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Black Eyed Peas - GUARANTEE (Official Music Video)
Clearly the video is AI generated, but is the song also AI written? Even performed? It sounds a lot like what you might get if you asked a decent AI to write a new Black Eyed Peas song, and the video looks like they asked it to create a video for the song using only the keywords “si-fi futuristic slow zoom”.
OK, but not their best work.
Futuristic Transportation Concepts
It reminded me of the World's Fair in NY back in the mid 60's and their futuristic cities. I was 10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-5aK0H05jk
This video is probably from the same guys, who scammed chinese investors with this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_Elevated_Bus
Black Panther — Creating an Empathetic Villain
Don't get why this movie was so popular, it had so many problems! The main one being they have a futuristic afro society (awesome!), but it's a monarchy (oh), and one that is determined by single combat (what?). It's not even fair single combat, the panther tribe gets to take performance enhancing drugs. Then the king loses and there is a coup because they don't like the new guy. Are they not smart enough to have a modern democracy? Did they learn their lesson after the coup? Nope!
Let's put aside that vibranium makes no sense and just say they have super technology - flying cars, lasers, etc. Yet they are running around with swords, spears and war rhinos! They put a lot of lip service towards helping people world-wide yet their own people are still living in huts! Why do they have a segregated military, when is that ever good?
Killmonger was a decent villain though, I'll give them that, mostly because most superhero villains are one dimensional mindlessly evil fools.
Futuristic Sex Toys: Adam and Eve Sensual Touch Wand Massage
*ban self link. https://serioussoundzz.ning.com/profiles/blogs/futuristic-sex-toys-adam-and-eve-sensual-touch-wand-massager?xg_source=activity
Do you consider the film Die Hard a Christmas movie? (User Poll by eric3579)
Man, I'm suuuper late to this party....
Anyways, Die Hard is and is not a Christmas movie at the same time. And it depends on your definition what makes a Christmas movie.
I'm gonna take an insane detour here that'll make sense.
Is Star Wars Episode 4 a science fiction movie?
That setting is futuristic, sure, must be sci-fi then. Lasers, Spaceships, Robots, the works. The checklist is done. Sci-Fi.
But what are the themes it touches upon, what is the story?
A young farmer's boy (naturally an adoptred orphan) named Luke is dragged into a rebellion against an evil king (Palpatine) by accident. When the boy get's hold of a pretty princess' (RIP Carrie Fisher) message to an old ally and menthor (Obi) through the fault of her two comic-relief servants (Robot-slaves), he decides to seek the adventure he's yearning for. He finds the old man (by fucking up) and both seek the next harbor to board a ship to join the resistance. The hire smuggler/pirate/bandit/nerfherder Han and his foreign friend Chewie and cross paths with
the black knightLord Vader, the evil kings enforcer. Hijinks ensue, princess rescued, the magic castle/ship/train of the evil king get's destroyed and everyone gets a medal.What's exactly sci-fi here?
That could play out in medieval times. Or ancient greece. Or the wild west. Or on Christmas.
The setting and the genre are two different things and both determine what you'll label a story with.
Alien is a horror movie, a slasher. Aliens is a war movie. Alien³ is a horror movie of the animal-gone-maneater kind. Alien: Resurrection is a disaster movie (hihi).
They're all sci-fi, like Star Wars. Because of the setting.
Now look at Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2 Episode 9 'The Measure Of A Man'.
Lasers, spaceships, robots, the usual. What is it about?
A Robot who's so sophisticated that he has to go to trial to prove he's not property but a real boy. Sure, you'll say, I've seen Pinocchio and I can see african men argue the same stuff in the 18th century. The point of the story is not only that is humanity is questioned, the point is he's an artificial lifeform. The question is not only 'What makes you a person?' but also 'When does artificial intelligence become an artificial person?'
That shit won't work in a setting without spaceships and robots. That's sci-fi because of its story.
So, setting and story are both what makes you label a movie a certain way but they're not the same.
Die Hard. Happens on Christmas. Could be Thanksgiving too. Setting interchangeable.
Story? Doesn't contain any christmas-related themes beyond two estranged family members become closer again. That could happen at a funeral as well.
I'm in my mid-thirties and I love Die Hard. It's one of the best 80's action movies. I can watch it anytime and I've seen it at least 20 times (noit joking here). But mostly in the summer. But I understand the question and its diverse answers perfectly well.
Die Hard is a christmas movie if it feels like one to you. For me, Lord of the Rings (especially Fellowship) feels like a Christmas movie to me. I've seen them all in theatres in December, I watched them on VHS and Blu-Ray only in December so far. They have fuck all to do with the occasion but this year was the first one I didn't watch any of them in December. And I feel I missed something this year. I'm not sure I can watch them at this time of the year.
hazmat22 (Member Profile)
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Rolls Royce New Space Age Car
This is exactly how people pictured futuristic ads in the sci-fi movies of the 80s. I'm glad we're aiming for the cliché rather than substance.
Augmented Future - Open Bionics × Deus Ex × Razer
I think this is a lot cooler than it sounds....so
*promote "cheap" stylish futuristic bionic prosthesis.
Tales Of Mere Existence - "POINTLESS VIDEO"
*promote shark-lev!
(hmmm shark-lev.... sounds like some kind of futuristic shark-based transport system)
An Unfortunate History of White Actors Playing Other Races
And they explained away Khan's original appearance being transformed into Khanberbatch as just futuristic cosmetic surgery in the prequel comic I think.
But yes, it's still stupid. In their defense, how else were they going to do Khan? The person would have had to have looked like Montalblan otherwise.
But going back to stupid since it was just stupid to reboot the Khan storyline. Cuz yeah, a genetic superman from the 1990s would be a really big help fighting a war in 2200s. Obviously war in the 2200s is exactly the same as it was in 1900, no leap in logic for this fossil to design a hyper advanced starship that dwarfs the flagship of the day...not at all.
oritteropo (Member Profile)
It was so futuristic when I was young. I'm so jealous of Jay now. Yes, Lamborghini and DeLorean were definitely inspired from it's design. It still looks modern to me.
Thanks If I'd ever heard of it, I'd since forgotten. It REALLY doesn't look like a Mercedes, does it? It does look a bit like a Lamborghini Countach, or the car from the film Condorman
p.s. Looking at the original 1974 Countach, it seems that Lamborghini
copieddrew inspiration from the Mercedes prototype.Is Climate Change Just A Lot Of Hot Air?
0.8 degree increase in 100 years. We've come from the 1915 and WW1 days when cars and planes where futuristic dreams, and not dying from tetanus or basic infections was a major concern. Today 100 years later we are thriving by comparison, in spite of the 0.8 degree increased temperature. IPCC best estimates for 2100 are about 1.5 degree increase, so another hundred years and increase that is about twice as bad. Of course, it's twice as bad as what we saw the last 100 yeas and not only survived, but thrived under. It's a problem to be sure, but it's also no catastrophe either. Switching to electric cars within 20 years will reduce emissions alot and is likely inevitable no matter what. Adopting non-emitting power is possible today if people accept nuclear as France did years ago, and would be a good idea if we could only sell environmentalists on the idea. Barring that we are waiting another 20-40 years for alternatives like solar, wind and hopefully Fusion to undercut the costs of running on coal. That said, without any special moral or government mandate we should be cutting our CO2 emissions radically long before 2100 of our own accord.
Bottom line, don't panic, it's a manageable problem and we got this. In the last 100 years we've come from not having cars or planes or space craft or computers or modern medicine to taking all those things entirely for granted. It's really hard to say that 100 years from now our descendants will be crying for their inability to cope.
Using Lasers To Make Super-Hydrophobic Surfaces
That's some futuristic stuff!
I wonder if they could do the opposite, make super friction materials with a specific surface etch.
As a surface characteristic, I wonder how impervious it is to deformation, scratches, etc.
Accidental take-off of Victor - Bob Prothero explains
Check out the roughly contemporary British civilian aeroplane the de Havilland Comet, too. I don't know of any link between the two, but they both feature engines much more set into the wings than U.S. designed aircraft, and both look much more futuristic than many later designs.
That is a cool looking plane. I've never seen or heard of it before. Looks like something out of a Sci-Fi movie.
This isn't distracting at all
OLED paint? Very futuristic.
And yes I can see some crazy applications for active camo.