Today's On My Shelves...

[seawasp]

... the unjustly low-box office The Iron Giant, a modern animated classic!

Comments

[xander-opal.livejournal.com]

The movie was wonderfully done, aside from the ham-fisted 'I am not a gun' wedged in there, that I did not recall being in the original book. I was so irritated by this, I have not sought out the movie to see again.

[seawasp]

I didn't see it as ham-fisted, since that was the entire concept of the movie -- in fact, one of the pitch CONCEPTS was "what if a gun could think". He was a weapon. Was that ALL he was, or was that what he had to be? That was the key theme. A gun by itself is a tool. A self-mobile gun with no morality is a force of terrifying destruction. A person isn't a gun, even if that person was built AS a gun.

[xander-opal.livejournal.com]

I see your point; the essence of my problem is that it has no basis in the book the movie was otherwise based on.