I'm still glad to have had that scene as well as that terrific scene in the mall.
Oh man. Best. Chase scene. Ever.
Why couldn't Giles have shackles like any self-respecting bachelor?
Xander ,'Beneath You'
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Polter-Cow - Jul 13, 2004 7:32:53 am PDT #350 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jim - Jul 13, 2004 7:34:28 am PDT #351 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Right. The problem is, if I can figure that out in 20 minutes, how can jurisprudence, law enforcement and a panoply of nattily-suited people take months/years to figure it out? Do IQs drop sharply in the near future?
Because they want to - it's a useful method of social control. But the ending sucked ass, I agree.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2004 7:35:29 am PDT #352 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
(someone here had mentioned a possibility that the too-happy-an-ending could be interpreted as Anderton's hallucination/dream post-halo-ing, which I liked)
I don't know if I was the only one who said that, but it was certainly how I interpreted it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 13, 2004 7:36:50 am PDT #353 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I still think the best movie treatment of time travel was in The Spy Who Shagged Me, when Basil Exposition turned to the camera and said "I suggest you don't worry about those things and just enjoy yourself."
Sean K - Jul 13, 2004 7:38:05 am PDT #354 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
as well as that terrific scene in the mall.
I liked that scene quite a bit, as well as the brief appearance by Peter Stormare as the black market doctor (he really needs to get more work out here, though he gets plenty of leading roles in his native Sweden).
Nutty - Jul 13, 2004 7:41:04 am PDT #355 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Because they want to - it's a useful method of social control.
So, apparently there has been some major tort reform too -- because the first person whose family sued the city/state for false imprisonment should by modern standards make meelions and meelions of dollars and completely bankrupt state, city and police department and end this particular experiment of social control.
I mean, after all, none of the prisoners have committed a crime; they're imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit; ergo, false imprisonment. Imagine the lawyer's percentage of the settlement! It would make John Grisham blush.
Jim - Jul 13, 2004 7:42:51 am PDT #356 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
(someone here had mentioned a possibility that the too-happy-an-ending could be interpreted as Anderton's hallucination/dream post-halo-ing, which I liked)
I don't know if I was the only one who said that, but it was certainly how I interpreted it.
There comes a point that you have to stop letting Spielberg off the hook with the "last 10 minutes are a dream" excuse and accept that he's just a big softy (cf AI)
Vonnie K - Jul 13, 2004 7:43:10 am PDT #357 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
brief appearance by Peter Stormare
Oh yeah. He was great. Except whenever someone mentions his name, my mind now defaults to the leg-in-woodchipper image with the resulting wiggins.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2004 7:43:38 am PDT #358 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
apparently there has been some major tort reform too
Well, yeah ... wasn't it part and parcel of the assumption that fear had reached such proportions that you could imprison someone to prevent, as opposed to punish?
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2004 7:45:17 am PDT #359 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There comes a point that you have to stop letting Spielberg off the hook with the "last 10 minutes are a dream" excuse and accept that he's just a big softy (cf AI)
I haven't seen AI, but I thought at the time it was all a dream. And I don't see any reason it's not. It's not a justification -- it's an honest interpretation.