Doing the robot--now officially bullshit.

Oh come on, what a bunch of crap. This was not "unseen". This was all over the networks, hell, even I saw it, and I'm the sort that tunes in to about 1-2 shows on TV per week. The news media went on about what it meant that Spike Jonez was trying to humanize the mandroid for Generation XYZ, or whatever. I thought it started out promising up through the bit with the gas mask: yeah, man, you've got to go everywhere with that? Bummer.

But it soon gets tedious, except for a couple of unintentionally funny bits. Somehow the long back-and-forth between Al and Tipper with her noting repeatedly that he's just "not stiff AT ALL" stays in the final cut. Later we have to put up with the family trying to choose what to watch from a pile of videos, based on recommendations by...someone. I only recall one title being familiar to me, the movie which Al and the rest quickly agreed that they weren't into seeing.

The film? The Patriot.