Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even while raising some important issues, the movie sometimes conveys the wrong messages to the kids it enthralls. Encouraging children to drop the video habit and read more is all to the good, but directing them into purely imaginative and fantasy-oriented avenues could be just as limiting. The film also stumbles when it goes above kids heads in a bid for their parents' attention...
...storyline is simple. A young boy, Bastian, running from the bullies who regularly beat him up and take his lunch money, ducks into a dusty old bookstore for safety. The curmudgeonly owner tells him to get out, to go play video games like all the rest of the kids, but Bastian stands his group, declaring proudly that he owns 186 books. Bastian then asks to see what the old man is reading, but the latter refuses, saying. "It isn't safe." He explains that while a good book gets one involved with the plot, it is, after all, nothing more...
Nice idea: a video game that is designed not merely as an amusement for idle teenage reflexes but as aptitude test and recruiting device for Star- fighters. These warriors are needed to defend a space frontier, maintained by the Star League, an interplanetary alliance threatened by the dread, yucky...
ALMOST every current top 40 song fits part of all of Travers' description. A few, however, are worth particular mention, partly because their accompanying MTV videos have further confirmed today's angst. Both the literal and visual interpretations of, for instance. Laura Brannigan's "You Take My Self Control," radiate a preoccupation with instant and continuous self-satisfaction. The haunting flip-side of that egoism is a disturbing loneliness, even more evident in the video. A similar anxiety--coupled with alienation--from lovers, parents, friends, and self--characterizes Cindy Lauper's "Time After Time...
...boss, he had helped run Atari into the ground by slashing prices on his company's own popular home computers, the Commodore 64 and VIC 20. The strategy frustrated Atari's attempts to get into the home-computer market and diversify away from fast-failing video games...