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Official Teaser/Trailer | Netflix; March 14

posted 4 months ago by Satan2016 (26200)
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Won't watch unless it has Bender!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gUDaPTPxwo (4M views)
https://youtu.be/KpN98z8Kf5E?si=hyTUdKV_DLfNlPnW

Set in the aftermath of a robot uprising in an alternate version of the ’90s, The Electric State follows an orphaned teenager who ventures across the American West with a cartoon-inspired robot, a smuggler, and his sidekick in search of her younger brother. The film stars Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Woody Norman, with Giancarlo Esposito and Stanley Tucci. Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Hank Azaria, Colman Domingo and Alan Tudyk join the cast in voice roles.

[–] SickSpazmoid (877) 4 months ago

They turned a dark dystopian book into a family movie. And let me guess - the robots are the negroes.

[–] FootOfDavros (8712) 4 months ago

Looks kind of generically sh-t (wasn't there some game movie a few months ago which was almost exactly the same?) but still, it is kind of surprising to see this is a straight to Netflix release...

[–] HarlemEagle42 (18430) 9 days ago

Well the Russos did make one Netflix movie before. That spy movie The Gray Man.

[–] stevewyzard (1751) 9 days ago

Hopefully it will feature Eddy Grant's "Electric Avenue".

[–] Satan2016 (26200) 8 days ago

Added trailer to OP. Sneek peek https://youtu.be/zVLuaQwA5kc?si=Nz4-WTuC3FKZ-PSk

[–] Satan2016 (26200) 7 days ago

All the trailer comments say this does not respect the book!

> It’s amazing how Netflix can take a book so haunting, beautiful, surreal and foreboding then turn it into a cliché/generic Chris Pratt action movie. They could not have missed the point more if they tried.
> Honestly it’s relieving to see the comments hate on this Hollywood nonsense as much as I hoped they would

[–] SickSpazmoid (877) 7 days ago

To say the least. Turning a cyberpunk story into another cartoonish wasteland theme park show, given that we already have two (Silo and Fallout), is incomprehensible. Either they are dumb AF and misunderstood it, or they don't want to risk by producing something that is not already selling well.

In the book a boy and a robot travel thru a dystopian (not post apocalyptic!) decaying world that came out of a war between undisclosed parties (not people vs robots) and "tech gone bad" (the drone pilots become childless, the virtual reality turned people into zombies, etc). It is reminiscent of William Gibson's stories (like 2030s timeline in The Peripheral). There are some childishly looking robots and stuff, but they are meant as a juxtaposition to the social and urban decay.

At this point the hope is that the promotional videos are misleading and they are simply trying to attract the Fallout crowd.

"Tales from the Loop" was much more faithful adaptation of the same author - monotonic, but at least they captured the spirit.