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Dog Soldiers (2002)
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A routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the Scottish wilderness. A great budget horror with a touch of British humour. Don't want spoil, so just watch if into horror you won't be disappointed and might just make you laugh at times...

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Ex Machina.
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Overall a good story. A guy get selected to test an humanoid robot, Ava, to see its AI possess thought and consciousness. It already passed the Turing Test. If you've seen Ghost in the Shell, you know that Major Kusinagi grapples with whether she is human or an advance AI. Does she possess a consciousness? That's the main theme.

The "Mary in the Black and White Room" thought experiment was a holy 💩 moment.

On an unrelated note: Nathan, Ava's creator, should have stuck with Asimov's rules of robots.🧐
 
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Mousse said:
Ex Machina.
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Overall a good story. A guy get selected to test an humanoid robot, Ava, to see its AI possess thought and consciousness. It already passed the Turing Test. If you've seen Ghost in the Shell, you know that Major Kusinagi grapples with whether she is human or an advance AI. Does she possess a consciousness? That's the main theme.

The "Mary in the Black and White Room" thought experiment was a holy 💩 moment.

On an unrelated note: Nathan, Ava's creator, should have stuck with Asimov's rules of robots.🧐
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I found this to be an amazing story because it raises so many prospects of AI regarding morality or the lack of. What they have if any including empathy is based on their programmer, they do know they are unhappy for what ever the reason, maybe being prisoners and the equivalence of an inquisitive program/mind. And they are good enough to emulate a human, but as Kaleb (?) discovers he interacts with and because the android acts human, he makes certain assumptions which prove to be at his peril.
 
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Wargames (1983)- Cyberthriller, a high school student tries to hack into a game company to play it’s latest game, but does not realize he’s connected to DOD computer tasked with controlling the US’s nuclear arsenal for a WWIII scenario. It learned by playing games, and just wants to play a game, along with chess, Geothermal Nuclear War. 😐 Entertaining…with young Mathew Broderick, and Ally Sheedy.
 
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Huntn said:
Wargames (1983)- Cyberthriller, a high school student tries to hack into a game company to play it’s latest game, but does not realize he’s connected to DOD computer tasked with controlling the US’s nuclear arsenal for a WWIII scenario. It learned by playing games, and just wants to play a game, along with chess, Geothermal Nuclear War. 😐 Entertaining…with young Mathew Broderick, and Ally Sheedy.
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Makes me feel old seeing that! I bet it looks pretty dated by today’s standards.
 
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Last weekend we saw “The Night Shift before Christmas” a play, which is a story about a woman working the Night Shift at a burger joint, on Christmas Eve who has a bad attitude. She is visited by 4 spirits who remind her of things to be grateful for, though she’s not really a Scrooge, just an overworked, unpaid employee. It was a solo performance, and I appreciated the effort.

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But I still prefer A Christmas Carroll (1938) with Reginald Owen. :)

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The Honeymoon Machine (1961) - It's not too bad, though I don't think Steve McQueen quite suited the light comedy role.

"Lt. Fergie Howard (Steve McQueen) teams up with Lt. Beau Gilliam (Jack Mullaney) and Navy scientist Jason Eldridge (Jim Hutton) to turn a supercomputer with missile-tracking capabilities into a tool to predict where a roulette ball will land. They dock in Venice, Italy, and begin making a killing at the casino, but their shore-to-ship signals get misinterpreted as signs of attack by Adm. Fitch (Dean Jagger), putting a serious crimp in the officers' get-rich-quick scheme." Rotten Tomatoes
 
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Disney Plus was pushing Titanic in Ultra HD and I watched it for the first time in probably 20 + years and I was gobsmacked how good it looked but also me and my wife didnt pick up our phones during the entire 3.5 hours... Where as these modern films we often lose interest in them and start playing on phones etc.

Not to sound like an old fogey! but I can't help but think older films were better made with storytelling, character building and pace!

anyone think that?
 
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JamesMay82 said:
Disney Plus was pushing Titanic in Ultra HD and I watched it for the first time in probably 20 + years and I was gobsmacked how good it looked but also me and my wife didnt pick up our phones during the entire 3.5 hours... Where as these modern films we often lose interest in them and start playing on phones etc.

Not to sound like an old fogey! but I can't help but think older films were better made with storytelling, character building and pace!

anyone think that?
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That all sounds "Not second screen enough!" 😂

From a relatively recent Guardian article:

It isn’t breaking news that Netflix panders to the casual viewer. As well as the award-winning TV it produces (Baby Reindeer won a Golden Globe for best miniseries earlier this month), the streamer has a history of telling showrunners that scenes aren’t “second screen enough”. In other words, if a viewer’s primary screen is their phone, they shouldn’t be so challenged by the Netflix show on their secondary screen that they switch the show off. Above all else, goes the cynical view, Netflix just wants you to have its visual muzak playing for as long as possible. (“Nothing to add from us on this one, but thanks for reaching out,” says Netflix’s PR when I contact them.)
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That all sounds "Not second screen enough!" 😂

From a relatively recent Guardian article:
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ha very true! we did it a few months back as well watching something else from the 90's.. but the Titanic at 3.5 hours made us realise it more!

I think its the same for music.. I just cancelled Apple Music as I wasn't using it but now find myself listening to my own collection even more.
 
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JamesMay82 said:
Disney Plus was pushing Titanic in Ultra HD and I watched it for the first time in probably 20 + years and I was gobsmacked how good it looked but also me and my wife didnt pick up our phones during the entire 3.5 hours... Where as these modern films we often lose interest in them and start playing on phones etc.

Not to sound like an old fogey! but I can't help but think older films were better made with storytelling, character building and pace!

anyone think that?
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Creativity and solid story telling vs non-creativity more concerned with my investment and luring the rubes back into the theater for something that worked before. I saw A Night To Remember (1958) as a kid and was riveted by it. For Cameron’s version, I was worried it would be 2 hrs of snooze and 1 hour of excitement. Happy I was wrong, the man’s a story telling genius.
 
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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When a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins. It's not a classic, it's the future... An experience that challenges what you think.

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...and the single most boring sci fi film ever made... lol
 
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Ready Player One (2018)- Mixed live action/CGI. A good story about a crappy future where average people spend a large amount of time in a virtual reality world owned by a single corporation. I’m not exactly sure if the coin earned in the game equates to anything in the real world other than status, but it does represent status and in-game advantages. Debtors in this game world can become real world incarcerated prisoners carrying out their sentence in the virtual world. The plot revolves around the eccentric deceased owner of the corporation who has devised a contest where the finder of 3 keys will become owner of the 500 trillion dollar empire. This results in real world consequences, elimination competition, and frantic action. 👍🏻


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Split Second (1992)
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In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since. He soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human. Love this one, just has a real cool & fun vibe to it. It might be a B movie but it's a good one and if that's not enough there's always Kim Cattrall...

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Krakatoa East of Java (1968)
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In 1883, ship captain Hanson plans a shipwreck salvage mission in The Dutch East Indies to retrieve a cargo of pearls but an unexpected volcano eruption and a state-ordered transport of convicts upset his plans. Media server set to random this what you get, equally no complaints :) A very solid late 60's big budget epic that plays out multiple storylines.
 
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