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Overstimulation, hypergreed and a kind of idiocy--those three stooges--have a way of tumbling into the room along with technological progress, which gives them respectability and theological cover. Mr. Badger, Toad's killjoy twin, makes these points: 1) each transformative moment will be superseded by another one, tomorrow or the next day--all marvels are disposable; 2) innovations are not always wonderful; 3) the world is round and time is circular; human nature is constant, but 4) may be damaged--or what is worse, humiliated--by novelties, which (like '70s neckties or television in any decade) may have about...
...that Mr. Badger is a Luddite. He merely points out that technology has a mixed record. CB radio was a Toad mania long ago. Technology is sometimes, in the end, a little stupid--as anything must be that was brilliant yesterday but was surpassed overnight--a monster that lives on a hungry, dynamic need for its own obsolescence. The universe of Gutenberg should no more be an abandoned graveyard than, say, the American city, which, a generation after World War II, seemed to be in decline and headed toward extinction. Why did we need the cities when...
...just barely. For those who loved the games, this is a near-must-see, if only to check out the claustrophobic fight scene in a holding cell and the stellar first-person homage to the game at the end of the movie. For everyone else, do yourself (and Mr. Rock’s career) a favor and pass on this one. Frankly, I was more of a Quake person anyway...
...insights to be gleaned from the juxtaposition of seemingly dissimilar, unencumbered, narrowly observed, generally held to be true facts, and how the aforementioned insights lead us back to the accommodations made by our 23, sometimes it seems even 24 chromosomes.” Confused? Come out and hear Mr. Van Peebles clarify his positions in person. The lecture series promises to be provocative in the best sense of the word...
...that [renowned, now-deceased New Yorker film critic] Pauline Kael, God bless her, had ever written a book called “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”…Actually it was based on James Bond, who was referred to by the Japanese at one point as Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and that subsequently became the title of a piece of music [in] “Thunderball.” THC: Earlier, you said that writing was an unpleasant task that you had to do to get to direct. If that’s the case...