Posts by giovanni tiso
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In a nutshell, I don't have one
Pffft. Everybody should have one of those.
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On which subject, Philip.
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I'm really not sure what recent action spectacle you'd be unfavourably comparing it to.
Other than the fact that it was trite, boring and predictable in its outcome, you mean? There is a difference between technically accomplished - brilliantly realised as you put it - and imaginative and memorable. Seeing that there is nothing that sets that scene apart (compositionally, in terms of how it is written), as soon as it gets superseded from a technical standpoint - which ought to happen in about twenty minutes from now - it will be completely forgotten.
The action scenes in Aliens or the two Terminators are worlds apart, there is absolutely no comparison. Seriously, the exoskeleton thing, again? For crying out loud. And incidentally I think it's what ruined the otherwise excellent District 9 too, which turned about halfway into yet another derivative sci-fi action film. They're all mostly copied from Aliens, but that doesn't give Cameron a pass just because he's copying from himself.
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China Mieville on CGI effects rotting science-fiction from the inside.
(And he should know, being a science-fiction writer and all. Cross-threading, just like that, look at me go.)
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And Murdoch is Australian and the film was made in New Zealand. It's a poscolonial fruit salad.
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If you mean gang-like patches, I've been trying to convince Russell to get on to that for months. He's just not exploring the merchandising potential of having all these sycophants lying around.
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I have never seen them in English, though. Are they available?
Yes, Wellington library has the lot and I would be surprised if the Auckland circuit didn't also.
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I think Kilgore Trout is my favourite sci-fi author
Another as-of-yet culpably omitted luminary: Stanislav Lem. I still have Solaris down as one of the great novels of the twentieth century.
to a series of historical doorstops that on sight fill me with frankly the same horror as for e.g. the discovery of the existence of another pile of cack from Stephen Donaldson.
I used to like him a lot, but midway through the Baroque cycle I considered having a whip-round to get him an editor. All of those books would be better off by being a couple of hundred pages shorter.
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I did, and I remain unconvinced that her taxonomy is particularly useful.
It's an extraordinarily patronising piece, but a big step up from squids in space you'll have to admit.
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Yes, I think I had mentioned upthread she had since largely retracted, and to her credit - that's the essay I was thinking of.