Cuz skeery political sci-fi like this deserves to be savored:
Closer visual analysis at Paleofuture. Somehow they forgot the demon sheep, which everyone in Obamaville will have instead of pets, I think.
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: Harry Harrison wouldn't be considered new wave, I really liked his stainless steel rat, I guess Norman Spinrad would. 'Bug Jack Barron' being a particularly prescient offering,: Re; into Darkness' it seems to be a mash up of 'Khan' which is the best of the Trek films, with the unneccesary Iraq analogy, Starfleet trying to go into Khronos, the Klingon homeworld.
: Did you see it or are you just going on reviews? As for BJ Barron I never got to it, but it seems to have some of the main concerns of New Wave and post-New Wave SF that game and visual-narrative media never get to or maybe can never get to.: I did an composite analysis of the reviews, I actually read Bug Jack Barron, many moons ago,: Peter Weller's Admiral Marcus, is really Enterprise's 'Colonel Green' in another uniform, and he's supposed to evoke another belligerent policy maker with a Navy background,: I found this, re the New Wave retrospective;
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Well it doesn’t have Olivia Wilde (nee Cockburn) in it,so it suffers in that respect.
Any dystopian sci-fi political video without Olivia Wilde is probably second rate by definition.
Ditto, you have to read a lot into it, which is always problematic, I assume the Iranian bomb would likely provoke an attack on Israel, which will be retaliated against multiple targets,
Well, it was rather tame, nowhere was the film clip of white folks clutching their crosses while hanging on meat hooks as the conveyer belt slowly moves along shown…. guess that one was left on the cutting room floor.
yes, on the cutting room floor along with hoodied rape&murder squads a la Kubrick…
…maybe for the sequel!
OTOH, you’ll like this, ;
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/25/Santorum-Pronounces-Zimmerman-Guilty-Before-Charge
…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYjuUoEivbE