I liked the movie a lot. It won’t be a staple of the cinema or sci-fi, but it’s a nice movie imo.
The visuals and techs are cool. The story was interesting IMO. The characters are not original, nor is the scenario, but the story is original in the theme it talks about and how it mixes that with sci-fi is interesting. It’s not a common take on the fight against machines too.
Mild Spoiler : it’s a parallel to 9/11 and how the US then go on a crusade against terrorism with dubious reasons.
Heavier spoiler (20min in the movie) : the movie is about racism and how a government can go on a crusade out of fear from racial replacement. It’s interesting that it’s also about robots, which brings the subjects of robots living with humans, transhumanism and the evolution of humans with technology.
Of all the “thumbs down” this movie is getting here, your insights are actually very interesting! I’m surprised no one else had picked upon that! Well…not THAT surprised, really. 🙄
Now, the question is has it escaped everyone here who’s seen it or are you reading too much into it? 😇
It is very obvious. The only non obvious thing is that the robots are not Muslims. I was shocked that my friends didn’t see it instantly, but once I told them they saw it too.
Wow. This was…bad. Visually stunning but that’s about it. Screenplay was trite and inept. John David Washington was awful. It’s quite frustrating because it could’ve been something more. The production design was so gorgeous and I generally enjoyed the world building. It’s the lack of any character development and the clunky screenplay that’s really dragging this down. What a disappointment.
Also, go home Hans Zimmer. That score was so heavy-handed, it drove me fucking crazy.
Just came out from the cinema with my girlfriend and had the same talking points on the way home. I would not say that it’s bad, the world building is awesome but we didn’t feel anything for the main characters.
It had too many ideas cramped into 2h running time, and the characters was highly uninteresting and many scenes didn’t make sense for the plot.
Dispite the 3rd arc, nothing will change, the status que is kept.
I thought after “I, Tonya”, Craig Gillispie would know I can play literally anyone and anything, but they still picked Dano over me for this one because he thought me playing a redditor is too unrealistic.
Not bad, the visuals were astounding, story wise it’s Avatar/Pocahontas but with AI instead of blue dudes/natives, the Middle East and 9/11 parallel was very clear, maybe too clear (>!I’ll save you from American!<),
It’s based on the books, but it’s not exactly just a modern adaptation. Rather, the main character of the show is a guy who is a big fan of the books and uses them as inspiration for his own escapades.
Wiki link goes elsewhere. But when I read the summary above it sounded a lot like Hotel Coolgardie. So I looked up the RH wiki article; yup, inspired by that doc.
I was thinking exactly the same! But couldn’t remember the name of it, so my thoughts were along the lines of "Wasn’t this a documentary? Wasn’t this released earlier then 2023? Pretty sure the girls involved were from northern Europe?
Have a feeling that Hotel Coolgardie will actually be much more interesting viewing to many of the target audience of this new movie. So many uncomfortable and semi-surreal moments. Available on Prime in Australia, so possibly is also on US Prime, for those interested.
Yeah I’ll echo what everyone else is saying, the visuals and art direction are stellar, some of the best original sci-fi art in the last decade, rivaling Dune and Avatar - the story is as generic of an action movie as you can get. It’s a fun movie tho, I enjoyed my watch, but it’s not a “run out and see” kinda movie unless you’re a VFX nerd like me.
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