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John Cho installs an AI into his home in this lacklustre Blumhouse horror, that wasn't shown to critics - so Film Brain finds out just how bad it is.
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[FilmBrain]

As you can tell, this was meant to be a quick turnaround video. Didn't quite work out that way.

[BebieHachi]

4:52 You're very considerate and thoughtful by saying this, and I really appreciate that. Much respect, man.
It's nice to see someone acknowledging a person's effort like that and not just writing them off like most do.

[Kerma]

I always feel sympathy for younger kids/teens trying to grow up whenever a techno-thriller comes out, specifically ones who are quiet in real life and mostly get their socializing online, or have a hobby in video games/youtube videos/etc. I say that because growing up when "Catfish" was a huge sensation was the most annoying thing possible as an early teen, mainly every adult talking about it like i'm going to run away with a pedophile just because I made a friend online... there's good messages in (most) of these films but they're always over-dramatized. On the positive side, they become hilarious to go back and watch 20 years later

[SnarkyMcCarthy]

Since “written by committee or AI” are overdone, here’s some alternatives:

“Feels automated.”
“Created by a board of directors.”
“An idea that only works as a pitch.” (My take on The Purge concept)

[Basch]

holy shit. this is a blast from the past, ive missed you. you were one if my favorites on the old thatguywiththeglasees website along with spoony and linkara

gotta go watch some old reviews

[wstine]

We already had an evil AI movie in the 90s. It was called "Ghost in the Machine."

[mrflipperinvader]

Film Brain, if you ever decide to write a book I would love to read it, and an audiobook if you ever decide to do that

I love the way you express your arguments and opinions on the subject of films

[jamesatkinsonja]

Writer/Director Chris Weitz has such a weird CV of many genre's featuring good movies like 'About a Boy' [director], Antz and Rouge One [writer] but also 'The Golden Compass, Twilight 3, and as a writer [as previously covered on this channel] 'Nutty professor II: The Klumps'!

[juliakrystosek]

I liked this plot better when it was classic Disney Channel Original Movie "Smart House"
Can we really not come up with a different kind of evil AI that isn't just Fatal Attraction But With Computers?

[jamesatkinsonja]

I really enjoy it when you rip apart bad films using the video essay format. Great work.

[jamesatkinsonja]

AI is a topical issue but it's hard to cover [and make it different from earlier films like 'The Terminator' or 2001]. 'Captain Scarlet' was able to have an overall villain [The Mysterons] without a physical form but it's inherently hard to write around. The recent Mission Impossible was ambitious tackling it but they were struggling to make it work [especially as it's Emissary -Esai Morale character-was a weak link in the movie] although that has next years sequel to try and improve things. Still, by the sounds of it, future attempts should be better than this car crash.

[rainydayjules]

It’s kinda interesting how a lot of the best AI-as-antagonist stories have been in video games, Portal and System Shock coming to mind, as well as I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream as kind of a short story and game in conversation. The last AI movie I remember really liking was Her, which was not one with it as an antagonist.

[Coolcoolcooldude]

So save your money and go see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice instead of this.

[Pecksterplays]

Honestly I’m getting over the horror movie trope of having “loud music sting jump scare” just be scary, if you need to scare me with a loud sound then it’s not scary

[timthememer]

Ngl I was worried from the name this was an AI written horror movie...

[animex]

....Christ, I can see why they didn't want critics to see this.

[FabricFool]

I scrolled down only a little…has anybody mentioned “Metropolis” as an early AI movie example? Just curious, “all the way back to HAL in ‘2001: a Space Odyssey’”.
Just curious. Love your show. Loved seeing you with Hagen and Hollinger.

[archer]

Given all the hoopla over AI from Hollywood, I’m surprised and disappointed they didn’t even give the Butlerian Jihad a passing mention in the new Dune movies.

[justdannyquinn]

10:22 - Cannibal Holocaust and Faces of Death would be more appropriate substitutes for a nature documentary.

[grkpektis]

One of the scariest AI scenes I've seen in recent memory is not from a horror movie, it's the nuclear bomb scene in the last Mission Impossible movie. They'll never do something like that in these boring POS movies because that took decent writing