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   Lukas Mariman to All   
   Re: Surrogate   
   06 Nov 09 14:20:02   
   
   From: lukas.mariman@REMOVEgmail.com   
      
   "Ned Ludd"  schreef in bericht   
   news:2bmdnZnx7Y3ibHDXnZ2dnUVZ_oydnZ2d@speakeasy.net...   
   > lcz wrote:   
   >> Just poking my nose in here.  I'm an old fashioned Luddite when it   
   >> comes to all the new methods of communication (FaceBook, Twitter, et   
   >> al), so my post is going here for anyone who still follows this   
   >> newsgroup.   
   >>   
   >> Has anyone seen the new Bruce Willis movie Surrogate?  What did you   
   >> think of it?   
   >>   
   >> In just looking at the trailers, I feel right at home.  Why?  Because   
   >> Hopedale, MA was one of the primary filming sites for this film.  My   
   >> children go to school in Hopedale and I am intimately familiar with   
   >> the whole town.   
   >>   
   >> (preens in the almost brush with celebrity)   
   >>   
   >> lcz   
   >   
   > Somewhat predictable, perhaps, but I very much enjoyed it.   
   >   
   > Whole society sitting in chairs, safe in their apartments, connected to   
   > androids (too mechanical to be replicants) and walking around in the real   
   > world.   
   >   
   > Bruce Willis playing a cop, a little more "action-hero" than Deckard, a   
   > little less analytical.   
   >   
   > ... and the whole surrogate thing made a really good excuse for   
   > larger-than-life special effects.   
   >   
   > I won't post a spoiler, not that anyone would be hugely surprised, but it   
   > was fun.   
      
   I liked it too. It felt like the kind of story you'd see in one of those   
   sci-fi anthology series such as Twilight Zone.   
      
      
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