donnaimmaculata ([personal profile] donnaimmaculata) wrote2004-12-30 10:55 pm
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Artificial Intelligence in film

I'm looking for movies that feature intelligent robots/machines. Any suggestions? Anyone?
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[identity profile] dementedsiren.livejournal.com 2004-12-30 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Two recent pop-culture hits would be "AI: Artificial Intelligence" and "I, Robot" (the first was pretty good, the second I haven't seen). There was also a teeny-bopper movie in the early nineties that had two young boys create an artificial woman who turned into a real nightmare, but I can't remember the title. Obviously the Star Wars movies, with R2D2 and C3PO. "2001 A Space Odyssey" had HAL, then there's the Matrix movies. The Terminator movies, The Iron Giant (I would consider him an AI, at least, though no in the traditional film sense). The Star Trek movies had Data, but he was a TV character primarily; one of the Star Trek movies (First Contact I think) had the Borg in it, too. Oh, The Brave Little Toaster has intelligent machines, even thought it's a kid's movie.

That's all I can think as far as movies go for right now (though if you need help with TV titles, I've got some of those), though I'm sure I'll come up with more in a bit. Hope that helps!

[identity profile] donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com 2004-12-30 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
That does help indeed. Thank you very much.

I'm writing a text on I, Robot, and I wanted to include references to some other AIs. Didn't think of HAL, even though he should be an obvious choice. The Brave Little Toaster sounds cute!

[identity profile] tehlils.livejournal.com 2005-01-01 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Do you mean Weird Science? with the two dorky boys who create a woman from a babrbie doll?

[identity profile] dementedsiren.livejournal.com 2005-01-01 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
Yep! That's it. One more John Hughes film for the ages. Thanks!

[identity profile] tehlils.livejournal.com 2005-01-01 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
Welcome. That movie cracks me up.

[identity profile] marinarusalka.livejournal.com 2004-12-30 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
All the ones already mentioned, plus "Bladeruner," "Short Circuit," "War Games" (I think the computer in that one counts as intelligent). Then there was that Robin Williams movie from a couple of years back... "Bicentennial Man" or something like that.

[identity profile] donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com 2004-12-30 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I remember "Bicentennial Man"! Pretty obscure, that one.

"Blade Runner" is a good one. Thank you!

[identity profile] bethbethbeth.livejournal.com 2004-12-30 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Bicentennial Man" is based on the same intelligent-robot series of books that "I, Robot" was based on (i.e., Isaac Asimov's series). Neither did a terribly good job with the adaptation, but both were okay movies in themselves.

Older movies: Metropolis (Fritz Lang); "The Day the Earth Stood Still"; Forbidden Planet...oh, and Westworld! (Yul Brynner as a creepy 'Black Hat" Western gunslinger android at a Disneyworld-type resort)

What else? Eve of Destruction? Oh, and Android, which was actually a pretty cool movie.

[identity profile] donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com 2004-12-30 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never watched "Bicentennial Man", but it strikes me as a, well, Robin Williams movie. It appears that every movie he stars in inevitably turns into a Robin Williams movie, and they don't differ much.

Yul Brynner as a creepy 'Black Hat" Western gunslinger android at a Disneyworld-type resort

Now, that does sound obscure. Interesting, though! (Bit like the cowboys-in-spaceship-against-dinosaur-pirates-story written by Adam in Good Omens.)

Thanks for the suggestions.
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