Postby Technomancer » Fri Jul 11, 2003 6:57 pm
I don't know, I read the review and it sounded absolutely ludicrous ("they're doing what!? in Venice!??"). I'm tempted to see it just to see how bad it really is. Then again, this was my rationale for seeing Dungeons and Dragons; and that more than exceeded my expectations. It does sound like a film that might be fun to MST3K with some friends though.
Here's part of the review: (Roger Ebert, 1/5)
"I don't really mind the lack of believability. Well, I mind a little; to assume assume audiences will believe cars racing through Venice is as insulting as giving them a gondola chase down the White House lawn. What I do mind is that the movie plays like a big wind came along and blew away the script and they ran down the street after it and grabbed a few pages and shot those."
The rest of review is pretty hilarious.
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov