handful_ofdust: (eccentricities)
handful_ofdust ([personal profile] handful_ofdust) wrote2009-02-16 07:53 pm

Noun Used As A Verb, Film At Eleven

Re yuki-onna, talking about how the ending of Watchmen doesn't work for her because she's been "Neuromancered"...WTF does that even mean, exactly? I read Neuromancer, but about a million years ago, and it occurs to me that perhaps it was exactly as not-so-impressive to me, in the end, as Watchmen was to her. But seriously: There's something "innate" in a received-wisdom sense that I'm supposed to be getting from the reference about how best to end a book, right? And...I'm just not gettin' it, sorry.

I should probably be asking her, I suppose, rather than the universe at large. But I get the feeling I'd just get slapped for being dumb, and I'm not all too into that right now.
sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey)

[personal profile] sovay 2009-02-17 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
But that may be because it reads somewhat like an attempt to make a version of Event Horizon which actually works.

I shall not now see Event Horizon . . .

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2009-02-17 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
It's been called Hellraiser in space, somewhat unfairly. And somewhat not.