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Larry Pieniazek writes:
> SST is on my top 10 books of all time and my 10 worst movies of all time
> at the same time. I can deal with people butchering the plot to a
> certain extent but the movie delivers the exact opposite message that
> the book does.
> The movie is a heavy handed gore fest that seems to be trying to
> ridicule the society Rico lives in in by dumbing down every aspect of
> it. The messages the government putatively sends its citizens are such
> an insult to their intelligence, that I can't believe even the moronic
> citizens that the movie writers cariacatured (can't really call it
> character DEVELOPMENT) would buy them. It is too gory and stupid for
> most adults, never mind any juveniles.
>
> I would be embarrassed and dismayed to live in Rico's world, as painted
> in the movie.
A friend of mine described it, in a tone he only uses for withering scorn, as
"Ken and Barbie Save the Universe, containing all the intellectual fiber of a
goat's diet."
After I saw it, it struck me that he might have been too kind. :)
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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