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Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Nicholas Roeg's

The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)

It stars David Bowie; proving once and for all that a rock star crossover to acting is not always a good idea.

The story has so many disconnects that there is hardly a story.

An alien comes to earth looking for water but becomes corrupted or coopted or captured. We are not sure.

What is it he wanted to do? How? When? What? And so on.

There is a point where television is criticized by the alien as being all about showing things and not telling anything.

Much the same could be said about the movie.

No one in it is any good.

There had to be an idea in here somewhere.

I kept waiting for things to get better; the situation, the acting, the movie. No luck. Bummer.

This is one of those 'best films' that makes me wonder whether we were seeing the same picture.

It is only on the 2000 list and not on the 2004. Someone came to their senses.

I think that this had cult status for awhile because of its inherent Bowie weirdness and its anti-establishment appeal.

I suppose that there is something good about some of the effects. Ebert says that it is like a series of sketches made for a film that was never made.

Whatever.

I will give it a 1 out of Netflix5.