#i don’t write reviews often but i needed to explode autistically about the design of this movie

[giddlygoat]

i watched The Creator with my family yesterday at the cinema. it’s a fantastic sci-fi movie about a future with advanced AI robots that are indistinguishable from humans. the story was done well and i was way more satisfied with it than i anticipated, and i highly recommend it.

but what i REALLY love more than anything is how they portrayed the robots as part of human society. some of them were androids with hyper realistic human bodies, but many of them were straight up Robots. and they acted and spoke just like the androids, sometimes with more robotic voices, but all very human and unique. most of them wore clothes and expressed themselves just like a human would. AAAA it was just so refreshing!!

robot lovers, i implore you to give this movie a watch. it’s a war movie so it can be very intense but it’s not gory and they do a lot of cutaways from the up close violence. the characters are easy to care about and the pacing isn’t bad either. very memorable overall. and it’s super emotionally driven, like i cried 4 times lmao.

just look at these. the variety is refreshing, and visually the movie is very well meshed, believable and lived in. personally it’s my favorite robot movie since finch [although i still personally prefer that movie because of the narrow plot focus and smaller scale].

one of the scenes i adore from this movie is a scene where one of the humanoid robots gets shot, and because their system is all messed up after that, their voice glitches out and they sound all corrupted while still sounding terribly like a human in pain. it’s done very well.

there’s also plenty of wonderful sound design in little details like soft whirs of robot joints. the humanoid androids still sound like robots, and in quiet scenes you can really hear the mechanic clicks and whirs that make it more believable. it’s not distracting, but rather stupid easy to accept. it would just sound plain wrong without it. great stuff!!