Game of Thrones II

As an astronomical joke, I describe the world(s) of the Game of Thrones in my "technical" blog.

Seriously, one of the main attractions of the "Games" was its slow, "realistic" pace [GoT]. When the producers ratcheted it up more in line with the tempo of feature-length movies, it became more visually comprehensible but the charm is lost.

Mad Max

Mad Max: The producers thought (probably, correctly judging by 90%+ approval even on rottentomatoes) that scantily clad Charlize Theron and Rose Whiteley jumping around on moving vehicles can exculpate an absence of the plot.

Ex Machina vs. Her

Ex Machina is a retell of Dr. Frankenstein story for a new robotic era. It is stylish and well shot but it endows robot with human motivations and logic. Her is endowed with the strangeness of human-software relationship. Operational system is not so unhuman as to be totally opaque to human understanding, yet significantly different in its behavioral motivation and patterns. Furthermore, the Vicander-Gleeson duo does not stand up to the brilliance and subtlety of the Phoenix-Johansson duo.

P.S. There are also two bloopers in Ex Machina. When the mad billionaire-scientist's villa is out of juice, all doors must open, not shut down because they were reprogrammed that way. Second, the robot girl did not acquire autonomous source of energy to function in a human environment.