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Still, even if one is inclined to resist change for the sake of change, one must resist the instinct to oppose all change. Some new things are definite improvements on the old. Pampers are better than diapers. Ballpoint pens are better than fountain pens, and cheaper too. LP records are better than the old 78s that could play only about one-fifth of the Fifth Symphony and cracked if you even looked at them too hard. (But now that we have thrown away all the 78s, do we really have to throw away all the LPs and invest in digital...
...love the Brattle, and I sincerely hope its future sees hordes of melancholic Cambridge intellectuals keeping it alive financially. I also hope, exclusively for its sake, that it can lure plenty of hungry filmgoers foolish enough to attend the torturous, overwrought Heaven’s Gate. It’s one of those films that as a cinephile you hear about all the time—it went wildly over-budget, practically toppled United Artists, and has become the example par excellence of what happens when an obsessive director runs wildly out of control...
Instead of simply enforcing or exploiting the African-American stereotypes present in other films (like Soul Plane), Woodruff plays with them and allows his Beauty Shop to become a place of simultaneous racial diversity and unity. Rather than have Norris’s hairdressers make stereotypical comments for the sake of a good laugh from his audience, he allows them to intelligently display diversity and racial identity...
...each of the stories, our hero fights against people for the sake of a chivalric ideal: women and innocence need to be protected against the ever-present forces of twisted darkness. Female empowerment has never seen an incarnation quite like “Deadly Little Miho,” a heroic prostitute astoundingly fond of severing appendages. For everyone who has been frustrated by a world that seems arbitrarily evil—that is, all of us—take a trip to Sin City and fight back, if only vicariously...
...frat. HRSFA’s main purpose is its social function. The group does organize large, public events (the annual VeriCon, a science-fiction conference) and it does publish (a semiannual literary magazine focused on science fiction and fantasy), but members usually spend time together just for the sake of spending time together...