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james4003
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2050 (2018)
Lacking in both charm and intellect. And LONG.
To be fair, while there are a couple of films in this genre I've seen that had a certain charm and fun about them--"Weird Science" and "Galaxina", there are none that have any intellectual or philosophical depth. While "Bladerunner" had outstanding cinematography and some poignant moments, it paled with regard to Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep."
Cons: No likable characters, and poor dialogue. (Btw, extensive dialog isn't a problem for me if it's clever and interesting.) A hazy premise, and an abrupt ending with no sense of resolution. The soundtrack was generally inappropriate to the scenes, particularly with the classical pieces.
Pros: There were some cool cinematographic moments, and they had some interesting color saturation with evening/night scenes.
Regarding the philosophical aspects of this subject I would recommend reading books because thus far, not much anything of depth (except perhaps Fritz Lang's "Metropolis") has hit the silver screen.
Recommended reading: " "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Phillip K. Dick", and "The Glass Needle" by Robert Silverberg.
Still the Beaver (1983)
Really Hated This
If there's anything more ill-advised than making live action versions of cartoons, it's making updates, ie "where are they now" type shows, particularly in the context of this made for TV movie. What they did was take a charming, somewhat idealistic show from the 60's and updated it to the lame-80's style replete with obnoxiously precocious kids, a calling card of 80's shows and films, and depressing realism in the form of a narcissistic mom who abandons her kids for a career, and a couple unable to conceive a child-speaking of which, the Beaver's kids, particularly the older one,ought to have made Wally and his wife thankful they had fertility issues.-
To sum up, they took a show whose unrealistic and realistic aspects were a lighthearted break from reality, and chased it with a movie that inverted those aspects into an obnoxious and depressing reality-