Everyone has different opinions but what was crap about it. Directed by the visionary behind Children of Men, which won best picture and rather than just making a bunch of easy films he spent 4 years making this one.
The cinematography required new innovations in ways to film space scenes. New rigs and such they invented that stuff on the production budget. The acting was top notch. It was stunning.
The cheesy stuff? The unrealistic parts of it? Maybe you could criticise those aspects of it, but they were intentional sacrifices made so the rest of the film could be fresh, new, attainable. The story arc was like a mini rollercoaster, never slowed down. I cheered for our protagonist.
Movies like that don't come out very often.
It's a borderline masterpiece my dear friend. A masterpiece I tell you. One of the prettiest looking things I've ever seen in Imax. It made me have feelings inside. I rated it as one of the best movies to come out in decades.
I think part of a film like that is the spectacle of it. It's probably harder to enjoy on a cellphone, is that what happened?
Oh jesus, the movie is a borefest and has this uncanny feeling that emotions are totally missing, like you are telling a story about humans, but with robots that lack any emotions. Not even Joaquin Phoenix can save it and no matter how hard RK tries to elevate it to the level of Matrix, it's nowhere near groundbreaking, at best it is a bag of clichés. It's someone's corny fantasy about a fully retarded future, or rather someone with serious control issues, tries to portray how humans will be enslaved to such misaligned, horrible and borderline crazy inventions like an os that give you virtual fellatio and emotional support.
Plus they masqueraded JP to this repulsive figure, instead of letting his god given looks work its way on the screen, which would've helped the whole setup, since it's a good looking guy who needs the OS' support, not an average joe.
? That was just an unimaginative take on the current state of computers. Don't get me wrong, I love the vibe, they are some of my favorite movies, but it seems like lack of imagination rather than trying at all.
It was a cool movie. But the direction and acting were both pretty terrible. You could tell that the humans were standing in front of green screens. It really failed at immersion.
What is impressive about that movie ? To me it's quite the opposite.. it's not impressive at all (too dark, bad fps) and when I watch it there is something in it that causes head aches. It's very hard to watch.
I actually didn't think it was that amazing. Visually stunning, some good scenes, and pretty memorable. But regardless I think it doesn't deserve the insanely high praise it gets. In my opinion..
If the plot was terrible, the visual aspects didn't impress me at all (it looked way too shiny and polished, some elements were trite - the snowy-white locations, the red desert ones; or taken from previous movies, for example Spielberg's AI). The music was generic but bombastic. The kung-fu fights completely unnecessary and pointless.
The dialog is terrible, acting is meh, argument seemed dumbed down into a kid's movie level and, yet, it explores sentient AI and artificial life, the concept of intelligent software agents acting on the user's behalf, and touches the concept of uploading oneself to a machine and into a simulated reality.
A bit like The Black Hole - Disney didn't know what to do with it.
IIRC, Bonnie Mc Bird's original screenplay was a bit more fantasy-like in that the hero "fell into the computer" by some sort of accident.
Other interesting movie from the time would be Electric Dreams, which also touches the topic of sentient AI, but in a romcom setting with a delightful soundtrack.
Jeebus. I HATE the soundtrack. I can't stand Zimmer anymore. He keeps doing the same old textured two notes synth effects, loud booming brass basses and metallic clanking percussion noises since Inception or whatever, that fit perfectly trailers but but gets the more tiring the longer the movie. Each new film has an even more repetitive and loud soundtrack than the last one, pretending to be dramatic, but hint: drama is born from changes of emotions and atmosphere, not constant loud drones. Plus these insufferable pretentious noises never stop; in opposition to the mystical, meditative nature of the story, clearly calling for moments of contemplative silence, there's a constant background of "braooowww" "oooohh" and "clang clang". Ick. The movie was pretty good, but the "music" really degraded the experience for me.
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