Why is everybody so down on Johnny Mnemonic? I read Idoru (the only Gibson my local library has) right after the movie came out, and it gave me the impression that JM must have been Gibson's high point. That book sucked. Anyway, will somebody explain to me why everybody hated the movie?
America has been working on getting rid of socialists for so long, I must say that it's sorta vaguely refreshing to see one on/. OTOH, the idea that this is "greed law" is ridiculous. This movie took millions to make; without laws in place so that Lucas & Co. can make that back, groovy movies like this could not be made.
Dammit, my mother is NOT on the cover of Crack Whore Magazine!
Ah, crap, I forgot that people here are smart and can read French. Anyway, unless this 3 year old's parents are buying crack to feed him, I have no idea where he'd get the stuff. For a ten year old, he would be dependent on his parents for money, so I don't know how he'd get it either. That does it for small children. Teenagers, on the other hand, can already get the stuff (and I live in suburbia, so I assume this must be universal). The only thing that changes is that they can no longer be busted for it, which would save the state money and would prevent many lives from being needlesly ruined.
And what the hell do you mean, about the "one eyebrow?" I don't get it.
Morons like you are the reason the Republicans are never gonna take back the presidency. You guys really are God' gift to mankind, just not the way you seem to think you are.
Remarkable. You are obviously an idiot, with a poor grasp of Christianity (for instance, you don't seem to understand that God never made any rule against lying). And you expect nerds (this is a nerd site, it says so below "Slashdot," don't bother saying that you're not a nerd) to accept what you say, or even to agree with you. Were you also on some kind of mind-altering drug when you posted this?
Morals are always subjective. Example: it is wrong to kill. Yet we kill killers all the time. Bad example, since I myself am against the death penalty. Or how about World War II, which people always mention as a "good" war. War is a sin, yet would it not also have been wrong to allow the slaughter to continue? So which is right? And suicide is wrong, but what if you were to kill yourself in an effort to save lives (think nuclear meltdown).
You know what? I'm missing out on all three, and my life sucks. I'm looking into adding some more mind-altering drugs (although they're mostly too expensive for me) or perhaps some random sex into my life. The senseless violence has been pretty much ruled out at this point.
Is profanity OK on/.? I'm not exactly clear on that.
Anyway, profanity is not a cause of homocidal mania. I swear, my friends swear, my teacher swear, my parents swear, President Clinton swears, and everbody except Clinton turned out all right. In fact, I think that profanity, in allowing you to express frustration better than "clean" words, actually helps you vent that frustration and keeps you sane. This is similar to how some deeply religious people, who refuse to talk about sex in any way, then go on to commit sex crimes in numbers a percentage point or two higher than the average population.
That guy who wrote Starship Troopers made an interesting point on this subject. The teacher dude was talking about voting, and said that he could see no reason why a thirty year old moron was better suited to vote than a ten year old genius. He didn't extend the point to legal drugs, but the same argument could be made. In fact, the teens I know (I'm 16 years old, read my earlier post where I bitched about how adults suck) are better at handling alcohol that certain adults I know. At least the teenagers don't go on three-day drinking binges, and spend a week either passed out or ill and vomiting every twenty minutes.
I'd just like to point out that lying isn't evil. God, who pretty much banned everything else that's supposedly "bad" when he dictated the 10 Commandments to Moses, actually left out "Thou shalt not lie," and instead went with the watered-down version "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor," which seems to mean, "don't lie when it would have a negative impact on someone else."
Interesting. You don't know the half of it, but you know enough to say that that my fragile little mind should be protected from what you arbitrarily decide is filth. What could possibly be the harm of letting me see, say, "Starship Troopers" (which comes to mind 'cause they wouldn't let me in way back when it came out; one of only three times I'm been turned back at the box office)? Ok, so there's decapitations and nudity. I honestly don't know what my reaction should have been had I been "mature," but given that it's like two years later and I'm still a totally functional human being gives me the impression that my mind was overly warped.
Also interesting was how you put weed on the same level as beer and "South Park." And, by your last statement, are you saying that if I was very responsible, it'd be OK for me to drink beer, smoke pot, and get into R rated movies? Disregarding the pot-smoking, beer-drinking part, aren't you saying what I'm saying, that responsible people (like me, even if you refuse to believe it) should be able to get into R rated movies? The second part of your post is very confusing.
I'm 16 years old. I'll tell you something, I'm more mature than half the adults I know, and it really irritates me that I can't see "R" rated movies. For God's sake, "Shakespeare In Love" was rated R. Why? There's very little nudity and very little swearing. Yet some committee decided that it was inappropriate for me and my girlfriend to see. Because, apparently, they're idiots. Telivision does not warp people's minds. Ditto for movies, video games, music...If a perrson goes postal after seeing "The Matrix," it was not due to the violence within that movie, but rather it was caused by an underlying mental instability. Or, put differently, media only screws up people who were already screwed up. I ask finally, what the hell is the point of filtering the filth in the cinema so that only "mature adults" can experience it, when the filth is otherwise all around us? Gimme a break. Jeez, "South Park" seems downright wholesome when compared to the stuff I could be getting off the 'net right now. So why waste time, effort and opportunity for profit by trying to stop me from seeing what I want to see, when I'm gonna see it anyway, one way or another?
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C'mon, nobody sees the humor in that statement? I laughed out loud.
Why is everybody so down on Johnny Mnemonic? I read Idoru (the only Gibson my local library has) right after the movie came out, and it gave me the impression that JM must have been Gibson's high point. That book sucked. Anyway, will somebody explain to me why everybody hated the movie?
Eat my shorts!
OK! Mmmm, shorrtts...
America has been working on getting rid of socialists for so long, I must say that it's sorta vaguely refreshing to see one on /. OTOH, the idea that this is "greed law" is ridiculous. This movie took millions to make; without laws in place so that Lucas & Co. can make that back, groovy movies like this could not be made.
Dammit, my mother is NOT on the cover of Crack Whore Magazine!
Hey, can you explain to me the Shadowrun system for certified cred? My friends and I never got that.
Bomberman, Bomberman, mass destruction across the land
In response to your sig...
You hella suck!!!
Thank you.
Ah, crap, I forgot that people here are smart and can read French. Anyway, unless this 3 year old's parents are buying crack to feed him, I have no idea where he'd get the stuff. For a ten year old, he would be dependent on his parents for money, so I don't know how he'd get it either. That does it for small children. Teenagers, on the other hand, can already get the stuff (and I live in suburbia, so I assume this must be universal). The only thing that changes is that they can no longer be busted for it, which would save the state money and would prevent many lives from being needlesly ruined.
And what the hell do you mean, about the "one eyebrow?" I don't get it.
Morons like you are the reason the Republicans are never gonna take back the presidency. You guys really are God' gift to mankind, just not the way you seem to think you are.
Remarkable. You are obviously an idiot, with a poor grasp of Christianity (for instance, you don't seem to understand that God never made any rule against lying). And you expect nerds (this is a nerd site, it says so below "Slashdot," don't bother saying that you're not a nerd) to accept what you say, or even to agree with you. Were you also on some kind of mind-altering drug when you posted this?
Morals are always subjective. Example: it is wrong to kill. Yet we kill killers all the time. Bad example, since I myself am against the death penalty. Or how about World War II, which people always mention as a "good" war. War is a sin, yet would it not also have been wrong to allow the slaughter to continue? So which is right? And suicide is wrong, but what if you were to kill yourself in an effort to save lives (think nuclear meltdown).
Je suis sur le crack.
You know what? I'm missing out on all three, and my life sucks. I'm looking into adding some more mind-altering drugs (although they're mostly too expensive for me) or perhaps some random sex into my life. The senseless violence has been pretty much ruled out at this point.
Is profanity OK on /.? I'm not exactly clear on that.
Anyway, profanity is not a cause of homocidal mania. I swear, my friends swear, my teacher swear, my parents swear, President Clinton swears, and everbody except Clinton turned out all right. In fact, I think that profanity, in allowing you to express frustration better than "clean" words, actually helps you vent that frustration and keeps you sane. This is similar to how some deeply religious people, who refuse to talk about sex in any way, then go on to commit sex crimes in numbers a percentage point or two higher than the average population.
That guy who wrote Starship Troopers made an interesting point on this subject. The teacher dude was talking about voting, and said that he could see no reason why a thirty year old moron was better suited to vote than a ten year old genius. He didn't extend the point to legal drugs, but the same argument could be made. In fact, the teens I know (I'm 16 years old, read my earlier post where I bitched about how adults suck) are better at handling alcohol that certain adults I know. At least the teenagers don't go on three-day drinking binges, and spend a week either passed out or ill and vomiting every twenty minutes.
Je suis sur le crack.
I'd just like to point out that lying isn't evil. God, who pretty much banned everything else that's supposedly "bad" when he dictated the 10 Commandments to Moses, actually left out "Thou shalt not lie," and instead went with the watered-down version "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor," which seems to mean, "don't lie when it would have a negative impact on someone else."
Interesting. You don't know the half of it, but you know enough to say that that my fragile little mind should be protected from what you arbitrarily decide is filth. What could possibly be the harm of letting me see, say, "Starship Troopers" (which comes to mind 'cause they wouldn't let me in way back when it came out; one of only three times I'm been turned back at the box office)? Ok, so there's decapitations and nudity. I honestly don't know what my reaction should have been had I been "mature," but given that it's like two years later and I'm still a totally functional human being gives me the impression that my mind was overly warped.
Also interesting was how you put weed on the same level as beer and "South Park." And, by your last statement, are you saying that if I was very responsible, it'd be OK for me to drink beer, smoke pot, and get into R rated movies? Disregarding the pot-smoking, beer-drinking part, aren't you saying what I'm saying, that responsible people (like me, even if you refuse to believe it) should be able to get into R rated movies? The second part of your post is very confusing.
Thank god, there's someone with a sane opinion.
I'm 16 years old. I'll tell you something, I'm more mature than half the adults I know, and it really irritates me that I can't see "R" rated movies. For God's sake, "Shakespeare In Love" was rated R. Why? There's very little nudity and very little swearing. Yet some committee decided that it was inappropriate for me and my girlfriend to see. Because, apparently, they're idiots.
Telivision does not warp people's minds. Ditto for movies, video games, music...If a perrson goes postal after seeing "The Matrix," it was not due to the violence within that movie, but rather it was caused by an underlying mental instability. Or, put differently, media only screws up people who were already screwed up.
I ask finally, what the hell is the point of filtering the filth in the cinema so that only "mature adults" can experience it, when the filth is otherwise all around us? Gimme a break. Jeez, "South Park" seems downright wholesome when compared to the stuff I could be getting off the 'net right now. So why waste time, effort and opportunity for profit by trying to stop me from seeing what I want to see, when I'm gonna see it anyway, one way or another?