From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sat Jun 30 2001 - 16:46:13 MDT
I'll stop reading these, as they are getting too close to spoilers for my liking.
Does sound Kubrickian, or maybe like Disch (didn't he write _Crash_?).
Adrian Tymes wrote:
>
> Mike Lorrey wrote:
> > The reviews by the predictably leftie movie reviewers all hated the fact
> > that real humans were depicted as less humane than the mechas, something
> > they found to be beyond their 'suspension of disbelief', which is not
> > the fault of the movie, but the fault of their own bigotry.
>
> Some did. Others just disliked the fact that all real humans were
> depicted as universally inhumane, regardless of the humanity of the
> mechas - and portraying any such trait as common to every single human
> does, IMO, reasonably violate "suspension of disbelief" in most cases.
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