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Today on You're watching a movie with Silas Lindenstein. I'm reviewing the new Jennifer Lopez sci fi

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action movie,

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Atlas.

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Hello, everybody, and welcome to You're watching a

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movie with Silas Lindenstein. I am your host, Silas Lindenstein. Today I am reviewing the new Jennifer Lopez sci fi film Atlas. Atlas is PG 13 sci fi action film running 2 hours long. It's written by Leo, Sara, Sara, Darian, Erin and Erin. Ellie, Colette.

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Directed by Brad Peyton. The cast, Jennifer Lopez, Simo Leal, Sterling, K Brown and Mark Strong.

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The story,

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a brilliant data analyst with a deep distrust of A.I. finds it may be her only hope. When a mission to capture a renegade robot goes awry. So it's she distrust A.I., but they AI is her only hope.

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And then another description they had of it is

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in a bleak sounding future, an AI soldier has determined that the only way to end war is to end humanity. Nearly. That's kind of. But we don't know that for a while anyway.

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Look, Atlas, it's a sci fi. It's a sci fi film playing on Netflix. It's Netflix streaming today. It's the number one movie on Netflix. I don't know. Can't really. They just tell you. So you believe them? You don't know. It came out this last weekend and I was immediately intrigued because I love, uh, I like Jennifer Lopez. You know, as a celebrity, I like I like stuff.

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She's been in here, in there. It's, you know, off and on films sometimes are not my favorite. Sometimes they're good. Some aren't. But. But. But. But she's got enough name power and enough. And she's interesting enough that I was like,

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Really?

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She's doing this sci fi I robot thing. I mean, there was just another big Apple A.I. robot movie or so I kind of felt like, Oh, did everyone go to the studio with A.I. robots? Was that was that the same last couple of years to send those scripts over there? Everyone's going to develop them and see what comes out and works, but I'll let you give me a shot.

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And I don't know how you feel about Netflix films because it's weird, because Netflix some they put out some movies that are pretty good and and they and really bad. Right. And I said the same thing just moments ago about Jennifer Lopez. There's the same kind of movie. So I didn't know where this was going to fall. And I wanted to check it out, though, because I'm intrigued.

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You know, it's sci fi. That's my thing. I want to get on this early. Maybe I will find a gem. Is Atlas a gem? Oh, well, maybe semi-precious. Not. It's not a I don't know. It's a diamond. Look, it's. It's. It's got some good things that the special effects are astounding. They like it's better than a video game, you know, You're watching it, and it's crazy, like, how good and real these, like, the major thing in the film is these mech like, kind of mech suits, like soldiers get in these big giant suits and they can run around an control the arms and legs of it all and and do everything inside of it.

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That's the that's what's protecting her In most of the film, she's inside of this mech suit protecting her on this planet. And it looks it's so real. Right. And it's astounding The special effects are just are just are just wonderful on it. I think she does a good job with this character. I don't think the villain is that compelling.

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And I think that's the writing. You know, the the simo plays the the the villain of sort the villain robot. And you know that because they tell you he is the villain robot, not because of things you really see. You don't really find out his motivations or much about him till near the end of the movie. Maybe some snippets beforehand, but and I'm going to blame that on I'm going to blame that on the script because it didn't invest me into into that.

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Like Jennifer Lawrence, this character who's Atlas can only get can only be as exciting as her villain. And her villain wasn't fully developed. So I didn't fully understand. I didn't really care as much as I should Now, Atlas has this background does not trust. I doesn't want to be involved with it. Like all these these soldiers have these little interfaces that kind of bridge the mind to a computer and connect them and they go in sync, they call it, and she doesn't want to do that because she doesn't trust them.

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And that's they're kind of needed for this mech suit that she accidentally ends up in. That intervention needs to be to survive and that's her that's her internal struggle coming to terms with is she going to use it to survive or what? And then she can't not a not a relationship, but like a friendship. She forms with the mech suit who is in AI, which is a one character name, Smith Smith is the voice we hear.

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And so it becomes like this computer voice, almost like it was Star Trek and the computer on Star Trek, The Voice was a character. I mean, it kind of was, but Amanda was interactive and responsive and talk to you the whole time, and it was actually a character driving you in, challenging you. That's that's what it's kind of like.

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So that's the main alone. So that's kind of the big relationship through most of it is Smith and Atlas. So the human and the guy who she doesn't trust. So I mean, I think that is a good setup, good set up. I just don't think they delivered the way they should have. I'd say a great thing about the film is it's fun.

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I think it's super fun. It's yeah, I mean, it's a fun watch. I you know, there's, there's sci fi films that you want that that make you think. And some you have to just you can't think too hard or there's too many plot holes you are too many things they didn't cover on how this happens and maybe with the book, maybe the book gets into that detail and they didn't in the film.

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But you definitely have to sit back, turn your brain off a little, and just enjoy the ride, so to speak, much like the character has to. But I do tend I do tend toward sci fi that is more stimulating intellectually and for the brain. And I mean, this does bring up some interesting issues. I think this film, this film would be more interesting to talk about than it is to actually watch, because it does raise ethics questions about the place of A.I. and how we treat them and how they would be good for us, how they could be bad for us or dangerous for us.

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And right now we're talking heavily about Iraq. But this is beyond I this is like taking and actually creating people and then the like the machines, the robots, the robots are the A.I.. And I feel like what's happening right now in a lot of sci fi films is they're saying we're combining the robot and AI into one thing.

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And I think you can have a robot that isn't like intelligent, right? But. But it's scarier that way, right? It's scarier than just like a box. A box that the A.I. is in, like Siri and Alexa. They aren't very scary when you look at them. So we don't have that as a character. We got to throw it into something that can pick up a gun and shoot at you and make it all scary.

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Oh, so it definitely does what it does well. On playing off of your fears, so I think it'd be a good conversation piece kind of film then. And the the worst parts of the film, as I mentioned, it's not very deep. It is the main characters underdeveloped that the main villain is underdeveloped. So that hurts a bunch of the the rooting for me of it.

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And I think it's somewhat of a forgettable film. I don't I don't think it's a film that you're going to talk about much after it drops off the charts. It's going to kind of disappear. I don't know that the film has some staying power and that's, I think because not everything came together. It's pretty to look at, but there's not a lot of substance.

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Then. Well, yeah, I wish I could interview Jennifer Lopez and find out what made her take this. I mean, she's clearly someone who can just turn stuff down or do it. What she was hoping to bring into this Sterling K brown. And similarly, I mean, yes, they're both upper level like actors seem to probably starpower is a little bigger right now.

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Sterling with the Oscars and all the nominations that that that he got probably is helping helping them a bunch but that but I think there's still a point in the career that they can't canter too many things down if it seems like a good project. Sure. Now let's do it. I've time so. Yeah. Look, this isn't one of the movies that I'm going to have a lot to say.

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I and I've delayed on this review just a few days, Right? So I've already seen comments and I've heard some people say that all this. Oh, what an amazing film. It's so far and I've heard people say that it was it's garbage. And I don't really ride on either side of that. I think I think it's a little bit more in the middle.

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I yeah. So I think I think the lessons that we want to take from Atlas, this film, 2024, I think it hearkens on warnings about A.I. and what it means to protect humanity. I think I will say I think that's where it succeeds a lot in science fiction. Is it does it raises a lot of questions and it raises the ethics questions that we're going to have and and discussions.

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And I think if films do anything, that's what they should do. They should cause discussion. And and for that, I got to say, the film is successful. It's going to it's going to make me talk about things and talk about the world and and our place. And it is love it or hate it, you got you got to love anything that gets you to you have to like something that gets you talking, that gets people talking and engaging about a topic addressed in the film.

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So bravo, you succeeded there. You just wish that that discussion came in a package of something that was more resonant or had moments in the film that you really, really like. I guess some people really drew into the Smith character, the Smith voice that that that really suck them in. And the heartstrings got pulled because of the bond they built.

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I didn't I did not feel that I get it. And I got the moments that they tried to create in it and I understood what they were going for. I don't think the majority of audiences are going to be sucked into that relationship of Jennifer Lopez and a voice. But I will say I do appreciate I got to say, the fact that this now, it probably didn't pass the the test, you know, the gender equity test out there for you in the name of right now, because there's only really one significant character, Jennifer Lopez.

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But I do like the fact that she wasn't mooning over some dude the whole time or like any of the time, it was It's nice to see female LED films that aren't stuck on or the main issue isn't dealing with men in relationships. It was more of a protecting the earth and stopping one particular person who may be male but is also a robot.

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So I don't know if they count as a male. I don't think that counts. But it really way I do appreciate that it wasn't about I wasn't Jennifer Lopez like in some sci fi rom com trying to save humanity but also save her wedding date. You know like I get to see Matt in the nineties getting cast in something like that.

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So I so here's what I got to say in my, you know, my rating system love it like it or lose it love it film that you got to you can't stop talking about it you tell people they got to see right away like it is that broad spectrum of films that I hit it with you for some reason and you connected with it and you'd watch it if it was on TV and then lose it as I watched it.

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So you don't have to. And I'm going to say Atlas, directed by Brad Peyton gets I like it the reasons being because it causes discussion and that's what you that's what films exist for storytelling and discussion. And so it succeeded in what I think films are supposed to do. And I think so I think that any time that you do that in a sci fi film, in an explosive action packed film, an action film that gets you talking the points has done a good job, but but only as far as I like it get just okay, so that's it.

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Did you see the movie? It's streaming on Netflix. Just just on exclusively on Netflix. Did you check it out? Do you agree or disagree? Comment below. Tell me what you thought of the film in my off base. Do I have it just right? Let me know. And I want to thank you for going ahead and subscribing so you can be notified the next time I drop a book review or a discussion video.

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