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Category: Movies
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer
As you’ve likely heard, essentially non-stop for the last 48 hours, STAR WARS! TRAILER! STAR TRAILER! TRAILER WARS! STAR TRAIL WARSER! Yup, the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer dropped the other day and, yup, it were awesome. In fact, here it is!
Yup again, awesome. Han Solo. Darth Vader’s helmet. All the feels.
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Movie Review: Her
Sci-fi/Drama/Romance/Comedy, 126 Minutes, 2013
After starting it, I was instantly convinced that I would love this movie. I also instantly regretted waiting so long to see it. In some cases my initial reaction is wrong. The movie squanders it, tosses it away, and I feel betrayed. In this case it somehow just kept getting better.
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Movie Review: Ex Machina
Sci-Fi/Thriller, 108 Minutes, 2015
While technology remains incapable of creating anything resembling true artificial intelligence, the topic has been popular amongst philosophers and futurists for well over a century. One of the most debated questions is deceptively simple: how can we tell if something is really intelligent and not just faking it? This is the question of the film.
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Movie Review: The Iron Giant: Signature Edition
“The Iron Giant: Signature Edition” on IMDB
Sci-Fi/Thriller, 108 Minutes, 2015
In 1999, untried director Brad Bird [IMDB] convinced Warner Bros. to give him $70 million to create a period sci-fi animated feature based on Ted Hughes 1968 novel The Iron Man. Due to some bizarre circumstances he was given significant control over the production and was able to follow his vision. He made the movie that he wanted to make. It was amazing.
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A.I. Movie Festival: Coffee Break Intelligence!
Not all explorations of A.I. need to be long, bladder-testing epics (I’m looking at you, misters Spielberg and Kubrick). Sometimes all you need is a few minutes. The following five shorts are all less than 10 minutes long, yet each deftly explores major themes of artificial intelligence and would give any feature film a run for its money.
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A.I. Movie Festival: Automata
Sci-Fi/Thriller, 109 Minutes, 2014
Despite it seemingly being tailor-fit to my taste, this completely failed to register on my radar when it was released. It was only when I started researching movies to include in this Month of A.I. that I discovered it.
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A.I. Movie Festival: Unnecessary Intelligence!
A.I. has provided filmmakers with a wonderful tool to explore the human condition. We can guiltlessly examine the absolute best and worst aspects of ourselves in a safe and approachable way. The reflective interaction between man and machine has produced some of the most iconic moments ever set to film.
Then there are other times. Times where A.I. is introduced and your only reasonable reaction has to be “What the fuck?” Here are two of those times.
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A.I. Movie Festival: Genisys
Science-Fiction/Action, 126 Minutes, 2015
Getting 1984’s The Terminator [IMDB] made was a struggle for sophomore writer/director James Cameron [IMDB]. It was finally completed on a modest budget after collecting a small herd of backers. It was a massively unexpected success. Cameron followed it in 1991 with Terminator 2: Judgement Day [IMDB]. Enjoying a budget over 15 times higher than its predecessor this was a lavish, complex production that pushed the limits of filmmaking.
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A.I. Movie Festival: 80’s Intelligence!
The 80’s was a great time for A.I. in film. We had reached a point, technologically, where the idea of smart machines seemed more inevitable than fantastical. Crucially, filmmakers could also assume their audiences were computer literate enough to understand more advanced concepts. Just as importantly, they knew that the audience wasn’t too savvy. A flurry of technobabble could make ridiculous claims sound reasonable and in the 80’s we got a lot of technobabble.
