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...says things like "Let's suppose for the sake of argument that civilization as we know it gets destroyed." He didn't intend that remark as a commentary on the book he's in, but it certainly could apply, especially if you factor in his next line: "Want some popcorn...
...says things like, "Let's suppose for the sake of argument that civilization as we know it gets destroyed." He didn't intend that remark as a commentary on the book he's in, but it certainly could apply, especially if you factor in his next line: "Want some popcorn?" This is not quite a popcorn novel, but it's not all you would hope from Atwood, who deftly imagined a different awful future in The Handmaid's Tale, her 1985 book about a U.S. controlled by Fundamentalist Christians. Here she sticks closely to the rules of dystopian writing. Civilization...
...back, and take in The Matrix Reloaded passively in a darkened theater if you want. But for the real red-pill experience, you're going to have to swap that bucket of popcorn for a console and controller. The Wachowski brothers, raised on video games, always intended it that way--and created an intricate plot for a game called Enter the Matrix that wraps around the second movie like one strand of a DNA double helix around another...
...view of success in the world outside the gates, the brandy-sipping elites in Adams have won their privileges through no merits of their own. Once the walls of the country club are toppled, and once dirty non-Adamsian fingers have tainted the sterling silver platters of popcorn chicken, Dartboard has another idea: progressive tuition brackets, based on house affiliation, of course. We can even put it to a vote...
...court.” Adding a tongue-in-cheek quality to such lines would probably have worked much better than playing them straight. But Singer otherwise handles the material admirably, juggling a crowded script and executing the most complex special effects with ease. With X2, he delivers an appealing popcorn movie that may lack the freshness of the original, but successfully avoids its narrative and visual shortcomings...