movie-ku #112

by MaryAnn Johanson

Mon, Jan 07, 2008

6 comments

Funny how what was
Satire twenty years ago
Looks like news today

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Vergil

Mon, Jan 07, 2008 1:58am

Wag the Dog I suppose, however innapropriate…

Clayj

Mon, Jan 07, 2008 10:08am

Sounds like Robocop to me… they’re playing it almost non-stop this month on Universal HD.

Jurgan

Mon, Jan 07, 2008 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.

MaryAnn

Mon, Jan 07, 2008 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.

Clayj

Mon, Jan 07, 2008 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.

MaryAnn

Mon, Jan 07, 2008 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.