Why talk of nukes wars when the Army of the Twelve Monkeys is coming.
"Twelve Monkeys" is a favorite movie due to artful use of time travel but it ends with the almost complete death of humanity so that's a bit of a drag for a holiday weekend. The question on watching it now was to ask whether it was really over at the end.
The bad guy gets away in the movie to spread the deadly virus around the world and he has already released some of it. That seems kind of final but was it really. It seems the time travel people could send another time traveler to trap the bad guy after the point at which Bruce Willis was shot and that would still stop the bad guy from continuing.
That still leaves it open on the virus which was already released in Philadelphia but maybe they can contain it albeit with frightful damages so long as it doesn't get out to the rest of the world.
At first it seems about as bleak as the General British Philosophy of Life: no matter what else happens, it's probably going to rain. However, the almost last scene shows the bad guy onboard the aircraft but the woman sitting next to him on it turns out to be one of the time travel people who were on the crew which had been sending Bruce Willis back.
There's a peach of a paradox in it because they can't send a time traveler to whack the bad guy before Bruce Willis sees him or that warps the continuum altogether. The incident with Bruce Willis in which he gets shot wouldn't have happened so the connection to the young Bruce Willis would not have been made for Madeline Stowe. From that it looks like Philadelphia is a write-off.
Terry Gilliam does an exceptional job of a time travel tale and I admire that each time. It's an exceptional literary device for all the things it permits but some are impossible even if it's technically possible with this literary device to get there. Many who try it with time travel end up doing tricks because they don't have a particular reason for the story but this one keeps it tight and there's no gratuitously trippy floating about in time.
"Twelve Monkeys" may be one of the most brilliant anti-war movies ever made as the absurdity of the premise is matched by the absurdity of posturing with nuclear weapons when humans can be wiped out effortlessly with a virus and it only needs mosquitos to carry it around.
The massive defense budget will be such an immense comfort when you get nailed by Zika. That's probably not highly likely in US but failing to develop the science adequately to respond immediately to such biological threats while so aggressively trying to develop things which only create problems may well be the most misguided priority on the planet.
When the Twelve Monkeys show, Clinton won't deal with it any better than Reagan dealt with AIDS. She has the same problem as he because she's old, locked, and doesn't have the knowledge or awareness.
The Brits are right ... it's probably going to rain. Unknown if they stop a cricket match for that. It seems more British to suffer through the cricket in the rain.
Note: this isn't doom and gloom as the Twelve Monkeys are a preventable thing if someone gets on the stick to do something about it. The response to Zika wasn't terribly awful since there may be a working vaccine now.
"Twelve Monkeys" is a favorite movie due to artful use of time travel but it ends with the almost complete death of humanity so that's a bit of a drag for a holiday weekend. The question on watching it now was to ask whether it was really over at the end.
The bad guy gets away in the movie to spread the deadly virus around the world and he has already released some of it. That seems kind of final but was it really. It seems the time travel people could send another time traveler to trap the bad guy after the point at which Bruce Willis was shot and that would still stop the bad guy from continuing.
That still leaves it open on the virus which was already released in Philadelphia but maybe they can contain it albeit with frightful damages so long as it doesn't get out to the rest of the world.
At first it seems about as bleak as the General British Philosophy of Life: no matter what else happens, it's probably going to rain. However, the almost last scene shows the bad guy onboard the aircraft but the woman sitting next to him on it turns out to be one of the time travel people who were on the crew which had been sending Bruce Willis back.
There's a peach of a paradox in it because they can't send a time traveler to whack the bad guy before Bruce Willis sees him or that warps the continuum altogether. The incident with Bruce Willis in which he gets shot wouldn't have happened so the connection to the young Bruce Willis would not have been made for Madeline Stowe. From that it looks like Philadelphia is a write-off.
Terry Gilliam does an exceptional job of a time travel tale and I admire that each time. It's an exceptional literary device for all the things it permits but some are impossible even if it's technically possible with this literary device to get there. Many who try it with time travel end up doing tricks because they don't have a particular reason for the story but this one keeps it tight and there's no gratuitously trippy floating about in time.
"Twelve Monkeys" may be one of the most brilliant anti-war movies ever made as the absurdity of the premise is matched by the absurdity of posturing with nuclear weapons when humans can be wiped out effortlessly with a virus and it only needs mosquitos to carry it around.
The massive defense budget will be such an immense comfort when you get nailed by Zika. That's probably not highly likely in US but failing to develop the science adequately to respond immediately to such biological threats while so aggressively trying to develop things which only create problems may well be the most misguided priority on the planet.
When the Twelve Monkeys show, Clinton won't deal with it any better than Reagan dealt with AIDS. She has the same problem as he because she's old, locked, and doesn't have the knowledge or awareness.
The Brits are right ... it's probably going to rain. Unknown if they stop a cricket match for that. It seems more British to suffer through the cricket in the rain.
Note: this isn't doom and gloom as the Twelve Monkeys are a preventable thing if someone gets on the stick to do something about it. The response to Zika wasn't terribly awful since there may be a working vaccine now.
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