[ExI] Favorite ~H+ Movies

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Fri Jun 22 23:41:50 UTC 2007


At 06:33 PM 6/22/2007 -0400, Joseph Bloch wrote:

>I would probably nominate "Charly" (the 1968 adaptation of the short story
>"Flowers for Algernon"). The theme of intelligence augmentation tips it into
>the >H category for me, and it's a damn poignant portrayal.

Having been tremendously moved by the novella, I disliked Cliff 
Robertson's smug performance and the movie's frequently glib script, 
but the Matthew Modine version for TV (2000), under its real name, 
was very much better.

Damien Broderick





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