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Caprica (2009)
Daytime Soap Opera with Religious and Sci Fi Themes
A computer genius, a master of virtual reality, working on military contracts, living in a society of faster-than-light space travel has one of the most exceptional breakthroughs of the modern age. He's about to engage in some very risky experimental work with exceptionally precious data, yet for some reason, he doesn't keep backups.
Now we're taken on a journey where he tries to learn the secret of the data he lost. A journey I just have no interest in.
When you break the rules in sci-fi, the audience loses the ability to suspend disbelief and it all just turns into a lot of crap.
The show plays like a soap opera wrapped loosely around a sci-fi environment.
Plot lines jump quickly from family to family. Each family has its own musical theme like any daytime soap opera. There are slow, cliffhanger dialogs in all of the threads, this seems to continue until plot lines cross and some big episode cliffhanger appears at the end.
Still, the acting, back-story writing and special effects are miles better than the average soap, so I have to say that it's got some potential, but if they don't tone down the plot jumping and the sappy musical themes, I will lose interest very quickly.
It's a shame, it seems like a good cast.
The Age of Stupid (2009)
Who's the Audience?
In this film, set in the year 2055, society passed the tipping point of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). Runaway climate change and a cascading failure in our ability to meet the resource requirements of our society led to famine, global war and collapse.
The archivist, a character sitting comfortably in his high-tech, climate controlled, 2055 office environment, with thousands of servers running full tilt, minority-report multi-touch displays, in something that looks like an oil-platform sunk into the floor of the arctic, looks down condescendingly at the audience while reviewing clips from present day society.
People who don't buy into the theory of AGW will be insulted. People who do buy into the theory of AGW should be embarrassed to be lumped into the ignorant technofetishism and the portrayal of AGW activists as alarmist kooks who think the apocalypse is around the corner.
If you want to stand on the street corner and scream that the end is neigh! then this is the movie for you!