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Interesting. It has elements of a few themes. I immediately recognized the reference to an old Sufi/wisdom tale of an enlightened teacher/monk who walks into a village and is lauded. The first thing he does is seek out a kid who is being adored and idolized and kills him. Deciphering all of the aspects of that story takes hours of contemplation. Next, the similarities to an updated "Colossus, The Forbin Project" and "Rogue One" presented, even before the revelation that the director was the same one who did Rogue One.
I suspect that the fight scenes will dominate until they become tedious, to entrance the action movie junkies.
When I first clicked on the thread title I wondered if someone was trying a remake of the classic Peter O'Toole vehicle; "Creator," a movie that probably would benefit many in the mid-stage of the grieving process.
Interesting. It has elements of a few themes. I immediately recognized the reference to an old Sufi/wisdom tale of an enlightened teacher/monk who walks into a village and is lauded. The first thing he does is seek out a kid who is being adored and idolized and kills him. Deciphering all of the aspects of that story takes hours of contemplation. Next, the similarities to an updated "Colossus, The Forbin Project" and "Rogue One" presented, even before the revelation that the director was the same one who did Rogue One.
Interesting. It struck me as BLADERUNNER fan fic --- and I mean that as a sincere compliment.
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Originally Posted by harry chickpea
I suspect that the fight scenes will dominate until they become tedious, to entrance the action movie junkies.
I hope not, not from this director. If anything, he is often criticized for not having enough action in his movies, for being too thoughtful and character-driven.
His first movie, MONSTERS, is great. Highly recommended.
Then he did 2014's GODZILLA, which I quite liked --- although I could smell studio meddling in a lot of it. The movie spent too much time with its least interesting characters.
ROGUE ONE remains the best STAR WARS movie since Lucas left. I know Edwards got fired and other filmmakers finished the movie. I'd be very curious to see how a pure Gareth Edwards STAR WARS movie would have been.
So, in this case, we had a human who had formerly been a "terminator" of robots undertake the protection of a child robot destined to be the savior of robots against total termination by evil humans. Against them was a seemingly unstoppable human military officer who would chase them to the ends of the earth.
Terminator 2 with the roles of humans and robots swapped. I could have lived with that.
But what lost me was the idiocy of AI robots that were as weak and stupid as humans. They were no stronger or faster than humans. Their senses were no better than humans. The AI robots were supposedly happy to live at the level of third-world human villagers, peaceful Buddhist (actually... Buddhist) farmers and fishermen, pet-owners, watching a little porn, playing cards, drinking, vaping, happily adopting human orphan children, and taking nice naps in hammocks (so sound asleep a human can sneak up to them and pull the plug).
Their police were Keystone Kops. Human infiltrators were able to tag along with one police patrol without the robot police even noticing there were two extra cops in their group. C'mon, even a human squad would have figured out there were extra people in the group. And why wouldn't the robots have internal radios to communicate with each other...they showed that the humans had radios in their gear to communicate with each other. They toss a grenade, a frigging dog (thinking it's a game) tosses the grenade back...and the robots just go "Oh, oh" and stare at it until it explodes. In that same situation, there are humans who would have successfully thrown it back...robots couldn't think and move that fast? Who would build them like that?
See that dot 'way out on the horizon? That is my suspension of disbelief, flying away.
And then the big, bad American Military Machine swoops down on the peaceful villagers in massive overkill and starts killing their dogs and children. Here is where we get the pastiche of the Vietnam War, even with its own Tonkin Gulf incident.
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