Absolutely HATED IT!!! Love to hear other opinions....

So many guys hate this movie..yet the rating says something else. Nonetheless..i also agree to some extent...this movie will not be suited for the palate of young 20s or even early 30s guys. The movie makes sense if we switch off our present understanding of societal structure completely...
Let me ask a question...today in the era of facebook and other host of virtual communication applications..did we imagine this to happen may be 10 or 15 years back where we knew all our friends physically. Today, if we compare from the perspective of our grandparents...they will say..it is bizarre...how come you have a friend but you have not met him/her in person but we somehow are absolutely fine and maybe do not get the point of it. Now, if we extrapolate this virtual friendship or communication whatever we call it to lets say 30 or 40 years down the line...who knows what is going to happen to the minds of next coming generations. There was a time, when we used to know people living around us but today, i do not think we even bother who is living in apartment next to us. So, if we keep on extrapolating this to extreme extent...may be we will reach there..who knows..but i sincerely wish..this should not happen.....

I just watched yesterday and felt the same. One of the worst movies I've ever watched in my life.

The main problem for me was Joaquin Phoenix, an actor who I tend to really like. All-in-all, he was a weird guy in a weird love-story. Sure, this may have been the intention in order to establish the believability that someone would fall in love with a computer, but it ultimately just caused further distance between me and the reality of that world the movie tried to build.

It still had its moments. I give it a high 5/10 / low 6/10.

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The movie just plain sucks.........hated it.

I hated it, but for different reasons. I could accept the premise as some future issue that we can't totally comprehend today; like someone from the '50s imagining the internet. The first ~20 minutes I liked as they were getting the premise set. I thought it was different but still entertaining. But as the movie went on it was just your average romantic comedy chick-flick, which I can't stand.

Throughout the movie, I felt I spent about 40 minutes listening to some chick bitch about her problems. Who wants to pay for that? The resolution was sub-par, and the end with him apologizing to his ex made me regret ever turning this on.

What bothered me more than anything was that Joaquin Phoenix's character reminded me of no man I've ever met in my life, totally unbelievable. I, personally, would be much happier with Isabella (body, no voice) than Samantha.

This movie had an angle to it, but at its core it was just a run-of-the-mill chick movie. Women probably really like it, but I could not recommend it to any guy.

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So you didn't like it... apparently enough to be a condescending donkey's ass about it.

I did not get the impression that this was some utopian vision of the future from the writer. Quite the opposite. I think this is the logical extension of what could happen if AI becomes that intelligent and we don't start getting out of our damn phones and interact with humans more. It ends on a bittersweet note, with this loserish character losing his OS, and the glimmer of hope that he might reconnect with the Adams character.

Do all dystopian movies bother you? Because there are far more "chringeworthy" and disturbing visions of our future out there.

I found it very much a social commentary and warning on where we are going, on the same lines of the criminally underrated Idiocracy. Now, I do find it's premise a bit unrealistic, a I do believe a realistic indistinguishable body would be created LONG before a sentient AI, and I don't think people will be actually making love to their cell phones. This kind of thing has been explored before, one that comes to mind is Commander Data from Star Trek. I am a little less quick to condemn that if true humanlike sentience is achieved.

Oddly, this movie reminded me of the Bozos I've met in Bangkok bars, spilling their silly "secrets" and "feelings" to anonymous (AI - Samanthas) bar girls who gather information, feelings, intentions, dreams, and work out - in milliseconds - how to take advantage of the dope. They do it with twenty dopes a month yet the dopes all believe they're the "one". I see why Her flopped in Bangkok - we've seen this stuff for years, in real time. Childish from a Thai POV; enlightening from a US POV. That's the difference.