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Anyone seen Ex Machina? I just saw it yesterday and liked it a lot.
I enjoyed Age of Ultron reasonably well, but Ex-Machina is certainly a more interesting take on Artificial Intelligence of the two. The performances are fantastic. The gender politics are both problematic and problematized, and I'm still trying to wrap my head around it.
Yeah, we saw it, and it was good. This Oscar Isaac guy is pretty interesting.
This Oscar Isaac guy is pretty interesting.
Right? I think the only other movie of his I saw was Drive, where he played Carey Mulligan's husband who just got out of jail, and I remember thinking he was very interesting in that flick as well. I've heard great things about both Inside Llewyn Davis and A Most Violent Year, and I think I'm gonna check them out.
Oh, I didn't remember him from Drive. Definitely looking forward to seeing him in the new Star Wars movie, though.
I thought the movie made it pretty clear that he was misogynistic, rather than the movie itself accepting and confirming his attitudes. But man, that scene where the other guy sees the footage of all the previous AIs...that was rough.
Definitely looking forward to seeing him in the new Star Wars movie, though.
Yeap. He's on a cusp of a stardom, from all accounts. He was both repellent and charismatic as hell in this movie, and I couldn't take my eyes off him while he was on screen.
Re. your white-font, I agree with you, but wow, the scene you mentioned -- Jesus fucking Christ. And Nathan's treatment of Kyoko in particular, even though it was clearly condemned, made me want to crawl under the seat and die a little. And the fact at Ava scavenged parts off the earlier models, as Nathan would have from her from for the next one, was both hella evocative and disturbing as fuck.
He was great in A Most Violent Year.
I've heard great things about both Inside Llewyn Davis and A Most Violent Year, and I think I'm gonna check them out.
He is great in both. A Most Violent Year got lost in the end of year Oscar rush, which is a shame because I thought it was a very interesting unique script with extremely good performances.
Yeah, Ultimate universe has a lot of really terrible stuff in it (personally The Blob eating The Wasp wins the "WTF is wrong with you people?" contest) but I hadn't known about Teppy's white font before and that's rather horrific, too. Which is why I'm not super-thrilled that they've decided to combine the universes.
When they first came out with the Ultimate universe I thought some of their new takes on characters were interesting (and Colossus' crush on Wolverine was adorable) but as it went on it rapidly spiraled into WTF land. I think Ultimate Spider-man was the only book that didn't go completely off the rails.
Oh my god, Marvel. That's not the good crack.
SO TRUE.
I think Ultimate Spider-man was the only book that didn't go completely off the rails.
ALSO TRUE.
I read Ultimate Spidey for a LONG time. It was good stuff.