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Jun 11, 2018
More Hollywood, via Paris (Bresson). Thoroughly mediocre but has required number of JPM's (industry term: Jolts per Minute). Like the Matrix series- killer premise, pedestrian bang-bang-kiss-kiss execution. (Matrix was particularly illustrative of that: the matrix being a fabulous metaphor for culture, ones opinions, worldview.) Scarlett Johanssen seems to be the new Summer Glau. She's getting the killer babe scifi parts. And Kate Beckinstall gets the vampire bombshell parts (Ironic 'progress' isn't it- women are ever so gradually being included as more than arm candy etc., but only as honorary men, violent superheros with boobs!). Why do i mention it at all if i yawn at it? Because, however Mickey Mouse its Big ideas*, it may incur thought. Its Big Ideas are just window dressing, but nothing says you have to obsess on the Punch and Judy show going on through the window. So it may stimulate thought, which is far more than non-SF movies do. It ain't The Arrival tho. *a real howler of a quote: Lucy reassures a scientist that, "Ignorance brings chaos, not knowledge." Oh really- funny then that with Big Science/Technology being the dominant force in humanity, and us accelerating towards total chaos/extinction, how more knowledge, more science will, somehow. save us. Dying of alcoholism? The cure is to drink more. Brought to you by Brewers of America, research wing.