Word: robotically
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...warm evocation of, the loves of a man?s life. The man (Leung, playing the same character he did in Wong?s 2000 Cannes prize-winner ?In the Mood for Love?) has a mysterious woman in his past (Gong Li), a flirtatious woman in his present (Zhang) and a robot woman in his future (Faye Wong). There?s no excuse for ignoring this beautifully made, deeply felt movie. We can only surmise that this Jury was in the mood for politics, not love...
Sometimes a robotic performance is a good thing. Like when you're one of the droids playing opposite WILL SMITH in this summer's I, Robot, a futuristic thriller based on Isaac Asimov's stories. Unlike his "recluse technophobe" character, Smith is an avowed technophile. "I need the latest updates, state-of-the-art everything," he says. In the film, his detective, Del Spooner, has reason to be wary--he's pursuing a robot suspected in a homicide. Some of the robots are portrayed by actors whose expressions are then digitally replicated on the faces of computer-created characters...
...animation is still a classic of gee-whiz atomic-age modernism. Most of all, it's touching to look back at the show's optimistic imagined future, in which there's a flying saucer in every garage and even inept button-pusher George Jetson can afford a robot maid and a Food-a-Rac-a-Cycle without worrying about his job getting outsourced to Pluto. --By James Poniewozik
Putting on their metaphorical robot masks for a moment to channel that other French electronic duo, Daft Punk, Air turned “Sexy Boy” and “Kelly Watch the Stars” into pure synth euphoria, gleefully eradicating all remaining humanity in their music to thrilling effect...
...mention Alien vs. Predator, which makes me wonder when Alien and Predator will face off against Jason and Freddy), but there is also a lot of big-budget product which should be perfectly craptacular despite not being a sequel to anything—among them Catwoman, I, Robot, Van Helsing, The Day After Tomorrow (my evocative apocalypse bias notwithstanding), King Arthur and Troy...