This is an instant 1980’s classic remake of an actual true story of one summer at this camp. The twist is that it takes place in Korea sometime after the Korean War which separated the youth loosing much culture and knowledge about their home land. The narrative in the start of the film describes the Korean war as one of the worst things to happen to Korean people. The movie revolves around a government funded teen camp that only lasted a few years because they simply could not control the Korean teenagers in the 1980s. You get all of the music and outfits that authentic the 80’s vibe mixed in with the personality differences depending on where each kid grew up. Everyone in this camp was shipped in from all over the world. You had Korean’s from London, USA, Mexico, Korea, East Coast states and several others. They were all products of their environment trying to learn their culture, how to speak, write and communicate in Korean. Unfortunately they were already well into who they were and what they wanted to be. The comedy that follows with young breakfast club teens is hilarious in this. I think Superbad, Fast Times at Ridgemont high, Say Anything and several other nostalgic films all seem familiar when watching this. Yet it’s a Korean story in all English no subtitles which makes it easy for Americans to understand their story and have some laughs along the way to a serious message and true story. Check it out.
Love is the strangest feeling known to humans. Al Green knew a thing or two about love and he said “Love will make you come home early or stay out all night long” and it’s 100% true. Love can make you the best person in the world or the worst human to ever hoover across the lands. I think most humans are very fearful of love because it can cause you to be blinded by certain elements you would normally see if you didn’t have the love blinders on. This isn’t even only about love between someone you are intimate with. Love can play tricks on you even when you love a friend as a person you think you can trust. So imagine what humans go through when love decides to turn on them. In my opinion, love is traditionally seen as different love-languages. Most relate love to actions of some sort that determine or measure someones love for someone else. For an example; if someone cooks, cleans or provides for someone in some way is seen as a love language. While others might see fixing things, or finding solutions to problems a love language. Others might only relate affection or touch as a love language. Either way you look at it, usually words are often overlooked because they are so easily delivered through wet tongues or loose lips. Meaning that many do not see the words as the same importance as actions. I semi disagree because I think the words neatly placed on top of beautiful actions bring the whole love project together. When two partners collide their life experiences together and blend each ones knowledge of what the world has prepared them for…you get either a cosmic toxic explosion or a cute pattern fitting together like a puzzle. Not to say some people don’t fall into the happy mediums where the aren’t super sad or super happy but for the purpose of simplicity let’s generalize into love or hate sector. I think about this because I find myself as a blend between actions and words. I enjoy to be the problem solver in a relationship or friendship. I like to be the resourceful one who is knowledgeable about the task to be completed. Affection is very important mixed with the right timing for those actions. I think comic reliefs should be used strategically not just for deflecting. I believe that loyalty and trust should never be questioned or asked for since they are mandatory attributes of being someones friend. No one expects anyone to be perfect just that they exercise a level of integrity that proves ones character to be consistent with who they are. Humans are “forward thinking” brains which need to prepare for the future, which is literally the only reason humans have brains. Our brains are neatly placed in our domes to predict the future and what will happen next. If I touch the stove it’s hot and fire can burn me. If I don’t drive careful I might crash. If I find a partner I can be happy and if I don’t I might be sad. So we use these predictions as humans based off life experiences which love intertwines through this whole journey. The problem with love is that anyone I mean anyone can stop loving another person at any moment. So because of this many humans put up barriers without even knowing at times. You don’t see animals do this unless they have history of abuse. Humans can react just based of observations let alone life experiences. When it comes to love…I say, drop the barriers and be vulnerable. It’s human.
What a cool fuck’n fictional movie of time travel. This movie is for fun, some comedy and romance and a few tech moments to keep your brain energized. Filmed in Seattle or at least the stories origination is in Seattle. This was a close look at a different Style of stories about some journalists covering a story for a popular Seattle magazine. The idea in the plot was these journalists were going to meet a guy who claims he built a time machine. So many great shots of West Seattle and Burien that you want to shout them out during the movie but instead you stay engaged in the story. There is a scene where the lead character gives the young, possibly, east Indian intern some advice about being young and chasing girls. He delivers probably the most truth in the transition into adult manhood that should be told to every young adult his age. In fact the advice to the young man probably should be sold not told. Very interesting series of events with a few twists in the story. The story line is about a guy posting an ad of craigslist about his time machine and needing one partner to go back to 2001 which he explains the importance of that year later. Stay tuned on that one. The build up is superb and keeps you on the edge of your seat. The story is the best part so keep watching till the end. One minute you think the inventor of this time machine is a crazy fuck with a hint of hilarious and then you start to think he is on to something. However he is sprinkled with his spaz-ness yet the guy is a bit of a bad ass and survivalist. Lots of great believable characters. The unapologetic realness of the senior journalist is perfect and even fucking hilarious at times so the whole drama comedy era brings you the real mix of drama meets comedy. The build up is worth it and the story line is legit, can’t believe I never heard of this movie before. Stay tuned for a potential West Seattle/Seattle/Burien -filmed -cult classic. PS: Aubrey Plaza is hot.
I think this is the best “Artificial Intelligence” Sci-Fi movie I have ever seen so far. This blends into the AI so real and close to true human intelligence that not only do you see every real human emotion, such as fear, pain, and happiness, love and compassion. You also see the AI become fully self aware of one self. At first the story isn’t making much sense as to the origins of the plot and you are showered with Sci-Fi Futuristic imagery in your face. They place you in a space ship style bunker deep in the Japan mountains. All the way to high tech doors and gadgetry throughout the film. The time is around 2046 or some around there so the attention to detail is beautifully illustrated with a blend of robotics and high tech jargon. At first you are seeing the lead character spend countless hours and days into research and tech poking all through each scene but soon you see he is preparing to literally duplicate his dead wife from a fatal car accident that left her dead with only her backed up hard drive of her brain subconsciousness archive. Being in the future, they lightly graze across some legal aspects of being able to backup and store human subconsciousness but it’s clear that he has hers and intends to drop it right into the realist robot man has ever created. Yet it also seems this might be illegal to either his job or to authority of some kind. You start to notice he has made several attempts to build prototypes before the latest final one. Each of the robots he dumped AI in each one but since it was trial runs it went in phases of upgrades. Meaning Robot 1 has the brain ceiling of a 5 year old max and can’t develop higher. Then the next has the brain function of an 8 year old. Next and last is the one that can fully execute decision making while also feel love and compassion, guilt and reward. You see that these prototypes are not suppose to his wife at all and just trial runs of basic AI skills. So he sort of treats them as family at first as if he knows they a real robot minds and he explains to them all that they are family. This comes off a bit weird at first but just trust in the build up that there is a reason he is pretending they are like little family robots he can talk to. Once he continues through finalization you get brief flashbacks of before his wife was killed. Brief moments of who she was and why he was so deeply madly in love with her. Also how deeply she loved him back. You start to get drifted in the love story of the whole thing and rooting for him to recreate the love his life that he lost so tragically from a car accident that he was even riding in the car next to her in. As the movie shifts through advancements in the final robot phase that will become his wife again, you start to get this impression that not only is he a incredibly smart dude but he is also working for the government on top secret robotics experiments. There are several scenes of the lead character getting in hot water by seemingly higher up officials government types who only want him to focus on certain aspects of his duties. They make references to big companies funding his AI work shop and how he better act in compliance or they will pull his funding plug and take legal action on him. This makes him scramble to get his wife in order as fast as he can before authorities take her away. He is so close to making a true AI with the luck of saving her memory so he knows its a race against the clock. Soon you see another plot twist that he is able to have brief and short video action with his actual wife through the backed up memory archives he so fortunately had saved through the car accident. Also each robot of previous design starts to get jealous of each other. You even watch one robot commit suicide which was actually super sad. He took parts off an older more obsolete model and was working on a better model so it got sad and older version decided to walk deep into the water to kill itself. Then the late model one finally is fully operational, to the point of walking and talking and appearing near human. feeling a sense of touch and sleeping, having dreams. Able to eat as a simulator and actually taste things. The skin feels real and the robot has real actual memories of them together. They start to do things together, dance around the house and go on runs. You see the robot wife act like it’s actually human and start to have feelings for the maker. You even think to yourself when is the robot sex scene going to happen. However the twist on that is even better. The final draft robot even slips into bed with him one night. You think this is it, this is it, robot sex pound town. She gets in bed with him and the scene starts to take too long to start the cool sexual stuff which gives you the impression something is wrong…oh shit…yep you start to think what if he freaks the fuck out and isn’t quite ready to have a robot sex scene with his wife. Or her trying to get fucked by human dick. Just when you realize that thought is a possibility he wakes up and jumps straight the fuck out of skin in fear and sticks to the ceiling with fright. She freaks out too and runs away and computer style crashes while remembering all of the car crash memories and what happened to her through it. When she awakes the authorities finally had enough of him and decide he breached contracts of his research facility and should be arrested. They swarm his Japanese futuristic bunker with mega tech aircraft’s like he was the worlds most wanted. Last minutes the robot wife discovers that she is actually NOT the final robot as he seemed to indicate and the very last finishing touch is to actually override her robot subconscious he built from scratch & replace with his wife’s actual real deal subconsciousness that was actually authentic. Once robot hottie figures this out she goes ape shit and almost tries to shoot the main character with a futuristic gun that apparently was given to him but some higher up agent that semi liked him. She points it at him to ultimatum either let his wives real subconscious die OR make a new relationship with the prototype version of AI robot. The final prototype is in complete sadness as it now makes sense why he wouldn’t get freaky with her in the bed because she was not only NOT his real wife. She was also a real robotic intelligence he built and not the real captured archive of his wife that will soon replace her. So she finally submits out of sadness and fear yet love for her creator. She decides to drop the weapon and give in to have her data completely erased with his wife’s actual archived mind and do an override. The final revised last phase you see being built inside the state of the art robot lab with mechanically made bones, organs and features. When they show the way the robot is built and constructed in his top secret spy lab you will be tripped out. In fact you should eat an edible before you watch it and really drift into a hi-tech wonderland (cheech & Chong Voice). The best part is the ending, when this fucker ends you are going to have your whole mind scrambled into pix-elated dust. You will have your own brain hard drive cooked into burnt hair smell. The ending is such a mind fuck that you will question the entire movies plot. Everything you thought you knew about the character into a distant mind blender of imaginative thoughts. Check this one out for a look at how the future might have funeral services and with a chance to talk to our loved ones for a very short time…after they actually die.
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