You know what that sound means? It's another
episode of Game for a Movie where we ask, are
you game for a movie? My name is Mike. I'll be
your host this evening. I am joined by no one.
That's okay. But I am here to talk about a bad
movie. And of course, before we do that, we need
to talk about what we are drinking. Today I have
from Sycamore Brewing. It's called Drippy. It's
a juicy IPA. Very fruity, very New England style.
If you like that kind of thing, I definitely
am a big fan of it. And Sycamore Brewing, they
just opened up a two level brewery in Charlotte.
Honestly, I haven't made it there yet, but I'm
really excited to kind of get there. So yeah,
that is from Sycamore Brewing. It is drippy,
a juicy IPA. It's something I definitely want
to sink my teeth into. You know, it's got that
hoppy quality. You know, it's something I don't.
Want to sink my teeth into? This bad movie. I
bring you the bad movie Transcendence. Since
it is July, I feel like it's the time for a blockbuster
that just thought it was going to make a ton
of money and then it just didn't. So yeah, for
those of you that don't know, a blockbuster is
a movie that's made for about $100 million or
more. It is usually like a tentpole film. that
we think is going to make its money back. This
one had a budget of estimated around $100 million.
Its opening weekend for USA and Canada was $10
million. Gross worldwide was $103 million. Figuring
with advertising as well as special effects,
and of course that we don't know the exact budget,
this one was definitely a flop and did not make
its money back. A lot of that money went to its
cast because this movie has star power, let me
tell you. It stars Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall,
Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Paul Bettany,
and Kate Mara. Those are your top six in this
movie. And each of them gets their own time to
shine for real. Except for Cillian Murphy and
Morgan Freeman, they kind of were just part of
it. So you're probably wondering, Mike, what
is this movie about? So this movie is about technology.
That's whole gimmick. Basically, the beginning
of the movie starts with a Paul Bettany narration
check, and we think it's in the future. Essentially,
he starts it with the Internet was supposed to
make the world a smaller place. It feels smaller
without. You see this city in California where
basically everybody is using technology as like
doorstops or there's a bunch of ones thrown in
the trash. There's all these computers that are
completely destroyed. We don't know why at this
point. But we assume it is the future and why
the story is how we got to this point of hating
technology. That's the introduction to this world.
And then we flash back to the beginning of this
event. It is Johnny Depp and his wife, Rebecca
Hall. And they are standing under this cage that
Johnny Depp has built. Essentially, it's an anti
-technology fence. No matter what happens, even
the cell phone, you can't get technology through
there. He's talking about how this is like a
safe haven of how they can remain undetected
when their big project takes off. It's a good
plan. And then Rebecca Hall reminds him that
they have this fundraiser that they have to start
getting ready for. Essentially, he's going to
have to make this huge speech and he has to be
on his best behavior, according to Rebecca Hall.
We learn that Paul Bettany is a friend of theirs
and that he is working with them and he comes
and meets them before the speech at this college
hall, essentially. And they start making their
speeches. And of course, it's about AI and how
it's going to surpass all of us and that we need
to harness AI before it harnesses us, essentially,
is the idea behind it. While the speech is going
on, the camera passes through the crowd and it
suddenly holds on Kate Mara. I wonder why. Is
she going to be a big part of this? We don't
know. Probably. But, you know, it's one of those
things. Will Caster slash Johnny Depp, that's
his character's name, is talking about this AI
network he wants to create called Transcendence.
Essentially, it's going to be able to see everything.
It's going to be able to stop everything. It's
going to be able to control everything and just
keep everybody safe and keep everybody connected
to this technology. Somebody in the crowd goes,
so you want to create a god? And Johnny Depp
slash Will Caster kind of laughs it off and goes,
isn't that what man has always done? it's not
necessarily wrong and it actually kind of for
this movie is a good line um i i don't think
this line should have hit as hard as it did but
it was pretty good so our three people dr will
Evelyn, his wife, played by Rebecca Hall, and
Paul Bettany, whose character I didn't write
down at this point, so I don't even remember
what his name is. But Paul Bettany and them are
all walking, talking about what a great speech
Will delivered. And then somebody comes out of
nowhere and calls Will a slave and shoots him.
They also, at the same time, show this juxtaposition
that this group attacks all these AI labs across
the country. One of those AI labs Morgan Freeman
is in charge of. And he is left alive for some
reason. I don't know why, because he's obviously
the guy in charge. If there's anybody that could
rebuild this project, it is him. If you kill
him, you've basically taken out this entire AI
lab. There's no coming back. So I don't understand
why they left him alive, but it's Morgan Freeman,
so I'll allow it. So the bullet Will was shot
with, it also contains polonium, which is this
highly toxic radioactive element that basically
they can't do anything for him. They're giving
him about four to five weeks and he's going to
die of radiation poisoning. So my question here
at this point is, if you found out you had about
a month to live, what would you do? It's nothing
to do with this movie. I was just wondering,
what would you do if you got told you had a month
to live? I probably wouldn't work anymore. I
know this guy is in charge of AI and he's the
only AI lab and everything like that, but I probably
wouldn't work anymore. You know, maybe that's
just me. Of course, he and his wife Evelyn are
working for the entire month until he gets almost
too sick and he can't do it anymore. Rebecca
Hall slash Evelyn comes up with this idea. Basically,
she turns off PIN, which is the AI machine, and
she puts some chips in it. Then she decides she
wants to put an electrode into Will's brain so
they could connect him to PIN, saying we can
save him. It's a movie. So I know they follow
movie logic, but has anybody in this universe
seen a movie where this goes well? When anybody
gets uploaded to AI and there's no repercussions
whatsoever. Of course, Will is fully on board.
He wants to be put into the machine because he
wants to become this AI. This ultimate thinking
machine. And maybe, even though they don't address
it this way, maybe he does see himself and wants
to become a god. So they decide that they're
going to do it. They upload him and try to get
all of his memories up there before he dies.
So 30 minutes in, Will is dead. Evelyn is mourning
his loss. We get a little narration from Morgan
Freeman about the whole idea of AI and everything
like that. Pin is shut down. So evolution without
technology has succeeded at this point. The movie
might as well be over, right? Of course not.
We're only 30 minutes in. So Evelyn basically
is frustrated with the fact that it doesn't look
like it worked. So she shuts down the computer.
All of a sudden, the computer fires up again
and says, is anyone there before it shuts off?
And it starts responding to her. Basically, Evelyn
wants to run a diagnostic, but while she's doing
that, he starts to reorder his own code so that
he can just talk to her directly. This again
comes with the caveat that there's not enough
processing power. He needs more power. So Paul
Bettany, with the smart RAS decision, he wants
to turn off the computer. He knows where this
is going to go. Evelyn, however, wants to give
him more processing power by putting him on the
internet. So they talk back and forth, arguing
with each other. Paul knows this is the right
thing to do. Evelyn just wants her husband back.
And I don't blame her for that. But at the same
time, come on, girl. Look at what you're doing.
So Paul does the rational thing. He leaves and
goes to the bar. And not only does he go to the
bar, he has a hell of a time. He gets a whiskey.
He gets a beer. He's double fisting. And then
all of a sudden, Kate Mara's character shows
up to the bar. Where does Kate Mara come in?
How does she know him? Everything like that.
She says that she's a student in Paul Bettany's
class. They get into this whole deep conversation
and she basically says to him, I'm wondering
what's in your heart. Again, if you're a student
and this is your teacher and you say, I'm wondering
what's in your heart, the teacher should leave.
And good news is Paul Bettany is smart and he
leaves the bar. That's exactly what I would do,
too. As soon as he walks outside, though, he
is assaulted and kidnapped. At this point, Paul's
character has been kidnapped, taken to Evolution
Without Technology's headquarters, and they need
to find Evelyn's location. If they find Evelyn's
location, they can close down the last AI lab
and they can succeed on their mission. There's
no more AI. They've done it. They've destroyed
all the technology that could possibly take over
the world. Paul Bettany's good friends with Evelyn.
And honestly, during this movie, there's some
romantic tension. If Will wasn't in the way,
I wonder if those two would get it on. So, of
course, he's not going to say anything about
where Evelyn's located until, of course, they
all of a sudden figure it out out of nowhere.
They didn't even need to kidnap him, I don't
think. They just did, and then they find it immediately.
So they're going to try to stop Evelyn, who during
this whole time wasn't working on getting him
uploaded to the internet, was just talking with
him and making sure that it still will. I don't
know how long it's going to take for you to get
this AI online, but I probably would have done
it, especially since they insinuate that Paul
Bettany's character was kidnapped for a couple
of days. Like, not... a full 72 hours, but probably
like 24 at least, you could have easily, knowing
that he was gone, put him on the internet, gotten
him uploaded before this group even closely knows
when you're going to be there. So now she's scrambling
because she knows they're on the way because
she gets warned somehow. And I think it's because
of Will, but I really don't know because they
just never addressed it. All of a sudden she
knows. So she tries to put him online. She's
not sure if she succeeds or not, but she gets
away. And then she puts this earpiece in her
ear and drives away from the AI lab, which is
then subsequently destroyed. So once again, it
could be movie over because she could have not
gotten Will online because she was dicking around
and not actually putting him online. And now
he could be destroyed in one of those computers
and she could be talking to nobody. But of course,
that's not how this movie goes. As she's driving
away, the earpiece goes off and it's Will talking
to Evelyn. She goes, where are you going? He
goes, everywhere. And then within 24 hours, a
company under Evelyn Castor's name receives $38
million. Why $38 million? I have no clue. He
also is booking a hotel for her so she can hide
out somewhere under a false name. It's like he
had this whole plan and this AI now is able to
do everything in 10 seconds or less and make
it all happen. At this time, it also goes to
the FBI where we see Killian Murphy. And all
of a sudden, his computer starts getting funky
and starts doing things. And we're wondering
what it is. Well, basically, it's being hacked
by Will slash this AI to tell the FBI where this
terrorist organization is. So it's pointing down
all of these different spots so that Killian
Murphy and his FBI buddies can take out this
organization piece by piece. Obviously, some
get away. Some don't. But the organization has
been dwindled at this point. Evelyn wakes up
the next morning from the hotel, and she is told
to go to this area called Brightwood. Brightwood
is a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, and
that's where we're going to take a quick break.
So as you all know, during our Bad Movie Podcast
episodes, we take a quick break so that we can
play a promo from one of our friends. Usually
it's one of our friends that guesses the bad
movie first. on the guessing game where I give
you three clues. This time was NNSDan or at Dan
of Action on Twitter or X or whatever the heck
it's being called now. He's one half of the Netflix
and Swill and Stacking Triggers podcasts, both
of them. The reason this is his personal account
is because Netflix had a problem apparently with
the name Netflix and Swill. So, of course, we
stand behind him because Netflix can get over
it and that whole thing. So here you go. The
Netflix and Swill podcast. Here's their promo.
And you can find them anywhere. Netflix and Swill.
That is an N, not and. So here it is. A Netflix
and Swill promo from our friends Dan and Caleb,
it looks like. Here you go. I downloaded an episode
of Netflix and Swill. Does this mean I get to
watch Netflix now? No, you can't watch Netflix
until you understand the phrase poop. Poop? Once
you understand poop, you'll understand your place
as a listener of this podcast. But what does
poop mean? I don't know. It's actually a carefully
organized code. Listen closely. People order
our podcast. Oh, poop. Looks like Mr. Caleb understands
poop. Here's a typical podcast listener. I wonder
what they want. Well, if we remember poop, we
can figure it out. I'd like to watch... Do you
think they're going to watch A, an Amy Schumer
comedy special, B, Gypsy, or C, a good show?
One good show, please. Ah, poop, you never let
us down. Now that you understand poop, I bet
you think you're ready to watch Netflix. Netflix!
Ha ha! Not so fast, Eager McBeaver. You still
need to finish listening to Netflix and Swill.
You can find the show at netflixandswill .com
or on your favorite podcast service. And now,
to talk about personal hygiene. That was from
our friends at the Netflix and Swill podcast.
Thank you guys very much for guessing it correctly.
Dan, you especially. Happy to play your promo
for this episode. Hope you enjoyed hearing it
on this Transcendence episode. So, Will the AI
has told Evelyn to go to Brightwood. Brightwood
is this dump little town in the middle of nowhere.
She is at the diner and she's talking with this
contractor about what they're going to build
at Brightwood. The contractor, of course, has
been told he's going to get so much money. Like
so much money, way more than a contractor should
get for building anything in this dump little
town. And he's still like, well, why? Why would
I do this? Why? Dude, I would sell my nuts if
I got paid this much money. Like I would right
now sell them on the black market if I got this
much money. Why are you even questioning this?
Like there should be no questions. They've got
the permits. They've got the money. All you have
to do is build it. I'm in. Get me on this because
I'm in. I can't build worth shit, but I would
do it. So they haven't announced how much time
has passed at this point. All we see is that
Paul Bettany has a beard now and he is still
part of this group. He's part of the Evolution
with Technology group. He's still being held
kidnapped or he's still being held hostage with
the small group that hasn't been picked off by
the FBI. them um we have no clue how much time
has passed by at this point i hate the fact that
they never say how much time has passed because
i always want to know if you're going to tell
a story in time jump like at least let us know
where we're at in this process is it 20 years
is it three minutes like what is the process
here so paul bettany has a beard the village
is being built uh AI Johnny Depp is proving to
Evelyn that he remembers everything, including
how they met, and he was able to welcome her
to their new house and play a record player.
The only reason I made note of this is that the
record player is not a digital record player.
How was he able to, as an AI, play this record?
It's not connected to anything digitally. I'm
just so confused by that. And then finally we
get a little thing that says two years later.
Oh, great. We actually know it's been two years
later. Everything has been built under Brightwood.
So the town is still a shithole, but at least
everything is underneath. We also learned that
Will was able to develop with Evelyn this nanotechnology
that basically work like stem cells. One of the
things that happens is when the contractor is
leaving one night and he goes to the local bar
at Brightwood, two redneck drunks see that he's
just like flashing cash, so they beat the shit
out of him. They're able to bring this contractor
back underground to Brightwood, and Will is able
to fix him with this nanotechnology. And not
only does it fix him, it also gives him increased
physical abilities. The only downside is that
Will is now in his head and Will can now control
him almost. Including he makes this guy say to
Evelyn, I can touch you now. I'm getting very
big like Wonder Woman 84 rapey vibes here. Steve
Trevor is in the body of this random dude and
they have sex. That kind of rapey vibes. Will
is in this contractor's head going, I can touch
you now to Evelyn. As well as he's just this
house he has built or they have built. He is
literally everywhere. He can follow her wherever
she is. And it's just a big no for me. Like completely
big no for me. This goes back to the terrorist
organization. Basically, they cannot figure out
for the life of them where this tech lab is,
but they do have a very close -up video of the
contractor lifting over a 100 -pound structure
piece by himself, like just nice and easy, lifts
it up, puts it on the thing. If they don't know
where it is, yet they're still able to get this
close -up video, why can't they figure it out?
Even more so, Will and Evelyn are flying out
these sick people. And then they also fly Agent
Buchanan, played by Cillian Murphy, and Morgan
Freeman. They fly them there. And so they're
flying these people there to heal them with this
nanotechnology. Again, this evolution without
technology can't figure it out, like where they
are. They can't figure it out at all. Nothing.
So as the sick people are taken one way on this
tour, Agent Buchanan and Morgan Freeman get a
tour of the facility. So basically they get to
learn what they've been doing, why it's underground,
as well as what has happened to Will slash the
AI. And when Will appears in a computer screen
in front of them, Morgan Freeman's kind of like.
I'll be damned. It happened. He also shows them
that they can heal people with this nanotechnology,
including this blind guy. They're able to fix
his eyes so he can see. So they also get a firsthand
view of this nanotech, not only fixing people,
but also having this piece of will in them so
that they are hive mind. Now, they remain autonomous
until they are told to act in unison. This is
a big point that they address. So essentially,
they can go on living their lives until they're
called into action by Will for whatever reason,
to defend him, to destroy something, to whatever.
So Evelyn leads Agent Buchanan and Morgan Freeman
out and is... Talking about how great it is and
everything like that. And Morgan Freeman gives
a hug to Evelyn and then puts something in her
hand, a piece of paper. She opens it up and this
piece of paper says, run from this place. I couldn't
agree more at this point. She is totally fucked
at this point. I don't care. She is done. No
matter what happens, she's just in trouble. Either
she's not going to get away and Will's going
to do something to hurt her. Or she's going to
be caught in the crossfire or something like
that. Meanwhile, as Buchanan and Morgan Freeman
are flying back, Buchanan says something to the
effect of, let's partner with the terrorists.
Basically, he wants to turn off the internet
entirely so there's no power to the system. And
then he can blame the terrorists and get away
scot -free. Because he also agrees that Will
.ai is not good for the world. So they need to
turn off the network to the hybrids. So in order
to figure that out, they need to capture one
of them. And by the hybrids, I mean the hive
mind. They call them hybrids because they are
their normal person, but they also have these
enhanced nanotech abilities as well as this brain
process. So they're working on trying to capture
one of these hybrids so they can figure out how
to cure it and create a virus to turn off the
AI as well as the technology. They also learn
that if they're going to cure this hybrid, they
are most likely going to kill it because they're
going to take it off the line. Essentially, it
won't be able to connect to Will, and if anything
happens, it will die. So they're dealing with
the morality of that. Meanwhile, Will and Evelyn
are getting to the extra creepy place. Will has
been creating these hybrids so that he's able
to physically touch Evelyn, and she is creeped
out, as she should be. And so he is like trying
to calm her down. And he mentioned something
about her biochemistry being way off. Turns out
he's just been measuring her biochemistry and
everything with her, telling her she needs iron
or whatever. I don't know how I would have done
it at this point. I would have figured out a
way. But if I was Evelyn, I would have shut it
down. I'm sorry, that's not your husband anymore.
He's being creepy. He's measuring your biochemistry.
He's making all these human hybrids to be able
to touch you. This is not okay. Like, it's just
not okay at all. But before we can get to all
of that, the terrorists have found their way
to Brightwood and they start exploding everything.
Like, literally firing grenade launchers at everything.
They shoot a bunch of hybrids that are unarmed
and... Because they are filled with nanotech,
they are able to rise up completely fine like
nothing happened with all of their bullet wounds
healing themselves. So the terrorists run off
through these tunnels that they exploded so that
they can get away from the hybrids. But the hybrids,
of course, are faster and stronger. But we learn
that this is part of the terrorist plot. They
capture that main contractor so they can build
the virus to touch him. Evelyn is pleading with
AI Will to not fight them. She knows especially
that Paul Bettany is part of them. She doesn't
want to see anybody get hurt. She doesn't want
to see anybody get killed on their account. All
she wanted to do was make the world a better
place with this AI. This nanotech she thought
she was helping sick people. So she does not
want them to fight. And Will of course responds
with we're not going to fight them. We're going
to transcend them. This is the third time transcend
or transcendence has been mentioned. So drink
if you are playing along with that at home. Will
is also saying things like I can upload you to
protect you from them. I'm not afraid of them.
Basically all these things. He wants to upload
Evelyn so that they can be together forever and
not have to worry about the human body or the
human touching. They can be melded together as
one in this AI. She is, of course, freaked out.
So she tries to escape Brightwood and drive away.
Meanwhile, everything that they had built starts
floating into the sky. It's nanotech, all of
it, that is kind of just floating into the sky.
And we get back to the terrorists who have control
over the one hybrid, the main contractor, and
it starts raining around them. And basically
we kind of know it's this nanotech and it's in
the water. So if any of them were to go out,
it could attack them. It could get them and make
them part of the hive mind. The terrorists are
hidden away from the rain so they don't get attacked
by the nanotech. They also let the main contractor
die so that they could get his blood and they
can figure out how to create this virus to beat
the nanotech. Evelyn has gotten away to a hotel.
She can finally relax away from Will. And so
she closes her eyes and drifts off to sleep.
Until the door is broken in and the terrorists
grab Evelyn and take her to the facility. Now
she's also kidnapped and being held hostage against
her will. Against her will. I just thought of
that. That was accidental. Sorry about that.
So Will is... shooting his nanotech up into the
sky it's basically multiplying in the sky in
the water and the rain that's coming down so
he can gain control of almost everything on earth
not just computers at this point including the
hybrids paul bettany and the terrorists have
kidnapped evelyn and they're trying to figure
out how to destroy him they've also kidnapped
the main contractor who was a hybrid basically
killed him just to get his blood so that they
can figure out how to create a virus to destroy
Will and the AI. So to convince Evelyn, basically
Paul Bettany has shown her this rainwater under
a microscope, and she can see it's the nanotech
that's building these copies of itself in the
skies, water, on the land, everything. She's
also explained that the computer was never Will.
Never will be, never is. It just isn't. She kind
of accepts that and learns that it really was
never him. Paul Bettany has created a virus that
is going to attack anything with his computer
code. So the computer code, not only him, but
wherever his code has been. So essentially, this
could destroy all the technology in the world.
Which, if you remember the beginning of the movie,
oh yeah, that kind of makes sense. That kind
of may be what happens. Who knows? We will never
guess. They also explain to Evelyn that she has
to be the one that gets past the machine's defenses
so she can run the virus. Obviously, Will trusts
her and wants her to be a part of him. And if
she's willing to do it, she can get past and
she can kill him. They all get in these trucks
and they're driving in and they show in slow
motion this truck hitting a puddle, knocking
this nanotech flying. But also you can tell because
of it that the hybrids are now alert that they're
coming. The trucks pull up at Brightwood. There's
this big shootout between the hybrids and the
terrorists. The hybrids keep getting up. They're
not really firing at them. They're just kind
of like holding their own. And because they can't
really die because they keep getting shot and
then they keep regenerating, they just get closer
and closer and closer. The terrorists know they're
not going to win this fight if they keep it like
this. They just needed enough of a distraction
so that they could get Evelyn in there. So Evelyn
is over by the satellite dishes at the entrance
to the underground lab. As she's walking through
the satellite dishes, of course, who walks in
front of her? A completely regenerated nanotech
body of Will. He's alive somehow. He always wanted
this because he always wanted to be back physically
with her. And so, of course, Evelyn hugs her
and is really happy to see him. And you kind
of question for a second, not really because
you know exactly where this movie is going, but
you kind of question for a second, is she actually
going to kill Will? Is she actually going to
put this AI down and save the world essentially?
After a long embrace and everything like that
and seeing that the terrorists are firing around
them and everything, she says, you can protect
me if you upload me. Now he's reading her biometrics.
He can tell that she is lying or at least something
is going on with her. But then the terrorists
start firing at them. And basically that was
their whole plan all along because if they shoot
her, not kill her, but shoot her, then she's
going to be gravely injured and she needs to
be uploaded. So she gets hit with shrapnel and
she's going to die unless Will uploads her. The
terrorists are backed into a corner by the hybrids.
They have complete control over everything. It
looks like the hybrids could just finish the
job, and there would be no problem. The virus
doesn't need to be uploaded. Well, Will, in a
last -second desperation love move, sexually
touches her gut wound, and the blood grabs onto
the nanotech, and you can see the virus being
uploaded onto the hive mind. As they hold each
other and Evelyn is dying and Will is being shut
down slowly but surely, he shows her, through
images in her mind, she can see that they were
actually helping the world. That the reason,
with the nanotech, basically the world was regrowing.
The world was becoming this safer, greener place.
And that the hybrids and the nanotech were right.
She sees the beauty of it before they all start
disappearing. And Will gives her one last kiss.
And the virus has been uploaded. Evelyn dies.
And the world goes technology -less. Except for
one little piece of rain that is under the technology
net they built in the beginning. The end? Question
mark? It's fun to make fun of a movie like this.
This thing was predictable from beginning to
end. It just was predictable. Everything that
happened, you just kind of knew where it was
going to go. You kind of knew. I mean, there
were some things that happened that I didn't
expect. I didn't expect Paul Bettany's character
to be kidnapped. But once he got kidnapped, I
knew he was going to help them out. He was going
to turn. He was going to be that person on that
side. I think that's my main problem with it
is that this movie was very predictable. And
I don't know how you tell this story without
being at least a little bit predictable. But
still, it's one of those things where it's just
kind of like, okay, see where this is going.
I see where this is going. I see where this is
going. The only thing that I will say I did not
see coming was nanotech and hybrids. I never
saw that coming for a second. I just thought
it was going to be the computers were taking
over. And they were going to control the world
through technology. They could make any money
or they can make any conflict arise or whatever.
I thought that's what was going to happen. Nanotech
and hybrid human beings was something that completely
caught me off guard. And even that to a point,
once it became that was what they were doing,
it still was predictable after that. The first
moment when you see that hybrid and you're just
like, oh, oh. Oh, yeah, that's something that
was okay. I didn't expect that. But then afterwards,
you can kind of see, okay, so they got to capture
one. The guy gets blood. Okay, great. They got
to develop a virus from the blood. They got to
get the nanotech. Okay, yeah, okay, whatever.
Oh, they're Terminator -esque things. Got it.
Okay, cool, whatever. You know, that was something
that was different for a while. But honestly,
this whole movie was predictable. The biggest
sin this movie created. was that it was just
boring. And I know they tried something different.
I get it. And great, they tried something. But
for the most part, it really was predictable.
And because of that, it's just boring. One of
the things I do want to talk about is the polonium.
So polonium, if you don't know, is... fine with
human contact so like it's not weird that his
family and friends were able to sit with him
while he was dying of this polonium um like radioactive
or uh radiation poisoning it's not surprising
about that one the issue is that after he died
they cremated his ashes and they tossed him into
a breeze above a river um That stuff sits in
your system, and they estimate that one gram
of that stuff could kill 50 million people. And
you just cremated it and sent it to a river that
people may or may not be drinking out of. Probably
are. But, you know, whatever. That's fine. And
then there was also a goof that I also wanted
to point out as well. Terrorist camp, there's
a sign that says no authorized persons allowed,
right? Authorized was spelled A -U -T -H -E -R
-I -Z -E -D. As somebody who had worked in props,
I understand sometimes things go wrong and everything
like that. But this is sad that in this kind
of movie that got through everybody. And it wasn't
even, I saw this was one of the goofs before
I watched the movie. It wasn't so crazy. It's
not like it's hidden or anything like that. It's
there. You see this. It's in plain sight. So
that was just another funny thing that I thought
was pretty good about this whole thing. They
wasted Kate Mara on this. Rebecca Hall was fine.
Johnny Depp, take it or leave it. They wasted
Morgan Freeman and Cillian Murphy. They were
just such a small bit part. The only one that
I say that got through this and deserves all
the credit is Paul Bettany. He was perfect in
this because he was interesting. He was smart.
He has that charm that oozes. And he was just
realistic. And I think that's what was so good
about this movie with him is that. He knew exactly
where this was going to go, and he was like,
no, I'm out of here. I'm going to go drink at
the bar. What? You kidnapped me? Fuck. Okay,
I need to find a way to get out of here. Wait,
actually, you're bringing up some good points.
Yeah, we probably should destroy this AI. Okay,
I'll help you. He's the most rash person in this
whole movie, and I think that's why I liked him
the most. Plus, I mean, what's not to like about
Paul Bettany in general? If you've seen this
movie, please tell me what you thought of it.
I thought the beginning was okay. Like if this
was in a better movie, that beginning would have
been just fine. They could have left that beginning
the same. It's when we got towards the halfway
point or the end when they were dealing with
all the Brightwood and nanotech stuff that I
was like, okay, this movie is silly. We're going
to look at the awards for this movie. This movie
has five nominations and three wins. And you're
probably thinking to yourself, what are those
nominations and wins? It was a nominee for the
most original trailer and the best motion title
graphics. It also won for best motion title graphics.
It was a nominee for most innovative advertising
for a feature film. It was the 2014 winner of
the Village Voice Film Poll for Worst Film. And
the Golden Schmoes, it was a nominee for both
Worst Movie of the Year and Biggest Disappointment
of the Year. Unfortunately, no wins on that one.
So, sorry it didn't get the win on that one.
I can tell you the Worst Movie of the Year for
the Golden Schmoe Awards that year was... The
winner for the Golden Schmoes Award of the worst
movie of the year for 2014 was Transformers Age
of Extinction. And I also find it kind of funny.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is on there, too.
So two Michael Bay films for 2014 were on that
worst movie list. And as I went down the rabbit
hole of this, literally, they gave awards for
most everything, including the best line. Of
the year. For. Movies of 2014. A little movie.
You may have heard of it. It's called Guardians
of the Galaxy. Was released in 2014. And they
won the best line of the year. For this movie.
I am Groot. That is what won the best line of
the year. For the Golden Schmo Awards. Obviously
they are great judges of talent. They knew that
this movie was a stinker. So I'll give it to
them on that at least. That's Transcendence in
a nutshell. I hope you didn't get infested with
nanotech that is making you a hybrid while listening
to this episode. Yeah, let me know if there's
anything else you wanted to hear about this movie.
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