From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Dec 19 2000 - 21:50:55 MST
Jason Joel Thompson wrote:
>
> Fun flicks, but your list betrays, it must be said, a preference for style
> over substance. (Both T2 and A2 were flashy sequels to gritty, substantive,
> genre defining movies.)
You can't be serious.
_Terminator 2_ is the eternal, living testament to the right way to make
movies. T1 was a movie about robot assassins and big guns. T2 was a
movie about the value of human life. And that T2 was so vastly superior
to T1 demonstrates, once and for all, that sex and style and sudden
violence are as nothing compared to the awesome power of story.
And against T2, you would pit a pathetic homily such as "The Empire
Strikes Back"? All your picks are based on scenery rather than plot. I
can think of nothing more scathing to say.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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