By now I've been thoroughly humiliated with my claims that Hollywood makes only crap movies. I still think most of its output is complete underpants, but there's no way Deadpool falls into that category. It's also probably the most crackling script since Pulp Fiction with lots of funny lines that a second viewing (or even a third) can yield. Update: Part II was a stinker.
If you want to make God laugh... tell God your plans.
Ex Machina is a thoughtful and sensitive look into the world of synthetic humans and artificial intelligence (AI). I noticed on Twitter recently that Artificial Sex Dolls are paving the way for this technology from an aesthetic/kinetic point of view and no doubt a superior chat bot AI is being developed to accompany this.
I have no doubt that the integration of humans with machines will become increasingly visible in my life time but I self identify as a primate so I'm happy to be a monkey wearing cotton underpants as Terence McKenna once memorably described us. Most transhuman fetishists are frightened of dying in my experience. This is a spiritual problem with many answers to hand.
Keanu Reeves acts as an exorcist and freelance occult consultant in this movie. I'm not a huge fan of Keanu, though his work isn't offensive and he has many solid movies under his belt. This is one of them.
The only thing worth knowing about the occult is that while we are programmed to scoff at it, the higher up the food chain a person climbs the more likely, no, the more unavoidable it is.
