No way I was considering "The Interview" for my Christmas movie as Sony pulled the lamest publicity hoax of the Modern Era with their 'tracked, hacked, and attacked by North Korea' stunt (i.e. it never happened).
There are sci-fi movies which are believable and then there are movies like "Transcendence." It's a dead certain guarantee that computer dorks hate it as there are compound absurdities. Even Johnny Depp's brilliance can't save this one.
Bail out now if you care that I will blow the ending.
On with the Awards Ceremony ...
Most Preposterous Premises per Pound in Sci-Fi Award
There are so many aggressively ridiculous premises that they defy a simple list. The first isn't so terrible as it assumes development of some sort of process to upload your consciousness into a computer. We can give them that as there's no story without it ... but ... the immediate extension is that the uploaded consciousness will have an insatiable, megalomaniacal need to expand. Perhaps it's true but there was no rationale for why it took this course in the movie. He gets uploaded and immediately turns into a software Hitler for no apparent reason.
Preposterous. I'll believe any crazy bullshit you like but you have to make at least some kind of flimsy case for it.
Most Pitiful Implementation of Computer Scenes in Sci-Fi Award
also the
Most Low-Tech High-Tech Sci-Fi Movie Award
It has to be made clear in Hollywood that the next director who uses images of server racks to indicate computers are 'thinking' will be summarily murdered. It's not just that it's bad but rather that it has been bad so many times. Even "Star Trek" wasn't that cheesy.
Most Annoying Ending in Sci-Fi Award
Relax, folks. It was all a hoax. His act of altruistic suicide showed his self-awareness and real empathy. So what rings out to me is humans are shit because we will destroy anything cool we encounter so, man, thanks for that uplift. In essence, man made God with the immensely powerful computer system driven by an artificial intelligence ... and the first reaction was to kill him.
Tip to Santa: leave this one in the sleigh, buddy.
There's some personal bias as I strongly believe in research into artificial intelligence. There are ethical concerns but that's also true of genetics and GMO, traditional medicine and any number of things, etc. I don't see ethical concerns as reasons to stop but rather questions to address.
There are sci-fi movies which are believable and then there are movies like "Transcendence." It's a dead certain guarantee that computer dorks hate it as there are compound absurdities. Even Johnny Depp's brilliance can't save this one.
Bail out now if you care that I will blow the ending.
On with the Awards Ceremony ...
Most Preposterous Premises per Pound in Sci-Fi Award
There are so many aggressively ridiculous premises that they defy a simple list. The first isn't so terrible as it assumes development of some sort of process to upload your consciousness into a computer. We can give them that as there's no story without it ... but ... the immediate extension is that the uploaded consciousness will have an insatiable, megalomaniacal need to expand. Perhaps it's true but there was no rationale for why it took this course in the movie. He gets uploaded and immediately turns into a software Hitler for no apparent reason.
Preposterous. I'll believe any crazy bullshit you like but you have to make at least some kind of flimsy case for it.
Most Pitiful Implementation of Computer Scenes in Sci-Fi Award
also the
Most Low-Tech High-Tech Sci-Fi Movie Award
It has to be made clear in Hollywood that the next director who uses images of server racks to indicate computers are 'thinking' will be summarily murdered. It's not just that it's bad but rather that it has been bad so many times. Even "Star Trek" wasn't that cheesy.
Most Annoying Ending in Sci-Fi Award
Relax, folks. It was all a hoax. His act of altruistic suicide showed his self-awareness and real empathy. So what rings out to me is humans are shit because we will destroy anything cool we encounter so, man, thanks for that uplift. In essence, man made God with the immensely powerful computer system driven by an artificial intelligence ... and the first reaction was to kill him.
Tip to Santa: leave this one in the sleigh, buddy.
There's some personal bias as I strongly believe in research into artificial intelligence. There are ethical concerns but that's also true of genetics and GMO, traditional medicine and any number of things, etc. I don't see ethical concerns as reasons to stop but rather questions to address.
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