"The intent is to provide mods with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different mod capabilities."
I pay close attention these types of issues since as a writer I'm constantly thinking about how future tech could impact culture.
I love how William Gibson built entire plot arcs around fax being the future standard of communication when email was literally right there. Doesn't matter - I still love the Sprawl series - just illustrates how futurology works sometimes.
It’s still pretty derivative, in an open way, with nods to everything from Terminator, Blade Runner and District 9, to Apocalypse Now, among others, the connecting themes being the confrontation between humankind and technology, American militarism, fear of the other. Usefully, all of this chimes with the current, fiery and fearmongering debate about the advance of artificial intelligence.
Everything you can say about The Creator's 'lack of originality' you can say about Edwards' 'Godzilla' and 'La La Land.' Those other films are scored at 76% and 91%, respectively. Additionally, Godzilla - that tired old reboot of the same movie we've re-watched for the past fifty years - made $524,976,069 worldwide. La La Land - that stale celebration of Hollywood musicals - $151,058,124 at the domestic box office.
Shame on Gareth Edwards for making accessible science fiction for a worldwide audience - wasn't he thinking about the poor, angry nerds who want 'original scifi' despite the fact that they refuse to articulate what 'original' means and they refuse to create their own 'original' scifi and subject it to the same hostile market they make up?
I'm being sarcastic for a reason - The Creator is AMAZING scifi. It doesn't matter if TheArtsDesk.com dunks on it - If I'm still carrying a 2012 award on the banner of my website, the LAST thing I'd be doing is casting aspersions on anyone with the guts and the grit to go out there and actually try to do something that celebrates everything we love about the science fiction genre. I'm not a marketing guy for Gareth Edwards, but credit where credit is due - we need to support original, imperfect scifi if we want to see more of it.
Deride The Creator at your own peril - lest you be damned to another 10 years of MCU and Fast and the Furious movies.
No Pitfall? No deal.
Prison is noisy, my dude.
Happened with Enron, too. When the finance guy cuts and runs, you know something's about to go down.
SCOOTER IS MY SPIRIT ANIMAL
What a strange way to say "I have no idea what I'm doing - somebody please stop me."
@fchaverri I wrote him an epitaph to do one thing that forty years worth of law enforcement and media hype never seemed to do: Look at Kevin Mitnick as a person.
has sent a letter of apology to the local prosecutor’s office
Oh cool, a written confession - thanks for making it so easy for us - the cops
Kinda like Black Lion going 'and I'll form the head.' Like, didn't anyone else on Voltron go 'hey, I wanna be the head today!'