REVIEWS: The Phippsian Reader
Jamas Enright
thad at eyrie.org
Sat May 14 13:22:35 PDT 2005
On 14 May 2005 phippsmartin at hotmail.com wrote:
> You make it sound as if I'm doing something new. Truth is that fourth
> wall breaking is extremely hard to do. It usually falls flat. Maybe
> 90% of my stuff falls flat because I break the fourth wall. But if I
> don't break the fourth wall then it is not an LNH story.
Although that isn't too imply you can't have an LNH story without breaking
the fourth wall. <...tries to think of an example...then remembers that he
himself broke the fourth wall in his latest issue of Alt.Riders, so shuts
up...>
> Others go further to the point of changing people's names too. Jamas
> once had a character refer to the "actress" JulIO Roberts and then
> pointed out that, in making the joke, he had given her a man's name.
> That's devotion.
...and I'm pretty sure that wasn't me. I usually find trying to come up
with net-based names to get in the way of telling the story. You thinking
of Jamie?
> Or perhaps I was just writing a review of The Day After Tomorrow in as
> entertaining a way as possible. Does it not bother you that the
> science in the movie was a bit misleading?
You went to an Emmerich movie expecting proper science??
> Speaking of Roland Emmerich, one is faced with the same conundrum
> regarding the movie Independence Day: there's no way that mankind would
> have been able to fight an enemy as powerful as the aliens were
> established to be at the beginning of the movie. Mankind should have
> been dead at the end of the movie.
Hey, those aliens only attacked the Northern hemisphere. The rest of us
would have been fine. :)
> The fact that mankind not only
> survived but won is nothing but a cheat, a way to salvage a happy
> ending even though millions, if not billions, have died. To a lesser
oh look, you misspelt "but a cheat, a way to prove that AMERICA IS THE
BEST F*&KING COUNTRY IN THE ENTIRE F^#KING WORLD, AND SCREW EVERYONE
ELSE", which was the point of the movie. (Although I admit this point is
almost subtle compared with how it's presented in Armageddon...)
(That said, this seems to be the point of most big budget Hollywood
movies...)
--
Jamas Enright
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Monkey Trial.
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