DAILY CALL SHEET: SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

 

Digital Man (1995) In the sketchy early days of CGI, a poor man's Robocop in possession of the nation's nuclear launch codes blows a fuse and terrorizes a small desert town full of Tremors rejects. A special ops platoon, many of whom unknown to themselves have also been transformed into cyborgs, team up with some of the local yokels to rectify the situation. This low-budget effort from the prolific Phillip J. Roth could have easily been a disposable slog, but a parade of familiar faces including the likes of Susan Tyrell, Clint Howard, Paul Gleason, and many many others keeps things moving along just enough to justify the 90 minutes.

TIL: The Church does not yet have an official position on cyborgs, however, speaking at Église Saint François-Xavier in 2019, Cardinal Robert Sarah had some things to say about things such as excessive body modification. "It is my duty to warn the West: behold the flames of barbarism threaten you! And who are these barbarians? The barbarians are those who hate human nature... the West refuses to receive, and will accept only what it constructs for itself. Transhumanism is the ultimate avatar of this movement. Because it is a gift from God, human nature itself becomes unbearable for western man." He ain't wrong.

I HAVE SOME NOTES: More scatterbrained scribblings on my daily Scripture readings.