It's Thursday Movie Picks time, a weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves where you share three movies to fit the theme of the week each Thursday.
This week's topic is androids. Now as much as I love androids and movies, the two combined doesn't always have a positive outcome. So for today's picks I'm going with 3 cyborgs I like, and unfortunately that is going to mean 2 films I did not like. Without further ado, here my picks:
Prometheus (2012)
A team travels across the universe and find a structure containing a monolithic statue of a humanoid head and stone cylinders of alien blood. It's Alien's prequel, but it isn't anything like the original movie. At first it's quite intriguing, but then it's just a lot of nonsense and cliches. But I loved David, the emotionless and expressionless android wonderfully portrayed by Michael Fassbender.
Ex Machina (2015)
A programmer is selected to participate in an experiment in artificial intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a female cyborg. I know it's an unpopular opinion, but this film ain't that good. The script isn't as smart as it may look, a twist I waited forever never came, and the end is completely spoiled. Still the female android is spectacular. She's Alicia Vikander after all. Needless to say she is charming and seductive, she gives a great performance and kinda makes up for the film's flaws.
Star Wars (1977)
With the help of Han Solo, Chewbacca and his Jedi mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker attempt to rescue Princess Leia from the ruthless Darth Vader and destroy the Death Star. It's quite obvious I love this one, isn't it? Just in case you're not familiar with the movie, it is one of the greatest sci-fi films ever made, it features a captivating story, tension, great special effects, a spectacular score and memorable characters among which there's C-3PO. Isn't he/it the best cyborg ever? And there's Darth Vader, he is not completely a robot, but still, he's quite awesome.
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