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This looks like an unusual flick, to be sure:
Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision, a sci-fi punk musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that Williams has explored in his work, notably his 2016 album MartyrLoserKing. Co-directed with the Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman, the film takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region's natural resources – and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry. Set between states of being – past and present, dream and waking life, colonized and free, male and female, memory and prescience – Neptune Frost is an invigorating and empowering direct download to the cerebral cortex and a call to reclaim technology for progressive political ends.
 
In 1982 John Carpenter released the movie, The Thing “ with modest success.

At age 74, John says he could have the backing to “ green light “ a sequel that he has always wanted to make.

An attempted remake of The Thing in 2011 was a commercial “ flop “.
 
In 1982 John Carpenter released the movie, The Thing “ with modest success.

At age 74, John says he could have the backing to “ green light “ a sequel that he has always wanted to make.

An attempted remake of The Thing in 2011 was a commercial “ flop “.

The 2011 version was more of a prequel, it ended with the opening shots of The Thing.
 
I've done a search and can't find any other reference to this TV show but it fits in perfectly with this forum.

Has anyone else watched Severance on Apple TV+?

Staring Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, John Turturro and Christopher Walken.

In a world where your brain can be severed into two separate conciouses, one for your personal life and one for your work life they share no knowledge of what each knows or does. The "innie" worker conciouses start to get suspicious of what they are doing and why their "outies" have decided to be severed.

With nods to the prisoner, a great plot, stellar acting, great comedy moments and more twists and turns than a twisty turny thing, I can't recommend it enough.

There are also shades of the Bioshock computer games in there as well.

I am suffering withdrawal at the moment and can't wait until next season.
 
I've done a search and can't find any other reference to this TV show but it fits in perfectly with this forum.

Has anyone else watched Severance on Apple TV+?

Staring Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, John Turturro and Christopher Walken.

In a world where your brain can be severed into two separate conciouses, one for your personal life and one for your work life they share no knowledge of what each knows or does. The "innie" worker conciouses start to get suspicious of what they are doing and why their "outies" have decided to be severed.

With nods to the prisoner, a great plot, stellar acting, great comedy moments and more twists and turns than a twisty turny thing, I can't recommend it enough.

There are also shades of the Bioshock computer games in there as well.

I am suffering withdrawal at the moment and can't wait until next season.
Sounds interesting. Great list of actors. Is it an *ppletv production? Then it may be a while before anyone without *ppletv has access.

I just got a new iphone with a 3 month trial for the streaming service. Maybe I should take advantage.
 
Sony has canceled Toby Maquire and Andrew Garfield’s upcoming Spider-Man # 4.

Is Toby Maquire not up to the very physical role ?
 
Sony has canceled Toby Maquire and Andrew Garfield’s upcoming Spider-Man # 4.

Is Toby Maquire not up to the very physical role ?
I think they may change actors occasionally because of availability and the amount of money they are expecting to be paid.
 
After a quick check of the warring press leaks it sounds like a lot of price negotiation is going on.
 
@Mr. Banooka, thank you so much for your recommendation of Severance. Very interesting and the basis idea for the show is thought provoking. I finally had to stop watching it last night after seeing 3 episodes. I think it was about 3:00 am and I forced myself to shut it off.
 
@Mr. Banooka, thank you so much for your recommendation of Severance. Very interesting and the basis idea for the show is thought provoking. I finally had to stop watching it last night after seeing 3 episodes. I think it was about 3:00 am and I forced myself to shut it off.
It's a little bit addictive, isn't it. My wife had to keep telling me off for watching too late when I had work the next day.
 
According to movie review web sites, Disney we have a problem !

Indiana Jones # 5 has been shown to 5 test audiences, and all 5 test audiences wanted to know if there was a rating below terrible.

Maybe a lower rating would be, it stinks !

The movie was way behind filming schedule and also had numerous rewrites.
 
According to movie review web sites, Disney we have a problem !

Indiana Jones # 5 has been shown to 5 test audiences, and all 5 test audiences wanted to know if there was a rating below terrible.

Maybe a lower rating would be, it stinks !

The movie was way behind filming schedule and also had numerous rewrites.
It's for the box office results to be the judge.
I'm always hearing bad reviews from critics about films, only to be pleasantly surprised.
 
According to movie review web sites, Disney we have a problem !

Indiana Jones # 5 has been shown to 5 test audiences, and all 5 test audiences wanted to know if there was a rating below terrible.

Maybe a lower rating would be, it stinks !

The movie was way behind filming schedule and also had numerous rewrites.
I stopped after 2. Have I missed much with 3 & 4?
 
Have I missed much with 3 & 4?
3 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Indiana Jones searches for his father who has gone missing while searching for the Holy Grail or something. Blah blah blah, Nazis, blah blah blah, desert, blah blah blah, dodgy underground tunnels in which the SFX gets a bit better, blah blah blah, the memorable scenes from the film with finding the Holy Grail but the Nazis getting the wrong one and drinking from it and it killed him in a horrible rapid-aging to a skeleton that crumbles into dust.
If you're going to watch it you could probably skip through about two-thirds of it and be no worse of plot-wise.
I would probably give it 3 out of 5 for the action scenes but the rest of the film is fairly dull.

4 - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Indiana Jones is kidnapped by the Soviets and taken to "Hangar 51"to locate the remains of the 'Roswell Alien'. A bit of action /fight and Indiana escapes to a nearby model town right before an atomic bomb test. He hides in a lead fridge (?) and survives the blast.
Some contrived trip to Peru which leads to finding a skull at a grave (which I guess shouldn't have been unexpected but hey-ho). And he is somehow captured by Soviets again.
Lots of complicated 'double agent' stuff as well so you don't really know who is on which side. And at this point the plot gets over-complicated, ending up in the long action scene through waterfalls and a temple in the jungle (again) and the Crystal Skull of the title is apparently an actual alien skull.
More Soviets. More double agents.
A final scene with aliens killing our main baddie with too much information being dumped in their brain, a portal to an alien realm opening up, sucking in all the baddies (of course) while Indiana and his mates escape.
Oh and a flying saucer flies off.
One of those films that probably benefits from a second watch so that you can actually follow what the hell is going on.
 
Synchronic: A tale of two paramedics and how their lives are affected when they encounter users of a new drug, Synchronic. Strange wounds and injuries are found on the still living and the dead. We see what the users experience, a lift whose flor disappears, a woman on a bed transported to a jungle where a snake bites her, in the real world she remains bitten. Somehow they are transported elsewhere as is one of the paramedics when he tries Synchronic. This isn't just a Sci-Fi thriller though, as well as the mondo we see the mundane everyday life of EMTs as they deal with New Orleans' walking wounded (both mentally and physically), their regular clients. There are some streaks of humour, a drugged up party goer dressed as Baron Samedi won't stop laughing/chanting in French as the ambulancemen have a fistfight. Even when you use Synchronic without other narcotics you may not be prepared for the experiences you encounter. It's difficult to say more without giving away important plot elements and twists but there are elements of extreme horror throughout the film. Written by Justin Benson, who also Co-Directed and Co-produced with Aaron Moorhead. On Netflix. 8/10.
 
It's worth noting that although there are a few bits of writing on screen, there's no real speech throughout the film.

And that doesn't grate or really come across as gimmicky; the film doesn't need it.

8/10 from me.

Just watched Farmageddon - great fun with so many quirky bits. In the best tradition of Wallace and Gromit.
 
I am not happy with the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey with the ending.

Supposedly Stanley Kubrick claimed that his idea was for everyone to come up with that everyone should make their own conclusion.

My conclusion was the ending of the movie was “ crap “.

Then 2010: The Year We Made Contact was inflicted on the public.
 
Warriors of Future: Title sounds like a bad translation, this is Hong Kong SciFi. A bit like Annihilation but this time in an urban setting. A meteor strikes a city and an an alien plant complex develops, throwing up fauna as well as flora. The eArth has already been ravaged by war and pollution so this is just the icing on the cake, Wait! A scientist has a cunning plan! A bio-bullet which won't just stop the alien organism from developing but will transform it into an atmosphere cleanser! An intrepid force of special soldiers enter the infected zone. But they have more to worry about than aliens. Some great battle scenes between: soldiers and robots, soldiers and alien creatures which look like insectoid Komodo Dragons. Impressive giant plants which attack tilt-wing aircraft. Overall the effects are pretty good. Quite a few cliches thrown in but it's enjoyable SciFi action. Directed by visual effects artist Ng Yuen-fai in his directorial debut, Screenplay by Lau Ho-leung and Mak Tin-shu. On Netflix. 6.5/10.
 
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Exception: Animated SciFi series which tackles some of the more serious tropes in Space Opera. A advance guard colonisation team are sent to terraform a planet orbiting a distant star. A "Womb", a 3D biological printer recreates the individual team members, downloading their recorded memories. Due to an error one astronaut ends up like a monster. Should he be euthanised and a replacement printed? Other questions are teased out - are you really the same person as the recorded memories if the original exists elsewhere? Possible sabotage and other conspiracies are faced by the pioneers. An engaging storyline along with great adult anime makes this a must watch programme. Based on an original story by Hirotaka Adachi with character designs by Yoshitaka Amano, music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, and directed by Yūzō Satō. Eight episodes on Netflix. 8/10.
 
Exception: Animated SciFi series which tackles some of the more serious tropes in Space Opera. A advance guard colonisation team are sent to terraform a planet orbiting a distant star. A "Womb", a 3D biological printer recreates the individual team members, downloading their recorded memories. Due to an error one astronaut ends up like a monster. Should he be euthanised and a replacement printed? Other questions are teased out - are you really the same person as the recorded memories if the original exists elsewhere? Possible sabotage and other conspiracies are faced by the pioneers. An engaging storyline along with great adult anime makes this a must watch programme. Based on an original story by Hirotaka Adachi with character designs by Yoshitaka Amano, music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, and directed by Yūzō Satō. Eight episodes on Netflix. 8/10.
Off topic, but good questions regarding using memories to recreate people's personality and assuming that they would be the same as. We all know that memories are constantly being revised and are not true to original experience. So would this really be a good way of recreating people? I'm thinking of scifi tropes like retaining a famous or renowned person's (say Stephen Hawking) brain and transferring it to AI, or cloning a body to download the person's brain into.

On topic, anime is not a favourite of mine, and I usually skip anything that involves anime. I may just have to get over myself and watch this.
 
Off topic, but good questions regarding using memories to recreate people's personality and assuming that they would be the same as. We all know that memories are constantly being revised and are not true to original experience. So would this really be a good way of recreating people? I'm thinking of scifi tropes like retaining a famous or renowned person's (say Stephen Hawking) brain and transferring it to AI, or cloning a body to download the person's brain into.

On topic, anime is not a favourite of mine, and I usually skip anything that involves anime. I may just have to get over myself and watch this.

I'n not that much into anime either, I waited almost two months before watching Exception. It's quiet good.
 
I do like Men in Black. Not only does it have some great performances but it also embraces my theory that every universe not only contains a universe but is contained by one. Size is a human concept, not a physical one.

Mike Moorcock and some other SF writers had similar views.
 
REVERSIBLE REALITY (2022) is a Russian dystopian thriller that had been in the pipeline for a long time but was finally released this year. The director (Dmitry Konstantinov) - tellingly - has a background in crime thrillers, rather than `sci fi` - for what you get here is a sort of board room thriller done in a noir style.

In an unspecified nearish future virtual reality has become commonplace and the main form of relaxation for the joyless citizens. In particualr an organisation called New Life are peddling `Adventures` wherein people can vicariously live out thier fantasy lives - as famous footballers, or intrepid explorers or just taking out revenge on their bosses.

However, it appears that these fantasies are being booby-trapped by hackers - and suspcion falls on an anti Virtual Reality activist group. Mikhail, an online crimes specialist, is charged with infiltrating New Life the better to find out what is going on. There he comes into contact with the stately Vika who indeed is part of this group. She is the cool, intellectual foil to the old school tough guy that he represents.

She convinces him that the real problem is New Life - which has increrasingly megalomaniac aspirations to control all of society - and together they work to defeat it - but not before he gets framed for the murder of its boss, no less....

Neither the setting (a Metropolis style rigidly urbanised crepescular world) nor its theme (real lived experience versus a synthetic fantasy world) are at all original. However, the film has a self-contained quality - it just doesn't care about any precedents - that is quite charming. Also its timing is brilliant - it came out just as Zuckenberg was pushing his META scheme.

The devil is all in the detail, with a lot of attention paid to costumes and architecture. Many good actors are involved too and there are some nice vignettes. (At one point an anachronistic Columbo style detective puts in an appearance).

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Anyone else watching The Last of Us?
I'm 2 episodes in now, but am unsure whether it's worth investing any more time.
Not convinced we needed yet another Walking Dead-style EOTWAWKI drama, particularly with characters as unlikeable as these.
Bella Ramsey as Ellie is particularly irritating and unbelievable - surely no-one would be as cocky as that, when they could be executed at any second? Seems to be little more than a platform for her to spout her potty-mouthed cheeky one-liners.
The post-apocalyptic cityscapes look good, but is that enough?
Maybe it worked better as a computer game?
 
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