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| 254.1 | | 5235::J_TOMAO | | Wed Jul 14 1993 12:11 | 4 |
| I thought the first one was good - But mostly for the novelty of seing
the different things they did with the dead body. I doubt my attention
span can handle another 90 minutes of dragging a dead body around in
different costumes.....
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| 254.2 | ewwwww...sounds stinky... | 16564::NEWELL_JO | Don't wind your toys too tight | Wed Jul 14 1993 12:23 | 4 |
| Do they actually bring the real Bernie back for this
movie or use a dummy?
Jodi-
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| 254.3 | in very poor taste | VAXWRK::STHILAIRE | a period of transition | Wed Jul 14 1993 13:38 | 5 |
| I have to say that I thought the previews for this movie were among the
most tasteless I have ever seen. It disgusted me.
Lorna
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| 254.4 | ?? | 16913::MEUSE_DA | | Mon Jul 19 1993 17:15 | 8 |
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re. 3
Please describe what was so offensive or do I have to buy some cheap
tabloid.
Dave
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| 254.5 | not to put a damper on the situation, but... | VAXWRK::STHILAIRE | a period of transition | Tue Jul 20 1993 10:52 | 9 |
| re .4, dragging a dead body all over the place, expecting people to
find humor in the way it gets its head banged around, etc. Propping
the same dead body up and making it dance and walk, etc. To me, that's
not funny, it's just bad taste. I couldn't help thinking, "gee, I
wouldn't find it funny to have the body of a person I had loved treated
that way." Know what I mean?
Lorna
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| 254.6 | | 5235::J_TOMAO | | Tue Jul 20 1993 11:29 | 8 |
| Well I saw it as.....1) a body is a shell, the person's spirit and
being is gone 2) In the first one they set it up that Bernie is a real
A-hole and is very nasty...so the premise is kind of the boys take
it out on Bernies body....
But I see your point Lorna
JT
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| 254.7 | | 35186::BACH | They who know nothing, doubt nothing... | Wed Jul 21 1993 11:04 | 4 |
| I really squirm when people tell me what I should find funny.
The movie makes no pretense about its topic. Iffa choo don like it,
don go see it... ;-)
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| 254.8 | | VAXWRK::STHILAIRE | a period of transition | Wed Jul 21 1993 13:55 | 11 |
| re .7, I didn't go see it, but I wound-up sitting through the previews
3 times when going to see other movies.
Also, I am not telling you what to find funny. I don't give a darn
what you find funny. I don't even know who you are. I simply stated
that I found the topic of the film to be in bad taste, and I think I
have just as much right to express that opinion as you do to laugh at
whatever you want. Okay?
Lorna
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| 254.10 | we have these big brains, right? :-) | VAXWRK::STHILAIRE | a period of transition | Thu Jul 22 1993 09:49 | 9 |
| re .9, I don't think it's that odd that humans are the only species
that worries about death. Afterall, we *may* be the only species that
actually realizes that eventually we all die.
There's a lot of other things we do that animals don't do either, like
read, write, drive cars, do mathematics, etc. :-)
Lorna
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| 254.12 | | DSSDEV::RUST | | Thu Jul 22 1993 13:41 | 14 |
| Gee, I don't know what everybody's griping about. The problem with the
"Bernie" movies isn't that it's making fun of - or with - dead people;
it's that it teaches children a totally unrealistic attitude about dead
things. Why, if they were to try any of those movie antics with a real
dead body, there'd be bits and pieces and bodily fluids all _over_ the
place. Boy, if there's anything that burns me up it's the way the
entertainment industry just has to sanitize everything, setting kids up
for a major shock the first time they realize what "decomposition"
means. There ought to be a law...
Uh, wait a minute. I think I lost control there for a bit. But I'm
all right now.
-gory details
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| 254.13 | | 3270::AHERN | Dennis the Menace | Mon Jul 26 1993 16:28 | 4 |
| While I would agree with Lorna that this topic does not appeal to me as
an entertainment, I thought Blake Edwards used it to good effect in
"S.O.B.", which I found to be hilarious.
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| 254.14 | Chopin mystic pig | 41318::KANE | that midwife struck a cord | Tue Aug 24 1993 16:01 | 5 |
| So is Catherine Mary Stewart (yumster) in this one also ?
Oh please, oh please
Mike.
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| 254.15 | Major Thumbs down, watch the 1st one again instead | 12368::michaud | Jeff Michaud, PATHWORKS for Windows NT | Sun Feb 20 1994 21:28 | 5 |
| Well I have to disagree with .0 (I believe the only review
before the rat-hole!). I enjoyed the 1st film, but this
sequel was clearly an attempt to make a quick buck off the
fans of the 1st one. Nothing made sense, nothing was funny,
and nobody cared. This was worse than "Cool World"!!!!!
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