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A bleak-sounding future, where an AI soldier has determined that the only way to end war is to end humanity.
Have you had a really long week? Like a really long week? Not a bad week, maybe a good week, but one that's reduced your brain to soup? Does the idea of watching a two-hour video game cut scene appeal to you? Well here you go.
I enjoyed it. It fulfilled its purpose. Our hero even gets rewarded for completing a side quest at the end. May we all age like Jennifer Lopez.
Have you had a really long week? Like a really long week? Not a bad week, maybe a good week, but one that's reduced your brain to soup? Does the idea of watching a two-hour video game cut scene appeal to you? Well here you go.
I enjoyed it. It fulfilled its purpose. Our hero even gets rewarded for completing a side quest at the end. May we all age like Jennifer Lopez.
The blurb usually comes from IMDb. The one on this post is... just slightly different from what's displayed on the movie's page (different data source for the IMDb webpage vs the API Fanfare taps?).
posted by hanov3r at 2:16 PM on May 24
posted by hanov3r at 2:16 PM on May 24
May we all age like Jennifer Lopez.
Don't disagree, but really all it takes is hiring a full-time personal trainer and a full-time dietician, and paying for the really good cosmetic surgery, and almost anyone can age that well.
posted by Pedantzilla at 2:30 PM on May 24 [3 favorites]
Don't disagree, but really all it takes is hiring a full-time personal trainer and a full-time dietician, and paying for the really good cosmetic surgery, and almost anyone can age that well.
posted by Pedantzilla at 2:30 PM on May 24 [3 favorites]
I am watching this right now. It's so far pretty, but terrible.
The first 2 minutes feel like watching a command and conquer cut scene.
Ultimately it's not good, but if you really can't find anything else to watch and your brains are made of soup, then you might as well?
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 5:32 PM on May 24 [1 favorite]
The first 2 minutes feel like watching a command and conquer cut scene.
Ultimately it's not good, but if you really can't find anything else to watch and your brains are made of soup, then you might as well?
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 5:32 PM on May 24 [1 favorite]
Not knowing anything it popped in front of me and I clicked in, just the most random string of SciFi word soup. My fav was "he (bad AI, who actually has a toaster in it's fam tree :) escaped to the Andromeda Galaxy, which turns out to be a random planet with earthquakes. Clearly no one involve has enough science background to grasp the difference between a planet and a galaxy. Maybe it got better after 10 min.
posted by sammyo at 4:47 AM on May 25
posted by sammyo at 4:47 AM on May 25
Well, I was in a mental state similar to Alex404 last week, so the last two Netflix-produced sci-fi pretty visual but threadbare plot with known actor video game cutscenes extended to feature length movies I saw prior to this were the Rebel Moon things, and I felt like this kicked the pants off of those movies, but that is a very, very low bar to clear. I will admit that Rebel Moon lost me pretty early on with a giant waterfall coming out of the top of a mountain rather than a valley.
But, this movie! The production design was pretty good - tech looked interesting, and the planet actually seemed alien, interesting, and varied (but maybe too varied for the short distance traveled in the course of the movie). Plot wasn't anything surprising, you could mostly figure out where things were going to go, but I didn't feel like it had the tropiest of tropy scenes like in Rebel Moon where I was constantly thinking "oh, now we're hitting this beat that I've seen a million times already". I did twig at the mention of Andromeda, like, that's a gigantic galaxy, you're not really narrowing it down much; and they don't even bother with the hard sci-fi of how one would get there. There was a graphic later on that mentioned "Andromeda Galaxy" not just a star system or planet, so somebody knew something, but 2.5 million light years is A LOT, come on guys.
So, not great, probably plenty to pick on if I were paying more attention, but pretty to look at and generally pretty tight - not a whole lot of characters or B plots to lose track of.
posted by LionIndex at 8:39 AM on May 25
But, this movie! The production design was pretty good - tech looked interesting, and the planet actually seemed alien, interesting, and varied (but maybe too varied for the short distance traveled in the course of the movie). Plot wasn't anything surprising, you could mostly figure out where things were going to go, but I didn't feel like it had the tropiest of tropy scenes like in Rebel Moon where I was constantly thinking "oh, now we're hitting this beat that I've seen a million times already". I did twig at the mention of Andromeda, like, that's a gigantic galaxy, you're not really narrowing it down much; and they don't even bother with the hard sci-fi of how one would get there. There was a graphic later on that mentioned "Andromeda Galaxy" not just a star system or planet, so somebody knew something, but 2.5 million light years is A LOT, come on guys.
So, not great, probably plenty to pick on if I were paying more attention, but pretty to look at and generally pretty tight - not a whole lot of characters or B plots to lose track of.
posted by LionIndex at 8:39 AM on May 25
I, for one, enjoyed my feature-length Titanfall 2 cutscene. Thumbs up, great to watch on a lazy Friday night.
posted by WedgedPiano at 9:37 PM on May 25 [2 favorites]
posted by WedgedPiano at 9:37 PM on May 25 [2 favorites]
"Beyond the Wire" was a better "are you smarter than the AI?" movie - I thought. But this wasn't bad - it also wasn't good, but it wasn't really bad.
In a couple days I'll have no memory of it whatsoever.
posted by From Bklyn at 11:45 AM on May 26
In a couple days I'll have no memory of it whatsoever.
posted by From Bklyn at 11:45 AM on May 26
Double wind turbines! Early too. Though some unconvincing siting.
Ten minutes in and already better than Rebel Moon. For some reason I can accept ridiculousness from Lopez films and I liked the Casca capture
and interrogation
posted by biffa at 11:22 AM on May 28
Ten minutes in and already better than Rebel Moon. For some reason I can accept ridiculousness from Lopez films and I liked the Casca capture
and interrogation
posted by biffa at 11:22 AM on May 28
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posted by Alex404 at 2:03 PM on May 24