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more about #robocop ♠ Final ♠: Going shopping on Friday made me want to reclaim some cold, hard humanity and make a statement against American consumerism. more » AngeloPolyxena: no one minded when luke killed a billion sentient beings on an artificial planetoid. more » Jeyl: "Does Marcus actually kill anybody directly, or just cause their deaths by tearing apart their security?" No. The only time anyone dies while persuin... more » Klebert L. Hall: People (many of them, anyway) enjoy violence, and watching it on a screen is probably better than going out and comiting it upon the innocent. Very f... more » comrade_leviathan: This entire discussion does hinge on the concept of acceptable collateral damage. Working for the greater good with the greatest possible expediency ... more » David Grossman: Excellent essay. There's never been an exactly clean way to deal with massive body counts in movie. Like in The Terminator, when the terminator kills ... more » origin002: Batman begins sticks out in my mind for this. The scene that bugged me was when he dropped little explosive devices that flipped cop cars. I'm sure th... more » elysdir: I was gonna toss in a discussion of BSG here, but I'm not sure how relevant it is. Still, I think it's at least tangentially connected: Cylons kill *b... more » Faustic_Caust: We need more movies about heroes trying to discharge their humanity. more » wetware242: i am not sure that these examples are about reclaiming humanity so much as control, volition and person-hood. i think it is not so much whether the h... more » tnmnsquare: Hercules and Odysseus run through friends like kleenex. That's why I avoid heroes or doing heroic things. more » DraconisXC: Clearly the lesson to take away from these movies is: you can only be unique if everyone else is dead. more » jamesryan: Would I be wrong in assuming that the last time we had a hero trying to achieve his humanity by NOT killing everyone was in the movie THE IRON GIANT? ... more » Sproing: A great video essay by Matt Zoller Seitz, about Eastwood movies, touches on a lot of these points. And since Eastwood's heroes are the proto-Wolverine... more » MyCityScreams: This rant shows a lack of empathy for the character's situation. Most, if not all, are facing a "kill or be killed" scenario. In what parallel dimensi... more » SJ_Edwards: All these have one thing in common. They're written by writers working in the movies. They're flat-out revenge fantasies. Kill the director, kill t... more » Canoehead: You conflate killing with murder. more » shoroko: I imagine you're probably right, though I haven't seen enough of these movies to comment on them in particular. I guess that regardless of the circums... more » Mr.Gawn: "It's time to prove to your friends that you're worth a damn. Sometimes that means dying. Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people." - Dwight,... more » Strakus: Solid points all. I think it simply boils down to the fact that action, and righteous fury, and all the rest, are akin to a drug for the viewer. Have ... more » -
#rant
Reclaiming Your Humanity Means Killing A Whole Lot Of People
Wolverine, out on DVD recently, is a great example of one of the silliest clichés in escapist entertainment: someone reclaims his/her true humanity and unique individuality — by killing everyone in sight. What the hell is this about?
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#futurelaw
THEY ARE THE LAW!
If there's one thing that the science fiction of our youth taught us, it's that the future will be almost comedically tough, meaning that lawmen of the future will have to be even tougher just to get the job done. More » -
#top10
Top 10 Most Corrupt Mayors From Science Fiction
You think your city's leadership is bad? Just look at these 10 stand-out examples of terrible mayors and awful city leaders from science fiction and urban fantasy. They steal, they kill, they won't give the people air! More » -
#movieposters
Classic Movies Get Silkscreen Poster Update
Tyler Stout designs incredibly detailed screenprinted movie posters that give classic science fiction films an updated look while offering newer movies a touch of vintage Hollywood charm. More » -
#robocop
RoboCop Crushed By Natalie Portman's Ballerina
Good news for remake-haters, bad news for cyborg-lovers. We reported the other day that Darren Aronofsky's RoboCop remake was delayed until at least 2011, and now it looks like it'll be a lot longer. Aronofsky's making a supernatural ballerina movie. More » -
#stealthispitch
What TV Shows Should Be Animated To Stay Alive?
With the announcement that Futurama is coming back as a series six years after its cancellation - mirroring Family Guy's resurrection - we got to thinking about which SF shows could use a little animated spell to get healthy again. More » -
#robocop
Aronofsky's Robocop Delayed Until 2011
The announcement of a new Robocop comics title this week only reinforced our curiosity about the status of the upcoming movie reboot, about which we've heard nothing in recent months. So we called MGM and got the 411.
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#robocop
Robocop's Comic Return Will Be Soon, Violent
While Robocop's movie return may still be a while off, the policeman-formerly-known-as Alex Murphy will be seen again sooner than you may expect; Dynamite have announced that they're bringing the character back to comics, and back to his roots. More » -
#triviagasm
The Composers That Make Space Adventures Epic
Space is silent and vast, but we can't feel the awe and terror of epic space battles without great music. Here's our list of the ten composers without whom science fiction would feel as empty as the void. (With samples.) More » -
#triviagasm
15 Evil Corporations in Science Fiction
If you're looking for a job, here's a list of successful, influential corporations you might want to work for. That is, as long as you don't ask too many questions.
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#triviagasm
Elvis Has Left the Planet
Hip-shaking, pill-popping rocker Elvis Presley officially died in 1977, but he keeps popping up, at least in science fiction. Think Elvis lives? We list scifi’s explanations for what really became of the King. More » -
#robocop
We Are All Robocop, Says Remake Director
Darren Aronofsky may be denying that his Robocop remake exists, but he's also admitting that it's inspired in part by getting an MRI and realizing that everyone is Robocop. Signs of genius? We think so. -
#music
RoboCop Rap Dispenses Rhyming Justice
The latest RoboCop movie comes not from Darren Aronofsky, but from musicians The Anomalies. Their video mixes clips from RoboCop with their own beats and lyrics for a hip hop summary of the original film.
