Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Best Unoriginal Screenplay

By -

We just finished watching Leave the World Behind (the #1 movie on Netflix!) and it was all right, except for the nausea-inducing cinematography (you’d have to watch it to see what I mean, but trust me). I was struck, and a bit alarmed, and the many themes in the movie which are identical to those I wrote about in my Solid State book, including

  • The confusion that takes place when networked devices stop working;
  • The advantages rural citizens have versus the poor souls in urban areas;
  • Potential mayhem caused by self-driving cars;
  • The ease of accusations about which foreign enemies may be the bad guys;
  • And, one so obscure that I was shocked, a specific scene in which the protagonist refuses to give a terrified middle-aged woman a ride, even though she’s pleading

I just want to be clear that I wrote ALL this stuff, including my recent revisions, before I saw this thing! Oh, by the way, the ending to the movie sucks out loud. It’s incredibly bad.