I had the same thought.
Dude, it was great. And it fucking kills me that they didn't play up the "Civil war soldier on Mars" thing in the trailers. Considering how hot anything that even smacks of Steampunk is right now, they could have used that angle to great effect.
Sheesh, you coulda just waited tables for six months. Teaches you how to keep your cool, bullshit like it's your job (because it is), and smile real pretty. ;)
Well now.
I loved this movie.
I didn't say it didn't matter HOW we get it done. Just the why of it. We don't have to have some DESTINY OF MAN thing going on. CORPORATE PROFITS will suffice.
haha, I kind of love that.
The thing about the book is that it's not sad. Not really. And that's the scariest part of all. This person never once feels truly sad or unhappy about her fate, the closest she gets is resigned when she's dealing with her lifelong friend/lover being chopped to bits. If anything, she feels special and proud and…
You ain't kidding. I think Kindred should be required reading, though. It's a shocking look at slavery - we just don't have a baseline for even understanding such brutality in our current culture and yet it was once commonplace. It's also a really interesting commentary on the perils of time travel that we always…
I think for soul-crushing endings, the end of The Rise of Endymion is the worst. Jesus, how fucking grim.
Absolutely. I was going through my closet and found that the other day, so I sat down and read it. Jeez.
Here's a cynical view of things: I don't think it matters why we get it done as long as we get it done.
The implication is that if you have any empathy at all for these two people whose marriage fell apart, you have to be some sort of Scientologist.
Er, just as I said, we have no way to know what was going on inside that marriage. Did she ever show up at a hospital beat up? No. Do we know that he made her do things she didn't want to do? No. Do we know that he didn't? No. We don't know.
I dislike all the "hoho, Tom Cruise, suck it!" bullshit I keep seeing.
Now that is awesome.
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In my worldview, an ebook can between $5.99 and $9.99. Once it goes beyond that, it had better be by Stephen King or similar. And even then, I will probably rail against it and still not buy it - but I understand it.
Oooh, good point.