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• Heretics of Dune
  ...emales linked "to giant metal containers" by "a maze of dark tubes" (435). Caution: HoD uses consciously "the dangerous female" motif. See under Literary Crit
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• Mann and Machine (television series)
  ...the team, but must mature emotionally. Cf. and contrast MAKING MR. RIGHT. Caution: Contains material offensive to the 4th Amendment and other parts of the Am
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• DR. NO
  ...effect that is both techno-thriller and a send-up of the techno-thriller. CAUTION: Described in the "Timeout" section of ''The Cincinnati Post'' for 16 Nov.
  911 bytes (135 words) - 14:55, 24 May 2020
• SUBLIMINAL SEDUCTION
  ...g of takeover of people's minds by their user-friendly personal computers. CAUTION: Some sex and sexism.
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• Bergsonian Comedy and the Human Machines in 'Star Wars'
  ...ouble reversal—a machine acting like a person acting like a machine" (8). (Caution: Someone associated with ''Film Criticism'' consistently changed LR's "anti
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• THE FLY (1986)
  ...inefantastique'' 16 (July 1986): 15 f. See this Category, [[VIDEODROME]]. (Caution: Cronenberg's THE FLY can be rough going for people figuratively weak of st
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• Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
  ..., reptilian, and maybe snake-like (although that may be an Alienoid tail). CAUTION: US MPAA rating of PG-13 is justified by clearly-heard taboo words, some po
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• Out in the Blue Six
  ...l, self-contained cities going into space (326; "Out on the Blue Six …"). (CAUTION: Readers who like their prose lean may find long stretches of ''OBS'' too o
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• Mindstar Rising
  ...t one other character are mediated by artificial glands implanted in them. CAUTION: Some sex, more Bolshy-bashing, Royan's mutilation, and one scene of bone c
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• Metropolis (novel)
  ...erved by the men of the masses, whom the machines devour (as in the film). Caution: The owner of the Metropolitan exotic-drug and whore house is negatively ch
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• The General
  ...RA Review'' #210, March/April 1994: 88, our source here and whom we quote. CAUTION: Satorius warns of explicit violence and racism. (RDE, 01/01/95){{DEFAULTSO
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• Psychodrome
  ...visions of the misuse of technology by Authority were somewhat optimistic. Caution: This book needs an additional draft, among other things clarifying how we
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• A BOY AND HIS DOG
  ...nd by L. G. Heldreth in the articles cited for them under Drama Criticism. CAUTION: A notable feminist critic asserted in the presence of the main compiler of
  958 bytes (161 words) - 18:04, 3 May 2015
• JUDGE DREDD
  ...5 (August 1995). See under Graphics, J. Newsinger, "The Dredd Phenomenon." CAUTION: The happy ending has a police state not as bad as it might be but remainin
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• Pinker, Steven, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
  ...éne_(mechanism:_cosmological_,_biological)]] and works cross-listed there. CAUTION: See references in backmatter of ''TBS'' for absence of citations to the wo
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• The Cyberpapacy: The Sourcebook of Virtual Reality
  ...if one fails to be careful implanting cybernetic devices into one's body. Caution: The ''Sourcebook'' is impeccably antiFascist; we're less sure of the game
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• CLOCKWORK GIRL, THE by O'Reilly and Hanna
  ..." from Greek ''dendron'' 'tree']). See also for mildly threatening robots. CAUTION: Less of a kids book than it may look and probably isn't suitable for young
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• THE LAST SAMURAI
  ...nd Imperial Japanese armies of the time (howitzers, rifles, Gatling guns). CAUTION: For a more balanced view of the costs of the samurai system to non-samurai
  1 KB (159 words) - 19:38, 30 December 2014
• LOGAN
  CAUTION: The "R" rating is appropriate; this is an excellent film for young adults
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• Little Brother
  CAUTION: The DHS thugs are less brutal than Orwell's Thought Police, and the world
  1 KB (187 words) - 21:10, 31 March 2021
• Ready Player One (novel)
  ...uch rule out his doing much of anything else. This might be reassuring for CAUTION (2): If you suspect the young person answering your requests for technical
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• COLOSSAL (2016)
  Caution: When citing, use the release date or other information to avoid confusion
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• FearDotCom
  ...omestic and cybernetic environment of a PC (Personal Computer) interface. CAUTION: ''Cinefantastique'' photos and comments on IMDb indicate grisly onscreen m
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• CHICKEN LITTLE (movie)
  ...child (larval?) form—of creatures like Troll dolls, but with three eyes. CAUTION: The SF parts may be too scary for young children, and the film is arguably
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• Gravity's Rainbow (essay)
  ...vey of cyberpunk for "intermediary" and advanced students of the subject. CAUTION: Written in an anti-postmodern version of what has been called in 19th-c. l
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• The Wondersmith
  ..." from its socket (Hoppenstand 19)—cf. ''[[Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey]]''. Caution: Includes some antisemitism and "senseless violence" (Hoppenstand 17, 21).
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• Virtual reality sex is coming — and the toys are already here
  '''CAUTION: The article bears the warning that "The following post contains sexually g
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• The Rowan
  ...ic destruction of the planetoid is done by men in gestalt with generators. CAUTION: The novel is strongly pro-natalist and rather bellicose. (RDE, 27/06/94){{
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• THE ISLAND (film)
  ...its successors (all save FRANKENSTEIN listed under Fiction and/or Drama). CAUTION: Americans who cannot or do not distinguish among zygotes, embryos, fetuses
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• HER (film)
  ...tp://funguerilla.com/the-most-beautiful-robots-anyone-would-like-to-date/].CAUTION: If “We need to talk about our relationship” is your idea of the seven
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• JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS
  ...carnival rides and colorfully contrast with the ships of the evil aliens. CAUTION (or ATTRACTION, depending on parental politics): The film teaches children
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• WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005)
  ...cited under Fiction, for epitome of the motif of a mechanized underworld). CAUTION: The literally patriarchal implications of the film would be tolerable if i
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• The City Who Fought
  ...und impressive" (cover notes). Cf. and contrast Newt in [[ALIENS (film)]]. CAUTION: Casual readers may see ''CWF'' endorsing xenocide of the dark-skinned Koln
  1 KB (194 words) - 18:33, 11 September 2016
• REAL STEEL
  ...cent John Connor with the Schwarzeneger Terminator in TERMINATOR 2 (1991). CAUTION: The film may be a wee bit gratuitously xenophobic and, for all its explici
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• STEALTH
  ...and Industrial than the somewhat more Modernist planes with human pilots. CAUTION: The film is a prime example of "[W'm H.] Hardesty's Law" that carrier warf
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• Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or The Longest Shots on Record
  ...from the secret service of his country for bad conduct" (211-12; ch. 25). CAUTION: Koku, Tom's "giant servant" (73; ch. 9) and "Eradicate Sampson, the aged c
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• TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE
  ...emains important for the justification of the US-British invasion of Iraq. CAUTION: This is a gross movie even by Parker and Stone standards, and it contains
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• MAN OF STEEL (Superman 2013)
  CAUTION: The climactic battles of MAN OF STEEL have been attacked as "disaster porn
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• Bots: A Love Story and a Dream
  Caution: There's masochism in this story of a realistic sort, not pornographic role
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• DISTRICT 9
  ...ex alien equipment without rigorous instruction, cf. [[INDEPENDENCE DAY]]. CAUTION:
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• DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX
  ...SF and most fans of cyberpunk SF films, but they will be new to the kids. CAUTION: The film has a hopeful ending, and the subversion is gentle and good for c
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• INDEPENDENCE DAY
  ...from coverage of ''ID'' in ''Cinefantastique'' 28.1 [Aug. 1996]: 14-15.) CAUTION: ''ID'' is an exercise in pastiche, intentionally following old formulas as
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• ROBOT WARS
  ...is a mechanical scorpion, complete with deadly tail (with a laser canon). Caution: The film contains vestiges of a shrew-taming motif and more than vestiges
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• AVATAR
  ...ts — fire is more a Terran thing — but very much including their earth; so CAUTION: the film is participating in a lot of cultural and political battles, incl ...Joe] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)] For a final note of caution: Andrew Gordon and Hernan Vera argue for AVATAR as a White racist messiah f
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• EVIL DEAD
  CAUTION: EVIL DEAD is a very gory film; it comes across as misogynist, except (as r
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• STARGATE
  ...al cut preview by Tim Prokop, ''Cinefantastique'' 25.5 (Nov. 1994): 46-47; CAUTION: the film TP describes is not exactly the release version in Nov. 1994.
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• THE BICENTENNIAL MAN (1999 film)
  ...ata in ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (for an inevitable comparison). CAUTION: Removal of the problematic racial allegory leaves a sentimental appeal but
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• CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
  ...ely recreated. Cf. and contrast [[SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW]]. CAUTION: The violence is pretty bloodless, and violence imaged without horrible con
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• Johnny Mnemonic (story)
  ...yager, 2003. At least for a while, available on line at Project.Cyberpunk (CAUTION: This may be a pirated edition.)[http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/johnny_mne
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• Triumphant Technology and Minimal Man
  ...the Alien, and why the ''Nostromo'' would have a self-destruct mechanism. Caution: The essays is both ingenious and overly brief in interpreting the burial i
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