Comments on: Lucy

By: This Week in Reaction | The Reactivity Place

This Week in Reaction | The Reactivity Place — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 05:36:04 +0000

[…] may have been a review (if so, a very short one: “awesome”), Nick Land apparently liked Lucy. Interesting graphic here in Politics on the Job. I remind the reader that an x-axis may be scaled […]

By: admin

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:47:23 +0000

Cut me a sliver of the royalty checks and I’ll forgive anything.

By: Aeroguy

Aeroguy — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 06:26:12 +0000

“The conceit was superb — human erotic entanglement with an intelligent machine”
I fear that opened a can of worms in my mind far too hilarious to let go of.
LandxPythia OTP, erotic fanfics the weirder/edgier the better
My apologies to our host, it was too funny to ignore.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 03:10:09 +0000

The main reason for my bitterly twisted response to Her was the most extreme disappointment I have ever experienced with a movie. The conceit was superb — human erotic entanglement with an intelligent machine. Instead, the OS was from the start just a disincorporated Scarlett Johansson (i.e. absurdly and unproblematically cute from the beginning), there was absolutely no tension of any kind, and a continuous tsunami of cheap schmaltz was substituted for the promised encounter with an alien being. I wanted a movie about involvement with AI, and received a Hallmark card. Not even an edgy Hallmark card.

By: Hanfeizi

Hanfeizi — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 01:02:34 +0000

I quite enjoyed Her, but I have a feeling that our host was rubbed the wrong way by watching his beloved city pretend to be a wretched future LA.

(To be honest, I enjoyed watching another city pretend to be LA for once- how many times have we had to suffer through Toronto and Sydney pretending to be New York? Watching Shanghai as Los Angeles was fun, though it did cause me to have to hang my disbelief at a few points- one painful shot of Pudong’s big three skyscrapers and one straight over the Bund was a little much for me. At least they kept the Oriental Pearl Tower out of the scenes.)

By: Izak

Izak — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:36:55 +0000

Haven’t seen the doc, but I’ve heard a lot of stories. There was a doc on Moebius that sort of discussed Dune a little.

Not only did Jodo pick the coolest artists to work on the staff like Giger and Giraud, but he also had Magma for the soundtrack — the fact that he was even aware of them is an achievement in itself. I can get why dissident-rightists would peg him as a degenerate, but he has a great eye for aesthetics.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 09:57:07 +0000

French cop dude did OK.

By: spandrell

spandrell — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 09:15:51 +0000

This does show the present power hierarchy:

White woman > Black man > Whitey > Evil chinks

I guess the homos are accessories for white woman without real agency

By: Thales

Thales — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 04:42:14 +0000

Electric Dreams, 1984. Not exactly the same, but I'm sensitive to deja vu.

By: Kgaard

Kgaard — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 02:14:54 +0000

Great essay. Made some key points I didn’t catch when seeing Her in the theatre. I was a fan of the movie and thought the ultimate point it made was absolutely necessary: Pretty soon we will all be dating our computers because they are less of a hassle / pain in the ass than actual people …