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• Ryan commented on Unbreakable (part 1)
  (Aargh! I've accidentally appropriated this aging thread into a movie discussion.) And what underlying themes can we deduce from this I wonder :p...
• RDSouth commented on Unbreakable (part 1)
  Is this the movie thread? Well, it's still interesting. "themes in the movies are accidental rather than deliberate " "one can read anything you want into them" Maybe the movie makers were aware that once something gets complicated and vague enough you can read multiple meanings into it. Pop lyrics are sort of like that, too. Most of the slangy monosyllables could be interpreted many ways. "Love" for example is basically a variable, "that person, place or thing I am extolling", that can be solved for as in an equation or riddle. Between vague movies and cipher lyrics there seems...
• Dave_the_Proc commented on Unbreakable (part 1)
  I had a big long rambling response to this typed up, and as interesting as I think the topic is, I feel that I'm hijacking the thread from what Stina originally posted about (plus the active discussion has moved on), and also getting lost in a maze of my own making as regards THE MATRIX and SUCKER PUNCH in particular (I quite enjoyed the former, flaws and all; felt that the latter was a waste of time and energy)....
• TRX commented on Unbreakable (part 1)
  Thirteenth Floor You might like the original novel, Daniel Galouye's "Simulacron-3" from 1964. Galouye's description of what we now call "virtual reality" and what it might be commercially useful for was very good, decent story too. When I re-read it a few years ago, I was hard put to remember it had been written in 1964....
• zhochaka commented on Unbreakable (part 1)
  I have discovered that I have the DVD of Cleopatra 2525, that TV series from the turn of the century which features three minimally-dressed young ladies fighting an alien invasion. It passes the Bechdel test, but the DVD cover sort of hints at how significant that is. Get your eye-candy here. (Yes, that is Gina Torres, and none of them are dreadfully top-heavy.) (And for our more perverted readers: Tank Vixens!) Filming a live-action version would depend on finding a blonde bimbo who can manage to say "socio-political ramifications" with a straight face and a sexy voice....