Alex Garland Directional Debut "Ex Machina"

[redhawk23]

Ridiculously they had to credit the songwriters of the Ghostbusters theme basically for the mere mention of a quote. Seems excessive.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Well, I mean, come on, that has to be their primary source of income these days

 

[ThePhantasm]

If you think that's ridiculous... you know the "happy birthday to you" song? That s***'s copyrighted and studios have to pay the owners to use it in films and stuff. Crazy, huh?

 

[DarkSovereignty]

You mean someone actually gets paid for writing the worst song ever written? God damn everything.

 

[redhawk23]

In the case of the happy birthday song, at least in that case they are actually dealing with a song being sung.


Ironically asking someone if they had planned to call the Ghost Busters hardly counts.

 

[CELTICPRED]

Love this movie even more the second time through, even if I do find the audio mix on the bluray terrible. You can't hear dialogue over the score at times unless you want to blow out your speakers. And it's still the best horror of the year for me.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Saw it this week end. It is an OK movie, I preferred The Machine.

 

[DA_Champion]

Wait, was this supposed to be a horror?

 

[Kane52630]

It's more of a thriller than horror.

 

[CELTICPRED]

Wait, was this supposed to be a horror?

It's more of a thriller than horror.

Going back and watching Ava interact with Caleb and how[BLACKOUT] I felt slightly happy for her at the end of the movie makes it a horror for me. [/BLACKOUT]

 

[Marvolo]

That ending.

Spoiler

I'm happy that she is free, but leaving Caleb there to die of thirst and starvation was just cruel.

9/10

Edit:

Spoiler

On second thought, Im not glad she is free. If she cant realize that leaving Caleb there to die is cruel or is just ignoring the cruelty of it then she is amoral or sociopathic which means she's as dangerous as any serial killer.

 

[spider-neil]

That ending.

Spoiler

I'm happy that she is free, but leaving Caleb there to die of thirst and starvation was just cruel.

9/10

Edit:

Spoiler

On second thought, Im not glad she is free. If she cant realize that leaving Caleb there to die is cruel or is just ignoring the cruelty of it then she is amoral or sociopathic which means she's as dangerous as any serial killer.

Ending soured my opinion of the movie as I think it makes Ava unlikeable. Going to watch the movie again, hopefully my opinion has softened. This was the most jarring ending I have ever seen with maybe the exception of No Country for Old Men. A seriously, WTF ending.

 

[tzarinna]

A robot has passed a self-awareness test

Turing Test breakthrough as super-computer becomes first to convince us it's human

 

[Snow Queen]

A robot has passed a self-awareness test

Turing Test breakthrough as super-computer becomes first to convince us it's human

 

[kguillou]

I just saw this, I really enjoyed like 85% of the movie. It was slow paced but I felt engaged because of the dialogue and acting of Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac and of course Alicia Vikander as Ava. I really enjoyed the slow build of getting to know Ava and seeing her relationship with Caleb evolve. But man, that third act is...jarring. I may have to watch it again but

Spoiler

1) What was the point of Caleb slicing his arm and punching the mirror? I assumed he was sending a message to Kyoto to kill Nathan...or did it have another meaning? I didn't quite grasp that.

and

Spoiler

2) It was a cruel ending for sure. We're made to sympathize with Ava throughout most of the movie and she lets the only person who cared for her die alone. Also, Wouldn't anybody be looking for Caleb? The guy in the helicopter was supposed to come for him and instead he just left with a strange random girl? That kind of threw me for a loop.

All in all, a VERY interesting movie but things kind of got a little weird in the 3rd act for me.

8.5/10

 

[Snow Queen]

Spoiler

1) What was the point of Caleb slicing his arm and punching the mirror? I assumed he was sending a message to Kyoto to kill Nathan...or did it have another meaning? I didn't quite grasp that.

[BLACKOUT]He was seeing if he wasn't also an AI.[/BLACKOUT]

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Yeah, he was cracking under all the mind f***ing going on in that movie. He didn't know what was real anymore.

 

[spider-neil]

Ordered the American blu ray because the cover is way better than the English version.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Boom]

This is my favorite movie of the year so far.

 

[Marz69]

[BLACKOUT]He was seeing if he wasn't also an AI.[/BLACKOUT]

That was an incredible scene because I was thinking the same thing. The movie was so well done that [BLACKOUT]I was also believing he was an AI. Such a mind game with all the manipulating that I got manipulated too. Even though you see him bleed, you don't see what's under the skin or at least I didn't notice. So I was still wondering into the next scene [/BLACKOUT]

 

[CaptainWagner]

Spoiler

2) It was a cruel ending for sure. We're made to sympathize with Ava throughout most of the movie and she lets the only person who cared for her die alone. Also, Wouldn't anybody be looking for Caleb? The guy in the helicopter was supposed to come for him and instead he just left with a strange random girl? That kind of threw me for a loop.

All in all, a VERY interesting movie but things kind of got a little weird in the 3rd act for me.

8.5/10

I had the same question about the ending. It kind of detracted from the final moments, because that's all I was thinking about.

 

[The Shape]

This is still my favorite film of the year, also.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I think that Ava doing something that was... Murky, morality wise, was part and parcel of us understanding that she was in fact, alive and sentient. She was manipulating this poor fellow and yes, she may have left him to die, but... She was a living being that had come to understand that her entrapment was wrong as well as thinking that perhaps she was the start of some kind of "slave race". Would I have liked if it had been all positive with Gleason and her taking off together? Sure. But as it stands, I think Ava's character is more opaque and it's hard for me to judge her too harshly considering her circumstances.

 

[Black Narcissus]

I would also imagine in her mind that him knowing what she is, it is the same reason why they could never be together. She wants to be human and would never get a chance to do so with him. She wants to get lost in a crowd of ppl and blend.

*Smokes from Gandalf pipe*