWorkers
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Solaris, 1971
> 
> No, Shea was commenting on Event Horizon. He has a long (and strong)
> belief
> that Event Horizon is the hands-down, worst movie ever created.
> 
> If it will, single-handedly, lead to the eventual downfall of human
> civilization, is still up for debate.
> 
> David
> 
> On 5/26/03 11:19 AM, "ids AT idisplay.com" <ids AT idisplay.com> wrote:
> 
>>> The worlds worst movie,
>> The 1971 version?
>> This certainly lowers my expectations.
>> Ed W
>> 
>> At 11:17 AM 5/26/03 -0400, you wrote:
>>> The worlds worst movie, Event Horizon, was very loosely based on
> Solaris as
>>> well.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: <ids AT idisplay.com>
>>> To: <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 9:45 AM
>>> Subject: [internetworkers] Solaris, 1971
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Are there any INW'er's interested in screening the Andrei Tarkovsky,
> 1971
>>>> version of Solaris?
>>>> ...VHS, Russian, letterbox w/subtitles.
>>>> I've never seen it.  Interesting buzz when the Soderbergh/Clooney
> picture
>>>> came out last year. (Oh, and peculiar reference too in "Pattern
>>> Recognition"!)
>>>> Ed Wesolowski
>>>> 
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