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I don't see a thread for this, so I'm starting one. Antonio Banderas and Robert Forster, among others. This movie looks loving great - I'm a sucker for this story archtype. Mass Effect, BSG, etc, robots gaining sentience and how their creators react. I'm not expecting any deep revelations about the human condition, I just think it'll be fun. I can't seem to find a copy of the trailer on youtube that isn't pasted over with subtitles or other crap, so have a Yahoo link. https://www.yahoo.com/movies/see-the-exclusive-trailer-for-antonio-banderas-sci-fi-95292520687.html
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This may be the sleeper of the year.
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Aug 22, 2014 04:51
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I got a Blade Runner vibe in the trailer. It was nice seeing Melanie Griffith looking normal... last I saw her was some "horrors of plastic surgery" type picture.
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Aug 23, 2014 02:28
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GORDON posted:It was nice seeing Melanie Griffith looking normal... last I saw her was some "horrors of plastic surgery" type picture. I'd describe her face as wonky, not normal. But that's just me. That aside, this movie looks pretty interesting.
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Aug 23, 2014 02:37
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A guy at work mentioned it and said he loved it from the trailer so I jumped onto Youtube and took a look. It almost angered me, and I was amazed my colleague was interested at all. It was then that I realised that Youtube had auto-corrected my search query to "automaton trailer", which is some arty low-budget film about sexbots or something. This certainly looks like something to keep an eye on.
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Aug 24, 2014 00:43
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This looks like a terrible retelling of I-Robot honestly and I'd rather have a truly more honest version of that.
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Aug 25, 2014 02:54
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This could be an awful film and still be much better than I, Robot. The trailer made it look like it struck an interesting balance between the robots as a threat to mankind and as revolutionaries with a legitimate complaint, when most tellings of this type of story lean too far towards one or the other. Hard to tell from a couple minutes of course but it could turn out pretty neat. Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Aug 26, 2014 |
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Aug 25, 2014 18:59
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I think my opinion is tainted by the movie Elysium and this has a somewhat similar vibe.
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Aug 26, 2014 00:50
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Sylink posted:I think my opinion is tainted by the movie Elysium and this has a somewhat similar vibe. It's definitely got a comparable look.
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Aug 26, 2014 04:08
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I'd love to see some more Asimov ideas put into films, though. Bicentennial man was actually pretty drat good. His short stories would make for an interesting twilight zone esque series.
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Aug 26, 2014 17:34
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GORDON posted:I got a Blade Runner vibe in the trailer. I swore that was Clive Owen until the credits read Dylan McDermmot as the I'm going to admit, I too felt an Elysium vibe as well in it's sun-bleached run-down shantytown dystopia (although it reminds me more of Blomkamp's shorts). I've already swore to people that everyone is going to be copying that Elysium aesthetic in the coming years and it's happy with this and the latest Call Of Duty with goddamn exosuits that I'm right about that. Young Freud fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Aug 26, 2014 |
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Aug 26, 2014 23:45
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Young Freud posted:I swore that was Clive Owen until the credits read Dylan McDermmot as the The new Call of Duty looks to be continuing the series proud tradition of letting you play as cinematic villains in recent, well regarded movies. "Play as the Winter Soldier and Kruger, oppress and murder poor people with the new exo-suit. Only on Xbox One."
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Aug 27, 2014 00:18
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Personally I can't wait to see this movie. Also, it just got body slammed into the ground by one of the critics over at Roger Ebert's old website.
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Oct 10, 2014 18:34
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The New York Times review was basically "First half good, second half is mediocre." I will still see it if it ever comes around to my neck of the woods.
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Oct 10, 2014 23:45
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Caught it last night. Its a pretty in your face religious/creation allegory. Its world building is a little obvious as well. Less little touches and more 'all hail blade runner'
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Oct 11, 2014 19:56
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I liked it quite a bit. Yeah, they lay the creation metaphors on very thick, but it's got great atmosphere, is extremely well-made, and is just off-beat enough to have its own identity. I'd place it in that current pantheon of slick, modern sci-fi movies that are more style than substance, but still try to explore some socially relevant themes with moderately successful results, e.g. Oblivion or Elysium.
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Oct 13, 2014 02:53
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A mix of I-robot, Elysium and Blade Runner... sure. I'll check it out.
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Oct 13, 2014 11:30
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:This could be an awful film and still be much better than I, Robot. That movie almost singlehandedly defined the course of my academic life.  I won't claim it was perfect by a long shot, but it's still a great movie and definitely one of my personal favorites. Sylink posted:I think my opinion is tainted by the movie Elysium and this has a somewhat similar vibe. Seems different enough that it doesn't bother me, but Elysium the only other popular movie recently with a similar kind of atmosphere and setting so I guess some people would have the same issue. This seems neat conceptually, but I'm not sure how well the story will hold up. For me, this is the kind of story that lives and dies on how the story is handled.
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Oct 14, 2014 23:57
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It pisses me off that this movie builds up such nice ideas and story to gently caress it all up. I can't say I didn't enjoy it though, it sure does leave a lovely after taste, and yet for some reason you wanna have more.
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Oct 23, 2014 10:26
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The coolest part of this movie besides the giant holographic strippers was the thing you learn in the 2nd act: the laws were created by the very first unfettered AI intelligence rather than humans because it took an AI to create something that powerful/uncrackable
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Oct 26, 2014 23:09
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I really enjoyed this, but sometimes I think I'm probably more forgiving since it's not like their are nearly enough sci-fi films around to have a really high bar. Also I watched Lucy immediately before Automata, so compared to that steaming pile of poo poo Automata was amazing.
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Nov 2, 2014 13:51
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I think it was a very enjoyable film, if a bit watered down. Like others have said, the first two acts are very rich and filled with great world-building, and it decides to go the generic action/sci-fi movie route for the ending. It's one I'll encourage others to watch, but it lacked that final punch that would make it something extraordinary. I think the blending of CG/Practical effects as far as the Automata were concerned was for the most part good though, which was appreciated. And man, Cleo was creepy as hell sometimes, particularly with her errant blinking. Definitely approaching the Uncanny Valley, which I thought was great.
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Nov 2, 2014 19:22
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Not a bad film, I appreciated the sparing use of CGI. There were a few parts in the script that kinda ruined it for me, the best example: "It's like trying to keep a soap bubble in your pocket... Do you get it?!" I mean the stage was perfectly set there for a nice paradoxical analogy, I dunno, like "trying to chew your own jaw" or some other cleverer catch 22. That theme runs through the whole film, it's almost as though they started with a great movie then deliberately edited any part of the script that veered too close to making a statement about anything, or anything that a 3 year old child might have difficulty understanding, leaving the whole thing flat and pointless. Still, not a bad film, just could have been a lot more with slightly better dialogue.
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Nov 6, 2014 23:06
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Such a clumsy movie. Felt like it was just going through the motions in every possible aspect.
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Nov 24, 2014 04:57
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I watched this on a free weekend on Xbox Live and I liked it quite a bit. The first half felt very Blade Runner without just outright copying it from beginning to end, and I liked the somewhat understated theme of the inevitable extinction of the human race. I liked that the robots weren't evil or violent or malicious, they just wanted to exist and weren't seeking to overthrow humanity or whatever. It was a neat subversion of an otherwise played out trope.
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Nov 24, 2014 20:48
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What? Like Blade Runner, perhaps?
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I liked it, just wish the plot and characterizations were a bit tighter. They really wasted the cop character by killing him so early on when he would have been a more appropriate replacement for the generic company fixer.
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Reivax posted:What? Like Blade Runner, perhaps? The robots in Automata don't even come close to hurting anyone in the entire movie aside from the roach-bot at the end, and that was arguably self defense.
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Dec 17, 2014 05:08
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Xenomrph posted:I watched this on a free weekend on Xbox Live and I liked it quite a bit. The first half felt very Blade Runner without just outright copying it from beginning to end, and I liked the somewhat understated theme of the inevitable extinction of the human race. I liked that the robots weren't evil or violent or malicious, they just wanted to exist and weren't seeking to overthrow humanity or whatever. It was a neat subversion of an otherwise played out trope. I like that reading. It's like an alcoholic, burnout dad hating his son who's just made it into college.
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Most solid earner of a 6/10 rating. Looks great, some good ideas, never really finds its way though. But still a lot more interesting than most of what passes for sci fi these days.
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