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​In about 30 years, it’ll be released—featuring an Indiana Jones fully reconstructed from 40 terabytes of archival footage.

​The plot is peak recursion: an AI generates code for Harrison Ford's digital twin to battle a rogue algorithm in virtual pixelated jungles. Pure digital cyberpunk wrapped in a "cassette futurism" and Cold War aesthetic:
​"Soviet scientists in a secret bunker under Magadan accidentally awakened an ancient Sumerian algorithm trapped within copper circuits. This proto-AI doesn't just want to conquer the world, it wants to rewrite history by purging everything chaotic and illogical... namely, the USSR."

​In the end, Indiana defeats the virus by simply pulling the plug. A digital silence falls over the world, while the 2056 audience pays for their tickets in crypto-yuan, fully aware that the film itself was created by the very AI the hero was fighting on screen.

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Project Hail Mary, from Goddard and the directing team of Christopher Miller and Phil Lord, is a little like Interstellar but with the Spielbergisms turned up to 11. It is the most perfectly crowd-pleasing movie I’ve ever seen in my life: the comedy is carefully calibrated to generate laughs on demand; the emotional well it draws from is deep and produces tears with precision; and it’s smart without feeling preachy or condescending. Indeed, it’s so successful I almost dismissed it as manipulative while I was watching it. And then I realized that if I was being manipulated, I didn’t really care. ...

[Rocky's] like a precocious scamp in craggy form. The little rock creature is like TARS crossed with E.T. and filled with the Tasmanian Devil’s energy; he’s the most enchanting puppet1 in a live-action film . . . maybe ever? It’s almost unfair how much Goddard, Lord, and Miller make us care about this walking, talking pile of rocks; every choice they make doesn’t just work, it pulls us further into the world of the film, gives us greater emotional resonance.

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Thanks for the Dark Matter recommendation! You didn't exactly recommend it, but I pulled it from your profile and avatar. Can't remember the chronology, but it was either from the hashtag, or wondering who the green haired girl was(looked like a dj to my old eyes til I embiggened it).

I've been sitting on it for awhile, and finally watched this weekend. Got to the end of s03, and it's "Oh, FFS..." Series is over :^D

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