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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-02 (Monday)
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 19:00:00 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>Dec 3, 2024 at 10:47:35 AM PST, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:
>>BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

>>>AfrAId on the Peacocks.

>>>It's about a family whose smart house goes all Skynet on them. This has
>>>been done before and mostly done better. You get the feeling throughout
>>>the movie that there were a lot of scenes cut out because a lot of what
>>>the characters do and say seem like a huge overreaction. The husband in
>>>particular seems hugely freaked out by the AI assistant in his home for
>>>no really good reason. I mean, we the audience know it's evil but he's
>>>not supposed to, at least not at that point in the movie, so it makes
>>>you think there must have been scenes that were cut out that explain
>>>why he's not Viking with the AI.

>>C'mon. Tell us what we need to know.

>>Is there a nubile teenage girl having sex shortly before she gets
>>murdered by the AI, hopefully with not safe for Ian nudity?

>Closest it comes is the high school-age daughter whose boyfriend convinces her
>to send him a nude selfie and then uses it to make a deepfake of her doing
>porn and sends it around the school. The AI gets revenge on him on the girl's
>behalf.

Cool

>>Not Viking?

>That was supposed to be vibing. Siri changed it to Viking and I changed it
>back and then Siri must have changed it again. Pretty ironic considering the
>subject of the movie. The fucking AI was bound and determined for me to say
>Viking no matter what.

AIs are evil!