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  • Re: MT VOID, 07/11/25 -- Vol. 44, No. 2, Whole Number 2388

    From Gary McGath@21:1/5 to Evelyn C. Leeper on Sun Jul 13 21:41:33 2025
    On 7/13/25 8:54 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
    THE MT VOID
    07/11/25 -- Vol. 44, No. 2, Whole Number 2388


    TOPIC: Mini Reviews, Part 16 (film reviews by Evelyn C. Leeper)

    Three more from Mark's list of neglected gems:

    THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (1951): This "neglected science fiction
    film" is as topical now as ever. It is about how technology has
    unintended and unexpected results. In the film, it's the "perfect"
    cloth. Since then it's been the personal computer, the Internet,
    and now AI. There are three aspects it gets right. One is that the
    people who come up with technologies are not (necessarily) evil
    scientists trying to take over the world. The second is that
    (initially at least) many people see only the advantages of the discoveries/inventions. And the third is that there is resistance
    to all these discoveries/inventions by those who see them as
    disruptions to their way of life.

    I love the ending (which I won't spoil here).

    VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1960): Mark called this a "forgotten" or a
    "neglected science fiction film", but I don't think I'd agree. I
    mean, yes, if you can have someone in the audience stand up at a
    panel on forgotten science fiction films and suggest FORBIDDEN
    PLANET, then okay, it's a forgotten science fiction film. But
    under the usual definition of forgotten, FORBIDDEN PLANET is not
    forgotten, and I don't think VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED is forgotten
    either.

    There are some genuinely forgotten science fiction films, but I can't
    remember what they are.


    --
    Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to garym@mcgath.com on Sun Jul 13 22:34:38 2025
    Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:

    There are some genuinely forgotten science fiction films, but I can't >remember what they are.

    They would likely be films like K-Pax which everyone forgets is really
    a science fiction film.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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  • From Jay Morris@21:1/5 to Gary McGath on Mon Jul 14 08:48:59 2025
    On 7/13/2025 8:41 PM, Gary McGath wrote:
    On 7/13/25 8:54 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
    THE MT VOID
    07/11/25 -- Vol. 44, No. 2, Whole Number 2388


    TOPIC: Mini Reviews, Part 16 (film reviews by Evelyn C. Leeper)

    Three more from Mark's list of neglected gems:

    THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (1951): This "neglected science fiction
    film" is as topical now as ever. It is about how technology has
    unintended and unexpected results. In the film, it's the "perfect"
    cloth. Since then it's been the personal computer, the Internet,
    and now AI. There are three aspects it gets right. One is that the
    people who come up with technologies are not (necessarily) evil
    scientists trying to take over the world. The second is that
    (initially at least) many people see only the advantages of the
    discoveries/inventions. And the third is that there is resistance
    to all these discoveries/inventions by those who see them as
    disruptions to their way of life.

    I love the ending (which I won't spoil here).

    And who turns out to be the key figure.

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  • From Steve Coltrin@21:1/5 to Evelyn C. Leeper on Mon Jul 14 11:34:55 2025
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    "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> writes:

    TOPIC: The Three Laws of Robotics (comments by Evelyn C. Leeper)

    [...]

    It sounds as though they got Laws 1 and 3 reversed. [-ecl]

    A robot must not fail to maximize shareholder value, or by inaction
    allow shareholder value not to be maximized.

    --
    Steve Coltrin spcoltri@omcl.org
    "A group known as the League of Human Dignity helped arrange for Deuel
    to be driven to a local livestock scale, where he could be weighed."
    - Associated Press

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  • From Lowell Gilbert@21:1/5 to Gary McGath on Tue Jul 15 21:41:37 2025
    Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> writes:

    There are some genuinely forgotten science fiction films, but I can't remember what they are.

    Well, yes, of course.
    They say that memory is always the second thing to go.

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