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**Spalax** · 05-10-2009, 09:03 PM

Seems to me the writer was inspired by those rides where you go into the moving room that makes you feel like you are flying, e.g. star tours.

Well, actually it seems to me that a lot of "Summer blockbusters" have been like that for the last few years. At this point, you have to see them exactly as the "roller coaster ride" that the reviewers describe, with very few ambitions to be much more than that.

Even old favorites like Independence Day fit easily into that category. Science fiction movies that aspire to the level of "Contact" are few and far between for the simple reason that nowadays, the vast majority of sound-bite America would fall into a coma of boredom at such pretension.

Micheal Bay! BOOOOMMMM!!! just about describes where we are now. Nothing wrong with that, as long as you don't expect more. [surrender]

05-10-2009, 09:03 PM	#11
Spalax Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 508 Senior Member	Seems to me the writer was inspired by those rides where you go into the moving room that makes you feel like you are flying, e.g. star tours. Well, actually it seems to me that a lot of "Summer blockbusters" have been like that for the last few years. At this point, you have to see them exactly as the "roller coaster ride" that the reviewers describe, with very few ambitions to be much more than that. Even old favorites like Independence Day fit easily into that category. Science fiction movies that aspire to the level of "Contact" are few and far between for the simple reason that nowadays, the vast majority of sound-bite America would fall into a coma of boredom at such pretension. Micheal Bay! BOOOOMMMM!!! just about describes where we are now. Nothing wrong with that, as long as you don't expect more. [surrender]
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