Uncomfortable plot summaries

[firecat]

(via jae)

My favorite (because I always thought so): GROUNDHOG DAY: Misanthropic creep exploits space/time anomaly to stalk coworker

The OH tells about a friend who was able to sum up any story in a sentence. He was challenged to sum up Dune and he said "Two gangs fight it out over the drug trade." There are a couple of other plot summaries of Dune in the comments to that post.

Comments

[firecat]

The one for Blade Runner pretty much sums up my take on the movie too. I have tried really hard to like that movie because it seems more or less required for someone who is the kind of SF fan I am to like it. But I just don't.

[graymalkin13.livejournal.com]

I actually like Blade Runner (except for the annoying "love story"). Mostly I like the visuals, the world Ridley Scott created, and the replicant characters. When it first came out -- before I saw it -- friends of mine criticized the film for being misogynist, and I can see how it would come across that way. But there's a lot of other stuff going on in the movie that appeals to me.