I'm largely sympathetic to Jennifer's reading of the film, but I think Avatar is a bit harder to pin down ideologically when it comes to disability than she suggests, which is part of what I find so interesting about the film. There's a sen ...
I've seen Miami Vice: The Movie (as I like to call it) twice: once in the theater and then again right after it came out on DVD. Both times I felt like the movie was all tone, no depth. Now, part of me was blown away by the tone – for creating an all ...
Now that you mention it, I can think of a number of similar examples. Danny Glover's character is set to retire in the first Lethal Weapon film. The Brave One, of course, is a re-imagining of Death Wish, only Bronson was in his early fifties (and st ...
Action movies are a global phenomenon, I agree, but why do you think this is the case? The reason that usually gets cited – i.e., the emphasis on spectacle over dialogue – has never satisfied me because a lot of spectacle-heavy genres (e.g., musicals) are ...
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Prostheses and Environments
Story > Tone
Now that you mention it, I
But why?
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