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Post by gazjam on Dec 9, 2014 14:03:47 GMT
Tone not lowered at all - thanks for that, I know a certain 17 year old who will love it! and a certain 45 year old too! 
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2014 14:32:30 GMT
Tone not lowered at all - thanks for that, I know a certain 17 year old who will love it! and a certain 45 year old too!
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Post by MartinT on Dec 14, 2014 22:08:10 GMT
Her
A man falls in love with his computer. Ok, if we can suspend disbelief for a moment, this film, set in a near future, features Joaquin Phoenix in a downbeat, melancholic middle-aged life, working for handwrittenletters.com. He buys a new operating system for his computer after seeing an ad. It's called OS1 and is an AI incorporating the minds of hundreds of programmers. It certainly has the best start-up questions ever and asks to look at his e-mails and contacts to get an idea of who he is. It names itself Samantha.
Soon he starts conversing with Samantha and begins to consider her a proper person. Thus the dilemma begins. Something goes wrong, as was always going to happen from the moment he installs the new OS. It's not exactly Skynet, but from his point of view it may as well be.
What's fascinating is to extrapolate the gap between the clunky cod-Cortana conversations of now and the point of computers meeting the Turing test of believable conversation in the future. When will that happen? 2030? Later? As Samantha asks: "Are these feelings real or are they just programming?" What about going further to full AI, where a computer could be considered to be a fully intelligent being? It's thought-provoking, as is this film, if you can just get over that banal initial premise. The problem is, computers and the future-internet are just too fast for us slow old humans, so it's never going to be a meeting of equals. 8/10
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Post by jammy on Dec 14, 2014 22:20:51 GMT
That Sounds almost as deep as "Twelve Monkeys" Martin...!!!
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Post by MartinT on Dec 14, 2014 23:04:49 GMT
It isn't, but it's still thought provoking!
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Post by MartinT on Dec 20, 2014 0:57:55 GMT
Predestination, based on a Robert Heinlein short story. Just watched it. Absolutely mesmerising, beautifully paced, complex and with an ending that makes you NEED to watch it again more carefully. Thank you Gaz, for the recommendation. 9/10. |
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Dec 20, 2014 7:53:03 GMT
Yeah, great film, always been a Heinlein fan. Watched Lucy the other day, a good film. Anyone seen Under The Skin?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2014 8:48:15 GMT
I've always thought that someone should try and make Stranger in a Strange Land into a film. But then again, the bible belters would probably block the funding.
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Post by MikeMusic on Dec 20, 2014 9:08:51 GMT
I grok that
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Post by MartinT on Dec 20, 2014 12:07:19 GMT
Lucy is on my radar. SIASL would be interesting!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2014 14:23:15 GMT
Don't we all? Thou art god after all. |
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Dec 20, 2014 16:55:58 GMT
I've always thought that someone should try and make Stranger in a Strange Land into a film. But then again, the bible belters would probably block the funding. Yes indeed, would be a great film, but as you say, it would go the same way as The Golden Compass. |
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Dec 20, 2014 19:16:36 GMT
As Heinlein said in The Writngs Of Lazarus Long-
"But you must respect another man's religion." For heaven's sake, why?
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Post by MartinT on Dec 20, 2014 23:15:43 GMT
I treat all religions equally...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 7:42:13 GMT
As Heinlein said in The Writngs Of Lazarus Long- "But you must respect another man's religion." For heaven's sake, why? Indeed. However, I would respect their religion so long as I didn't know about it. People can believe what they want but I don't wish it to be a function of how we interact. I certainly don't wish to be told the good news. It should be between them and their god/gods. |
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Dec 21, 2014 10:08:13 GMT
Yes agreed.
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Post by Slinger on Dec 29, 2014 0:09:48 GMT
Perhaps not "remarkable" but as a very good example of the haunted house genre (I do like my horror films) I'd recommend The Conjuring. It was directed by James Wan, who also directed Saw, but it's much more of a psychological horror, NOT a slasher pic.
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Post by MikeMusic on Dec 29, 2014 13:29:50 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2014 13:21:36 GMT
Predestination, based on a Robert Heinlein short story. Just watched it. Absolutely mesmerising, beautifully paced, complex and with an ending that makes you NEED to watch it again more carefully. Thank you Gaz, for the recommendation. 9/10. I watched it last night after the recommendation on here. Very good! Indeed it needs a second watching. |
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Dec 30, 2014 14:47:40 GMT
Aye, bit of a headf**k first time round.
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