Edward Bellamy’s short story The Blindman’s World (1898) is my favorite Martian tale. An astronomer desperate to discover something new about the face of Mars finds himself there. The men he meets are just like us save one thing: their perspective is totally wrong, or ours is. On Mars, being able to see your own…
1000x YES
I don’t know, I think the conflict over of Mercerism is mirrored in the fate of the Replicants. Mercer says that even if it’s based on lies, the thing you get out of it is real, empathy. That’s the Blade Runner/Replicant conflict, that a Replicant’s humanity is based on lies and therefore doesn’t exist. Batty saves…
(Note: “best job” doesn’t necessarily have to mean “most faithful.”)
I will go one step further and posit that Wizard People, Dear Reader is better than Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Blade Runner is transcendent especially as a movie because so much of its greatness comes from unwritten chance. Harrison and Ridley’s poor relationship affected Ford’s performance and therefore Deckard’s character, creating the Deckard-bad/Batty-good dynamic that makes the movie work. Plus, you know, Roy’s improvised…
Deeper connection between you and a book than you and TV or internet. Good art in any form puts you in the zone but books take the most imagination-dedication-effort-you out of the various mediums.
So again, it would be great if Hollywood took notice of this and started developing a lot more original content. It certainly worked this year with Inside Out, San Andreas, Straight Outta Compton and a few others.
It’s straight Middle of Beyond, not a Mondo tie-in. Here’s a link.
By they do you mean me? All the Mondo stuff plus all their originals are available at middleofbeyond.com
9/11 None read in school (we read Animal Farm).
Costly but awesome. MOB got me through the winter.
Really? In my eyes it is the greatest waste of money. $90 on a glow in the dark Friday the 13th sweater with all that shit on it I can understand, but $90 for a striped sweater? GTFO
Actually, this brand is Middle of Beyond, not Mondo, although the two have been releasing sweaters and shit together for the last several years so I see your confusion. Also that would make “gone back to” kind of inaccurate given that they’ve been doing this steadily for quite a while. Also also there are multiple…
Not just pictures of white people would make me feel better about this.
It looks like it’s from when he was in the middle of making Word of Tomorrow. That guy is a freaking genius.
Oh, you kids with your Pokemon. Oregon Trail by like two decades.
The brood from The Brood.
This movie. Loved it as a youth, love it as an old.