Saturday Observation

I saw No Way Out last night, which served as an amusing reminder of how different culture was in the '80s. Remember how Kevin Costner alone could once be counted on to carry a decent movie? And even more bizarre, do you recall the hilarious way Hollywood used to deal withcomputers? It reminds me of nothing so much as the way the stereotypical primitive tribe with a castigatory deity might have interpreted meteorological phenomena 1,500 years ago: a total lack of understanding; an anxiety-filled reaction, equal parts hope and fear; and blind faith placed in the one religious oracle who could make sense of the event, in the movie's case the wheelchair-bound computer geek who initially helps Costner and is then murdered after betraying him.