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Aug. 1st, 2005 02:28 amYesterday, invigorated by a chilly, salty, delicious swim in the waves of Newburyport, I saw “The Island,” which is precisely the kind of sci-fi that yours truly likes, as discussed previously vis-à-vis “Paycheck,” which was Kind of Like That too.
So, right, I like 2D, space-age-type sci-fi, which is essentially a genre-fied ethics problem of the Two Twins Who Gets The Kidney variety. I actually appreciate the blandness of the Ben Afflecks of the world in such enterprises, anything else makes me scream “too much character development!” at the screen. I mean, Scarlett Johannson is perfectly suited for a role of a clone of a CK mode, it’s not a Cate Blanchett vehicle, that would be, like, sushi pizza or something.
Also my reaction to seeing films like these is to run them through my progresso-meter. It’s like buyblue.org IN MY MIND and if I pay $10 to see a film at a multiplex, I WILL extract a progressive reading, even if I have to be a Steve-Martin-in-Little-Shop-of-Horrors type dentist to do it.
Not that that was difficult with The Island. ( spoilers ahead )
and thus, "Bladerunner" remains the defending champion of Hollywood Doing Artificial Humanity, with its nonnon-like dolls and meteorological ennui and Rutger Hauer, about to kill either Harrison Ford or himself, enunciating "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
So, right, I like 2D, space-age-type sci-fi, which is essentially a genre-fied ethics problem of the Two Twins Who Gets The Kidney variety. I actually appreciate the blandness of the Ben Afflecks of the world in such enterprises, anything else makes me scream “too much character development!” at the screen. I mean, Scarlett Johannson is perfectly suited for a role of a clone of a CK mode, it’s not a Cate Blanchett vehicle, that would be, like, sushi pizza or something.
Also my reaction to seeing films like these is to run them through my progresso-meter. It’s like buyblue.org IN MY MIND and if I pay $10 to see a film at a multiplex, I WILL extract a progressive reading, even if I have to be a Steve-Martin-in-Little-Shop-of-Horrors type dentist to do it.
Not that that was difficult with The Island. ( spoilers ahead )
and thus, "Bladerunner" remains the defending champion of Hollywood Doing Artificial Humanity, with its nonnon-like dolls and meteorological ennui and Rutger Hauer, about to kill either Harrison Ford or himself, enunciating "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
