as a movie, 'the matrix' did actually have some valid points. a modern day recreation of plato's alegory of the cave(republic, book VII i think). as to why plato isnt good enough for kids these days, well, that is simply a reflection of the path that american(read:approaching hedonistic)society has travelled. why read a book when you can listen to it on tape, hell, why listen to the whole book when you can get the abridged version, actually, theres no need to do that, watch the movie. screw that, take the basic story, get the important parts over within say, 45 minutes or an hour, then fill up the rest of the time with gun play so that we can hold onto that amazing american attention span.
slashdot readers in general dont tend to be so american, so i would expect us to realize that, as movies go, 'the matrix' was very good. the combination of an important philosophical storyline with some great action(three cheers to yuen woo ping on the fight coreography)is a real achivement in todays day and age of "blow'd up" 's. but fodder for a philosophy course, plato/socrates did a fine, concise job the first time around, dont dilly dally with a diluted version, save that as an example for the aspiring movie producers, philosophy is just too important.
mst3k is going off the air because they have run out of movies. well, that's not totally correct. see, they only can afford to go after the real cheappo's, they would love to do the show with titanic and the sort, but that would cost a rather absurd amount of money. after the hundreds of low budget movies they had the rights to, they have run out. the tapes are available somwhere(i have seen them at suncoast video and a few other stores), even a collection of shorts. i find it hard to believe that there are slashdotters that didn't like mst3k, i thought everyone here was a fan. harumph!
look at the history of earth. the people that changed the earth were all of his 'demigod' status. joe shmoe didnt put an end to hitlers reign of terror, it was a group of geniuses that got 'the bomb' working. history has no cases of normal minds doing great things. look in any history text, average people are written about as a mass of people(ie 'the american people', 'the protestors', etc.), the people whom are singled out are the great 'demigods', the ones that changed the world.
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as a movie, 'the matrix' did actually have some valid points. a modern day recreation of plato's alegory of the cave(republic, book VII i think). as to why plato isnt good enough for kids these days, well, that is simply a reflection of the path that american(read:approaching hedonistic)society has travelled. why read a book when you can listen to it on tape, hell, why listen to the whole book when you can get the abridged version, actually, theres no need to do that, watch the movie. screw that, take the basic story, get the important parts over within say, 45 minutes or an hour, then fill up the rest of the time with gun play so that we can hold onto that amazing american attention span.
slashdot readers in general dont tend to be so american, so i would expect us to realize that, as movies go, 'the matrix' was very good. the combination of an important philosophical storyline with some great action(three cheers to yuen woo ping on the fight coreography)is a real achivement in todays day and age of "blow'd up" 's. but fodder for a philosophy course, plato/socrates did a fine, concise job the first time around, dont dilly dally with a diluted version, save that as an example for the aspiring movie producers, philosophy is just too important.
mst3k is going off the air because they have run out of movies. well, that's not totally correct. see, they only can afford to go after the real cheappo's, they would love to do the show with titanic and the sort, but that would cost a rather absurd amount of money. after the hundreds of low budget movies they had the rights to, they have run out. the tapes are available somwhere(i have seen them at suncoast video and a few other stores), even a collection of shorts. i find it hard to believe that there are slashdotters that didn't like mst3k, i thought everyone here was a fan. harumph!
from the abqjournal:
Carr called Microsoft's challenge "the lamest thing we'd ever heard of."
look at the history of earth. the people that changed the earth were all of his 'demigod' status. joe shmoe didnt put an end to hitlers reign of terror, it was a group of geniuses that got 'the bomb' working. history has no cases of normal minds doing great things. look in any history text, average people are written about as a mass of people(ie 'the american people', 'the protestors', etc.), the people whom are singled out are the great 'demigods', the ones that changed the world.