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   From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 8:01:06 PM UTC-7, wlah...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Hey,   
   > Is Joan Baez the kiss of death to this flick or what? The premise of   
   > this flick makes little sense and that's not always a deal breaker in   
   > a sci-fi film. In this case, the real problem is making Freeman (get   
   > it?) Lowell (Bruce Dern) likable and sane. To make him the whackjob he   
   > actually should be would undermine the eco-message that is rather   
   > heavily handled. When you have Joan Baez sing about innocent children   
   > as a soundtrack to a suicidal nuclear explosion, something is deeply   
   > and profoundly bent in how this film presents itself. The basic gist   
   > seems to be: We are HAL. Not surprising that the director -- Douglas   
   > Trumbull -- worked with Stanley Kubrick on "2001: A Space Odyssey."   
   > Good -- if misdirected -- work by Dern in a film that never defines   
   > itself from the confusion that seems to drive it. It may be a seminal   
   > work in that it inspired many others but I found it to be a unhinged   
   > metaphor banging against hollow wood.   
   > William   
      
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