February 22, 2005
They came, they saw, they replaced what little sensibility we had left…
The latest in exploiting a blind man to make a buck comes as Ray star Jamie Foxx ascends to the level of fighter pilot. Not that it means he’ll be moving up. He’ll, in fact, stay on the ground. In a nice little room with green walls, making dramatic faces. Then, millions of dollars will be shuffled around and… *POOF* special effects. In the mean time, the writers will have finally come up with a decent scri…shoot, no time. Principle photography is already done. *STAMP* SHIP IT!
http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/stealth.html
Tell me that sounds like a good idea. Tell me that somehow I’ve lost my sense of reality and I’m somehow detached from what makes a good movie. Are they seriously considering releasing this?
For those of you that didn’t watch the preview… just imagine Terminator. If you haven’t seen Terminator or just don’t feel like imagining it, picture computers and robots taking over the world. Ok, got it? Good. How did they get to be so evil? (you think to yourself) In the case of Terminator, it made a little bit of sense: technology evolved through this nifty thing called AI. In the case of Stealth (that’s the name of this new movie in case you weren’t paying attention) oh! There’s also AI… but that’s not what makes the technology “evil.” What makes it so evil? (you ask yourself again, getting impatient)
lightning
Yes. Lightning. “The bzzzapping must have…must have moved…the logic. Or something.” Alright so the script probably isn’t *that* incoherent but how intelligent does it make you look if you’re trying to convince someone that ::lightning:: reprogrammed a computer? Does anyone actually believe that? If you do, please raise your hand so I can give you a flogging. Is a movie more suspenseful when the plot is so far fetched that in trying to suspend your disbelief you fall down and hurt your common sense?
