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« on: March 01, 2003, 07:39:56 AM »
There are problems on both sides of the argument here. For one thing, RahXephon's main argument is one of a never-ending philosophical cycle that we can all continue on. Example: "The problem does not lie in the movie, but in the viewer's ability to relate to the movie. It is not possible to say the movie was bad, because it was just a bunch of events, it is how we relate and react to those events." Well, since human thought in the first place has no set absolutes, we as humans cannot judge anything in the first place. So although people who say they didn't like the movie cannot be truly correct about the movie sucking (since there is no absolute definition for what makes something good or bad) People who like the movie also cannot be sure about their argument, just take the opposite of the statement. What I'm trying to say is that when arguing about whether a movie is good or bad, it's pretty assinine and irrelevant to say that the reason that the person didn't like the movie was that they lack the ability to understand the movie. A few more things:
1: As of yet, since we have not come across alien life we cannot say how they would react or what their chemical composition may be. If a life form were made of potassium, liquid water would cause them to combust, but there would not necessarily be enough water in the atmosphere to immediately kill them (it would probably be pretty painful though). Why aliens would want to conquer a planet that is 75% water, I have no idea (enslavement of humans doesn't seem very logical since they were killing everyone).
2. The movie was not a movie about aliens, it was a movie about faith. These are two things that both threw me off, in the first place, the movie can only appeal to about one half of the population. We don't lack the ability to understand the movie, we lack the inability to like movies about ideas that are opposite to ours. Movies about Satan would attract some people, and put others off, it has nothing to do with understanding of the movie.
3. About the doors, we have absolutely no idea what sort of barriers the aliens might have in their world, so therefore it isn't very implausable to say that they would have trouble with doors. About the powerful legs thing, isn't it possible that their legs only work vertically? So they can't swivel upwards like ours? Doesn't seem all that improbable.
I could go on and on, but this topic really has nothing to do with Gamecube anymore, so maybe people should start getting more on the subject.
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