"nu-monet v9.0" <nothing@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Modemac wrote:
>>
>> Yep, they're making a sequel to "WarGames:"
>>
>> http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060930d.php
>>
>> Apparently it's not the story of Matthew Broderick's
>> hacker kid, 25 years later.
>
>
> I doubt it will work. The original Wargames was actually
> a pretty thoughtful piece, containing elements of the
> "deux ex machina" fear, nuclear fear, computer fear, the
> Wizard of Oz, the military-industrial complex fear, and
> a healthy dollup of McGyver.
>
> It maintained a comfortable PG tension level through much
> of the movie, though some James Cameron-style direction
> and camerawork alone could have made it R.
>
> Undoubtedly the sequel will be scared of offending anyone
> with politics, the only association most people have with
> Homeland Security is air****t screeners, plus the OBVIOUS,
> GLARING problem that the star is WHITE and NOT A MOSLEM.
>
> The way Hollywood has confronted this in the past is to
> change Arab terrorists into neo-Nazis. In fact, Hollywood
> is so paranoid about making some country or racial group
> the bad guys that about the only ones they have left are
> neo-Nazis, since real Nazis are too old, evil cor****ations
> and the US government.
>
> It was positively staggering to see a James Bond movie
> taking the bold step of showing North Koreans as bad guys.
> They probably had to debate for months whether it would
> offend the Norks or not.
>
> Wargames 2 is either going to have to have one hell of a
> script, or it is going to bomb.
Naah, now that Homeland Security means 'able to Disappear American
citizens and torture them', they have a whole new batch of scary white
boogeymen to take advantage of.
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