tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488189244830405902.post1587645142548156068..comments2023-11-21T02:38:12.813-08:00Comments on LERNER INTERNATIONAL ENTERPRISES: LIE #9: Back in the day, MAD magazine called it “Rollerbrawl”Ivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16443946766217092846noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488189244830405902.post-83375505169337548322012-06-04T10:57:49.146-07:002012-06-04T10:57:49.146-07:00Toestubber,
I love your comments, THANKS!!!
You no...Toestubber,<br />I love your comments, THANKS!!!<br />You not only made me laugh, but made me jealous that I hadn't written "This movie is totally dumb, but thinks it's smart"--that's it in a nutshell. Thanks again, sir!<br />--IvanIvanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16443946766217092846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488189244830405902.post-22742670816294579682012-06-04T04:25:25.954-07:002012-06-04T04:25:25.954-07:00The same anti-corporate themes were explored infin...The same anti-corporate themes were explored infinitely better in other dystopian pictures from the period. For all its flaws, Soylent Green is much more thoughtful than any of Rollerball's non-baller sequences of mumblin' James Caan mopery. Hell, even North Dallas Forty covered lots of the same territory and wasn't a fraction as dull.Toestubberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09137737280402004275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488189244830405902.post-17077025673986453692012-06-04T04:05:32.424-07:002012-06-04T04:05:32.424-07:00Excellent description of Rollerball - I went and w...Excellent description of Rollerball - I went and watched it again youtube-style. You are right on the nose. The world of the future is one that seems to make very few demands on its people. No one's poor, there seems to be huge expanses of pristine natural beauty, and there's my favorite sport on "multivision," whatever that is. I hate and distrust corporate culture as much as anybody, but in this film, you gotta admit the Corporations seem to have solved most of the earth's problems. What's the beef? All they're asking in return is that Caan stop hogging the spotlight and pretending to be a Texan.<br /><br />The games are awesome and make me wish there was an all-Rollerball station on ESPN. It looks as if every bit of design work, budget and creative thought went into the look and feel of the sport: Costumes, game play, sets, it all works.<br /><br />A couple of things I noticed: After they rig the game with "No penalties, no substitutions and no time-outs" it would be immediate lights out for all the motorcyclists, since they are easy prey and I presume it's mostly the penalty calls that keep those on skates from unseating every opposing rider.<br /><br />Also, that "liquid computer" is right down there with the laziest shit I've seen in science fiction. When the strangely befuddled scientist starts trying to get it to respond by smacking the side of his talking fishtank like an old B&W television with bad reception, I giggled. This movie is totally dumb, but <i>thinks it's smart.</i> That is its major crime.Toestubberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09137737280402004275noreply@blogger.com