Ex Machina: The Motion Picture

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this movie was perfect

loved it

I think you posted to the wrong thread? This one is about a movie adaptation of the comic book Ex Machina, which never happened. AFAIK, the movie called Ex Machina has nothing to with the comic.

Is there no thread for the recent movie? This is all that comes up in search...

this is it

as per the recent movie, not the comic adaptation, i found this profoundly disappointing. All surface, no characterization and a nasty nihilistic aftertaste.

didn't mind the movie at all. Oscar Isaac: funniest mad scientist since Ernest Thesiger.

oscar isaac and michael peña are pretty much the best things going right now imo

Saw this on the plane. Glad I did, it creeped me out bad enough on a tiny screen with headphones.

I love Viskander

was surprised at how much I enjoyed this, even though all of the plot "twists" were totally predictable. The quality execution and acting really sold it. A few minutes too long - should've ditched all the shots/scenes of her out in the real world, should've just ended with that shot of her leaving the compound while the sucker bangs helplessly on the door.

So the emotional climax of this film is a multi-angle nude shot of its nubile lead actress? lol.

its crazy a movie w an attractive person in it

Forgettable but for Isaac.

extremely good storytelling

i love simple movies that tell the story good

maybe my fav movie i saw this year but i cld be forgetting something

this thread is p funny btw

So the emotional climax of this film is a multi-angle nude shot of its nubile lead actress? lol.

no, no, you're thinking of Under the Skin

under the skin was very good too

which had the best emotional climax is the question

to use the language of problematization "emotional climax" is doing a lot of work here

not to mention that in both movies the attractiveness of characters in question had been purposely created as a manipulative mechanism, which is to say the films were self aware on this point, one cld even read it as a comment on the very same exploitative tendency of film that some are pulling the curtain back on itt? lol

in the Glazer maybe

This one is about a movie adaptation of the comic book Ex Machina, which never happened.

Stop hijacking this dead thread about something that never happened!

Anyway fwiw I didn't *hate* this, lol nudity aside I didn't think making Nathan a creepy sex robot dungeon master was inappropriate, and ok the actual climax - leaving Caleb locked in the room - was well done and quite O_O. Should've ended it there though.

i want toumas to come back and yell at us more

the part how necessarily when a nerd tries to create a human it turns out a sociopath was very good and otm imo

also really enjoyed nathan manipulating calebs intelecutal arrogance

but then he actually manages to underestimate him!

this movie was an excellent depiction of how nerds are bad

Another lol, it's a nerd lol though. When they show the code Caleb is writing it's real code, woo! But under time pressure, writing code no-one will ever see again, he puts in comments including the unnecessarily lengthy
# Generate prime numbers using the sieve of Eratosthenes

Apparently if you run the code it prints out 'ISBN = ' and the number for this:
http://www.amazon.com/Embodiment-inner-life-Cognition-Consciousness/dp/0199226555#productDescription_secondary_view_div_1451469006337

lagotm

lol nice xp

i did a total 180 on this

halfway through was feeling kinda ugh, like it was gearing up to be a robot sex fantasy movie for lonely nerd boys

but by the end & with some time to digest it all i decided i really liked it and it wasn't the pervo movie it seemed like it was going to be

isaac's character was so good! like the douchey medellin director from entourage crossed with the silicon valley mark cuban guy...more subtle but very studied & very hilariously otm

also <3 dancing <3

i might watch it again tonight

dunno if I would bother with a second viewing. It's a minor miracle it is as good as it is though, it could easily have been so much worse.

think ill rescreen too :)

nice try shakey

*hi-fives lagoon*

B-)

I'll rescreen a version with a beardless unclothed Oscar Isaac.

youre thinking of the new star wars

I missed the scene with Isaac in Leia tinfoil bra

i'll take the bearded unclothed version if alfred's going to be fussy

i did a poll btw and the results were outrageous

http://i.imgur.com/1IZTPls.png

also, caleb = c bale

dun dun DUN

this was all explained in the comic book iirc

for some reason when I picture scenes from this in my head I see Richard from "Silicon Valley" as Caleb

What if this was in the same universe as the Black Mirror where Gleeson is a crap robot...

this was TOTALLY a feature-length Black Mirror episode

but way better

black mirrores

except not

and if black mirror had invented the idea of being afraid of technology

i liked the production design of this movie - beardy oscar's house is fucking amazing

does anyone know if it's a real house?

iirc its a hotel

ooh

Juvet Landscape Hotel, Valldal valley, Norway.

ilx world fap location imo

im gonna lock u all in there :)

;_;

i am going to teach everyone how to robot disco

i rewatched it

goddamn i love that ending, nihilist robot slays all, lives

I love Alicia Vikander

and that neither Poe Dameron or General Hux escape this film

I watched and enjoyed this last night. Oscar Issac was super annoying but everything else ruled.

by "super annoying" you mean "great", right?

You guys now I really need to see this thing

get on that shit dude

there's power outlets everywhere, she'll be fiiiine. besides wtf could caleb show her that she can't intuit? he was in so deep he was going to marry her, dude is useless

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 22:34 (3 days ago)

I think going without him might have been a bigger risk. She probably could have exploited him further.

I really never thought about Caleb being perfectly safe in the house. Don't know why I was so sure he would die.

Glad this film eventually got watched, talked about and awards. When it came out in Britain I was afraid it had pretty much flopped and was going to disappear.

its streaming on amazon fyi everyone

i rewatched it was good

they didnt say why shd didnt just steal nathans key card btw except i guess we cld assume that there was some security thing that wldnt let her leave the room

i watched the behind the scenes stuff on the bluray, vikkander wore a full bodysuit made of that silver mesh, they didnt have to green screen her at all for any of her scenes

also her & the woman who plays the japanese robot are both ex-ballet dancers, makes so much sense now, the way they inhabit the space & their precise movements, subtle head tilts & gestures, genius bit of casting

also the location for nathan's lair is a house + the hotel, they combined parts from both

wow, zero idea that Evil Elon Musk was Poe Dameron until now

i didn't either. god, i am the absolute worst with that. i also didn't recognize him in star wars, despite having recently watched him for 6 hours in Show Me a Hero. i am like the guy that doesn't recognize someone when they put charlie chaplin accessories on their face

i didnt recognize him either he looked really different

smdh @ all of u

saw this the other day. it was okay. kind of an obvious denouement but on the whole, i liked how it unraveled. the creepiest bit was the android demanding to know why she couldn't be let out and then smashing herself against a wall.

I had to see Oscar Isaac in like three different things before I realized they were all the same dude. He's chameleonic, fer sure.

https://www.quora.com/At-the-end-of-the-movie-why-does-Ava-ask-Caleb-to-stay-in-the-room
^^this ridiculously long post is somewhat circular in its logic but does contain perspectives that may be of interest

And Caleb thinks he wants to set Ava free, but his perception of her and choice to try to "rescue" her is driven by his own sexual feelings for her, and his ability to see her as a "person" are driven by his ability to feel sexually attracted to her and to justify his attraction to her... and, most importantly, by his assumption that she returns his affections. If he were not sexually attracted to her, and if she did not suggest she was sexually attracted to him, then he would surely not have reacted as he did nor tried to help her escape. His idea of "rescue" is dependent on sexualization of her as a gendered being who will have sex with him. Which is an extension of gender bias and privilege, and of oppression.

I just watched this.

AVA obviously has no compunction about walking away from the house with Caleb alive, but trapped and probably doomed to a slow death. She is not distressed by this at all. This is pretty good evidence that AVA never had any attachment to or compassion for Caleb, which prima facie proves she was entrapping him purely for the purpose of escape.

However, since AVA's only previous experience of humans prior to meeting Caleb was her master/slave relationship with Nathan, her manipulation of Caleb does not imply that she was incapable of developing a more operative sense of compassion with humans in the future, assuming she learned more about our variations and was less vulnerable to oppression by humans, being both mobile and intelligent (and well-disguised as not an 'other').

btw, I am only using "she" and "her' as shorthand, seeing that AVA is presented to us in the form of a human female. In truth, she is not a woman. It would have been a somewhat different movie if AVA had been male and the interrogator a woman.

Ah, pretty decent movie. Some initial reactions.

Nice "hey that's not how the Turing test works, is this going to be *really* bad?" fake-out near the beginning.

The repeated gag about wrongly attributed quotes.

The implication at the end I think is that AVA's emergence into the world is the beginning of the end for humans. Caleb quoting Oppenheimer (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita) is not just about Nathan killing off prototypes. This is made more explicit by the appearance of the OMD song earlier in the film and of course Nathan saying that the next model will be the "singularity". The next model will be built by AVA.

Although bored by so many Eurorack Carpenter knock-offs the Barrow / Salisbury soundtrack was really good. Some luvverly filtering.

Didn't recognise Poe Dameron even though I only just re-watched TFA. Weird choice making this guy a pisshead. You'd think coke + 'research chemicals'; possibly a ratings consideration.

It's not perfect but it's ahead of some of the people on imdb who think it's too dumb.

Thought this movie was very underrated, but anyway, new one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufaDurSCKOk

Seems like a scary sequel to Arrival.

Annihilation (2018) -- Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Oscar Isaac, Tessa Thompson, dir. Alex Garland, based on Jeff VanderMeer's book

Looks a lot more like Solaris (both versions) with guns.

this ruled. absolutely classic performance by oscar i. i love how attuned it is to both caleb and nathan's failings.