Teknolust
One Part Woman, One Part Science...
Rosetta's lab holds more than the usual beakers and Bunsen burners. This biogeneticist isn't just creating the perfect woman: she's creating three of them.
Rosetta has downloaded her own DNA into the Self Replicating Automatons - S.R.A.s that look human, but were bred as intelligent machines. In order to survive, they need sustenance of male Y chromo, found only in sperm. Now the cyborgs have to get out into the world and feed.
Who knew the future would be this sexy?
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Nothing redeemable or worth watching here. - Friday
I had never heard of this movie before surfing past it here on Zip. With Tilda Swinton and Jeremies Davies, I hoped this was some clever, little indie film gem, a festival film I had missed.
This was not the case.
The movie was awful in every possible respect. It wasn't Science Fiction, it was hardly even Science Fantasy. The "science" made no sense at all - even if you could swallow the premise for the movie, thematically it didn't make any sense, either.
It's the worst I've ever seen Tilda. She forces her way through each multiple role, trading one unbelievable, obvious wig for another. Jeremie Davies character is just ...creepy, and unlikable. I didn't even want the man-infecting robot/woman hybrid to go out with him.
The Programmers Notes from the Toronto Film Festival that recommended this film are a better fiction, and better written, than anything in this film;
For example:
"Hershman Leeson's understanding of the far-reaching gender implications of her tale makes for a wise rethinking of technology's hazards."
This is NOT some complex meditation on gender politics. It's a poorly thought out, extremely poorly executed movie that will make you feel sorry for everyone involved in it, especially the obviously deluded writer/director who felt she was making some kind of gender morality tale.
If it hasn't aired on MST3K, it should.Unexplainable and Cheesy - Nik-
Why do the female computer programs have to inject themselves with sperm? And how do you get sperm inside of a computer program, anyway? These kinds of questions needs answering. It's not the sort of thing you can gloss over.
This film is weird and silly and stupid. It's watchable -- I sat through the entire thing -- but it's utterly baffling. Things happen for no reason, problems are resolved effortlessly, no real tension to speak of, the science is glossed over and meaningless, the dialogue is goofy, there are holes in the plot that can swallow suns, and it's all very strange.
Some of the sets are interesting, some of the acting is just plain bizarre. John Kornbluth -- the fat, bald man from "Haiku Tunnel" -- is particularly goofy. The picture's well filmed, and overall it's a very unusual movie -- but not unusual enough to be good. But not so bad that it's painfully bad.
I have this odd feeling that there was some sort of metaphor at work here. Is it all about feminism? Technology? Lust? Finding yourself? What the hell is it about? I don't know -- and neither will you, if you can bring yourself to watch this film.
Warning: It's cheesier than a mouse convention.
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Nothing redeemable or worth watching here. - Friday
I had never heard of this movie before surfing past it here on Zip. With Tilda Swinton and Jeremies Davies, I hoped this was some clever, little indie film gem, a festival film I had missed.
This was not the case.
The movie was awful in every ...Unexplainable and Cheesy - Nik-
Why do the female computer programs have to inject themselves with sperm? And how do you get sperm inside of a computer program, anyway? These kinds of questions needs answering. It's not the sort of thing you can gloss over.
This film is weird and ...