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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Airbolt[/i] [br]I watched "Gamer" the other night. I hadn't clicked that it was a Neveldine/Taylor movie but it wasn't a surprise when the credits came up. Someone has commented on this team that " they hate the audience they are making movies for". Certainly "Gamer" and "Crank" are products of their era - fast, bright and lashy. However, there is a disturbing undercurrent. For all the whizz-bangery of the visual imagery, underneath this surface a cauldron of sadism with a side of misogyny is bubbling. The audience for these films are presumably horny teen geeks with the attention span of a fruit fly. Crossing the music video with video games and anime should be exciting. So why do these movies feel so soul-destroying? Because they share a lot of the debasing and dehumanising aspects of Porn. Ah, you say - isn't that the point they are trying to make with the idea of real humans playing avatars in "Second Life"? It would be charitable to suppose so but I think the directors are both servicing and mocking their target audiences. I have no doubt they will be back, more's the pity. [/quote]    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature.