Why don't we discuss this film?

I remember being super excited for this as a young teen and after watching it in theaters I felt just kinda numb about it.

That's it, the thread's over. Maybe a good question would be how the film could've been saved from being what it was, maybe toning down the total apocalypse bit would've helped.

I never understood how the machines were able to annihilate all life on the planet with what visually looked like and seemed by all means to be only early nineteenth century technology, but further, how the fuck did the human armies manage to defeat the machines, create entrenchments, etc. so damn close to the factory where the machines were coming from and still let the machines kill everyone? Did the machines just send long-range bombers with fuckhuge kill-all gas bombs all over the planet? Flying all over the world is not an easy feat in and of itself. Maybe the gas is just really fucking nasty but also hangs around in the atmosphere for very long periods, like a poison.

Yeah it fell on the day right before my first day as a high school sophomore and I begged my mom to take me and my friend, and walking out I was like, slightly guilty for making a fuss lmao

Whole thing felt like they created the cool designs first and the plot after, the imagery is fantastic but the whole thing feels like it would have been better as a short film (actually, it was, there is a short film and its way better)

It only seems that way because of how repetitive it is ( talking, fight scene, talking, fight scene, rinse and repeat ) It only lasts 72 mins

Humanize the machine(s)
They half ass it with implications that it was a gud boi that only turned bad because of the mean gubmint but we never see any other sort evidence of feelings in the present
Why is it even fucking with the dolls? Give it some sort of reason, even if that reason is trying to follow some outdated directive to emphasize how different it is from the will-having niggas

This movie's dialogue give me serious Star Wars prequels vibes : Way too stilted and basic. The main problem with this film is that you're not given any reason to care for the dolls defeating the machines. It's not like defeating them will bring life back or something

I kinda liked the film, but it could've been a lot better. Both the story and dialogue left plenty to be desired

>It's not like defeating them will bring life back or something
but it does. thats the ending of the movie.

It was kinda depressing

>I never understood how the machines were able to annihilate all life on the planet
you forgot that the machines have poison gas? the gas seem to be quite effective at killing, too.
>long-range bombers with fuckhuge kill-all gas bombs all over the planet

>only early nineteenth century technology
if the robots are only nineteenth century, then so do the rest of human technology
>how the fuck did the human armies manage to defeat the machines, create entrenchments, etc. so damn close to the factory
maybe that factory was actually new and was built there after the fact?

it could be that the AI/machine (what should we call it?) manufactures strong units quickly, creates replicating/reproducing units, or built factories that manufacture more units or at least created builder units that would help the machines grow in numbers

>It's not like defeating them will bring life back or something
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from what i remember, the machine turns on the humans AFTER the dictator guy uses it and its armies to conquer the world. so, basically, it already had units spread out all across the planet before it decided to kill everything.

I think the machine was made the same way the dolls were. It recognized itself and the dolls as fractions of its' creator's soul, and it seeks to make one whole again because that's probably what the scientist was thinking/planning for the future while creating the machine

I never got around to seeing it. I most remember it because of the Coheed and Cambria song in the trailer.

youtu.be/n0H3RlaQVrM

trailer was the best part.

This movie did not live up to its trailer, which was amazing youtu.be/UY7Tge7ftxM

I wish they explored the lore more.

Too obscure for my plebian taste

I literally talk in my post about the poison gas, man. It's actually all early twentieth century technology but you get the idea.

The problem is that trying to gas the entire planet is an enormous fucking undertaking, one which would require significant infrastructure, planning, and volume of production that we are never at any point shown. The machines we know of are actually named, the brain core doodad is called the B.R.A.I.N. and the 'body' it is given is the Fabrication Machine. The problem with all technology only being at early twentieth-century level is that this would significantly restrict things like air travel, fuel, power and motive efficiency for a medley of machines, etc. etc. but I guess if they have the capacity to build thought-capable computers and other such automations it'd be plausible to make an automatic aircraft like the crashed bomber in the movie that could travel around the globe. We're never, ever shown anything that even remotely suggests the Fabrication Machine built anything that would allow it to 'spread' itself, additionally the factory we see in the movie is already badly trashed, there's no way it could've been built "postwar" since there's a gigantic gaping hole in the roof exposing the Fabrication Machine itself to the world.

All that nonsense because the main character was fucking moron

Still liked the creture designs though