Interesting concept, though already explored in Black Mirror?
The perfect fantasy flick for the online Valentine you've never met: Her
Spike Jonze’s movie Her invites us to suspend our disbelief as we acquaint ourselves with the life of Theodore Twombly and the relationship he forms with his computer's operating system. Her – Theodore finds out about OS One Theodore finds out about OS One... During an ordinary day in this near future story, Theodore, …
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Friday 14th February 2014 06:26 GMT LarsG
Might do well in Japan
I do remember 'Simone' and thought it was an OK comedy, one of those non-descript films that you only remember when someone brings out a film as bad as this one.
The problem with this one is that it actually takes itself seriously, a sci-fi drama. It's really not good. Not only does the guy fall in love with the OS but it cheats on him. It struggles even as a chick flick for geeky girls.
However it may have some appeal in Japan were apparently virtual girlfriends are the in thing http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24614830.
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Thursday 13th February 2014 17:27 GMT TRT
And presumably the AI's infatuation with Twombly takes a dark turn for the worse when it leaps from his iPad onto the internet, there to crack the firewalls of a DARPA research lab and take up residence in the disembodied pig brain/computer interface control centre of a near indestructible robotic killing machine that in a fit of jealous rage goes on a rampage of downtown AnyCity US seeking out and annihilating any potential love rival, only to be smashed to pieces itself by a speeding subway train with the end credits rolling just after we see a red, digital eyed foetus in an artificial womb located int the adjoining DARPA research lab? No? Am I misunderstanding the 70s moustache? This isn't a post-Woodstock, neo-computer age sci-fi romp warning us of the superiority of machines, their fallibility when presented with the human condition, their lack of moral limitations and the indomitable threat that all computer intelligence harbours? Ah.
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Thursday 13th February 2014 17:35 GMT NumptyScrub
Nope, this sounds more like the sort of film you get when a director hears the term "basement geek" once too often and thinks "it's been 30 years since Electric Dreams came out, I could do a much better take on this whole computer + relationship thing"
I've not actually watched She by the way, that would involve leaving my basement, and outside people scare me :(
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Thursday 13th February 2014 21:42 GMT Denarius
have to agree
With a relative addicted to being a romantic victim, who nearly lives inside her fondle slab this film is not really fiction, hence of no interest. Note to reviewer. One of the marks of the temporary insanity known as infatuation is deliberate anachronism. Horse drawn vehicles, medieval lighting, white dresses. In an age of rising illiteracy, formal letter writing is due for a comeback. ITIRC an article in major newspaper 5 years ago about the return of the "village scribe" doing exactly as male protagonist in She does.
@Arnaut. Not necessarily. Some of the best story telling is being very realistic. Saving Private Ryan is an excellent example
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Friday 14th February 2014 09:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: have to agree -@Denarius
My father was in the first wave on D-Day. He was injured by a Teller mine on landing and then spent several weeks as a beachmaster, which is why it's surprising I am here to write this. He would completely disagree about Saving Private Ryan, which is another sanitised, largely fantasy war flick.
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Friday 14th February 2014 01:24 GMT RichieB
Electric Dreams
A fun film back in 1984, and available on dvd with a great soundtrack.
Boy buys computer - computer becomes sentient - boy meets girl - computer becomes jealous - computer attacks boy - something something something - everything works out & 'Together in Electric Dreams' is played... awwww.
I cannot see this film without comparing it to this classic, I won't see this film unless the better half drags me to it!
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Friday 14th February 2014 01:33 GMT i1ya
I'm already in a man-OS relationship...
she's called Arch. I think she is getting jealous if I don't tinker with her in the evening and spend some time with, errr, my human wife. Sometimes I even talk to my OS: don't you want me to change your GRUB theme, dear? But the only response I usually receive is that my root system may be fsck'd later...
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