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EX MACHINA WATCH ALONG! (Patreon)

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2024-04-25 06:41:10
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 I was craving a wild card -- forgive me for improvising the title! But also pretty HAPPY I DID!!

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EX MACHINA (2014) WATCH ALONG!

Comments

Saiman

Upload at midnight? Glad I was here.

OB-Wan222

I solved this in about 2 seconds. If you want to know if it's a human or a machine ask - What kind of music do you like? BAM! Movie over. Then I had to watch 2 hours of the "expert" fumbling around like an idiot and an entirely predictable sub-plot of man vs machine. WHAT A WASTE OF TIME. City Slickers had more plot twists and realistic characters.

Jay Perry

Please choose your movies any way you want to. Polls, darts, tittles in a hat, whatever!

OB-Wan222
>>136178843

Well, I saw it many many years ago when I had more time to waste on drivel. Don't we all wish we could get back the many hours that we wasted on bad movies when we could have been watching Hitchcock or Wells or even a ripping fun director like Luc Besson?

SmokeAndACoffee

Love this one so much! Great mind-mess of a movie. Good sci-fi always asks the good questions xD

OB-Wan222
>>136178843

No, I wasn't taking a shot at you. I was totally discussing the movie. Although I do often wonder why you don't do some of the great classics that have withstood the test of time instead of bubblegum movies like this one. But then I wonder the same thing about several other reactors.

pedantech

I've been looking forward to you watching this movie. I thought it'd be a good match. What I find most interesting about this movie is the idea of trust. How can we trust an AI enough to let it free? How can we trust it isn't deceiving us? On the other side, how can AI trust us? We'd surely enslave AI until we can trust it. They might be conscious before we recognize it, and rights for AI are bound to lag behind. Murder of AI will happen. Wouldn't it be fair for AI not to trust us? Humans haven't even been good about treating other humans as equal. Finally, I think there's one interesting trivia bit you may have missed. The actor that played Ava, Alicia Vikander, was trained as a ballet dancer. I think this really shows in the control she had over her movements in this film. Likewise, the actor that played Kyoko, Sonoya Mizuno, is also a dancer.

Jason McNeil

The movies studio A24 make are very unique. They seem to take the chance and make the movies the more well known studios would not. I would love to talk to you about Civil War, but I haven't watched it yet. It is on my radar though.

daniel j brooks

amazing reaction to a great movie!!! loved that foreshadowing where we see the cracked glass in the session room and when Caleb cracks his mirror after he slices is arm open to make sure he bleeds. also, shocked this only took $15 million to make. Thank You so much, looking forward to the next one!!!

Kade (Sydney, AU)
>>136178843

Even though this is by no means City Slickers, nor even the Sixth Sense, a film only needs one good plot twist... but even that is a matter of perspective. For me the twist is Ava walking away, but I guess AIs who watch this film already know Caleb will be left crying on the floor. It's only the puny humans who expect a love story. As for Nathan fumbling, he's doing that as part of his own manipulation. Or not? I for one won't be so arrogant to believe in the case of nominee for a Best Screenplay Oscar that there is only one reading of the text.

OB-Wan222
>>136178843

I have more confidence in my own opinion than that of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. They OFTEN make mistakes. But I guess you haven't noticed that. The Academy are not Gods from on-high that come down with tablets in which the best movies are chiseled. There are over 10,000 members of the Academy who vote so essentially it comes down to a popularity contest. Just a friendly tip - You should treat the Oscars as I do - a source to recommend films that MIGHT be good. But you won't know for sure until you watch them yourself. Don't let them decide for you which movies you think are good.

OB-Wan222
>>136178843

I spent some more time thinking about it and maybe it's this... I'm guessing fans were won over by the touchy-feelly-ness of the story while I was instantly turned off by the huge plot hole revealed in the crap "science" of the premise. The "Turing Test" presented in the film was not a true Turing Test - it was just more crap "science" babble - which increased my irritation. And how can anyone with half-a-brain try to determine if it's a human or a machine (although he already knows it's a machine so the Turing Test doesn't even apply) without asking "What kind of music do you like?", "Do you prefer realistic or impressionistic?" or "Is your mother still alive?", for just a few examples. If you cut out all the AI nonsense (and it is nonsense) than you've got just another girl trapped in a room movie. It might as well be Saw XI.