Friday night fortune cookie: Truman Burbank says…
“The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm!”
film criticism by maryann johanson | handcrafted since 1997
“The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm!”
I figured I was probably overthinking this, and should trust that it would all make sense, but I couldn’t help it. I knew that Bolt was about a dog who believes he has superpowers and actually fights crime alongside his beloved person, but he’s wrong because he’s just the canine star of a hit TV action show. I thought, How can a dog look at a green screen and see something that’s not there?
Welcome to *THX 11-Michael Bay*! It’s not a science fiction movie, but an incredible simulation!
If Shakespeare was alive today and writing science fiction, he might come up with something like the distopian GATTACA. GATTACA is real SF, not to be confused with the likes of Armageddon — GATTACA uses the conceits of science fiction not as an excuse for some really cool explosions but to explore what it means to be human.