Ex Machina - By my standards really bad, the "villain" unbelievable, the AI more Kurzweil 24/7 porn crap.
Slim pickins in Sci-Fi these days.
Kurzweil isn’t my bag either. His optimism is unfounded based on the historical record.
But I do think 24/7 porn crap, idiocy, self-obsession, and dissonant ambivalence is a likely state of affairs in the near future.... more likely than anything in The Terminator or a Singularity event for sure. Double down on meds, give everyone a guaranteed income and the newest video game console and let the public sit around drooling like pigs in a pen....
But a mash up between Immanuel Wallerstein and Yuval Harari is too accessible of a dystopian future to ease the minds of the average moviegoer and doesn’t make for many action sequences... prob wouldn’t pass market testing in 2018.
Slightly OT: recent read “What if our world is their heaven” - pkd’s last interviews. Solid stuff for the PKD fans among us.
What If Our World Is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations Of Philip K. Dick: Philip K. Dick, Gwen Lee, Doris Elaine Sauter, Tim Powers: 9781585673780: Amazon.com: Books
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Too bad the classic dystopian stories have been so poorly served in film. The TV Brave New World was a joke and I don't recall any version of Ira Levin's This Perfect Day. Kurzweil channeled both IMO for his bogus singularity nonsense. There was Colossus the Forbin Project interesting that they never sued The Terminator script writers, Harlan Ellison's claims were pretty weak IMO.
"Gun Crazy" (1950) John Dall, Peggy Cummins - outstanding - brilliantly acted and filmed. Rather than to use rear projection in the car scenes, the back seat of a car was removed and film camera installed.
I last watched JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (1959) on VHS 🙂 (Recorded from analogue cable (Disney channel))
10 Cloverfield Lane, followed by Cloverfield Paradox. Once I got past the WTF, I had to ask myself where exactly they got the industrial strength hallucinogens required to imagineer this stuff.
Oh, I know, a bad robot smuggled them out of a secret Nazi base on the dark side of the moon.
Oh, I know, a bad robot smuggled them out of a secret Nazi base on the dark side of the moon.
Jack Reacher : Never Go Back
Tom Cruise still does not fit the mental picture that the book paints!!
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Tom Cruise still does not fit the mental picture that the book paints!!
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Still nothing compared to the angst caused this Ludlum fan when the 54 year old Richard Chamberlain was cast as Jason Bourne for the TV miniseries!
Those 2 Jack Reacher movies had the most ridiculous discontinuity: in the 1st movie, he's a complete ghost living off the grid, and in the 2nd he's a well known and recognizable celebrity in military intelligence?
Valerian
It's like Guardians of galaxy, but a little bit more original and less refined, more raw directing (it's definitly not the same budget). if you liked «the fifth element» by the same director, you have i say at least 50% chances you 'll like it....if you can accept that the main actors are credible in their assigned role.
It's like Guardians of galaxy, but a little bit more original and less refined, more raw directing (it's definitly not the same budget). if you liked «the fifth element» by the same director, you have i say at least 50% chances you 'll like it....if you can accept that the main actors are credible in their assigned role.
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at least there it no false advertising 🙂
(just a joke if the director ever reads this)
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