9/13
2009

the editing bin #22: “Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.”* (50:58)

Stephanie and Becca are glad to be reunited in this episode, but saddened by the last minute absence of their favorite film diva — Rachel. Their loneliness and the meaning-of-life questions it raises fit well with this week's movie choices. Listen in to find out how it helped them identify with “civilization” (cough-sock-puppets-cough)  after humanity has been wiped from the earth in 9 (2009)? These ladies are facing cataclysmic apocolypse in all of its forms from killer robots to cleaner robots, and one in particular named Wall*E (2008). The rusty tyke may be cute, but he's a shrimp compared to the gentle (or is he?) giant in their final film The Iron Giant (1999) - a film otherwise known as “how it begins”. (cue ominous music)
 
Bonus: listen in to hear how to avoid dying in a nuclear attack. (No, we're not talking about hiding in a refrigerator.)
 
The Critic's Pick for this week is The Merchant of Venice (2004).

Morpheous from The Matrix

 

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