aesmael

    Just finished watching. I had forgotten how much I enjoy that movie, mostly for Mystique and Magneto. Sure, they are the villains, but they are magnificent! Especially Mystique. She does not sit around uselessly like most minions do when the villain is imprisoned, she works her way in the world, still furthering their cause. And that escape plot. No coordination, just two people who know each other's capabilities well.
    My delight is, I suppose, fuelled by my desire to see people in fiction act intelligently. They do not behave idiotically so the heroes can win.

    And now Sin City. However bad its treatment of women, I get tempted to describe its cinematography as perfect. Really that is just the opening moments and a few other parts. The rest is not so good, although it was partial inspiration for Discourteous Joe. Bet it is rather cut down for showing on television.

    Watching Terminator 2 and seeing the kid force the terminator through the motions of swearing an oath after it has clearly demonstrated it does not understand the meaning of swearing.

[2:27:33 AM] soltice: Vader: Obi-wan Kenobi is here. The force is with him.
Me: The *whole* force? My God...
[2:32:46 AM] aesmael: With him, yes, but not willingly. They would much rather frolic among the rubble of Alderaan.
[2:33:08 AM] soltice: Heh.
[2:33:23 AM] soltice Princess Leia a raging lesbian? Perhaps...
[2:33:49 AM] aesmael: Hee. Perhaps if we gave Luke a sex change.
[2:33:52 AM] aesmael: Lucy?
[2:34:23 AM] soltice: Hmmm, does the Force have the ability to do sex changes?
[2:34:56 AM] aesmael: It has the power to make people take Anakin seriously, so yeah, probably.
[2:35:09 AM] soltice: Ha!
[2:36:09 AM] aesmael: As Yoda might say: "Change your sex you cannot. Only gender there is. Choose, and be."

    From pouringsand, we bold the ones we have seen. This time:

( Dystopian films )

    Not so good. Must fix that.

    I have read a couple of those that I have not seen and one was not a dystopian story in its original form. Well, it was not even a single story originally, so there you go.

    I have not seen it because it has not been released here yet, but Coturnix|A Blog Around the Clock links to some reviews well worth reading (emphasised). They all say different things.

    My little bit in the pot: A couple of weeks ago I was in a one day OH&S (Occupational Health and Safety) class to get my green card (no, nothing to do with the U.S.A., this is the actually white card which shows you can be trusted not to kill yourself on a construction site), just 'cause. At the beginning of the class we were given a derived-from-reality example of a man who had had his hips crushed by machinery and had to be hospitalised. We were asked to provide examples of bad results of this accident for him and after a few suggestions by others in the class I decided to put my own hand up and make an offering. I suggested that having to pay all those medical costs might well send him broke.
    Well, no, not quite. His medical bills would all be covered even though they might go more than half a million; no matter high high they were, in fact. The financial hardship he would suffer would be as a result of not working for more than a year due to his injury and perhaps from a reduced capacity to work in the future. I only thought he might have trouble paying for medical care because I have very limited experience out in the world myself and most of my knowledge of such social matters comes from various USAnian-sourced media. I was embarrassed for myself, though not made to feel so.