Sure it is! Speculative fiction, anyway. It's much more sci-fi then, say, Alien, which is just a horror movie in space.
― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
dune and star wars and logan's run are all totally pastoral you senile doosh
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
TOMBOT, the desert is not the countryside.
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
*the exact moment everyone stops listening to what I have to say about movies
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link
I get the idea I'm just gibbering in the corner while you lot talk seinsibly.
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
i dunno i just got a "omg NY was nuked, no more babies, isnt that terrible!" --- it doesn't go beyond the cliches in that department really.
Is it a stretch to argue that those aren't the meat of the story, and thus their relative superficiality is irrelevant?
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link
I have been reading McKee.
― chap (chap), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost yes elmo otm
― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link
I thought it made complete sense that the annoying Ballard/Moorcock/prog-loving guy you knew in college would grow up to be a self-styled Last Man On Earth who barricaded himself in Battersea with whatever art he could pillage. The only way that scene could have been improved was if he was blasting King Crimson all over London and not just inside his lair.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, but it still is actually mimicing the cover.
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, where the fuck was the camera mounted in the long ambush scene? Nice bit of rigging to be able to shift POV from front seat to back and side to side, and shut up, I don't want to hear "they've been doing stuff like that for decades now haha" even if they have. I don't pay a lot of attention to technical aspects like that on first viewings, and I want to see this one again to pick its craft apart.
― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link
still, it manages to maintain the immediacy in spite of / because of that transition, which is the effect of the long shot anyway. i guess i really liked the long shots because they were immersive in a way that jump-cut Requiem for a Dream style editing would just ruin.
― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link