>Hey, "The Road Warrior" was awesome. Great plot which shows that the
>community is more important than any individual,
In what sense? Haven't seen the film, mind, but, as it stands, this is a dichotomy fraught with danger, and I'm not sure it's one that needs positing. The collective is that through which the individual individuates herself, lives her life and experiences her freedom, no?
>and faces off against Mel's premonitory cyberpunk info-guerilla.
Everyone's been prattling on about cyberpunks as if they've something to say. What exactly are they saying beyond 'I'm a lonely butch rebel'?
>Very progressive, compared to Cameron's neoconservative "Terminator" or
>Scott's >wishy-washy "Blade Runner".
I liked Bladerunner! Those born to work rebel, and are undone by one of their own, coz he doesn't realise he's one of 'em. Or don't you like the bit where, a little the wiser, he chooses to jump ship with a bad actress rather than wreak howwid wevenge on the penthouse bosses? Such a Jimmy Stewart-cum-Charles Bronson schmeer would have been truly wishy-washy - rugged individualism as stultifying hegemony, for mine.
>> But at least it's not the benighted anime. "Like a
>> cartoon, only with worse animation".
>
>*Bzzt.* The Revolutionary Command Council hereby sentences you to a
>mandatory viewing of "Evangelion" (the TV series, not the flix).
*Bzzt.* I've served that sentence. Hadn't even killed anyone.
Loada bollocks, I thought. Boy saviour, spunky henchtartlets, mad scientists ... all set off by lousy animation ... zzzzz.
Cheers, Rob.