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"The internet is an evil construct that’s causing us to submissively open our arms to totalitarianism! No, this isn’t another one of my posts about how our society is entering the world of The Matrix. This is the belief and fear of Barry Sonnenfeld, the director of Men in Black, Men in Black II and Wild Wild West, clearly a fan of lighter sci-fi than of the Orwellian sort. Speaking this week at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Vegas, he lashed out against the internet, because of how it’s threatening democracy: Sonnenfeld fears that children today will grow up with “no concept of the right to privacy and in fact not understand the need for it. Because the Facebook generation is not concerned with what people know about them . . . they will have no problem with additional governmental supervision, spying and intervention. They will be thrilled that the Internet will be "
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"For me, this is one of those "comfort movies" that I love to watch on those rainy days when you get nothing done. I like watching the extended edition best, even though it makes the film almost tedious to watch...although by the time the movie ends, if I'm watching on a rainy day, I'm usually asleep. Great FX (for it's time) and likeable, blue-collar characters all around. "
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"In my DVD library, scifi and fantasy are held in high esteem and are arranged separately, from each other as genres and from the rest of the bunch, so that I can easily peruse them when I am getting the fix to watch something in either genre. After watching Willow, my eyes traveled over both genre collections and landed on this movie from 1989. For some reason, I had to pull it out and watch it again, likely because it had been a few years since I saw it last.Funny thing about the Abyss and my love for it: I think it's a great little film for what it is, which I will talk about in a bit. Yet, in order for the film to really work for me, I can't watch it repeatedly, over and over. I've seen the movie, perhaps, five times, all of which have been spread over the course of the years since its release. The Abyss works as a film, in my estimation, primarily for one reason--namely, the moods and atmosphere created by story and concept: tension, intensity, and even some sp ... "
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Rixflix A to Z: The Abyss (1989)
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"I don't swim very well. I drop -- Nay! I plummet to the bottom of any body of water. I do the proper type of kicking and I make the right arm movements, but somehow my trajectory in the water takes a sharp turn downward and soon I am plowing through everyone's feet. I'm fine at the bottom of the pool, because there is no further room for me to drop, and suddenly I turn into The Man From Atlantis (Hey! Where is that on DVD, huh?) I float the way that lead doesn't; the Mafia ties me to the feet of snitches to drown them in the East River. I swim like the United States conducts its police actions: messily and with many casualties, and at great taxpayer expense.Despite my inclination to never go in the water, I love the ocean. Love movies about it, love TV shows about it; read about it all the time. I am obsessed with sharks to a degree that drives Jen to shake her head in consternation. And, yeah, I have been digging James Cameron's deep sea efforts of late, his do ... "
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"I am not going to just say this movie sucked. Cause that would not be totally true. It would, however, be mostly true."The Abyss" is another James Cameron movie that is all in water. And once again he proves his mirth as a righter and basically puts a swear every other word. I have nothing really against swearing. But when the dialogue is along the lines of: "Sh*t, we on on this f*cking sh*t rig thing piece of crap down here and there is some god d*mn f*ucked up sh*t going on down here. Oh sh*t one of the crew people persons is dyeing, now we are really f*cked man." etc. it just gets really annoying.The movie is really not much to look at ether. Nothing really new or interesting happening in the a "
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"The Abyss (1989), directed by James Cameron, starts off as an expensive underwater American macho adventure, but gets better and better until its moralistic ending which I liked. An underwater oil rig crew is commandeered, if that is the military word, to investigate a nuclear sub that has gone down suspiciously in the Cayman Trench in the Caribbean. A storm comes up and everything goes wrong. Finally, the creature that has been causing a lot of the trouble intervenes to say what it is doing and what it would like. Although the “special edition” was a bit long, I did not regret watching this movie. "
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