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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Chris Pratt and Millie Brown are easily the most annoying actors around right now. Pass

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

I am so fucking sick of Chris Pratt.

[–] BradleyUffner 2 points 4 hours ago

I just finished watching it. It's a decent movie on it's own, but it's a completely different story than what was in the book. They got the art style mostly right, but the plot points were totally off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Feels to me like they just copied the visual cues completely disregarding the overall mood of the art they're based on, making it just another Disney action family movie.

[–] ObsidianZed 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This is on my watch list. I'm curious how it compares to the Amazon Prime show, Tales From The Loop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

It doesn’t, really. Tales From the Loop was a methodical and pretty deep exploration of human nature. I loved that show. Electric State is a basic human vs robot story with some fun action and not a lot of depth. The main similarity is big robots. It was still enjoyable to watch, I definitely recommend checking it out, but it’s pretty superficial.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I enjoyed it. I don’t think it was groundbreaking or anything but the story didn’t annoy me and the robot design was great, except Mr. Peanut. He’s so jarring compared to the rest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

i liked Mr. Peanut! And his peanut mobile

Though it raises the question do all the robots have the same intelligence? How do they choose a leader? Different personalities? Why not any networking?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It’s not that I disliked the character, I just didn’t like what they landed on for his design. It’s like the first design of the 3d sonic but there was no fan outrage to get it changed lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

So he was only a shell of what he could have been? Butter to iterate on him and legume him boil into a solid character instead of this brittle peanut we have now?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Just watched this today - Overall its like a marriage of Peripheral and the first chapter of the animatrix. I'd say its good second screen material, but not a super rewarding watch by itself

spoilerThe movie didn't pick a lane and explore a topic in detail.

Robots rebel - Humans win somehow? Robots don't evolve or organize?

Humans are getting sucked into drone surrogates (heh), and lose connection with each other

Smugglers bring contraband back from warzone

Robot and human buddy drama

Any one of these would have been a good movie by itself to explore, all together it feels superficial and nothing has time to sink in or have consequences. It's like a first pass at each concept without exploring the logical extensions of how society would adapt to those concepts over time.