Alien – Two Nerds Sitting On A Couch

R U 4 Robots?

Posted by Ceridwen Posted on May 3, 2022 0 Comments

Posted in end times, movies, podcasts, steampunk Tagged A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Alien, Aliens, Ancillary Justice, Annalee Newitz, Automata, Autonomous, Blade Runner, Chappie, Doomsday Book, HAL 9000, Half a Soul, Kazuo Ishiguri, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Measure of a MAn, Murderbot, Never Let Me Go, Prometheus, Short Circuit, skynet, The Heavenly Creature, The Island, Turing test

A robot with a white casing sits cross-legged in a room of monks all bowed down touching their heads to the floor. A man in a business suit stands behind the robot, angles and looking toward the robot. Prayer flags hang from the ceiling, and a stylized lotus flower in woven into the floor mat.

Two Nerds got a request we watch Automata, a steampunky short about a human private detective, his robot partner, and a murder mystery. This made us consider what robots do, as a trope, and what questions narratives with robots tend…

Jodorowsky’s Dune

Posted by Ceridwen Posted on October 26, 2021 0 Comments

Posted in Dune, futures, movies, podcasts, space Tagged Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alien, Arrakis, documentary, Dune, El Topo, H.R. Giger, House Atreides, Jean Giraud, Jodorowsky's Dune, Lynch's Dune, Mick Jagger, Moebius, Orson Welles, Salvador Dali, surrealism

A cartoon drawing of Salvador Dali as the Baron Harkonnen, flanked by who must bust Feyd Rautha and the Beast Rabban. dali has his signature upturned mustache and is wearing vaguely Egyptian looking garb.

In which we discuss the documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune, which details Alejandro Jodorowsky’s efforts to make a movie version of Dune in the 70s.Some of the stories told by Jodorowsky are so bonkers as to strain credulity, but he’s an incredibly…

Bruce Willis is Bald

Posted by Ceridwen Posted on May 15, 2021 1 Comment

Posted in kaiju, movies, podcasts, space, zombies Tagged Alien, Alien Resurrection, Breach, Bruce Willis, Cosmic Sin, Space Balls, space herpes, space zombies

Bruce Willis from the shoulders up looks off to the viewer's right. He is wearing battered futuristic armor that is orange and silver.

Back in the day, you could tell if a Bruce Willis movie was going to be any good depending on whether he had hair or not. Given the movies Cosmic Sin and Breach, that rule of thumb no longer applies….