Episode 2: Her, Samantha VS. HAL 9000, Top 5 Artificial Intelligence Films

Spike Jonze Her

Come with us if you want to live! We discuss Her, Spike Jonze's new film, breakdown its social commentary, and debate the film's depiction of the technological singularity. It's a computerized battle royal in the INFINITE CROSSOVER CHAMBER with Her's Samantha against 2001: A Space Odyssey's HAL 9000. We wrap up with our top 5 favorite AI films.

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Show Notes

  • 0:00 - 23:35: Her.
  • 23:36 - 33:28: INFINITE CROSSOVER CHAMBER - Samantha VS. HAL 9000.
  • 33:29 - 1:02:35: Top 5 AI films.

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Top 5 AI Films

Conrad:

  1. Blade Runner
  2. The Terminator + Terminator 2: Judgement Day
  3. The Iron Giant
  4. The Matrix 
  5. Metropolis 

Ali: 

  1. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
  2. Ghost in the Shell 
  3. The Matrix
  4. The Iron Giant
  5. A.I.

Honorable Mentions:

  • Edward Scissorhands
  • TRON
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • D.A.R.Y.L.
  • Hellboy 2
  • Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  • Alien
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  • Battlestar Galactica
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • Short Circuit 
  • Space Camp
  • Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories
  • Transformers (maybe)