Tuesday, May 08, 2007
i think curt schilling takes steriods
some movies i watched this weekend:
putney swope
was that putney swope's real voice? was the movie a satire? a satire of what? advertising, obviously, but also maybe about radical social movements becoming products. we align ourselves politically by the things we buy. i think there's also a critique of the chauvinism of new left.
the structures can't be reformed. we have to burn the entire thing down!!!
invasion of the humaniods
i couldn't find any pictures of the earlier robots, but they are so awesome i don't even think i can try and describe them. the closest thing i can think of are the robots in dr. octogan's alien video. so humans are primarily information processing machines. but then there's the question of embodiment: is our consciousness--our memories, our subjective experience, our whatever--tied to our physical structures or could it be moved into better hardware? don't forget that this is a documentary filmed in the future and meant to be viewed for future junior high school kids learning about the origins of life.
putney swope
was that putney swope's real voice? was the movie a satire? a satire of what? advertising, obviously, but also maybe about radical social movements becoming products. we align ourselves politically by the things we buy. i think there's also a critique of the chauvinism of new left.
the structures can't be reformed. we have to burn the entire thing down!!!
invasion of the humaniods
i couldn't find any pictures of the earlier robots, but they are so awesome i don't even think i can try and describe them. the closest thing i can think of are the robots in dr. octogan's alien video. so humans are primarily information processing machines. but then there's the question of embodiment: is our consciousness--our memories, our subjective experience, our whatever--tied to our physical structures or could it be moved into better hardware? don't forget that this is a documentary filmed in the future and meant to be viewed for future junior high school kids learning about the origins of life.
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no, they're all robots but the two in the tubes think they're humans the robots who don't know they're robots have recently fallen in love. so, obviously, this movie is awesome.
Search 'humaniods' (hyoo man ee odds) and see how many hits you get.
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Presumably a game
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MONSTER Humaniods from the Deep!
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"What?! elimate him now!" Dr. Giggles commanded.
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Or in other words: -?-
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Presumably a game
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MONSTER Humaniods from the Deep!
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"What?! elimate him now!" Dr. Giggles commanded.
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Or in other words: -?-
# posted by 
: 10:37 AM
: 10:37 AM
It wasn't the voice of the actor playing Swope, it was the director's voice (Robert Downey Sr)
He dubbed in his voice reading the lines later- which seems to have a fair bit of potential social commentary related there as well, though apparently the reason was just that the actor playing Swope messed up his lines too often.
I still have mixed feelings and am sure I missed some of the arguments- but the movie was worth watching, if only for the breakfast cereal commercial.
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He dubbed in his voice reading the lines later- which seems to have a fair bit of potential social commentary related there as well, though apparently the reason was just that the actor playing Swope messed up his lines too often.
I still have mixed feelings and am sure I missed some of the arguments- but the movie was worth watching, if only for the breakfast cereal commercial.
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