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Wednesday, 6 May 2009

Spoilers? - 10 Best Head-Scratching Stories, Explained

http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-05/st_best

11 comments:

  1. I *still* don't understand Donnie Darko, even with that explanation! But "hippie-dippy starchild" - ace!

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  2. Not convinced. I'm in the Deckard is human camp. That's why Roy Batty kick's Deckard's ass.

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  3. But if you were trying to design and improve on "more human than human", you'd end up with a caring sorta guy, who gets his butt kicked by an earlier, inferior design.

    Or something.

    BTW - BluRay transfer - stunning. :-)

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  4. Yeah, that one is flat out wrong. Deckard is completely human, in both book and film, and there is no reason to think otherwise.

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  5. The uncomfortable plot summaries link in the comments is great. My favourites:

    Batman: Wealthy man assaults the mentally ill.
    The Golden Compass: Critique of Catholicism upstaged by polar bear fight.
    The Shining: Wife and son keep author from finishing his novel.

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  6. THE WICKER MAN: Isolated religious community revitalized by newcomer.

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  7. With a name like that, I always thought he ought to be a character in Coronation Street.

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  8. I wonder whether it's a pun on 'Robot'?

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