Man, I saw this trailer earlier and I have never been more crushed and fed up with Hollywood (at least in recent memory).

This entire film was billed as a premise of cool technology and showing things that are in the not-so-distant future: singularity, consciousness uploading, the moral and ethical questions involved in all these things, or, y'know, the first 20 seconds of the trailer. The movie should end exactly at the point where we see "Is anybody there?" on the screen. That should be the climax: success, an uncertain future, hope for the progression of technology; instead that's clearly going to be at about the 30 minute mark, and, judging by the rest of the trailer, we're going to get another hour of explosion-filled, mindless, farcical luddite drek.

I am so tired of this. Why does every single film that has ANYTHING related to technology, progress, singularity, or the future have to be a moral tale that's supposed to make us question our 'hubris' in our attempts at creating a better future? Why are we constantly berated with 'how dare you?' instead of encouraging sciences? And, furthermore, if you're going to create a tale of the opinion that's it's ethically wrong (a legitimate believe to hold, if not one that I personally share) does it have to be an action film? Why do we go from 'upload of consciousness' to "AND THEN THERE ARE FUCKIN' NANITES AND SHIT AND HE, LIKE, MENTALLY BLOWS SHIT UP AND ATTEMPTS TO DOMINATE THE WORLD' with a guaranteed flimsy explanation? Is it so goddamn much to ask for a musing on the minds? I'm certainly more interested in the thoughts of the characters they originally show in this trailer than in any grand scheme of Johnny's Depp's cyber-personality.

I'm just... I'm so tired. You know who would have made this a great film? Andrei Tarkovsky. I want some true science fiction in the films again, because outside some very specific examples, we've only gotten anti-science action-fiction.