2014 Directed by Wally Pfister
Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
Johnny Depp Rebecca Hall Morgan Freeman Paul Bettany Cillian Murphy Kate Mara Cole Hauser Clifton Collins Jr. Sam Quinn Cory Hardrict Falk Hentschel Josh Stewart Luce Rains Fernando Chien Steven Liu Lukas Haas Xander Berkeley Wallace Langham James Burnett Sam Webb Chris Gartin Olivia Taylor Dudley Abe Martell Lauren Sivan Laramie Cooley Nancy Jeris Colin Jones Dylan Kenin Chad Brummett Show All…
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Gene Serdena Scott Herbertson Nancy Deren Aric Cheng Timothy M. Earls Ricardo Guillermo Siobhan Roome
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How to make The Deepest Movie Ever: Four Steps (without pictures)
by Wally Pfister
1. This is the golden rule. No one should be able to make heads or tails of your movie. How can you call a movie deep if it’s easily and simply accessible? So there you go. Never clarify what you’re trying to say.
2. Mix neuroscience, mathematics, philosophy, religion, politics, sociology, computer science, logic, romance and zombie action with each other. It will make your movie incredibly deep.
3. Your actors should act as if they are drugged. Your lead male actor should say "Last night we made a breakthrough." every five minutes, your lead female actor should look confused all the time (and she should…
MOVIE RULE #34:
If your story is about the smartest scientists who've ever lived, don't have them act like the biggest fucking dummies on the planet.
This is what TRANSCENDENCE does. It is about the greatest technological minds of an era behaving like drooling morons. A dopey, lovesick scientist (Rebecca Hall, cursed with perhaps the single worst-written female character of 2014) realizes her husband, an even smarter technologist (Johnny Depp), is dying and makes the incredibly dumb decision to upload his consciousness into a "quantum" supercomputer. Within thirty seconds of coming online, the Depputer is like "I need to expand, and also get into the stock market, and y'know while I'm at it maybe get into some defense systems too."…
A mixed bag of rabid weasels and kittens!
Rabid Weasels...
If you love watching a great performance by Depp.. Avoid this film! Data (Star Trek: Next Generation) expressed more emotion!
Later in the film once the dark side of Depps technology is revealed it begins to resemble a SYFY CHANNEL storyline!
Kittens...
I kind of marveled over the idea of the mind being uploaded!
I marveled over the nano technologies and its practical application to heal and repair!
It gave my mind license to dream and wonder about future technologies 50 - 100 years from now!
"Some scientists refer to this as the Singularity. I call it Transcendence."
For those of you who don't know, Jack Paglen's script Transcendence topped the Blacklist back in 2012 as one of most favored non-produced scripts released. Soon after, the script was swooped up by Christopher Nolan (who executive produced this with his wife, Emma Thomas) and his long-time cinematographer, Wally Pfister, who was set to direct. Eventually, Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, and Rebecca Hall signed on and this looked like a guaranteed slam-dunk.
Well, unless you live under a rock, you will know that to most, that wasn't the case. Most have called the script "stupid" and called out the acting and lack of character development as well. With…
120 minutes of waiting for a movie to happen. all you get is Johnny Depp getting comfortably out of this washed up nolanesque sci-fi-thriller within 30 minutes to become digital pinhead in the metaverse having his mumbling sucked up by the holographic spheres. this would be an interesting piece to pick apart in a masterclass on how such a majestic project can bomb so heavily, cause I don't know if already the ground material - being on the 2012 blacklist of unmade scripts - or the execution is the actual problem here.
Oh fuck you, movie. Fuck you right in your arse.
This is a film that has no idea what it's doing. It thinks it's talking about some grand themes about AI, but never gets beyond basic concepts and skeletons of ideas before throwing in another ludicrous plot turn and inconsistent character motivation in order to serve more 'action' and 'suspense'.
This is suckitude of the highest order. It made me unfathomably angry and it without a doubt my most hated film of this year so far. AI is such an interesting topic and this film totally squanders it. You want a good story about technology and the impact it has on humanity? Go play Deus Ex Human Revolution. Reading on my brother's research for his novel about this subject it's even more clear how utterly dumb this film really is.
Transcendence is not the correct title. It doesn't transcend shit.
"We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them."
Transcendence is one of those rare films where you can't quite grasp what exactly it is that's missing, but somehow it fails to find a connection with most audiences. Wally Pfister seemed to have all the right ingredients for his directing debut. He had a terrific cast including Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, and Kate Mara, and a strong screenplay that Christopher Nolan even considered to use before going on to make Interstellar. We also know that Pfister can handle the visuals because he has been the cinematographer for Nolan in all his films since Memento. The film looks great and has a strong cast, but…
another cautionary pseudo-apocalypse. reasonably engaging; personally i remain unconvinced of the intrinsic value of humanity and individuality, but a big studio picture like this obviously has to be binary, us or the computers, as if the potential of transformation (which is intrinsic) is to be feared as opposed to explored. and of course it has a bunch of "but humans have the ability to love" bullshit.
Wally Pfister's debut feature, "Transcendence," is a good looking science fiction film that brims with interesting ideas and important questions. Unfortunately, these ideas and questions, dealing with technology, humanity, and the blending of the two, do not have a story built to fully support them. Try as it might to be otherwise, the film feels underdone and disconnected. Still, "Transcendence" is a wholly watchable film that, at least, engages its audience for most of its duration.
Centering around the idea of sentient computers, "Transcendence" follows a husband and wife team who have pioneered a world-changing form of artificial intelligence. However, the pair has enemies, and an attack on them leads to their design becoming more than they could have imagined.…
