The Creator
POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Monday, January 8, 2024 02:21
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This was a good Sci-Fi film. Actually, better than good. I can't remember at the moment if there has been a better Sci-Fi film this year, or last year, or since Free Guy 2 years ago. Free Guy was better, mostly due to the Spectacle nature of that work.
I was not planning to see it, but it was at a time slot when I wanted to watch a movie and it fit for me.
I assume whoever marketed this film did a lousy job of it. If I saw ads for it, they did nothing to pique my interest. I saw 2 unknown actors listed for it, and all the recognizable players and names were absent from what I'd read.
I was under the impression that it would be a LOT more bland than what it was.
It was a bit harsh at times, like the end of Rogue One. That is not a complaint. It was sorta like a newer version of Blade Runner. Maybe a little like Alita: Battle Angel. Parts like Hanna. Reminded me of Midnight Special, or the TV Miniseries Believe. A little bit of Total Recall. Possibly The Fifth Element.
I really enjoyed it, but I might need to see it again, I likely missed some stuff. I'll see it in cinema again - the screen is filled with action, and maybe I should seat farther back from the screen.
I need to give it more than 3 Stars, maybe 4 or 4.5 Stars out of 5.
Score is by Hans Zimmer.
I do recommend to anybody who loves Science Fiction.
The underlying premise, really the setting, is there is a war between humans and "A.I" aka cyborgs, robots, synthetics. Almost sounds like it should be similar to BSG, but it is not.
I was thinking that one character was played by Josh Lucas, but I didn't see his name in credits.
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Yeah. I don't think they marketed this thing much at all. I didn't even know about it until Bruce put out his article on theater counts this week, and then I only knew that it was sci-fi and not another religious movie because he put a tiny blurb in there on what it was about.
Sounds right up my alley. I'll have to watch it with my dad. I'm sure he'll like it.
If it felt like Rogue One, that's not surprising. It was directed by Gareth Edwards who directed Rogue One, as well as 2010's Monsters. I don't remember much of Monsters, but I'm pretty sure I liked it.
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Quote:The Creator | Official Trailer
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If it felt like Rogue One, that's not surprising. It was directed by Gareth Edwards who directed Rogue One, as well as 2010's Monsters. I don't remember much of Monsters, but I'm pretty sure I liked it.
Monsters (2010) Official Trailer
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Trailer (Official)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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A movie selling fake metal and plastic and wants you to cheer for humanity destruction and yet
It sounds off or too much paint by numbers. There is so much stealth marketing now and I have wasted so much time on movies I need a good 9 out of 10 or 5 out of 5 stars or maybe 4 point 5 before I waste my time...unless it follows some other rule and its a good B-movie with 'funny'
Sometimes it is painful to get politically lectured in films.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
This was a good Sci-Fi film.
Not really a strong recommendation I need to hear or read...
This Was a GREAT Scifi Movie!!!
It looks or sounds like something Tessa Thompson, Spike Lee, Bernie Sanders, Sean Penn and Fareed Zakaria could have stared in but with a huge spending bag and even bigger budget.
So listening to online social media reviews and this thread it seems like its basically Robo BLM - A.I thingy and Antifa mixed with some Star Wars and Samurai stuff but America and Whitey is bad so let's have a BLM Robobot revolution, a new Antifa world!
the multi-ctural the islamo kid a cyber-child somehow the key to revolt against an advanced oppressive White USA Euro-like government that somehow gets defeated by a mixed-multi-cucktural islamic transexual jihadi primitive James Cameron style Avatar resistance...not sure it sounds watchable...if it has some 'Jokes'? Laughs at itself??
Movies today have way too much of the dumb 'politics' messages
I think I might stay with Korean tv shows
Thanks for the heads up, not sure I will bother with this one even if its online for free and I normally watch any type of B-movie scifi crap.
Hollyweird I'm not sure if its the politics, sound or color pallet or 'messages' is just kind of tiresome for me to watch now.
Hans Zimmer is great though so I will check out the soundtrack, nota ll his films are perfect, he did some 'Justice League' music a good score but to a bad movie.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I can't remember at the moment if there has been a better Sci-Fi film this year, or last year, or since Free Guy 2 years ago.
There have been no films these past yeas yet alone scifi films and Free Guy kinda sucked but at least it was 'funny', if you can not be a great film at least be 'funny' the comedy element helps pass when they do not entertain, it will pass the awkward clunky weird moments.
'Idiocracy' is another one of those its kind of dumb but works because it is very funny, if you can't say something at least put in jokes try to entertain.
If you remove the Superhero Genre, Bond and StarWars bla bla and political messages then Hard scifi has truly been dying for a long time
Movies these past years since Covid and Avengers End Game
We had Barbie, Oppenheimer, the Mortal Kombat thing, Moon Man a Chinese comedy? the Mario thing...Top Gun (not scifi) and Spider-Man No Way Home? which is back into the superhero comicbook genre thing...what is next, Birds of Prey, Black Widow, Sonic?
a few that went under the radar like the Betty Gilpin, Craig Zobel comedy-ish the horror thriller film The Hunt, but there is mostly no scifi.
The Superhero genre is dead and scifi...maybe also gone.
I think Scifi already died it might have already peaked and been in decline with 'Matrix' or District 9...and District 9 isn't really a Hollywood film.
Also in the past they took risks they wrote new material, Dark City, South Korean film like The Host, Fantastic Planet, They Live, Blade Runner, The Thing remake by Carpenter, Save the Green Planet, District 9, The Terminator, Dark Star, 1982 Tron, Alien, Westworld, 1990 Total Recall, they might fund a remake since the already marketing brand name is known to the public, but they would never fund an original again...the genre of true scifi is also dead, the best thing upcoming will probably be a remake of a Scifi from Communist China, the West is in a period of regression and
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or Maybe it sounds like The Golden Child mixed with Elysium...so I might watch those movies instead
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The 'New Thing' are people so starved they would watch such a movie or perhaps its difficult to see those who sell out online and are paid to shill it
Some will give an honest review
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I need to give it more than 3 Stars
Need to give it more than 6 out of 10?
does not sound so convincing
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I think Idiocracy had plenty to say.
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Idiocracy
It is a great movie ...BUT...if you took away its silly fun, its unique American movie humor US culture of self commentary, its jokes...
However if you took out all the Jokes what movie is left behind in 'Idiocracy' as a topic. What would you have to film on screen with your reel and tapes and digital camera, maybe a posh Canadian, some US Chess playing champ, A German Nazi or Chinese of High IQ Jew of High IQ or some guy wakes up played by Christopher Lee, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alan Rickman, Jeremy Irons, he is surrounded by Rednecks, Rappers, Mad Max Scavengers, the 'Morlock'
the smart guy says he Weeps for the Future,
there is a little of Orwell 1984 in there and Aldous Huxley
he is thrown in jail and gets out
they give the new old man no longer in hibernation the job to Lead Earth because Earth has been de-evolving with increasingly more stupid generations.
if you took the comedy away from Idiocracy perhaps you would feel like you were getting lectured
Etan Cohen, Mike Judge ares skilled at entertainment and movies, the Actors cast are great but if you sucked out all its comedy what is left behind
it would be a weird horror scifi maybe
If you think about it the movie a government hibernation experiment is a bit like Planet of the Apes or is basically HG Wells 'The Time Machine' but with slightly political commentary Self-sustainability, maybe a series of comments on Media or Greed but disguised as mostly a wall of comedy and it is good comedy. I think even an annoying sounding new movie like 'The Creator' can save itself if it can have some comedy moments
I might give the Creator a skip and just watch Rogue One again.
Creator some reviews are somewhat Happy and Positive but A LOT of Negative Stuff is coming out
Let's have a lot at reviews
One of them even mentions Elysium and Golden-Child as I suspected from trailers
Movie Review: “The Creator” makes fear of AI a Vietnam War Analogy
https://rogersmovienation.com/2023/09/29/movie-review-the-creator-make
s-fear-of-ai-a-vietnam-war-analogy/
As the picture careens around towards its anti-climactic climax, one really does wonder about the point of it all.
Review: ‘The Creator’ is bad sci-fi and ludicrous propaganda for AI
https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/the-creator-review-18390228
If you aren’t reading the words “John David Washington” with an involuntary “Uh oh” on your lips these days, you haven’t been paying attention to the parade of piffle this most famous of “nepo babies” has turned up in since “BlackKklansman.” He’s not a bad actor, no matter how little training he got. He’s just a consistently uninteresting one, no matter how handsome he might be.
If he’s starring in the movie, it means they couldn’t get anybody better to take the lead.
And here he is, giving another colorless leading man turn in a movie that desperately could use a big dose of charisma, which only mean-Ms. Janney and noble-but-underwritten “Sim” leader Ken Watanabe provide.
Clumsy efforts like make one wonder if AI editing software wouldn’t have asked a lot of questions and demanded better results than this screenplay delivers.
The sleight of hand is audacious. Suffice it to say, Edwards actually wants us to buy his story as a tale of AI liberation. Seriously? You know how creepy it is when Siri starts talking when you haven’t even said anything to her? Imagine Siri sitting at your kitchen table, wanting to kill you.
And yet, viewers may fall for this. On the night I saw the movie, the audience was cheering at the sight of robots killing human soldiers. When you see something like that, it makes you wonder. Maybe the species doesn’t deserve to survive.
https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/the-creator-review-18390228
‘The Creator’ Review: Gareth Edwards’ Robot Uprising Is Made of Old Stereotypes and Recycled Parts
https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/the-creator-review-1235729849/
The footage of a near-future war between America and anyone caught developing
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Oh sure...
Idiocracy would have to be some sort of Orwellian horror movie if it weren't a comedy.
I actually don't know if it could work if it wasn't a comedy. I don't think it would be very popular at all. Certainly not as popular as it has become over the years.
I misread what you originally said. I thought you were saying that without comedy Idiocracy had nothing to say.
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Obviously, Saving Private Ryan was a total Laugh-fest.
And Patton was a total gut-buster, major funny there.
Of course, Platoon was Hi-Larious, a laugh a minute.
Perhaps I should clarify my recommendation.
The Creator should not be seen by anybody with barely a rudimentary and experimental knowledge or familiarization of English.
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I think you missed the point.
Jaynez is saying that from what he's heard, The Creator is a Marxist agenda movie with a shiny sci-fi wrapper on it.
If it is, and you didn't catch it, I think that says more about you than you realize it does.
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