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miki-chan: You'll always be a winner in my eyes.

:lol: I think the "waking up" thing had to do with when the waking-up occurs structurally, not with the fact that both films have characters who wake up. Some of the other comparisons have to do with how the shots are framed... at least the matrix has better neck jacks, i know a girl who's...

Here's a pretty thorough comparison of the two films:

http://www.mkygod.com/matrixgits/

Since you mentioned The Matrix , I'll mention Luc Besson's The Fifth Element . The Jean-Paul Gaultier costumes had a comic-influenced sensibility (a French sensibility, of course), and the film featured design work by comic artists Mézières and Moebius. The movie isn't an adaptation of a particular ...

I love Enki Bilal's stuff. Nikopol is one of the great science fiction comics. Enki Bilal (Neil Gaiman has expressed interest in working with Bilal) and Moebius (whose work was exhibited with Miyazaki's at a 2004-2005 show in Paris) rock and are important to the world of science fiction and fantasy ...

Just finished watching "paranoia agent" too. A good series, but could have ended half way through in my opinion. I just felt like the whole second half was just the set-up for another "big-terrible-thing-taking-over-everything" ending. Typically japanese/anime. ******POSSIBLE SP...

he's either a dangerous godhead puppet of the uber-rich or the world's greatest comedian..

Do you think these two things are mutually exclusive?

Perhaps we're speaking too loosely... But wouldn't these more recent terrorist cells be mimics of the US war-on-terror meme, rather than OBLs Jihad meme? Elmo, I have to disagree with you on these first points. It seems to me that your (implied) version downplays the manner in which a "jihadist...

Please forgive me if I have misinterpreted you, the subject seemed to broad. Not a problem, mirrormirror. I think the question was pretty specific, as I wanted to narrow or pin down the whole Cartesian dualism thing: The socialogical impact of this might make a resurgence of the ideals of Descartes...

I think someone should edit the Tachikomas' deaths from first season to Prince's "I Would Die 4 U." Just a thought.

Sorry, back to topic...

And Ghoda is behind everything is something I wholeheartedly agree with, and or his "emporor" sort of handler if he has one... Kinda looks like Darth w/out helmet too.... Tonks_kittygoth, I have to disagree with you. I think if you put Gouda in a tophat and made him wear a monocle, he'd l...

I suppose it would depend upon what you mean by mind . Could you also customize your mind, i.e. the wiring or function of your brain? If so, I suspect that such alterations would suggest something different from the concept of "mind" found within Cartesian mind-body dualism. Or would you s...

Not sure what you are saying here, if you are saying that she wasnt surpressing emotional reactions, using possible sentients as tool's fits into an unemotional reaction to me. Plus again I say it was a flawed decision because had they not somehow escaped getting thier memorys wiped Batou, and mayb...

Oh, back to topic.. cool quotations. Some quotations which I've used or to which I've alluded in recent offline conversations: Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher: "Now you can apply yourself voluntarily to reading and learning, but you cannot really apply yourself to thinking: thinking has...

Jameson's stuff is available at many bookstores; you can usually find it shelved among either the literary criticism or philosophy. Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera was restored and reissued by Image Entertainment a few years back, and as I said, Kino-Eye , a collection of his selected writings, is ...