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Favorite Cult Classics (Part The First)

by storiesbywilliams on October 6, 2012 in Movies, Sci-Fi and tagged AI's, Akira, anime, army of darkness, arnie, Arnold Schwarzenegger, ash, Blade Runner, boomstick, bruce campbell, captain malcolm reynolds, cimmerian, commando, conan, conan the barbarian, conan the cimmerian, cult classics, cyberpunk, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, evil dead, firefly, Harrison Ford, hyboria, indiana jones, james earl jones, Katsuhiro Otomo, manga, miranda, neo-tokyo, netflix, nuclear war, Philip k dick, post-apocalyptic, Predator, reavers, replicants, Ridley Scott, river tam, robert e howard, sam raimi, serenity, spiderman, Star Wars, the alliance, the operative, Thulsa Doom, wwIII, xena warrior princess

It might be that I’m feeling nostalgic, or it might be that since my wife and I sprung for Netflix, I’ve been finding my way back to several of my favorite old movies. Hard to say exactly. All I know for sure is, I want to talk about the cult classic movies that I like […]

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Time Travel In Pop Culture

by storiesbywilliams on September 8, 2012 in Movies, Reviews, Sci-Fi and tagged 12 monkeys, anthony hopkins, army of darkness, ash, audrey plaza, back to the future, brad pitt, bruce campbell, bruce willis, emilio estevez, evil dead, evil dead 2, flight of the navigator, freejack, Howard Hesseman, james cole, jared leto, jean-claude van damme, jeffrey goines, Joey Cramer, kathryn railly, madeleine stowe, mick jagger, mr. nobody, NASA, nemo nobody, paul reubens, Phaelon, rene russo, ron silver, safety not gauranteed, sarah jessica parker, shane carruth, star trek iv: the voyage home, sundance film festival, the necromicon, the primer, The Terminator, time bandits, timecop

Hey all. Continuing in my series on time travel in science fiction, I am addressing some of the most poignant and memorable examples of the concept in film. Working in chronological order, and avoiding any examples of movies based directly on books (and their sequels), I have compiled a list of what I consider the […]

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“Our Favorite Cimenatic Robots”

by storiesbywilliams on August 24, 2012 in Cool Stuff, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged AI, AI's, Alien, ash, Blade Runner, c3p0, cyborgs, droids, gigolo, HAL, maria, metropolis, r2d2, replicants, robby the robot, robocop, robots, Star Wars, supercomputers, Terminator, the iron giant, wall-e

Just came across this article in the Globe and Mail today and I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised. It’s funny when a respectable publication like this one chooses to release something that I myself would have done, or did do, in small increments. In fact, many of the contenders on this list call […]

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“Synthetics” and “Artificial Humans”, the AI’s of Alien!

by storiesbywilliams on July 14, 2012 in Cool Stuff, Movies, Sci-Fi, Video games and tagged AI, Alien, alien versus predator, alien versus predator 2, alien versus predator 2010 game, alien: resurrection, aliens, annalee call, artificial humans, artificial intelligence, ash, AVP game, bishop, david, prometheus, synthetics, weyland, Weyland Yutani

David: Also known as “David 8″, the first in the line of Weyland Industries fully functional AI’s, which have the ability to proximate human emotions, even though they cannot experience them. In addition to his impressive machine intelligence, he also comes equipped with a characteristic intrinsic to all Alien androids – moral flexibility! Yes, in […]

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AI Graph

by storiesbywilliams on April 24, 2012 in Books, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, A.I., agent smith, AI, AI graph, artificial intelligence, ash, bender, bishop, Blade Runner, c3p0, cortana, daleks, david, doctor who, dune prequels, erasmus, futurama, HAL 9000, halo, I, matrix reloaded, Matrix Revolutions, Neuromancer, omnius, r2d2, rachael, robot, roy batty, sonny, Star Wars, Terminator, terminatros, the matrix, wintermute

Inspired by what I learned from my little romp through the world of AI, I’ve come up with a graph that depicts the general rules I observed. Basically, there are two guiding principles to the world of AI’s and science fiction. On the one hand, there’s their capacity for emotion and second, there is their […]

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Robots, Androids and AI’s

by storiesbywilliams on April 23, 2012 in Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged 300, AI, alan turing, android, aritificial human, Arnold Schwarzenegger, arny, artificial intelligence, artificial life form, ash, bender, bending unit, bishop, bite my shiny metal ass, c3p0, cameron, commander data, cortana, dalek, daleks, data, doctor who, droids, effeminate robots, elzar the chef, futurama, futurama robots, game of thrones, halo, halo universe, helmut spargle, iron chef, John Conner, killer robots, Kristanna Loken, Lance Henrikson, lena headey, master chief, newt, queen nefertiti, r2d2, Ripley, robot, sarah conner, sentient robot, skynet, spartan program, spock, Star Trek, Star Trek TNG, Star Wars, synthetic, t1000, t101, Terminator, terminator: the sarah conner chronicles, terminators, the halo devices, turing test, TX, UNSC, we're boned!, wisecracking alcoholic robot

Let’s talk artificial life forms, shall we? Lord knows they are a common enough feature in science fiction, aren’t they? In many cases, they take the form of cold, calculating machines that chill audiences to the bones with their “kill all humans” kind of vibe. In others, they were the solid-state beings with synthetic parts […]

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Weyland Industries “David 8″: a Prometheus preview

by storiesbywilliams on April 18, 2012 in Movies and tagged AI, Alien, aliens, aliens prequel, artificial lifeform, ash, bishop, david 8, prometheus, Ridley Scott, Sci-Fi, science fiction, synthetic, weyland industries, Weyland Yutani

Just caught this, thanks to a scholar I follow (thanks Owl!). It certainly is an interesting way to go about previewing his new movie, but then again, Ridley Scott has always been known for being a creative bastard! In addition to revisiting the universe of aliens, he seems to be doing everything in his power […]

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Of Alien…

by storiesbywilliams on July 10, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged Alien, alien 1979, alien movie, alien movie 1979, ash, classic sci-fi, cryo unit, cryogenic, cryosleep, cult classic, deep space, directive, ian holm, john hurt, Kane, Lt Ripley, Mother, movie, movie review, Ridley Scott, Ripley, Sci-Fi, science fiction, ship, sigourney weaver, Tom Skerritt, vessel, Weyland Yutani

Not long ago, I reviewed a movie that had the honor of being not only one of the best sci-fi movies of all time, but one of the best movies period. That movie was Blade Runner, one of Ridley Scott’s most enduring classics. So it is with great pleasure that I dedicate this next review […]

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