It is very pleasant reading a mini-thon of your reactions to the Fest.
Rollerball is a dog’s breakfast. On the other hand, one can imagine how much more poorly the film might have been made in this millennium, with a paint-by-the-numbers denatured hero’s journey “structuring” it.
There’s probably a short story, or a least an RPG one-shot, in the idea of resistance agents trying to get models and prints of Frau im Mond to the enemies of the Nazis. Less grey morally, if perhaps not pulpier, than the reality of von Braun and company smuggled by schooner to a secret hotel in Boston harbor.
Skipping the Undiscovered Country was a good call. It does have the nostalgic charm, not uncommon to science fiction of the period, of treating ozone depletion as an overwhelming catastrophe. As humanity grapples with climate change, it is good to remember how we organized to overcome a planetary scale problem of our own making.
Culturally, baby boomers endlessly looked back at backed at what was important in their youth: nuclear fears and rock and roll. I sometimes wonder if Gen X creators could strengthen younger generations by obsessing a bit more about the ways resources were mobilized by society to successfully combat scourges like AIDS and ozone holes. And to resist the endless reframing of the creation of the internet being significant mostly because it helps bros sell pet food, soylent, or taxi services.
the aftermath of 'thon
Rollerball is a dog’s breakfast. On the other hand, one can imagine how much more poorly the film might have been made in this millennium, with a paint-by-the-numbers denatured hero’s journey “structuring” it.
There’s probably a short story, or a least an RPG one-shot, in the idea of resistance agents trying to get models and prints of Frau im Mond to the enemies of the Nazis. Less grey morally, if perhaps not pulpier, than the reality of von Braun and company smuggled by schooner to a secret hotel in Boston harbor.
Skipping the Undiscovered Country was a good call. It does have the nostalgic charm, not uncommon to science fiction of the period, of treating ozone depletion as an overwhelming catastrophe. As humanity grapples with climate change, it is good to remember how we organized to overcome a planetary scale problem of our own making.
Culturally, baby boomers endlessly looked back at backed at what was important in their youth: nuclear fears and rock and roll. I sometimes wonder if Gen X creators could strengthen younger generations by obsessing a bit more about the ways resources were mobilized by society to successfully combat scourges like AIDS and ozone holes. And to resist the endless reframing of the creation of the internet being significant mostly because it helps bros sell pet food, soylent, or taxi services.