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  Robot Dreams 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Sep 2024

  Beautiful and bittersweet, Robot Dreams is a masterclass in how to tell an emotional story solely through motion.

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  Short Circuit 1986

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Sep 2024

  Aged rather poorly in a few areas, but still cute for its time.

  
  Number 5 is a fun character, albeit maybe a bit too obnoxious with the constant impressions (despite them making sense in context).

  The movie in general overloads with that 80s cheese, it’s very goofy and lighthearted, maybe to a fault.

  
  Short Circuit is a fun time overall, but you can find other sci-fi comedies from around this period which treat the concept of inhuman life making meaningful contact with mankind more delicately.

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  Electric Dreams 1984

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Sep 2024

  A super underrated gem of the 80s.

  
  The idea of a sentient computer learning how to love and trying to sabotage its owner’s relationship is a novel one, and they have a lot of fun with it.

  There is some suspension of disbelief required (but then again, when wasn’t that a requirement around this period?), I also felt there wasn’t enough of a genuine bond between the computer and its owner to fully justify the ending (despite how sweet and…

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