Blade Runner – 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…

Bruce Willis Has Hair: The Fifth Element

Posted by Ceridwen Posted on July 8, 2021 2 Comments

Posted in futures, movies, podcasts, space Tagged Blade Runner, Bruce Willis, Dan O'Bannon, Heavy Metal, Jodorowsky's Dune, Milla Jovovich, multipass, The Fifth Element

Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich as their characters in The Fifth Element stand side by side. Jovovich holds up an ID card.

Our other listener asked if we’d done a podcast about The Fifth Element, so we watched it again. You guys, that was totally off the hook. Apparently, in the intervening decade or so since the resident nerds last viewed The…

Blade Plumber: Super Mario Bros.

Posted by Ceridwen Posted on June 17, 2021 0 Comments

Posted in dystopia, movies, parallel worlds, podcasts, video game movies Tagged alternate history, Blade Runner, Bob Hoskins, communism, cyberpunk, Dennis Hopper, dinosaurs, fungus, John Leguizamo, King Koopa, Max Headroom, Samantha Mathis, Super Mario Bros, video game movies

A still from the Super MArio Bros moive: Dennis Hopper, as King Koopa, shoots some sort of futuristic rocket launcher. He's flanked by large guys with tiny dinosaur/lizard heads.

Two Nerds recently learned of a new cut of 1993’s super bonkers Super Mario Bros. movie, put together by the fine people at The Movie Archive. This new cut restores 20 minutes of excised footage, making the movie, if anything,…