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X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014 · Film · 132 min
Part of X-Men Collection
Directed by Bryan Singer
ActionAdventureScience Fiction
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
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> What I think people who work in tech fail to realise is that non-tech people are learning about these dangers and I don’t think they’re impressed or care if you have a computer to play with or robots playing soccer.
Doubtless.
That said, when it comes to AI risk, normal people have no reason to know the boundaries between reality and sci-fi for the same reason that I, as a non-lawyer, have no reason to know the boundaries between law and Hollywood tropes.
By extension, this means that I expect the general public to be aware of countless fictional examples of AI takeover scenarios, some where the AI was given a goal and blind logic made it bad for everyone (Days of Future Past, Colossus the Forbin Project), some where the AI is actually evil (Terminator, the character Lore in TNG/PIC), and some where the AI is a tool used by malevolent humans (many Dark Mirror episodes, some TOS), and some where it mixes several of the above (Westworld TV series).
> I really don’t understand how this is supposed to work going forwards ?
Does anyone?
It's projected that China will surpass North America as the world's largest film market in early 2017.
American blockbusters are adding small Chinese subplots that show China in positive light because these films compete for access to Chinese box office. Hollywood is also seeking co-production. Chinese Bona Film Group invested $235 million in 20th Century Fox tentpole movies.
Directed by Hollywood Edited by China http://origin.www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Research/Directed%20by%20Hollywood%20Edited%20by%20China.pdf
>Appealing to Chinese Audiences American filmmakers attempt to entice Chinese moviegoers by including popular Chinese locations, actors, and products in their movies. In some cases, filmmakers make these creative decisions on their own accord, seeking higher profits for their film’s release in China. Despite being produced entirely by U.S. companies, the final cut of X-Men: Days of Future Past released worldwide included lengthy scenes in Hong Kong, as well as a cameo by a Chinese boy band. The film went on to gross $116 million in China. The film Gravity appealed to Chinese audiences by portraying China’s space program in a positive light: a stranded astronaut saves herself by utilizing a fictional state-of-the-art Chinese space station and lands on Earth in a Chinese space capsule. The film went on to gross $71 million in China, 10 percent of its worldwide total gross and 16 percent of its total foreign gross.
I'm more interested in what those 20 movies are. I found:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1981
1 Raiders of the Lost Ark 2 On Golden Pond 3 Superman II 4 Arthur 5 Stripes 6 The Cannonball Run 7 Chariots of Fire 8 For Your Eyes Only 9 The Four Seasons 10 Time Bandits
Of which I guess 2, 3, 8 isn't original.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2:w014
1 American Sniper 2 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 3 Guardians of the Galaxy 4 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 5 The LEGO Movie 6 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 7 Transformers: Age of Extinction 8 Maleficent 9 X-Men: Days of Future Past 10 Big Hero 6
Of which only 10 is original.
I wonder how the younger generation look at old movies, who's central plot device hinges on people not having ever present smart phones and internet connections, how do they think of these absurd stories?
So I rewatched "X-Men: Days of Future Past" on the plane and noticed that quick-silver, in 1963, was wearing headphones with neodymium magnets in them. The character was a "teen" and clearly he would be wearing headphones right? And those of the day would be ... Either giant over the ear monsters or those tinny carbon button ones you used to get free.
Oddly movies made in the 90's are painful to watch for some of the technical restrictions they have. Cell phones being the least of their worries, the lack of computerization made everything harder. I have found that watching any movie that was "showing off" how modern it could be with technology, now appears painful to me. Like a 90 minute documentary on how to manually operate a television.
I hear you. After not consuming any caffeine for around five years, I ordered a small caffeinated beverage to sip on while I watched X-Men: Days of Future Past in the theater. That turned out to be one of the most stressful moviegoing experiences I can remember. The movie was pretty extreme, but I was talking my buddy's ear off during the more exciting scenes and felt like I couldn't stop thinking and just enjoy the show. I walked out feeling pretty raw and chuckling at the thought of the caffeine as a light indulgence that I had thought would just remind me of my younger days. I'm still not dead set against caffeine for everybody or anything, but I doubt I'll drink it again by choice.
(In case it's not a given, spoilers for Days of Future Past below.)
He didn't. He just has all his memories from the original timeline (e.g. previous X-Men and Wolverine films), plus the events he experienced during Days of Future Past. He has no memory of what happened to him between 1973 and the present in the new timeline (which he created). That's why he's surprised to see a few characters at the end of DoFP. He remembers them from the original timeline, but he also remembers them dying in the original timeline. What would be much stranger is if they had never met him in the new timelines (in which case he would remember them but they wouldn't know him), or if he had met someone in the new timeline but not the original timeline (in which case they would know him but he would have no memory of them).