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posted by Vergil (Mon Jan 07 08, 1:58AM)
Wag the Dog I suppose, however innapropriate...
posted by Clayj (Mon Jan 07 08, 10:08AM)
Sounds like Robocop to me... they're playing it almost non-stop this month on Universal HD.
posted by Jurgan (Mon Jan 07 08, 11:36AM)
I don't think this is a guess the movie thing, but Wag the Dog would work. I also saw Network for the first time a few weeks ago, and that's amazingly relevant. Neither of those are twenty years ago, but the point is the same.
posted by MaryAnn (Mon Jan 07 08, 2:24PM)
Lots of movies work, but I was indeed watching *Robocop* on Universal HD when I was inspired to write this. I can't believe how fresh the film feels... which is scary.
posted by Clayj (Mon Jan 07 08, 2:54PM)
For a second there, I forgot that you do get UHD, MaryAnn... it's HDNet Movies you don't get, right?
Robocop = teh awes0me*
Robocop 2 = meh
Robocop 3 = barf
* The tech is still hopelessly retro... tube TVs, for example... but Boddicker uses something eerily prescient of a DVD to deliver Jones' message to Bob Morton.
posted by MaryAnn (Mon Jan 07 08, 10:25PM)
Hey, I just discovered that I get UHD...
And no, I don't get any HDNet channels. I actually had an email conversation with Mark Cuban -- yes, that Mark Cuban -- about this, and basically the problem is that my cable company does indeed officially Suck.
posted by Tonio Kruger (Tue Jan 08 08, 5:49PM)
"Robocop" wasn't all that fresh.
But I can see I'm never going to win this argument so let's just say my initial reaction to the film was a lot like some sci-fi fans' "good-but-not-as-original-as-its-makers-think-it-is" reaction to "The Matrix." Only without the "good" part.
Plus, the success of "Robocop" killed any chance of us ever seeing a film version of Harlan Ellison's "Brillo."
Which is a shame.