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iammyownrushmore  ·  3268 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's Talk Movies: Ex Machina

Yeah, comparing it to Her isn't really apt, plus that isn't really a criticism just to toss "its not as a good as (blank)".

I just, like, something about this movie really bugged me. It just fell so utterly flat even though it had all the trappings of a " good movie".

The characters were horribly one-dimensional, the dialogue oscillated between god-awful and somewhat decent, and, since this movie was so focused on a pragmatic take on AI, and not really a "film" film, that really hurt it.

I do like it from a feminist perspective, however. It does a lot better of a job of being about women by not being about women at all, but more so about patriarchal worldviews.

I just don't think the beautiful shots did anything but sit there and look pretty (which was the most annoying part for me), the story was meh, the take on AI, well, was probably readily covered in a single episode of Star Trek, and thats about it. It just didn't strike any chords at all for me but seemed so desperate to do so.