Sunday, March 25, 2007

People Who Don't Need People

300 has recently been surpassed in the boxoffice listings by the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles non-interactive video game. Two Blowhards are are debating the relative merits of 300 here, in an interesting article which includes this great line:

"300" and films like it represent -- I can't help feeling -- the end of an art form that I loved and the beginning of something that I don't care about one way or the other.

What do you call these things? Digital hallucinations for people who aren't particularly interested in people? I like this comment: "The arts are leaving the human behind. What rough beast slouches out of the shopping malls (waiting?)to be born?"

1 comment:

Greg von Winckel said...

Some of the posted comments below the review are interesting too, as is the Neal Stephenson blurb, which someone mentioned.