December 2009
44 posts
i’ve been raped of so many classic awkward teenage moments thanks to the internet.
“The Matrix had a huge advantage over Inception: everybody was still on dial-up. Back then the internet wasn’t clogged with thirty minutes of clips from the film. Movies didn’t have an endless series of posters and photos released—I believe you could create a flipbook of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince using just the publicity stills and myriad posters and banners Warner Bros put out before the movie opened. Back when The Matrix hit movie marketing was still about TV and newspapers. Mystery was much more possible.”
—CHUD.com: The Devin’s Advocate: Will INCEPTION be completely spoiled?
“The Warm-Fuzzy Web” →
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The freewheeling, anything-goes ethos of the Internet has given way to a bland echo chamber of ego-stroking. But maybe that’s what’s happened: On Facebook, we can only “like” things that people…