Kids are the target audience! I'm glad someone has made the key point.
It's a bit silly that a lot of adults are sitting around holding forth on how a movie for pre-teen boys touched them (or didn't). It kind of reminds me of an old Saturday Night Live skit entitled "Women's Issues", where the entire panel of commentators was made up of men.
Films like this are wonderful for 12 year olds. I'm hoping it will be the same kind of breakout fantasy for twelve year olds today that Star Wars was for me in 1977 when I was twelve.
I remember seeing the 20th anniversary re-release of Star Wars in the theaters in 1997. It was campy and Luke was a whiny twit. However, Star Wars was for boys and I let it slide. Sky Captain is for boys. Cut it some slack and escape back to when you were twelve.
Now, I hope this generation can find a replacement for the other breakout movie from when I was 12, Saturday Night Fever!
I don't have a problem with this. The hospital and the winning nurse are entering into a voluntary agreement. Who am I, as an outsider, to stand in the way.
Abuse by the hospital and incompetent nursing will be prevented by the negative feedback loop of malpractice lawsuits.
IBM recognized that there is a parade going on for open source and they decided to get out in front of it. Good for them.
Microsoft would like to break up that parade by any means possible. Microsoft would like there to be a Tiananmen Square massacre of that parade. In the Tiananmen scenario, where freedom seeking teenagers are slaughtered by tanks, Microsoft would like to be the Communist Chinese government.
I love watching the Microsoft vs Linux battle in China unfold. The PRC government is the heavily centralized power in China. It is totalitarian and oppressive even though it doles out autonomy on a limited basis.
It is ironic that China is turning to Linux as an alternative to MS. Linux's genesis is based on a very decentralized western style meritocracy. Only the freedoms of liberal democracies could produce something like Linux.
What if everyone has needs and nobody has abilities?
How does the state discover the abilities of each citizen? Can the state compell those abilities to come forth?
How come Silicon Valley did not happen in one of your utopian Socialist Democracies?
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Kids are the target audience! I'm glad someone has made the key point.
It's a bit silly that a lot of adults are sitting around holding forth on how a movie for pre-teen boys touched them (or didn't). It kind of reminds me of an old Saturday Night Live skit entitled "Women's Issues", where the entire panel of commentators was made up of men.
Films like this are wonderful for 12 year olds. I'm hoping it will be the same kind of breakout fantasy for twelve year olds today that Star Wars was for me in 1977 when I was twelve.
I remember seeing the 20th anniversary re-release of Star Wars in the theaters in 1997. It was campy and Luke was a whiny twit. However, Star Wars was for boys and I let it slide. Sky Captain is for boys. Cut it some slack and escape back to when you were twelve.
Now, I hope this generation can find a replacement for the other breakout movie from when I was 12, Saturday Night Fever!
I don't have a problem with this. The hospital and the winning nurse are entering into a voluntary agreement. Who am I, as an outsider, to stand in the way.
Abuse by the hospital and incompetent nursing will be prevented by the negative feedback loop of malpractice lawsuits.
IBM recognized that there is a parade going on for open source and they decided to get out in front of it. Good for them.
Microsoft would like to break up that parade by any means possible. Microsoft would like there to be a Tiananmen Square massacre of that parade. In the Tiananmen scenario, where freedom seeking teenagers are slaughtered by tanks, Microsoft would like to be the Communist Chinese government.
I love watching the Microsoft vs Linux battle in China unfold. The PRC government is the heavily centralized power in China. It is totalitarian and oppressive even though it doles out autonomy on a limited basis.
It is ironic that China is turning to Linux as an alternative to MS. Linux's genesis is based on a very decentralized western style meritocracy. Only the freedoms of liberal democracies could produce something like Linux.
What if everyone has needs and nobody has abilities? How does the state discover the abilities of each citizen? Can the state compell those abilities to come forth? How come Silicon Valley did not happen in one of your utopian Socialist Democracies?