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From: firestar@leland.Stanford.EDU (Lipton Ann Meredith)
Subject: Re: Name this Movie, win Gold Ingots
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 02:41:12 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.221704.2540@cbnewse.cb.att.com> gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart) writes:
>In article <1992Oct5.184034.11714@tandem.com> Montague_Kevin@Tandem.com (Kevvy Kev) writes:
>>Okay, I had to get you to read it somehow:
>>
>>It's been eating at me all weekend, and I'm sure many of you know the feeling.
>>So, sorry for pestering you BUT: can anyone name the highly-forgettable movie
>>about a yuppie couple that gets into cocaine, then one of them decides to start
>
>Was James Woods in it?  I remember it having something to do with an
>alternate name for a "high".  Something like "The <noun describing a high>".
>The Fix?  The...  Damn.
>
>Now I'm really reaching, but was it the one that got Sean Young and
>James Woods together?
>
>GMS


Yes, it was Sean Young and James Woods -- not the Fix, but The Boost

Firestar
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From: AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark)
Subject: Karen Carpenter Film
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: net
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:55:11 GMT


  Would anyone out there in net.land have a video VHS copy
of a film about Karen Carpenter in which Barbie dolls were
used to portray her?  I'm not sure about the title, but it
was made a few years ago and her family (apparently) didn't
think very much of it and took legal action to stop it's
distribution.

Has anyone seen this?  Does anyone know where I could get
a copy?

-- Mark
From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: the absolute worst mo
Date: 5 Oct 92 07:57:29 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

JD>go...they know who they are. That none have mentioned "The Care
JD>Bears Movie" (or whatever it is called) suggests that the threshold
JD>of pain among this group is so low that they realized that there
JD>were far far less poisonous things to do than to watch it. But,

     Villain!  Heathen!  Blackguard!

     You have dredged a MOST painful and regrettable memory up from the
     depths of my subconsious, and I shall never forgive you for it!

     For yea, 'tis true, I once watched "The Care Bears" movies - and
     "The Care Bears Part 2: A New Generation" too.  For I once had
     to babysit my young cousins when they were at the age where - or
     so some parents think - the Care Bears are the right type of show
     for them to watch.

     Methinks I should have kept my nuncle and aunt home and force THEM
     to sit through those two movies, with the young ones staring
     glassy-eyed at the screen all the way through...
---
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Channel 1 (R)   Cambridge, MA

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 01:51:30 EDT
From: Sime <TJS107@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: the absolute worst movie of all time, so bad it's bad
 <2OCT199220125227@nsinic.gsfc.nasa.gov>
 <1992Oct3.151230.19043@news2.cis.umn.edu>

I loved Night of the Comet when I first saw it, and I watched it merely because
 the ad for it in the cable guide had a picture of a cheerleader with an UZI.
I had to watch it just cuz of that...  Sure, it was cheesy, but I liked it
nonetheless.... Very entertaining for a horrible movie...
I'm still in love with Catherine Mary Stewart.  She's a babe! SCHWING!   Good
in Mischief too.  Not to mention the Last Starfighter....

Sime
                                                      Go Pirates!
The poison of love so pure it's deceiving,            Go Pens!
And deceit is all we have it's got to be over         Go Steelers!
It's dangerous this game we play you're
Killing me with words                            (guess where I'm from)
          -Queensryche
From: dcampbel@timshel.austin.ibm.com (David L. Campbell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: movies with labelled chapters
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:58:00 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin, TX

In article <Bv9K7w.JHJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu> sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter) writes:
>rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao) writes:
>
>
>>Let's make a list of movies with "chapters" in them. That is, the film
>>is broken into segments, each with its own title, but this does not
>>include films of entirely different stories, like New York Stories.
>>What I can think of is:
>
>
>>2001
>>If....
>>Stranger Than Paradise
>>Mystery Train
>
>Monty Python's Meaning of Life
>My Blue Heaven


Mishima:  A Life in Four Parts.

David.
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From: stave@apollo.hp.com (Joel H. Stave)
Subject: Re: please name old animated film!
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:46:35 GMT
Reply-To: stave@apollo.hp.com (Joel H. Stave)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Apollo Division - Chelmsford, MA

In article <1992Oct6.190643.11261@waikato.ac.nz>, dfong@waikato.ac.nz writes:
|> Here are some descriptions of the animation which is set to 
|> beautiful orchestral music - supposedly played by the old women ;-)
|> 
|>   An old bee (!) reminisces about his younger life, flowers turn into
|> human female breasts and he chases after them and learns that they 
|> are just a figment of his imagination. very sad.
|> 
|> A cat walks around the remains of a house that has been demolished,
|> as the cat slinks from the remains of one room to the other,
|> memories pop up and the cat sees how it used to be - the family
|> playing eating having fun together- laughing. vey sad.
|> 
|> A female bee is trying to have a quiet lunch out in the fields but this
|> young human couple 'making out' keep rolling over her daisy flower
|> 'table', very humorous.
|> 
|> 
|> That's all I can remember for now.
|> 
|> At the end, the human artist can't stand the tyrannical composer
|> no longer and draws a fairy princess who comes to life and he
|> flies away with her.
|> 

It's been a while, but I think this is "Allegro Non Tropo".

The best (I think) is the piece showing evolution of life done to
Ravel's "Bolero".  The director also gets a call from Disney Studios.
We only hear his side of the conversation, but he claims never to have
heard of a movie called "Fantasia" and thinks the idea of copyright
infringment is ridiculous.  Great Movie.


Joel Stave
stave@apollo.hp.com
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From: virgo@metter.fmpmis.metter.com (Paul Virgo)
Subject: Re: movies with labelled chapters
Organization: Metters Industries, Inc.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:07:02 GMT


As for all this *chapter* business, I thought of the Kevin Bacon/Kyra Sedgewick
film, "Pyrates"....

It was cute...the chapter titles helped bring out each scene in the movie
IMHO

curious virgo
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curious virgo
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Arlington, VA 22202
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From: coleman@rocky.cs.ucla.edu (Mike Coleman)
Subject: Re: "Stranger In A Strange Land" To Be Filmed
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 21:33:25 GMT

I'm not so concerned about how they cast it, though it'll matter at least as
much as in any normal film.  What I'm worried about is how they're going to
extract a screenplay from the novel--it just wasn't written to be a movie.
About the best I'm hoping for is that they'll write something brand new that
borrows from the novel and happens not to totally suck.  I'm not very
optimistic, though.


-- 
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    All we read is // Usenet caca // Usenet googoo // Usenet gaga...
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From: ckt4x@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Genghis Cohen)
Subject: Re: David Lynch movies
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 03:41:48 GMT

gelly@persoft.com asks:
> Aside from the obvious _Twin Peaks_ film, _Blue Velvet_ , _Eraserhead_, and
> _Wild at Heart_, what other movies has David Lynch directed ??

Two other feature films, _The Elephant Man_ and _Dune_.  He
also has two experimental short films, _The Grandmother_ and
_The Alphabet_.
--
                               Curt  Tsui
                            curt@Virgina.EDU                                  
    "I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists -- neither
                takes life as it is." -- Stanley Kubrick
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From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Subject: Re: movies with labelled chapters
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 19:09:17 GMT

In article <Bv905y.9t3@well.sf.ca.us> rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao) writes:
>
>Let's make a list of movies with "chapters" in them. That is, the film
>is broken into segments, each with its own title, but this does not
>include films of entirely different stories, like New York Stories.
>What I can think of is:
>
>
>2001
>If....
>Stranger Than Paradise
>Mystery Train

Wow, that was fun!  Now what can we make a list of?

GMS
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Subject: Re: danny elfman
From: bjbartlett@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (I'm not really a doctor...)
Date: 30 Sep 92 13:28:11 -0500
Distribution: rec
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

  Speaking of Elfman, did he play the clown that kidnapped the baby just before 
Penguin "rescued" it form him in Batman Returns?  It sure looked like him.

Bart
From: mec@acsu.buffalo.edu (Marie E. Copertino)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: A room with a view
Date: 5 Oct 92 19:59:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: acsu.BvnzJ1.BHH
Organization: UB

bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) writes:


|aroud.  See Daniel Day-Lewis before he pumped up and put on buckskin
|for _The Last of the Mohicans_!)


	WHO the heck did DD Lewis play in "A Room With a View" ....

		NOT Cecil????

				Obviously confused,

-- 
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From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Reading _The Last Of the Mohicans_
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 12:13:17 GMT

Anyone planning to read the novel after seeing the movie should be aware 
that it's the middle volume in a series of five novels that James Fenimore
Cooper wrote about Natty Bumppo, a/k/a Leatherstocking, a/k/a Hawkeye.
The dates of publication do not correspond to the narrative order; Cooper
took his character forward to his death and went back to fill in his
background in reverse order.  To read the saga in narrative order:

_The Deerslayer_ (1841) - his youth.
_The Pathfinder_ (1840) - his early maturity.
_The Last of the Mohicans_  (1826) - his full maturity.
_The Pioneers_ (1823) - his old age.
_The Prairie_ (1827) - his death.

I seem to remember that _The Deerslayer_ was made into a movie probably
during the 1950s.  I know for a fact that _The Last of the Mohicans_ got
the serialization treatment in 1936.  It stars Harry Carey, consists of
12 episodes running about 4 hours, and is available on videotape.

-- Herb Huston
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From: s1070422@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (BATMAN (D.Binding))
Subject: Re: About Timothy Dalton?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:04:31 GMT

Speaking of a former Bond man, when the hell is th enext bond mvie going to
come out. They usually come out every two years and it's about three years now
snce the last one. I heard it is called "Suspicion". Anyone heard anything.\?
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From: ghost@openage.openage.com (Glenn Host)
Subject: Re: "Stranger In A Strange Land" To Be Filmed
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 22:10:06 GMT

pete@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Peter Alexander Merel) writes:

>shrum@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Rick Shrum) writes:

>So he did "The Man Who Fell To Earth" instead. Now me, I'd like Kyle Maclachlan
>(Cooper from Twin Peaks) to do it. But really, anyone but Hanks. I don't care
>if its Madonna, as long as its not Hanks. 

>Couldn't Virginia Heinlein veto it or something?

And not veto Madonna? She ruined Dick Tracy and she will ruin
Stranger In A Strange Land; at least Tom Hanks is a competent
actor who will not have legions of moviegoers avoiding the
movie because she is in it.

-- 

Very grateful guest of Openage - the best SCO service shop in the area
************* my views represent no one - not even myself. ****************
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From: ltw@titan.ucc.umass.edu (LEE T WARNER)
Subject: Re: Man in the Moon
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:44:14 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.155700.24524@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy) writes:
>In article <1992Oct6.133937.18107@hobbes.kzoo.edu> k084118@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Pamela S. Rivers) writes:
>>
>>The other day I went to the video store and rented a movie called man in the
>>moon.  It was a very low publicized movie, in my area anyway, and it wound up
>>being one of the best movies I've seen in a really long time.  Anybody else
>>see this movie?  If not I highly recommend it.
>>
>
>Agreed...100%.       
>
>
>Gerald

Disagreed..100%
From: cousins@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Kathy Cousins)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: TV Serials - NEED HELP!
Date: 2 Oct 92 17:53:44 GMT
Reply-To: cousins@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Kathy Cousins)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In rec.arts.movies, teexijd@ioe.ac.uk (IAN DAVENPORT) writes:
-In <1a6vmrINN43j@ensta.ensta.fr> corwin@ensta.ensta.fr (Gilles Gravier) writes:

(description of series deleted)

-I reckon this series is Tour of Duty.  It's the only US series about vietnam
-except MASH I know, and does feature a Stones title track. No idea if you
-can buy the soundtrack though.

China Beach was also a US series about Vietnam and MASH was about Korea
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From: bmiller@lunatix.uucp (Barry Miller)
Subject: Re: "Stranger In A Strange Land" To Be Filmed
Organization: Lexington Public Access Unix. -KY- (606) 253-1481 
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 23:41:28 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Harry Morgan would be a good one -- but the voice of Jubal I
always heard belongs to George C. Scott.

--Barry Miller

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From: foxd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (daniel fox)
Subject: Re: the absolute worst movie of all time, so bad it's bad
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 16:39:38 GMT


The worst movie I ever saw was called HEADLESS EYES.  It was so bad that it
triggered this horrified fascination where you couldn't believe that the movie
would get any worse but you would watch just a few more minutes to see if it
did and it does.  This continued right up to the ending where the mad slasher
was stared to death by a bunch of dead cows.

                                         Daniel B. Fox
                                         KF9ET
.standard disclaimer
Xref: sparky rec.arts.movies:29325 alt.cult-movies:8605
From: mlh@eddy.austin.ibm.com (Mike Haskell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: the absolute worst movie of all time, so bad it's bad
Date: 1 Oct 92 21:24:29 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin

In article <1992Sep29.180526.16182@nevada.edu> wildcard@nevada.edu ( WildCard !!) writes:
>In article <168719675.SDENARO@vm.poly.edu> SDENARO@vm.poly.edu writes:
>>Three real, I mean *REAL* bad flicks...
>> 
>>Satisfaction (with the girl from Family Ties...)
>> 
>>Howard the Duck
>> 
>>I was a teenage sex mutant
>> 
>>They are soooooo..... bad that your VCR my commit suicide rather than
>>leting them continue.
>
>Hey!!  I *loved* Howard the Duck! I've seen it 8+ times and still like it.
>Mind you it's not Gandhi, or Gone With the Wind, but it's a decent but cheesy
>flik.
>
>Well, don't take my advice. I liked Leonard Part 6 and Ishtar also...
>
>                                        - WildCard !!

I think all of net.land might be in agreement here, Mr. Cardboard, 
	please, get some help.
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From: rpeeler@uhccvx (Russ Peeler)
Subject: cameo appearance
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:41:00 GMT

How about Yosemiti Sam in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
From: gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Movies you heard were good but sucked (was Re: Most Embarassing Movie)
Date: 28 Sep 92 14:10:02 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
Originator: gharris@jade.tufts.edu

In article <1992Sep28.053008.3421@schbbs.mot.com> rbruce@robocomp.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Rob Bruce) writes:
>I'm sure I will get burnt to crisp on this, but I couldn't hold it
>any longer. "Terms of Endearment". There, I said it. Anybody else
>feel that this was an ad for Unisom? Speak up, I'm gonna need the support.

	I second that emotion.  A more appropriate title would have been
"Tears of Endurance."

>Rob Bruce
>| Don't even *think* of flaming me | e-mail: ATCM56@waccvm.corp.mot.com |
--
gharris@jade.tufts.edu          "She had ever chance for happiness, ever 
George W. Harris                chance in the world, and stomped ever one 
Dept. of Mathematics            of them chances down in the dirt like a 
Tufts University                bug."   _The Devil's Dream_
From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
Date: 29 Sep 92 12:46:25 GMT
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com

In article <1992Sep28.144129.1@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>  
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) writes:
> > and were way-too good shots (except for Nathaniel (Hawkeye) for
> > whom this flaw can be foregiven)??
> Ok, they were uncannily accurate with a very unreliable weapon, but  
remember
> this is how they lived.  The bad shots either starved and died, or  
missed their
> enemy and died.  See my point?

Actually, most of the Indians were actually rather poor shots.  This 
is because ammunition was scarce for them, and, unlike the 
whites, they thus could not spend lots of time practicing their
shooting.

> 
> And remember Hawkeye had "Killdeer", which he refers to in the book  
as the 
> best gun anywhere in North America.
> 

In fact, one quibble I had with the movie is that this and
Hawkeye's reputation is not alluded to in the movie until
very late in the film at which point he tries to win a point by
saying that he is "The Long Carbine."  I'd imagine those
movie-goers who hadn't read the book scratched their head
at this point, wondering why anyone should respond to this.  In
the book, his name was legend all over the frontier.

--
Jim Mann            
Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com  
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From: jk87377@cc.tut.fi (Juhana Kouhia)
Subject: Re: Deckard as 6th Replicant doesn't hold water
Organization: Tampere University of Technology
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 19:56:59 GMT


In article <1acc43INNmhd@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen) writes:
>
>Stephen Jonke:
>
>>An interesting thing to note is that as the audience goes from believing
>>that Deckard is a man to the realization that he is a replicant, Gaff
[ ..deleted.. ]
>>Gaffs realization is a sign that things are changing in Blade Runner's
>>fictional world.  Are things changing in our world?
>
>Interesting, but this should also be cross-posted to
>
>alt.soapbox


Why?
What you mean?
Usually people tell in this group what they think about the movie;
in that sense the above article is ok.

Actually, your reply indicates that you're not ready for
Real Life discussions -- grow up, I would like to say.
People here does not want articles like you wrote above.

Instead of flaming me back, you could tell us what it was
what made you to suggest the crossposting to alt.soapbox group.

Juhana Kouhia
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From: jamie@cs.sfu.ca (Jamie Andrews)
Subject: Re: Deckard as 6th Replicant doesn't hold water
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:38:20 GMT

In article <5967@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Markus Stumptner) writes:
|[Peter Alexander Merel:]
|> Ah, so we've come down to the level of "is not" "is too" "is not" ... you have
|> yet to prove your assertion - and until you do mine remains valid.
|
|No, they stand on equal footing, unless you can prove that your
|insight is a priori deeper or you have the direct connection to Ridley
|Scott's intentions.

     That's it!!  RIDLEY SCOTT is a replicant, and was
programmed by Peter Alexander Merel!  That's how he knows what
he was thinking!!

--J.  :-)
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From: pete@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Peter Alexander Merel)
Subject: Re: Deckard as 6th Replicant doesn't hold water
Organization: AOTC - CSSC
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:24:17 GMT

mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Markus Stumptner) writes:
>From article <1992Sep27.210622.8031@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au>, by pete@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Peter Alexander Merel):
>>>> a) So Deckard has had his implants retrofitted.
>>>This contradicts (b).  Those four points are not separate - all of
>>>them point against your theory.
> 
>> Gee, maybe we should swap a for b. 

>Gee, perhaps you should try countering arguments instead of swapping them :-)

All right. Your argument (a) was based on your assertion (b). Since your
assertion (b) is not based on any evidence within the movie, it cannot be
used to support your argument (a). :-)
 
>> Go find me a quote. In the version I have on tape, nothing that Tyrell says 
>> indicates that implants CANNOT be retrofitted.

>Go look at any biology or psychology text.  It is much harder to
>counteract acquired responses than produce new ones on a tabula rasa.

Lemmee see. First, what indicates that Deckard could not have been erased
and then implanted? Second, I don't know of any biology or psychology text
that discusses any 'memory implant' mechanism, though if you care to read 
Moravec's "Mind Children" or Drexler's "Engines of Creation" you may glean 
something. Third, Blade Runner is science fiction - anything feasible is
permissible.

>>>> d) Could be part of the experiment
>[This] argument is not reasonable in the context of the film, because it
>presupposes to much unexplained activity behind the scenes.  Occam's razor.

I humbly submit that the replicance interpretation is more symmetrical, and 
hence simpler, and hence favoured by Occam's razor over the non-replicance
interpretation. Of course I also humbly submit that Occam's razor has no 
relevance here and that either interpretation is valid.

>> Ah, so we've come down to the level of "is not" "is too" "is not" ... you 
>> have yet to prove your assertion - and until you do mine remains valid.

>No, they stand on equal footing, unless you can prove that your
>insight is a priori deeper or you have the direct connection to Ridley
>Scott's intentions.

You're arguing that Deckard is definitely, without a doubt, human. I'm arguing
that the question is open. If you cannot prove your position with evidence from
the film then my position follows. So far you have not been able to prove
your position, therefore my position follows. QED.

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