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...hostile world. The drivers might as well be U.S. soldiers in a tank in Iraq. (In this sense, Crash is, implicitly, the most political film in contention.) And when they?re not driving, they?re reaming one another over real or imagined slights - shouting like a mogul at a gopher, and then (maybe) feeling a little remorse for lowering the level of civic dignity. The movie may seem nuts to outsiders, but to lots of Angelenos, it?s their prejudice and their conscience in a righteous scream fest. A parable that plays like reality...
...policy which reflects an incredible amount of forethought: encapsulated within it is the notion that, on the Internet, it’s very difficult to tell what technologies are going to prove important in the long run. If priority had been given early on to Gopher or WAIS (two information search technologies which have gone the way of the Dodo and the 8-track), the web might never have had enough bandwidth to gain traction. Some people occasionally find end-to-end frustrating, and sometimes quite reasonably so. Certain traffic, it seems, really is more important. In the late...
...Narnia!) But the resentment of cartoon veterans toward the CGI style that put them out of business could play a part. "A lot of animators are older, and computers have a stigma," says Tim Miller, creative director of Blur Studio, which copped a nomination last year for its short Gopher Broke. "I hate seeing political motivation influencing what's chosen." Perhaps the main reason no CGI film was nominated is that Pixar postponed the release of Cars--its only feature scheduled for 2005--to 2006. But the other CGI studios still won where it counts: worldwide box office for Madagascar...
...limitations, they’ll elect you as a trustee rather than as a delegate; as a reasonable person rather than as a one-issue (e.g., “Lobster Night at all costs”) Charlie; as a trusted intermediary rather than as a short-leashed gopher...
Across the street from a Loews Cinema, Good Time Emporium could be the perfect end to a movie date, particularly if you’re an ace on that gopher-hitting thing. But ladies, be sure to keep your guy with you at all times to avoid the creepy stalkers lurking inside the race-car games. Some men followed FM around for a scary half hour...