Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Issac Asimov, and Jules Verne are all outside and would like to speak with you.
Why it is important some people are unhappy
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It is those things, very much those things. But it's also silly and many many times campy. Things we find enjoyment in when complimented by the things you mention. AGAIN, no one is insulting Trek, just admitting to what is an inherent part of alot of scifi, even the good scifi, and to a large degree Trek. It doesn't take anything away from Trek.
Y'know, Asimov was a big Trekkie.
So what?
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Though what he would have made of 'I Roboit' is anyone's guess.
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Though what he would have made of 'I Roboit' is anyone's guess.
I loved it. Though I usually choose to enjoy most my entertainment...
I just hear so much nitpicking of everything anymore I feel compelled to make that statement whatever I'm posting on.
My comment wasn't really directed at you.How?
Seriously, I'd love it if that were possible... but an informed critical sensibility makes it all but impossible most of the time. Sturgeon's Law, y'know?
(The I, Robot film, for instance, was indubitably crap.)
Only if you choose to see the majority of what's released.
It's all about managing expectations. I watch an "Ahnuld" movie with very different expectations than a Bergman film. I could choose to keep my "informed critical sensibility" at "full power" all the time, but then I'd be forgoing many little pleasures, as well as turning entertainment into work, rather than a diversion. Entertainment and art can rise above mere diverse (and the examples are numerous) but it doesn't HAVE TO do so. Makes it so much easier to enjoy entertainment with people who don't take it too seriously.
Pretty much what Roger Ebert does, as well.
One of several reasons I respect him as a film critic.
ST-One
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Indeed.
I can enjoy... say... Frasier, Gone with the Wind, Dragon Wars, High School Musical, Star Trek, The Talented Mr. Ripley... all for what they are.
But was every element of it crap?
It's possible to be unsatisfied by a movie, but still be able to appreciate its acting, or directing, or special effects, or music soundtrack, or writing, or any combination of these and other elements.
There aren't too many films released theatrically that get pulled after one day because no one at all likes them.
If anything, "I, Robot" was a remake of the old Twilight Zone episode of the same title.
Which I do.
Simply... I um... just enjoy it. I don't care how you try to insult me.
I criticize most things I watch, some very harshly. But in the end it's
entertainment and there is always something to be taken from it that
was fun, a nice twist, a cool chracter... or overall most things aren't
near as bad as nitpickers like to make them seem.
Indeed.
I can enjoy... say... Frasier, Gone with the Wind, Dragon Wars, High School Musical, Star Trek, The Talented Mr. Ripley... all for what they are.
Good men.
