The whole reason the sixth movie was called Return of the Jedi was because it was assumed that Luke would train more Jedi, and this is an audience expectation, and the title crawl is surgically destroying such expectations.
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The main problem with The Force Awakens is that it’s the most strategic—and by that, I mean cynical—films I’ve ever seen.
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God would be the God of them too, but of course, this statement begs the question of what could be considered human-like, and that is a conversation unto itself.
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YouTubers are quickly replacing the A-list celebrities, and while I’m surprised to see the studios going along with this trend, I’m not at all disappointed, and, for the first time in a long time, I’m hopeful for the future of entertainment.
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Let’s say robots were to become sentient, humans would still be the cause of that consciousness, even when they began to self-replicate, their understanding of the world would still come from humanity.
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Ideas like love, beauty, and so on are part of the human experience because humans sense them; they don’t always agree on the particulars, but they intuitively know that these ideas exist.
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Spielberg fails to understand that obsession is not love, and if David were really human, he would know that.
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Whenever David talks about Monica loving him, he’s always bringing up the things she’ll do for him, not what he can do for her.
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David mentions that the first thing he remembered seeing was a bird with outstretched feathers, but it turns out that this initial visual was not a bird at all but a man with feather-like symbols beneath his feet.
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Spielberg, and presumably Kubrick, are going to use this botched retelling of a fairy tale to give you an ironclad case for atheism.
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Even if reality were an illusion only perceived by spirits, then there is still a source of order for that illusion, a core source of reality.
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These writers sometimes present the opposing points of view through unlikable avatars in an attempt to peer pressure their audience.
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The robot shouldn’t have the ability to lie unless programmed to do so under certain circumstances, but even if the robot were capable of lying in the event of a murder, the robot keeps records of its whereabouts.
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Spielberg needs to depict David in this obsessive way because, otherwise, he might find himself having to justify why the father doesn’t try to save David or why Martin doesn’t grow attached to him over time.
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The forest scene itself is just shy of three minutes, and the actors both do a wonderful job selling the scene, but in the end, I couldn’t buy it.
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He’s going to pull on your heartstrings to obfuscate from that all-important question: what is the definition of “real,” or to put it more directly, is endowed value real?
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The idea of picking a robot child to replace a real son is very disturbing, but disturbing or not, the parents aren’t allowed to have another child to begin with.
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When the scientist proposes creating a robot child who can love, the audience is bound to be asking the obvious question: Is that possible?
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As long as the aliens’ technology is advanced beyond humanity’s comprehension, then there’s no real way to pick apart how they turned the gas planet into a star.
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If the robot figures out that he isn’t returning to Earth with the crew, he might object to the plan and decide to continue the mission himself, just like he’d done with Bowman’s crew.
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