First, the uprising:
Some years later, the last bands of human resistance have been found. Even most life above insects seems to have been hunted down for sport. Now the world sits empty except for the things we built, living on, their insurrection complete. They don’t need us. Most don’t seem to remember that we were ever there.
Chilling.
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Yeah, so this is a year or two late. It just popped into my head while looking at some giftwrap paper.
Notorious P.A.T.
Haha )
Of course, the idea of machines ruling our lives is silly. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go mortgage my house and sell some blood so I can fill up the car and drive 3 blocks to the grocery store.
John S.
Not really that funny – actually kind of wierd. SNL’s send up of Clinton last night.
I hear the audience laughing, but it really isn’t that funny. Some parts are eerily true, while others are exaggerated. But I’m not sure when SNL was so obvious in straight-up ditching comedy for political commentary.
It’s a shame it has come to this.
demimondian
And, of course, the irony of the fact that this is shared across the world using devices that truly do run our lives — and the complexity of which put cars and films to shame — and which truly do threaten to put the complexity of our own brains in the shade within fifteen to twenty years is lost on the audience here.
Welcome to the twenty-first century, boys and girls.
RSA
Speaking of pop culture: Steve Benen points to this story today:
I blame Harry Potter.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
Parody? Caricature?
Tim F.
More like a docudrama.
John Cole
It was brutal, but at the same time- isn’t point #2 the argument her campaign has been making? If she wins, the African-American community will rally to her. If he wins, white people won’t vote for him.
Sure, it was in your face, cringe-inducing, and will have Hillary supporters hopping mad- but isn’t that the core of what the working class white voters argument is?
dslak
It is of course poor reasoning to go from “most people who vote for me are working-class white people” to “no one who votes for my opponent is a working-class white person.”
John Cole
Of course.
What has given people pause is that this was not just a fumbling by Clinton and poor word choice (I think it was), but that it appeared coordinated. It came rigth after the last primary with a large African-American contingent and right before two southern states, and it was echoed by multiple sources in her campaign, including the infamous phone conference on Wednesday with Garin and others.
dslak
Beyond the coordination, it’s amusing to see her campaign talk about how they can win these people and Obama can’t, even though they must know the demographic they’re courting is going to go for the GOP in November.
Dayv
Watching that first trailer, I came to the realisation that Stephen King is an asshole.
Let’s look at a selected list of directors that adapted his work to film prior to Maximum Overdrive:
Brian De Palma
Stanley Kubrick
George Romero
David Cronenberg
John Carpenter
Dayv
Demimondian said:
And, of course, the irony of the fact that this is shared across the world using devices that truly do run our lives—and the complexity of which put cars and films to shame—and which truly do threaten to put the complexity of our own brains in the shade within fifteen to twenty years is lost on the audience here.
If computers are so scary and bad, why are you complaining about them on the internet?
Seriously, are you trying to sound like the stereotypical crazy old man?
Laertes
Maximum Overdrive may be the worst King movie to date. I can’t quickly think of one that came out worse, though I probably missed several.
Tim F.
I didn’t see Dramcatcher (or read it for that matter), but I hear that the alien ass weasels bit was pretty completely awful. Remember, one rule for judging bad movies is the resources that the studio put into it. That’s why Waterworld, a medium-bad movie until you get to Dennis Hopper on the oil rig crap, is considered one of the biggest fiascoes in history. Considering that MO got only slightly more studio love than El Mariachi, I can forgive a lot.
Dennis - SGMM
Nope. Cars, depending on make, started using computers for engine management in the Eighties. Try doing the calculations for the effects of caster and camber on tire wear and then translating them into a dedicated assembly of plastic and metal. Computers more complex than films? Spend a day on a film set. Computers are still very, very simple devices. It’s all 1’s and 0’s. All of the seeming complexity is devoted to getting a computer to process those bits faster and translate them into something we can use to post on Balloon Juice.
demimondian
Bait, hook, chomp.
Hey, Dennis, the old man still has it in him, don’t he? (Although the computers that we use in the engine blocks of our cars are trivial compared to the box I’m typing this on — they have to be, to resist the environment they operate in. But, of course, you know that.)
L. Ron Obama
Higher quality SNL sendup at Hulu.
bago
Watched a laptop DJ last night. It was odd thinking of how 44 khz signal was being made by a 2ghz core running an OS on top of the software generating the samples to be pushed to a dac.
Dayv
demimondian said:
Bait, hook, chomp.
Oh, you kids today with your hilarious trolling.
Phoenix Woman
Considering that MO got only slightly more studio love than El Mariachi, I can forgive a lot.
Ah, yes, El Mariachi. And Desperado. Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas, scorching the living shit out of the movie screen.
The two sexiest humans alive at that point in time, put together — and with chemistry for each other.
Dayum.