Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!menlo70!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers Subject: Android (some plot discussion) Message-ID: <639@nsc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 12:49:56 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.639 Posted: Tue Feb 14 12:49:56 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 03:48:45 EST Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale Lines: 30 Over the weekend I went and saw the new movie 'Android' starring Klaus (Nosferatu) Kinski. This is a small budget (not low budget) film very loosely based upon 'Frankenstein'. Kinski is a research scientist doing work on a satellite in space on androids. Android research, however, is illegal because androids have been outlawed after a group of them went berserk in Munich, killing and raping. Kinski is assisted by an adroid, Max 404 (very well played by an actor credited only as 'himself'). While the Dr. is working on the ultimate android (blond, stacked, and submissive), Max is showing signs of the Munich syndrome, with a fixation on Earth and women. A disabled ship lands on the satellite with three escaped convicts on them, one of them a woman, and the movie takes off. Any further discussion would probably give away things that are better left for the movie. Klaus Kinski is very understated in the role, and handles it very well. All of the acting in the movie is well done. The plot has some nice twists in it, the sets and special effects (only a few, thank god) are wonderful. The humor in the movie is sometimes reminiscent of Dark Star, but the overall feeling of the movie is closer to Alien or 2001. It's good. Very good. Potentially a new classic in SF. See it. Now. Rating: ****.5 (out of 5) worth full price admission AND standing in line in the rain. -- From the house at Pooh Corner: Chuq 'Nuke Wobegon' Von Rospach {fortune,menlo70}!nsc!chuqui Have you hugged your Pooh today? Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie