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  • From: "tengu typed, not" <tengu AT unc.edu>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Dodgeball-related childhood trauma
  • Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 15:36:18 -0500 (EST)


This begins to stink of "Rollerball."
"All skate, change directions."
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Rollerball. The very name evokes the finest in cutting-edge 70s social
commentary. Put it in the same class of motion picture cultural criticism
as Network and The Kentucky Fried Movie. Rollerball tells the story of a
sports/entertainment/military-industrial complex gone horribly
wrong. James Caan, of course, is "Crash" Davis, the Durham Bulls' best
chance at a pennant. He's happy with his life of leisure and his own
personal pleasure replicant, only getting out of bed once a week to play
rollerball, the violentest sport on earth. John Houseman, the e-ville
Britishy guy who controls all the electrons in the whole wide world, wants
Crash to retire, but Caan needs that last goal to beat the rollerball
record. What follows are scenes of violence and ethnic stereotyping so
vile and boring that we cheer when Caan's best friend Mongo is killed by
extras from Kung Fu. At the end of the movie, Caan skates around a dead
wasteland to the strains of Dire Straits' "Rollergirl" and our pain is
ended.
http://www.monmouth.com/~bowleg/rollerball.html





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