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   Hello Mike Powell!   
      
   ** On Monday 27.11.23 - 11:37, Mike Powell wrote to ALL:   
      
    MP> The other day I had the opportunity to watch Village of   
    MP> the Damned, and the sequel Children of the Damned, for the   
    MP> first time.   
      
   Based on a book, The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham.   
      
      
    MP> I won't give up how it ends, but it is a good sci-fi/suspense flick.   
      
   Some people die in the end.   ;)   
      
      
    MP> ...they too are soon identified as being a   
    MP> potential threat that must be dealt with.   
      
    MP> The sequel was also suspenseful, but I didn't think it was   
    MP> as good as the first.  Although it was sci-fi, it seemed   
    MP> to spend more effort on the message... that humans don't   
    MP> react well when exposed to people who are different.   
      
   Dialog (in the book) between the children and the professor is     
   the highlight of the story. It is a kind of debate about     
   dealing with different people.  I seem to recall that the 1995     
   version with Christopher Reeve does a good take on that dialog     
   scene. The giveaway is that the children become determined to     
   overtake the humans and say so. They have no interest to live     
   in harmony. So.. they are indeed a threat.   
      
      
    MP> I also could not get over the fact that, although this is   
    MP> a sequel and although the events took place after the   
    MP> events in the first, that no one in the second seemed to   
    MP> be familar with said events in the first.   
      
   Well.. it *is* just a movie and they probably thought that was     
   one way to build suspense.   
      
      
    MP> Waiting for someone to speak up and say "hey, remember   
    MP> when..." and then using that knowledge to apply to the   
    MP> current situation may have kept me from enjoying the   
    MP> sequel as much.   
      
   Yep. As a viewer, you don't know what they know or not, and     
   wonder why they are pretending as if they don't remember the     
   world-wide "invasion" of the cuckoos.   
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