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The X-Files: Re-Opened (2015 TV Movie)

Episode 2 was really great

[9/10 · 7 February 2016]

The episode 10 was OK but things got really interesting in Episode 2. The episode 3 was a joke, kinda felt like a filler.ºº OK, it was funny and probably had some ironic tone, lots of adult job jokes, but I was expecting to see some continuation out of ep2.

The Xfiles borough some great memories from the first seasons and I remember that we also find some ep like ep 3 in the first seasons. So I am really looking forward for the next episodes. I also hope that there is many people watching this, so we can have a full 20 ep season. IT was a great come back.

I can't wait for ep 4.

Ex Machina (2014)

Pretty visuals, NOT as smart as expected

[6/10 · 31 August 2015]

So many silly plot holes, in fact I found this movie boring and dull. I was really expecting something more nerdy. I am a programmer and an AI dev, and I was truly disappointed.

Let me point some stuff:

1. They are capable of building such robots, but they are unable to come with a decent power source....

2. The robots are so advanced, how could a man create all that by himself, seriously, no one would notice? Were they living in a alternate reality in the past and how did we build the hardware by himself? all that skin design, built metal, glass, brains hardware out of his what? Yes, he was god, he mastered design, programming, everything...

3. He calls just some random guy to test the machine without a proper selective method... just a random guy, why not? No tests needed to see if he had the qualifications to be a good analyst.

4. Who the hell dev a machine and gives her right away some arms and legs and put her acting like an human without proper testing. And the programmers priority was to program her to manipulate humans... ridiculous.

5. With such beautiful amounts of technology, they still open the doors with a smart card? Seriously?!

6. SO, he thought about making the robot so intelligent and manipulative, but he couldn't think about an emergency shut down solution? Who the hell creates a machine without shut down functionality and no emergency shut down... for a pretty smart guy he was really dumb. (taking in consideration there was so many test models before, he would have understood that before...)

7. The first thing he does to the guy is to punch him.... instead of telling him to solve the problem... then he exposes himself to the robot, knowing perfectly the Ai he had, he still wants to face him and tear him apart.... see, plain dumb... he was really dumb... sorry, this movie is too dumb to be real... nothing smart about the movie.

8. How can someone be influenced and fall in love by a test machine? Please, he knew he was selected to test a machine... how can he feel sorry for such machines being him a programmer? Seriously!? I expected him to be a little more logic...

8. The movie could have been so smart, it had potential... but in the end was just the typical Ai wants to rule humans movie... boring, some good high moments, pretty visuals, nice camera angles, but story wise was just boring... the main flaw is not being smart at all. (obviously for some people it was smart....)

PS sorry for my English, I will correct it another time.