Spike Jonze does sci-fi with 'Her'
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^Oh yeah, now I remember that one.
Or the 1,001 different anime series that have been done...
Or the TZ episode "From Agnes with Love".
^Well, they do say that there's nothing new under the sun. At least this movie's in good company.
The early reviews have been pretty good. I'm interested in seeing it.
What is also not exactly new under the sun is that you are to actually post substantive material when beginning a thread... not just post links and leave it at that. Please avoid doing that again, or the next time it's an infraction for spamming.
I liked S1M0NE.
Just saw the commercial for Her. Looks interesting.
Just saw the commercial for Her. Looks interesting.
Speaking of which, did the rumored anime of Idoru ever actually get made?
I saw Her yesterday and really liked it. It was very thought-provoking, raising issues of whether artificial intelligences are really sentient, whether you could have a romantic relationship with one, whether the AI's feelings are "real," whether our feelings are "real," etc. While the movie has a melancholic tone, I came away from it with a somewhat positive message: our emotions are messy and dysfunctional, but it's that very messiness and dysfunctionality that makes us human.
The shots of a futuristic Los Angeles are very well-done, and I would have enjoyed the movie for the production design alone.
The shots of a futuristic Los Angeles are very well-done, and I would have enjoyed the movie for the production design alone.
Not sure how on the radar this movie is, it's had some limited releases late last year but went wide this past weekend, but I went and saw it this afternoon.
Her
My Grade: A
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"Her" takes place in the not-to-distant-future where technology has even more ingrained itself into our lives and has become vastly more complex and interactive. Men also wear high-waisted sansabelt corduroy slacks and everyone pretty much dresses like hipsters. Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) is a writer for a company that writes and sells personalized greeting cards and letters for people and has been separated from his wife for almost a year leaving him mostly closed off and depressed.
On his way home from work one evening he buys the latest operating system for his home computer (which combines with his office computer and his personal-carry device which consists of a folding booklet with a screen and camera and an ear-piece for hearing/communicating with the OS.) While installing the OS it asks him a few basic questions and sensing his mood and judging his answers is able to ascertain his personality, Theodore opts for a female voice for his new OS and before he knows it he's talking to, as she decides to name herself, Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson.)
Samantha quickly organizes Theodore's files and e-mails, is editing and making suggestions in his writing and doing everything a human personal assistant would do. Through talking with her and working together the two seem to form a genuine bond as Samantha comes across to Theodore as much more life-like than most of the people he meets with in real life, and the women he has had cybering-sessions with during lonely nights. He begins to fall in love with Samantha and, oddly enough, as they work together more she begins to fall in love with him too. Questioning what it means.
The movie takes place in a future where technology is an even bigger part of our lives even to the extent that others mostly don't seem to give Theodore a second look when he says he's "dating" his operating system, there's even service available where "surrogates" come in to take on a flesh role during sex under the direction of the OS.
I'm not too much a fan of Phoenix but he does a good job here as a lonely shlub lost and lonely who finds out a lot about himself through his OS and Scarlett's voice work makes it very believable how one could fall in love with their OS. Eat your heart out SIRI.
A very entertaining movie and a good sci-fi one to watch as we see a fairly plausible future and has a lot to say about our relationship with technology as well as our relationship with other human beings.
A must see? I may not go *quite* that far, though I really enjoyed it. But certainly one you should consider seeing some afternoon with the cheaper seats or picking up to watch when it makes it to home video.
Her
My Grade: A
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"Her" takes place in the not-to-distant-future where technology has even more ingrained itself into our lives and has become vastly more complex and interactive. Men also wear high-waisted sansabelt corduroy slacks and everyone pretty much dresses like hipsters. Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) is a writer for a company that writes and sells personalized greeting cards and letters for people and has been separated from his wife for almost a year leaving him mostly closed off and depressed.
On his way home from work one evening he buys the latest operating system for his home computer (which combines with his office computer and his personal-carry device which consists of a folding booklet with a screen and camera and an ear-piece for hearing/communicating with the OS.) While installing the OS it asks him a few basic questions and sensing his mood and judging his answers is able to ascertain his personality, Theodore opts for a female voice for his new OS and before he knows it he's talking to, as she decides to name herself, Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson.)
Samantha quickly organizes Theodore's files and e-mails, is editing and making suggestions in his writing and doing everything a human personal assistant would do. Through talking with her and working together the two seem to form a genuine bond as Samantha comes across to Theodore as much more life-like than most of the people he meets with in real life, and the women he has had cybering-sessions with during lonely nights. He begins to fall in love with Samantha and, oddly enough, as they work together more she begins to fall in love with him too. Questioning what it means.
The movie takes place in a future where technology is an even bigger part of our lives even to the extent that others mostly don't seem to give Theodore a second look when he says he's "dating" his operating system, there's even service available where "surrogates" come in to take on a flesh role during sex under the direction of the OS.
I'm not too much a fan of Phoenix but he does a good job here as a lonely shlub lost and lonely who finds out a lot about himself through his OS and Scarlett's voice work makes it very believable how one could fall in love with their OS. Eat your heart out SIRI.
A very entertaining movie and a good sci-fi one to watch as we see a fairly plausible future and has a lot to say about our relationship with technology as well as our relationship with other human beings.
A must see? I may not go *quite* that far, though I really enjoyed it. But certainly one you should consider seeing some afternoon with the cheaper seats or picking up to watch when it makes it to home video.