A place where I yell my thoughts into the void, and hope someone will hear me.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
I know that realistically you can only fit so many movies into a list of approximately 100, but I cannot take that “How many of tumblr’s favorite movies have you seen?” list that’s been going around seriously because there are some truly egregious omissions.
Some of it is very clearly recency bias, which makes me wonder if the op truly wasn’t on here in 2013 or so, but you’re telling me you made a list of “tumblr’s favorite movies” that doesn’t include Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road? Because, like, I was there, Gandalf.
I’m a ridiculous human and genuinely couldn’t sleep until I tried my hand at a better, more balanced list – though of course, I have my own biases when it comes to what corners of this website I’ve lurked in over the years. For what it’s worth, I did consult the last several Years In Review, while also drawing on the fact that I’ve been here for over a decade. But if there’s anything that truly doesn’t feel like it should have made the cut, blame my mutuals for putting it on my dash all the time.
(And apologies, but I couldn’t seem to find Goncharov among the website’s listings)
I’ve seen 4 of the films on this list.
I know the focus of the movie was roz and brightbill mother/son bond but I wish fink got a “platonic love confession” scene as well. He’s clearly pining for it too. I watched it in French so I don’t know the exact wording, but there’s this scene where she ask him “how do you know when you love someone?” and he answer with “maybe you should talk with this person” and his body language makes me think that part of him wish she meant him. And then at the end, when he practically beg her to stay, he say “and what if I have something really important to tell you?” I kinda wish she would understand and say “I love you too” but maybe it would come off as cheap.
I don’t mean it necessarily as shipping but fink clearly love and want to be loved by roz.
I recently watched The Wild Robot in the cinema, and it was a good I’d recomend. But today I got to thinking about a possible conflict in the Rozzum robots we see in the film.
Rozzum units are programed to complete their assigned task with maximum efficiency. They also have an inhibator that stops them from deliberatly harming a living thing. How is this an issue? In an ideal situation, it isn’t. But what about a less than ideal situation?
Say a Rozzum ends up in an abusive situation. A house with a bratty bullting kid who’s always harressing them, making things needlessly hard. The Rozzum asks the parents to stop the child, but they either can’t or just won’t, even when it happens right in front of them.
Oh well, guess the Rozzum will just have to suck it up and keep working regardless. But then the child’s actions result in them only completing taskssub-par, or worse, not at all. That’s unacceptable, a Rozzum always completes it’s task.
The family starts to complain, and the Rozzum has a problem. In order for their tasks to be completed to standard, the child needs to stop bullying the Rozzum, but the child won’t listen to the Rozzum and their parents aren’t helpful. So the Rozzum will have to make the child stop themself.
But the only way to do that would be to harm the child, and a Rozzum’s programing forbids harming a living thing. But if they don’t harm the child, it’s tasks aren’t completed satisfactory, if at all.
Do you see the problem here? It’s own programming is at war with itself, and when that happens, what will the Rozzum do? Will it do no harm and allow their tasks to be hindered? Will it harm in self defense to be more efficiant? Either way, it’s failing. And what might happen when the programing fails?