Series: A.I. Movie Festival

A.I. Movie Festival: Chappie

A Depressed Press SeriesPart 2 of 12 of A.I. Movie Festival

IMDB, Chappie“Chappie” on IMDB

Action/Sci-Fi, 120 Minutes, 2015

I start off my month of A.I. with one of the movies I was most looking forward to. Neill Blomkamp [IMDB] , despite having a name that sounds like an expensive sex act, has brought us some of the best, most thought provoking science fiction of the past decade. That said, he’s not the most subtle, or even the most original, writer. District 9 [IMDB] was an incisive, if blunt, commentary on the inherent disaster of institutionalized inequality. Elysium’s [IMDB] Haves-versus-Have-Nots theme was even less elegant, but effectively timeless regardless.

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Welcome to the A.I. Movie Festival!

A Depressed Press SeriesPart 1 of 12 of A.I. Movie Festival

johnny5aliveLike many others we recently enjoyed the painful, bleeding hell that is the first day of school. We watched two grumpy teenagers
shamble off to another year of learning. This year my son is starting Advanced Placement Computer Programming, just like I did in high school.

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