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Where is the DVD?!
Bicentennial Man I, Robot and Foundation — thoughts?
Kate and the ex are hella incest
Where is it? How was it?
General question about 007 generally — why doesn’t James Bond actually seem to function like a spy?
Ahead of its time
Horrible portrayals of relationships
Avoiding seeing this when it came out, but it’s actually quite good
Pleasantly surprised
Padme was a worse “PC” female than Rey ever was
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See from my perspective it's not really woke, it's just reality that the west is extremely diverse now. The NY metro is probably as close to trantor as you can get and it's not white majority and hasn't been for years. If you made a show about a farm planet or something in the Empire then sure I guess it would make sense for it to be all white people on Solaria or whatever, but that's just not going to be the case on Trantor or the followers sent from there to Terminus. I think it's unfair to say it's all white people as villains, though, Hari Seldon is white and is definitely a hero and spoke truth to power right to Cleon Day's face -- ballsy af. Salvor's boyfriend Hugo is also heroic and protected innocents during the terminus fight and risked his life to save salvor when she went into her fugue state. IRL I've personally had brilliant mentors in workplace that were black and a doctor that saved me from sepsis that was from bangladesh. I've had great mentors and teachers and doctors that were white too. Being talented or brilliant or good/evil isn't reserved for any race, brah.
I like Pursuit of Happyness, but yeah generally I agree he's in a lot of pretty terrible roles!
Did you ever see Spy Game? Similar kind of movie to Enemy of the State, one of my favorite spy thrillers.
From my POV, I feel like movies rarely convey the plot of the source material. I do think BM was thematically on target with the short story, though, and the characters were very, very good. I really enjoyed Robin Williams and Sam Neill's roles, especailly the conflict between them when he wanted to move out after the wedding and how they kind of patched things up on Neill's death bed. The feels!
What’s so bad about bicentennial man? I robot was much worse
Ironic comment considering you’re the OP
Can you trust harry RE stated intent, tho? he lies a lot and tells people compartmentalized information. The label of The Raven may have deeper meaning I wonder if Asimov might have intended a sinister aspect like that Seldon drove the galaxy to madness like the Edgar Allen Poe raven!
I’ve been in exec chamber meetings where commissioners are reamed out into tears over such demands for magical answers, it’s been a thing even in “golden age” eras of political bureaucracies. It would never be the scientist guy speaking directly to day, though, he would have a known flunky in the household staff do all that for him and then he would scream at the flunky.
I hope they don’t do that whole Gaia nonsense, it seems like they’re hinting that Gaal is mutated or something like the Mule and the Gaia people with that scene where she’s able to be awake in hyperspace or whatever.
The SFX were definitely good — I remember stargate was prominently featured when DVD players were “new” it was the display movie at sams club, Walmart, compusa, and so on
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