Sep
26
Wild Robot, The
Hot Take McGee here… and trust me when I say I wish I wasn’t. I wish I could lie and say I loved The Wild Robot. It’d oil the gears, smooth the framework, make me one of the agreeable. But … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Science fiction
Sep
23
Omni Loop
Omni Loop starts with a wacky idea about why a time loop is happening and then proceeds to be a too somber, mundane take on this genre. I’m not sure why it does a bait and switch, but it’s a … Continue reading
Sep
22
Robot Dreams
Robot Dreams is set in an alternate 1980s New York… you can tell it’s an alternate timeline because they have robots… and “they” are anthropomorphized animals. Presumably talking animals but the film only has a handful of spare words (plus … Continue reading
Sep
19
Transformers One
Given the surprise positive buzz around this flick, I went in expecting the best and I kind of got the worst. I hated the first half of this film… thinking I might have to give it some slack for being … Continue reading
Sep
15
Subservience
Subservience begins as a hugely uneventful sci-fi drama, turns into a low-brow erotic thriller, and ends up the exact same battle with the AI bot you’ve seen before. It does none of this well and does most of it boring. … Continue reading
Sep
14
Uglies
Uglies is a Netflix YA adaptation somehow directed by McG… a man who takes a licking and keeps on filming. It feels ten years too late… it should have been made during the teen dystopian apocalypse that brought us Divergent, … Continue reading
Aug
31
Afraid
On the one hand, Afraid is just another smart home automation AI paranoia film that borrows a little too much from Her and Megan. On the other hand, I kind of liked how it ended even if getting there was … Continue reading
Aug
30
Slingshot
Slingshot is a frustrating and frustrated science fiction film that has one tiny bit of scientific knowledge and hand-waves away the rest. But I was ok with that since it’s a low budget film that opts to go psychological over … Continue reading
Aug
26
Hostile Dimensions
Hostile Dimensions is a tiny tiny little found footage sci-fi/horror (comedy?) about a couple of documentarians researching a missing woman. According to her own found footage, she stepped through a mysterious door into an alternate dimension. The film makers find … Continue reading
Aug
15
Alien: Romulus
Alien: Romulus is a mash-up of just about every alien movie, though borrowing more from Alien and Aliens (naturally). But they also include some ideas from Prometheus, imagery from Alien 3, and some WTF-even-is-that-it-ness from Alien: Resurrection. It’s just about … Continue reading