The Creator is a Stupid Movie and it Gets Stupider the More You Think About It

The Possum tells you about the new sci-fi movie from the director of Rogue One, The Creator.

[carpecanem]

Accidentally nuked LA because of an "unspecified coding error." As an ex-programmer, I will admit that this happens a lot more than you might think.

[etsaru]

The government blaming anyone else for their blunders and then spending mountains of tax payer money to cover it up and justify it might be the most realistic thing in the movie

[Rap-vjio]

I think the dumbest part for me was the fact she made the weapon a child that had to grow before reaching full potential...
"Yeah we've totally made a weapon that can win the war, it won't be ready though before 10-15 years"???

[savage]

The only thing i truly loved about this movie is the art direction and the concept art. The artists who worked on this are incredible and deserve more recognition for their incredible designs.

[LiveFreeOrDieA]

Action and horror have a lot more ability to get away with the “don’t think about it” viewing experience, but the literal point of the science fiction genre IS to think about it.

[Andrew-zqip]

"It's necessary for a movie to make logical sense to have an emotional impact"
That's the lesson they just never learn.

[oldoutlet]

I think this movie just forgets what robots are for 90% of the time.

[DFMoray]

I literally couldn’t stop thinking about why the robots didn’t have better reflexes and agility. All the stuff you brought up was in the back of my mind making it impossible to let down my suspension of disbelief.

It looked good but there wasn’t much else to it.

[lemeres]

The resurrection thing might have been easy to write off if they tried. "No, we can't actually download someone's brain. We are just copying some surface level crap at the top of their head. But the instant it has to actually think about what is going on, it starts trying to use a bunch of parts that re just GONE, and the whole thing falls apart. So all you're talking to is a ghost. Is just a shadow that goes away once you shine a light on it". Then, establish that the robots are just as complex and can't be copies very well either. Maybe use the fake resurrections thing on them too.

Although it wouldn't really explain the dead robot wife part too well. Human brains doesn't instantly lie when you shoot out the guts. It seems like you could do a ghost in the shell style brain case that you could just carry around as brain life support in case something like this happens. Save the brain before it dies.

[toanuva]

I find it funny that almost every sci-fi series has humans put the sentient robots in charge of some kind of military position or power, and it always blows up in their face. Personal favorite series that does this is the Megaman X series for the added irony of them proceeding to put the task of taking these Mavericks down to more sentient robots

[redwing]

When I first saw the trailer, I assumed they were going to pull a Screamers / the Second Variety, and have the weapon be a robot girl as a form of infiltration, have the weapon be a child so that the enemy inherently grows attached to it and has difficulty attacking it.

[m.a.packer]

Viewer: "if you can put a human mind in a robot, can't you put a robot mind into another robot?"

The Creator: "Don't be ridiculous."

[manum]

is ridiculous how easily this superweapon was found, if it was so precious to the machines.

[anthonyrounds]

This is the best review of the movie I’ve seen. I also was never felt compelled to root for the robots never got sad when one died and I believe I woulda killed the little kid robot the moment I seen it and been like “those damn robots making kid looking ones to try to mess with our heads. Now I hate them even more.”

[WelcomeToDERPLAND]

I wish it was good- when I heard about it I thought about all the possibilities and how good it could have been- but then I heard it devolves into 'uhh robot child treated like regular kid by doting guardian character' and lost all interest... We have soooo many movies that are basically that.

[doublep]

High praise to director Gareth Edwards, for making this movie with "only" 88 Million $ budget and it looks visually better than 250 Million $ MCU/Disney/DC movies.
That being said: the story is so bad, it's like it was written by ChatGTP, they just picked story-elements from a bunch of older Sci-Fi movies/comics/anime, plus the ''Lone Wolf & Cub''-trope that has been done to death in western media (Logan, The Last of Us, Mandalorian etc. etc.) and put them in a blender. Also John David Washington can't act to save his life. He's an absolute plank of wood, who only has an acting career, because he's a nepotism baby.

[zsheets]

The loss of Legion in Mass Effect 3 was impactful on multiple levels. That he referred to himself with the singular "I, " instead of the plural "we" that he'd exclusively used up until that point, made it even more significant. It's also established by that point that geth can easily survive the destruction of the hardware housing them by transferring to a nearby data node, so actual geth losses during their entire conflict with their creators has been negligible.

A side quest that could be entirely missed depending on character deaths in ME2 or choices in both ME2 and ME3 has more thought put into it than this entire movie.

[dsaster]

They lost me at the point when a "running bomb" crossed the bridge.

[kanjiNaem]

2:32 this sign reads 募集中 which means wanted as in "looking for hire"

they really just slapped "wanted" into google translate and ran with the first result

[HerculesBallsInc]

The weird thing about it all to me is this: why would anyone assume that a robot that looked like a child also thought like a child? If you take the brain of an adult robot and put it in the body of a child or a dog or a tractor it's still the same brain and thinks the same way. I would be more inclined to think that a robot that looked like a child was PRETENDING to be a child. There's literally no reason for it to have child-like processes. When building a super-weapon, you would actually want to give it the most advanced and experienced brain available. And as the video points out, even if for some reason you have to grow the brain with the body, you can just transfer that shiz in at any time. You could even have an implant that at a certain point of maturity suddenly uploads information turning it into killbot 2000. This means you can NEVER trust this 'child', and pretending it is in any way like a human child is just nonsense. And everyone alive in this world would know this.