I keep thinking that maybe I am over Pacific Rim, or that it wasn't as good as the flush of fannishness has made it in my memory? But then people say nice things about it and I have all the nice feelings. My heart!
Terminator 3 is an abomination against the name of Sarah Connor and should not be used as an example of anything, ever. Its existence should be erased! On a serious--and yet still Pacific Rim--note, I did really appreciate that neither human greed nor technology was the bad guy in Pacific Rim. Not that human greed ISN'T likely to be the downfall of the world, but I do get tired of that configuration. Though, thinking about it, I suppose what I get tired of is SFF films borrowing social justice themes or language, about greed or capitalism or whatever, and then not dealing with them properly, in favor of showing a white dude or group of white dudes saving everyone. I haven't seen Elysium so I don't know if it did better. And perhaps I've just seen too many superhero type movies, and not enough of what the article calls "serious" science fiction? Even stuff like Children of Men, it has all these themes of injustice and resistance, but the whole thing still has to hinge on the white dude. It makes the themes lose a little credibility with me, I guess. This has been a weird rant!
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Terminator 3 is an abomination against the name of Sarah Connor and should not be used as an example of anything, ever. Its existence should be erased! On a serious--and yet still Pacific Rim--note, I did really appreciate that neither human greed nor technology was the bad guy in Pacific Rim. Not that human greed ISN'T likely to be the downfall of the world, but I do get tired of that configuration. Though, thinking about it, I suppose what I get tired of is SFF films borrowing social justice themes or language, about greed or capitalism or whatever, and then not dealing with them properly, in favor of showing a white dude or group of white dudes saving everyone. I haven't seen Elysium so I don't know if it did better. And perhaps I've just seen too many superhero type movies, and not enough of what the article calls "serious" science fiction? Even stuff like Children of Men, it has all these themes of injustice and resistance, but the whole thing still has to hinge on the white dude. It makes the themes lose a little credibility with me, I guess. This has been a weird rant!