by Jojishi » Mon May 11, 2015 7:30 pm
Finally watched Transcendence and it's actually pretty good. Don't read ahead if you don't want spoilers. Everyone was saying it was a cliche AI takes over the world story... And it totally wasn't. Which makes me wonder if these people were even paying attention. Okay, technically it could be seen as taking over the world, but it wasn't evil intent or in a cliche "kill all humans" scenario. Will actually wanted to make the world a better place! At the end of the movie, the nanobots are bringing back trees where previously the land was bare from humans taking them down. The water was also purified by the nanobots.
It was such a good movie. The humans and the extremists were the bad guys. They triggered a - what they so eloquently phrased - Y2K end of the world scenario with a technological and electrical blackout. Hundreds of thousands died. Meanwhile, Will healed people. He brought back one man's eyesight!
Was the pacing a bit slow in paces? Yeah. But this honestly does not deserve the 18% it got on Rotten Tomatoes, or people comparing it to a ripoff from Lawnmower Man (which people hated anyway... Sort of reminds me of people comparing Avatar to Pocahontas, which they hated, which was also compared to Dances with Wolves, which they also hated...) which is comparing it to a horror movie where I don't know... The "lawnmower man" tried to kill people. Um, yeah, definitely an accurate comparison.
Anyway, if you haven't seen it, give it a chance. It drags on in places, but the cast is awesome, the cinematography rocks and the story overall is probably one of the most ambitious to come out of Hollywood.
