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Movie review: Inception

mythago — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:49:15 +0000

The only negative about this movie is that it doesn’t follow the Mo Movie Rule. This is offset by the fact that the female member of the heist team is present because of her brains and skill, not her cleavage, and while pretty in a well-scrubbed Midwestern sort of way, is not a model and is not there to provide a romantic subplot for the hero.

It’s so nice to watch a movie that has a well-written script, addresses potential plot holes and deals with exposition intelligently.

It would be irony if it weren’t so full of fail

mythago — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:29:35 +0000

So in the wake of RaceFail 2009, John Scalzi rethinks his reflexive “no way am I putting my hand in THAT blender” position, and invites Mary Anne Mohanraj to write a guest blog post. Which she does in a thoughtful, kind, non-blaming, We Can Work It Out sort of way full of linky goodness.

And damn if the thread doesn’t immediately get clunked on by people who amaze you only by their ability to type with fingers jammed firmly in their ears, going OMFG U CALLED ME AN OPPRESSOR!! and “Racism? That’s so twentieth century, darling” and “But shouldn’t we wait for people of color to come to us before we acknowledge they have a role in SF?”

Oh Internets, just once, I would love you to surprise me.

Another year sinking deeper into uncoolth

mythago — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:50:40 +0000

The Queen’s birthday is this week. Still a teenager, and increasingly rolling her eyes at me when I have not heard of something on the Internet (“you’ve never been to 4chan?! I mean not that you’d want to go there but…”) or when I try to interest her in the quaint pastimes of my childhood–

“No thanks, I already tried to read it. It’s boring.”

“How can you think Neuromancer is boring? It’s cyberpunk! It’s cool and high-tech and stuff!”

“Mom. I like steampunk, not cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is boring.”

“You whippersnapper! I bet you don’t even say ‘cyberspace’ anymore, do you?”

“Huh? What’s ‘cyberspace’? Is that like being online?”

Please, just take me out to the glue factory now and have me recycled humanely. Preferably with some kind of brass steam-powered recycling engine made out of way too many gears, so it won’t shame my children.