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Post by Neverending on Jan 11, 2015 6:33:12 GMT -5
I'm not sure if I like this movie or not. The story is not bad. It's about Johnny Depp wanting to improve mankind through artifical intelligence, but at the same time, suffering through a MAJOR God complex. It's not an original concept, or anything like that, but it's mostly well-executed. What ultimately hurts the movie is two things. One, this is a Christopher Nolan movie directed by someone else. That's just weird. And two, the pacing is WAY off. It takes a long time for things to get interesting. Basically, with a better editor and a director with an actual voice, Transcendence might have actually worked. Instead, it's just an awkward movie.
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Post by Jibbs on Jan 12, 2015 1:02:09 GMT -5
From letterboxd:
Transcendence (2014)
Transcendence has some entertaining ideas but does a pretty poor job of executing them. There's the classic "Does technology do more good or bad for us?" but the "bad" side is argued by uninspired Luddite terrorists. There's interesting stuff about transporting consciousness into computers, but also big stuff about nanotechnology, breaking the "only one sub-genre of science fiction, please" rule of science fiction. But where the movie really tanks is with its characters and their motives.
Johnny Depp's character, Will Caster, is successfully uploaded into a computer database before he can die from a gunshot wound, but the reactions about this that start to come out of the supporting cast are like from people who've seen this episode of Twilight Zone before and know exactly what will happen. So much so, that they make rash and deadly decisions only because the script is moving in that direction. Sure, the dangers become quite real later on in the movie, but the decisions of the characters still manage to be overreactions. If you'd like an example, there's a scene where a woman is sent to go talk with Will. After a minute or so, someone far away who can't hear anything who's viewing it with binoculars says "this is taking too long, it's not working." That's when they started to fire Howizers...at the innocent woman and Will alike.
We're talking about a movie that named him "Will Caster," for God's sakes. Subtle.
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