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...woman. It is only when Frankie, a public relations expert, takes an assignment for a manufacturer of high-tech doodads for the space program that she finds advanced science has fabricated what decades of psychological counseling and years of feminist lecturing have not been able to create: an android who is sensitive, caring and sexually satisfying in a way that natural men cannot manage...
...games may actually resemble drug trip experiences, having evolved considerably from the original game "Pong," which was basically pinball transported to a screen. Frequent players develop their favorites which they attempt to perfect. "My favorite game is Life Force at Quincy House," says Scott. "You go through an android's body, into the stomach, hungs, kidneys, and you kill antibodies. I've never made it to the end, but I hear you finish at the brain, and there's this mutant cell..." His voice trailed off as the game began and he concentrated on manuevering his man through...
...members of the party carry a heavier symbolic weight. Bishop (Lance Henriksen), an android who proves himself a distinct improvement over the traitor robot of the first film. Bishop offers a prejudice Ripley has to overcome and, in the end, some surprising heroics for the audience to cheer. The other outsider is a different case. Burke (Paul Reiser) is a junior executive in "the company," the monopoly that has all of space to profit from. He has absorbed its corporate culture all too well. In Alien, of course, company leaders, without warning employees of the danger, callously ordered them...
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LYNE POPULATES THE exterior world of his movie with gaily chatting and arguing New York ethnics who swirl around his android WASP heroes like flies around a honeycomb. Lyne, in his indominatable style, means to make fun of the Chinese, Blacks, and Italians who blithely live on the surface world of lowtech New York. But the seemingly irrelevant visions of a polyglot urban landscape only serve to underscore the irrelevance and emptiness of Rourke and Basinger's protagonists...