From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 9/19/2020 1:12 PM, Jack Bohn wrote:   
   > Wolffan wrote:   
   >> On 18 Sep 2020, Jack Bohn wrote   
   >> (in article<859729c5-c099-445a...@googlegroups.com>):   
   >>> TCM is showing two James Caan sf movies, "Rollerball" and "Countdown". (I   
   >>> suppose "Alien Nation" is too new to be a Classic Movie, or, more likely,   
   >>> they didn't buy the rights from Fox.)   
   >> Alien Nation has some pretty bad biology, even for Holyweird.   
   >   
   >   
   > I tend to think of them as comedy elements.  Particularly the dissolving in   
   salt water -- is it possible for a planet to have a water cycle without large   
   bodies eventually becoming salt?  The old joke line about if we get in a fight   
   I will bleed all    
   over you could be seen as a threat by Newcomers.   
   >   
   > Might as well slag "Rollerball," whille I'm off the subject.  Criticizing   
   violence in entertainment, or exploiting it? I could go either way, but there   
   is also this scene where the jaded rich destroy trees to show how evil they   
   are.  Many shots of this,   
    which... don't look like special effects.   I'm guessing the director sees   
   these as cases where it's alright for HIM to do it, but not others.   
   >   
   I don't think that scene was there to show the rich as "evil" per se,   
   just jaded and bored.  Getting drunk/stoned and blowing stuff up is   
   exciting for them.   
      
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