Finally, they've done that movie! Other cyber-punk type flicks have brushed up against it, but never really done it. The human upload. The very ending of "Lawnmower Man", cliffhanged on it, but the sequel botched it. Finally, a good movie that does it.
If they 'forget' or 'destroy' the technology at the end of the film it will meet my expectations for being awful. I am jaded towards sci fi portrayal of transhumanism... :/
Y'know what? Fuck it, I wanna see it anyway. If it really sucks, I can have fun blogging about it. If it turns out it's actually good, I can shred the critics.
I saw it today and I think my prediction was pretty accurate. It wasn't quite how I expected it though. And fuck the critics, I enjoyed it. But then again I don't wander around trying to show how sophisticated I am by saying everything sucks. Not really a spoiler...but someone uber sensitive may consider it one.
The more I read about this movie, the more I'm at a loss as to why it seems like everyone decided to get together and hate on it. It's not the best movie evah, but is very good and a bit smarter than your average summer scifi...without being overly pretensious. Maybe people just hate that it's not a simple people vs. evil computer story and they can't reconcile who they want to win or who should win the inevitable conflict. A lot of people don't like movies where the good guys and bad guys don't wear white hats and black hats.
I'm not one who takes the morals that a movie, or even our whole culture spoon feeds me anyway. I side with Magneto up to a point, I sided with Bane up to a point, I sided with Hit-Girl completely, and if I were Dr. Manhattan, I'd never come back from Mars.
Frankly, and I might have said this here before, I think they're bought off. Notice they always love the big beefy studio rollercoaster movie? Notice the bigger the studio, the harder they suck the snozzwanger? *Looks it up* Yep, first time director, little indie studios ganging together to fund it, Warners just doing distributing. It's not enough the big guys win, they gotta make the little guys lose. I'm definitely going to see it out of spite for the system.
If I were Dr Manhattan there'd be no need to go to Mars because Earth would be ordered to my preference.
The ideas and effects were cool, but the pace was slow, the dialog was wooden, the score was a lullabye, it was very drab. I wanted to like it, too.
not so bad. but a few horrible, horrible mistakes. interesting ideas, not taken far enough. and the bumbling 'villains' still win? ok, can't get more unbelievable. but the idea is very intriguing and mind provoking.
