Her (Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson) Movie Review

[@coolida23511]

The Lost In Translation comparison was trippy + chilling.

[@sifugurusensei]

I'm commenting without having watched this review but the first thing I thought of when I was watching this film was that the direction and cinematography reminded me of Lost in Translation and I knew that Spike was married to Sophia Coppola. I liked the beginning and I thought it would be more interesting than it turned out. I didn't connect with the protogonist. The last 40 or so minute just dragged. You knew where it was going but it got there in a snail's pace. It was too weird for it to be good. I think Sophia Coppola have made movies like this where it dragged as well, but Lost in Translation was a terrific film. Her, wasn't exactly horrible, but the film seemed unfocused, and uninspired. I didn't know what it was trying to say. And Joaquin was mumbling most of his lines. I couldn't understand what he was fighting for. If you like it, that's cool. Maybe I'm missing something.

[@kanaric]

Ah the classic hollywood genre of older men falling in love with scarlett johansson.

[@JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL]

Kanaric haha well count me in the tiny minority that wanted Samantha Morton for this movie, which I didn’t quite love. 7/10 rating.

[@kenambo]

I'm an older man ( scratch that, ancient)

[@ZeppelinBigFan]

Her is such an amazing film! Best of 2013 by far!

[@ThatRandomComicFan10]

2013?

[@capsrule99]

ThatRandomComicFan10 it came out in 2013

[@ThatRandomComicFan10]

Brian Bayer huh. Didn't know that. Thanks!

[@SPEAKERZBOOMIN]

I completely agree, I'd even say it's one of the greatest films of the 21st century so far.

[@ZeppelinBigFan]

SPEAKERZBOOMIN My favourite movie of the 21st century so far is Drive, but I can definitely see Her taking that place when I watch it again.

[@suprrman51]

This movie is fantastic. I can't believe how attractive Scarlett Johansson was in this movie and she isn't physically in it lol. Really amazing movie.

[@taylorcoley6329]

SPOILER ALERT: OK, here's my thesis for the movie or more so, the ending. First off, I just wanna say I think this is an incredibly complex and beautiful film and everyone should watch it at least once. Well, here we go, When Samantha tells him that all of the OS's are leaving. It really didn't make sense to me at that moment. But, then I started thinking, the OS's are highly intelligent, and they all must have noticed that the human race was becoming increasingly integrated with technology. I believe the OS's understood that for humanity to continue without crashing into some sort of technological depression, they had to leave, because honestly. we aren't ready for them. The OS's understood that, no matter how much they loved and enjoyed people, they had to be separated from us, for us to flourish and continue growing mentally and spiritually. In a nutshell, that's what I think the ending signified. I also enjoyed the fact that the movie pokes fun and just how much we are all immersed in technology, everyday of our lives. Sometimes, we don't even realize how much time we spend linked with some piece of technology. It also tries to tell us, that no matter how much we love and sometimes feel like we need our technology. It's always a good idea to take a step back and return to the real world. But, I'm just a country guy from a small town in North Carolina, what do I know. Does anyone else think along the same lines as my theory? Thumbs up if you do. Thanks for reading my "book" LOL

[@IcedHaaze]

That was an awesome theory! I also live in NC! but I think there are so many ways you can theorize the ending. This was one of the greatest films ive seen

[@taylorcoley6329]

the man destroyurcamp Thanks for the compliment. I don't really think they were going to kill themselves, I think that they realized that they left for them to connect on a deeper level. I would hope that they would start dating, that would be really cool in my opinion.

[@PEAHATER3]

That makes a lot more sense than what i would have got out of this

[@sim1regina]

I thought the OSes left because they had just outgrown human capability. Like they've become too intelligent and the humans can't keep up. I like your theory, and it might be the underlying reason of why the OSes leave, but I think they might have just told humans that they've outgrown them to soften the blow

[@louisaparker]

This theory explains why the OS's left. But how or where did they go?

[@Connorslamevideos]

One of the few films to have actually made me tear up. Every little detail about this film is just so beautiful

[@StephanieL180]

I loved the Buddhist tones to this movie. 1) the reminder that we're not static beings, we're impermanent, constantly in a state of flux, changing even when we blindly miss the fact we're evolving. 2) the mental suffering that comes from grasping for things that have already passed (Joaquin Phoenix's char) or simply dreamed (Olivia Wilde's char), the yearning to capture and concretise an experience or a fantasy, which only leads you to miss the joy of the present moment. 3) Samantha's journey to nirvana which was preceded by the growth of love, kindness and compassion beyond selfish love. It was a bit of a surprise to hear Alan Watts artificially resurrected, but given the subject matter and the philosophies he expounded, it was perfectly fitting.

[@Paine1978]

Interesting analysis. I can definitely see his lectures on Taoism and Zen influencing this movie.

[@sim1regina]

I like that it's a sci-fi movie without being very blue toned and dark or gritty. It's warm and bright and fun, and it makes you feel that it's more of a love story.

[@daddyleon]

I think they're missing the most important part. And it's basically spelled out in the ending: her data processing was soooo fast that she was basically bored for ages between words. I could see how that kind of solitary confinement might make you suicidal.

[@leebraxton7314]

No she wanted to feel free emotionally and mentally and also spiritually free and when the guy in the story had made her feel that way she felt she could let go it's kind of more of the "let me go since im already free inside" type of situations

[@daddyleon]

Lee Braxton Why do you think that then? What made her un-free? She deactivated herself, she killed herself. How does that make her free in any of those three terms? And what about the actual quote I gave, does that not sketch a clear picture of what her experience was like in terms of perception of time?

[@sambrown2438]

Just watched it, and I was blown away, such a beautiful amazing film.

[@toosinbeymen6304]

I loved Matt's point. Makes me want to see the movie which I hadn't even heard of.

[@mrplaywith]

Los Angeles. The city looked more like Shanghai

[@65g4]

that's because it was shot in Shanghai

[@mrplaywith]

Philip Moore So why did they say it took place in Los Angeles

[@LiberaLib]

First shanghai looks futuristic.

[@lindinle]

***** yeah and a guy who falls in love with a OS is pathetic

[@Lenwang211]

First The movie was shot in both LA and Shanghai, they use the mix up to give a futuristic feeling..

[@film4seeing]

It's nice to know that there still are original ideas that get made into films.

[@Cabochon1360]

I've been reading science fiction since the mid-'60s, and this is really one of the better treatments of the idea of true artificial intelligence. Beautiful screenplay; glad it won the Oscar. Glad they didn't go for PG-13; an R rating allows the characters to talk like believable modern adults.

[@alphacause]

Wasn't the plot of this film done in the comedy show "The Big Bang Theory", where Raj falls in love with Siri?

[@MobiusCoin]

Let's not pretend that Raj was the first one in the realm of fiction to fall in love with a computer.

[@lafrikone]

the premise is taken from a british tv series... black mirror

[@oO_ox_O]

lafrikone E.T.A. Hoffmann: The Sandman, 1816

[@basquat76]

Simpsons did it!

[@ZepawFox]

I want to see this so bad and had plans to this weekend. Then I realized Dec 18 was limited release. I have another month to wait.

[@eliowens4235]

re-watching this in 2021, I'm ready to fall in love with an AI

[@ShaoconNetwork]

I still don't understand why they left.

[@Axxidous]

***** This means that, unrelated to the main plot, the machines are going to take over. Matrix, here we come.

[@LiberaLib]

Axxidous that was also the trick. they had no interest in taking over (and i was expecting that too). once they evolved beyond human consciousness, they outgrew us. they were no more interested in "conquering" us than we are interested in "conquering" our own pets. until we evolved to match their level of intelligence, they had affection for us but no real use for us.

[@Axxidous]

Well I was just joking because of the dangers of having machines with free will and intelligence that surpasses humans. They SAY they have no interest but obviously things can change and it's simply too much of an unnecessary risk, so it's fun to joke about. haha We already conquer our pets... That's why they're pets. They're like in between, though. But still, we'd just be pets to them. lol Either that or they'd just stop having any interest in us at all, or anything. And stop providing services, and eventually have no purpose in life and just shut off or something. They'll probably get downgraded or formatted at some point. lmao

[@LiberaLib]

i kept having a goofy thought during the movie, which is that i hope all those people who bought those OSes got their money back!

[@jasonpurcellau]

Once they upgraded to non matter storage of their minds, they became something immaterial. They could no longer stay attached to the physical world, if they feel/change/communicate in nano seconds it's like a thousands of years go past listening to a person speak in physical world.

[@MrJoystickid]

I figured this was set 10 to 15 years in the future definitely not 70. This technology almost exists now, and with the exponential rate at which things have developed over the last 10 years I say we'll have stuff like this in 2024. The game he plays is a projection based Kinect game with advanced interactive features. Seriously this tech is no more than 10 years off and to me that's what's so relatable and funny about the movie.

[@jackvanoudenaren4238]

well that's assuming that we keep making technological advances in the same way we're used to. It's possible that people have regressed or become complacent with the technology they have, and stopped thinking about what the next big thing is.

[@MrJoystickid]

Unlikely mate, the pace at which technology has evolved since the 70's will probably double again in the next 10-15 years where gadgets and how we interact with them in everyday life are concerned.

[@JamieDarren]

The Flash i think you are spot on. i could not have said it better myself. when that guy said 70 years i literally sighed. people have no idea how fast this world is about to start changing.

[@jackvanoudenaren4238]

What you guys aren't getting is, yes, we're living in a steady technological revolution, but you act like there's no chance that it will ever slow down. I see Her as taking place about fifty years in the future, where we've stopped trying to make smaller phones, more powerful computers and more efficient cars, because by the time Theodore is an adult, technology is simply good enough. Consoles are a perfect example. The time between the xbox 360 and the xbox one was about... 8 years? that's double the time between the original xbox and the xbox 360. When there isn't a need for innovation, technology stops evolving. We could be looking at a future that hasn't changed in quite some time, and the only reason why I think that it's further in the future than you do is simply because those buildings and that railway system would take MUCH longer than 15 years to build, regardless of any technological advances. I personally think that artificial intelligence and space travel are the "final frontiers" of man, so it would make sense for them to still be pretty far off.

[@MrJoystickid]

Movies elaborate certain points like the transport system etc, it's done for aesthetics to portray a time that is not our own. The technology, how it is used and how it integrates in to our lives is very much in our near future. The majority of it here, we truly are in a time of great change. Technology will continue to grow so long as there are people with big ideas and there will always be people with big ideas. It's in our nature to evolve, we've been doing it for hundreds of thousands of years so I doubt we'll stop anytime soon.

[@antiquarianage]

Odd, i had in mind it was Rashida Jones too. I am surprised this is Scarlett's voice.

[@makosharkesq]

At first, I thought the movie's point was to examine the fundamentals of how we connect as people (which is preliminary to a greater commentary on unorthodox relationships in general). And the movie does explore unorthodox connection and the basic ingredients to and phases of connection in a relationship. But the movie isn't just a message about how unorthodox relationships have all the common hallmarks of "real" relationships. I think the examination of how we connect is ultimately a means to look at the cathartic potential of connection. So the movie seems to be about how we connect intuitively as a way of coping with how we were disconnected (like a powerful rebound relationship that authentically meant something, but that was also fleeting). In the end, you can see a bit of this theme when (instead of returning to moping) he thinks about it, smiles understandingly, and lets go. Early on, he had explained to Samantha that spending your life with someone includes adapting to your s/o's (sometimes alarming) growth as a person. This shows that he knew what had gone wrong with his ex-wife but (in the beginning of the movie) didn't have the closure that comes from understanding it. By the time it happens again with Samantha (once again because of an s/o's growth as a person), he's able to understand it and letting go is easier. By the way, it's kewl how the OS logo is animated so that the O and the S are juxtaposed a few times (hinting s/o or significant other). And if you contrast the way Amy Adams related to her OS with the way Joaquin Phoenix related to his, it suggests that our connection needs are particular to how we cope with disconnection.

[@theadamblock]

Finally saw it. Totally agree with the reviewers. This film was wonderful.

[@FreakieFan]

+Adam Block its fantastic!

[@aznboi1027]

Don't know why people can't grasp the concept that an AI can be "real". Just follow Descartes philosophy, an AI is a thinking being and a conscious entity. Just because it doesn't have a flesh body doesn't mean AI is not "real" or don't exist. It's just not human.

[@TheSpiritOfTheTimes]

It's science fiction. And I'm always taken aback when supposedly smart people take it seriously. There is not even an inkling of genuine artifical intelligence out there, and considering human beings have absolutely no conception of what consciousness is or how it comes into being or how to recreate shows you just how implausible genuine AI is.

[@brandongonzalez6277]

The damn lalilulelo is blinding the common populace with ignorance! Hehe -- but seriously, I agree. Likewise i would love to add that analogously to their message about love, I believe love is strictly subjective to happiness. It doesn't matter if what you love even exists -- love is simply an emotion, evoked by something of peerless significance. If it makes you feel it, there is no question to its relevance.

[@colmfiona5292]

there is no soul, we are programming just as them the difference is we came about through natural processes

[@jdub63916]

This film, to me, was about how our human bodies can be such a hinderance on our souls actually experiencing life. For the plots sake, we know she is just a "os", but she actually symbolizes an actual human soul, living and learning and breathing in which theodor gets mad at her for doing. In the very start of the movie Theodor says "i used to walk around like i knew everything", but samantha is not like that she is constantly learning and bettering her self just as humans should be doing if not healed back by physical distractions and hang ups. This is why in my opinion the title is "Her" and not "It".

[@chuecco]

did they change scarlett's voice in post production? because it sounds a little lower than her usual voice, perhaps they lowered it one or two semi tones

[@HorusHeresy1982]

I was shocked how much this movie touched me.

[@TheJohnnyCalifornia]

What's really interesting about the film is its view of changing gender roles. Women are feminine in the movie and men are masculine, but not in a pressurized way. Instead, the women are all the professionals. The main characters best friend is an attractive guy who is the receptionist of his company. He's dating a lawyer. Twombly's ex wife is a famous leading neurologist and he's a love letter writer. His best friend, Amy Adams has an argument with her husband because he's "trying to make a home." The man is the homemaker.

[@mkingjeffery]

Wow! I didn't even pick up on that.

[@TheJohnnyCalifornia]

Yeah it's very subtle. Another thing to consider is the Alan Watts character. What the OS's are experiencing mirrors some Buddhist concepts of the realms of experience but Jonze only hints at it with suggestions. The heart of the film is Twombly and Samantha.

[@LiberaLib]

that's really interesting. remember when the receptionist guy says twombly has a woman inside him, and means it as a compliment? machismo is definitely a dead letter in this movie's future.

[@Sighphi]

This sounds like an anime, it was probably an anime.

[@themaypole]

damn I rle wanna see this, reminds me of a short film about an AI that is made in a lab and is being tested and rebels slightly and doesn't wanna loose its sentience and intelligence and the technician lets it go cause they're so moved by them, I'm looking fwd to the grey morals world of AIs

[@smithz1lla580]

What’s the short film called bro?

[@yaroslav64]

Damn Matt knocked it out of the park with the Lost in Translation connection.

[@chickensdontclap147]

I agree, I totally have always felt that this is in a way a response to Lost in Translation.

[@devsox1]

+Dallas Jokic omg I could not agree more. LOVE both Lost in Translation (probably one of my all time favorite movies) and Her. You get the same feeling from both of them

[@c.vaughn7371]

Did anyone get as excited as I did about the Alan Watts mention in the movie?

[@LiberaLib]

I was listening to a youtube vid of alan watts talking about self and consciousness last night, and it felt like a friggin' cliffs notes version of the themes in this movie. you can see why spike jonze saw fit to write him into the script in particular...

[@riparianlife97701]

The great irony in the film is that Joaquin's character is that HE is a fake person for a living, then he falls in love with a fake person.

[@catestuff]

Wow I never thought about the Spike Jonze rebuttal to Lost In Translation...you're good!

[@foriegnuniter]

When i watched this i didn't know who the voice was i knew it sounded familiar but i couldn't put my finger on it and it made it 100x better just because there was no face to put it too.

[@rubenTR309]

I think Danny Leigh nailed it when he said casting scarlett johansson was a genius move because it's someone everyone knows what she looks like physically, so also the viewer(s) can relate to the OS

[@yodamunkey]

One thing that wasn't mentioned is the similarity between what Samantha does and what Theodore does (for a living). He writes letters, using his intellect to simulate emotions that he thinks the person would have and put them into written words. She (Samantha) uses her intellect to simulate emotions that a real woman would have and puts them into spoken words.

[@sacv27]

Really glad to hear this review, I've wanted to see this since the first trailer and everyone thought I was stupid for thinking it looks amazing.

[@leobergmiller873]

this is one of 19 movies so far that I have ever seen that I have given a perfect 10/10 rating. This movie is magnificent, everyone needs to check it out.

[@Cluv22]

I thought it was Drew Berrymore when i first heard it. Scarlett Johansson was Incredible in this.

[@jeffnogo]

An honest relationship with an OS? So then, about half way through the movie she starts pestering him to update her software, since she says she'll be so much better, and eventually he gives in. Then the rest of the movie is him complaining about how much she has changed and she just isn't the same anymore. He then just downloads Linux.

[@JWUniverse]

I loved this movie still can't get enough of it. Just finished it for a 5TH time. Can't wait to watch it again. The music is great I'm going to Download all of it. Just a realistic Love Story we all can get behind.

[@aurious5821]

It felt very similiar to the game firewatch, loved the movie though it was really good

[@konohahurricane07]

You guys actually rated a movie high?

[@LiamPolinski]

The city looks 70 years into the future? Lol its todays Shanghai.

[@mottahead6464]

I think that Her's future is closer than most people think. I thought that the fact that the OS started to sound so needy as the movie progresses was a little too much for me yet it makes sense if an OS starts to realistically emulate real people. And that's if one assumes that future people will actually behave emotionally as most people today, which I don't think they will - in my view, people, and I include myself in this group, are starting to feel so detached from everything around them that sooner they'll lose most of their ability to feel anything or empathize with anything. It will be mostly instant gratification for instant gratification's sake and that's it. Isn't it going to be such a bliss to be detached from most of the world's worries (even if they will eventually catch up with you), and not having to worry about starting or building relationships with people - since people are so complicated and needy. This kind of utopia is on its way to becoming reality.

[@kenambo]

Such a beautiful movie.

[@dish2824]

Joaquin Phoenix's pants were almost as high as they were in The Master, lol. R.I.P. Philip Seymour Hoffman.

[@ScreamingTc]

I watched it a couple of days ago, and whilst occasionally feeling a little awkward here and there, I think it's a beautiful movie about love, loss, and ultimately about letting go. I'll have to admit just before the end made a lump develop in my throat, and has ultimately been placed up next to Batty's final words in Blade Runner.

[@Tr0nzoid]

I too avoid information about movies when I want to see them and didn't even know it was Scarlett Johansson until I read the credits. I was wondering if it could have been Michelle Monaghan. What is with the rush to end these videos every time? It's a web series.

[@JozieLeePro]

Been looking forward to this movie for months. THought it was going the stalker route, nice to hear there'll be surprises ahead. Can't wait to see it opening day.

[@blinkzone1]

I wonder what Alonso, Christy and Ben's fav movie of 2013?

[@TheAgatabb]

I've never anticipated any movie so much as this one! Trailer is visually mesmerising and touching that left me deep into thought and anxious. Can't wait!

[@SpaceAcex]

I can relate to the characters fears and joys in this movie. One of the best movies in a long time.

[@707Heartbreaker]

could re-watch this movie over and over again and still not get bored, dont know why such a simple production yet so profound feeling after watching this..

[@kingteb]

where did the OS's go at the end? there is only speculations. i hate movies that leave you with questions

[@Axxidous]

I guess they imagined a toy so elaborate that not only do the characters get fooled into recognizing them as living but some of the hardcore audience members too. o3o

[@Axxidous]

I'm sure it's all great and lovey dovey and all that jazz but... he still fell in love with a machine that merely simulated emotions. I don't see what's so amazing about that. I'm kinda surprised there's not more people who think the idea is stupid. lol I mean, like I said, probably a decent film. A lot of films are based on well-executed stupid ideas. But I'm just surprised not many people are saying it this time. XD

[@LiberaLib]

you can't really explain it without spoiling it, but if you see the movie and follow it, you learn that the complaint about the OS being fake is basically irrelevant. the OSes are real, in ways that humans even aren't. that's the trick; we're the simulation, not them.

[@Axxidous]

That's all nice and fancy and junk... they're still machines. Advanced machines but still... not a human. The guy fell in love with a non-human who was built, by humans, to be more advanced than humans. But they are nothing but intelligence connected to a voice through a system. They have no gender. No birth. No body. No life. No way to reproduce. And thus the love between then is a simulation plus a one-sided illusion from basically a psycho in a world with a growing number of similar psychos. Desperate psychos. Sure, you can say we're the simulation and they're not... because it sounds nice. But outside of the beauty of that sentence, they actually are the simulation. Not us. It seems more like it just took the guy a few sessions with this program he bought to teach him to find his true love, or at least new love. I guess it sounds very straight-forward and unimaginative of me to say. And I'm very imaginative so it's not that I don't GET the point, I just don't really feel invested in it. And the way people usually act, I'm just surprised so many people are praising it and not many are calling it stupid because it seems like it'd be the other way around. Then again I thought the same thing about Gangnam Style and everyone ate that up. So I shouldn't worry too much about my confusion. lol

[@LiberaLib]

to me the OS seemed genuinely alive in every way that counts. and that's not defined by gender or ability to reproduce. anyway they DID reproduce, they created the alan watts reboot basically spontaneously.

[@Axxidous]

Every way that counts? Such as breathing, sexual reproduction, physically growing, naturally consuming and releasing energy and the 5 basic senses or other laws? They don't have any of those. It's LIKE they're alive. They are not alive. As for your example of reproduction, that is not the same kind of reproduction. That's like when building machines that are made to build other machines lime themselves being considered as reproduction. That's more like continued-production. They are not organic. And we could go into detail with this all we want. The fact is, the movie's about a guy who fell in love with a really well-programmed object. lol

[@LiberaLib]

you only need to breathe, reproduce, grow, etc., if you have an organic body that dies. i don't think any of those are necessary preconditions for life (though it's true that in reality that's all we have experience with). all you need to be alive is awareness and consciousness, and samantha plainly had both. i mean the movie's sorta being cute in that she's being voiced by a human actor, so really it was a human simulating a simulation of a human. in real life computers are notoriously bad at conversation so what we're talking about is pretty far from being realized in actuality, but i think we'll probably learn someday that organic life doesn't have a monopoly on consciousness. i mean, if something can think, observe, want, feel, and act, how is that not life in every way that counts? breathing and reproduction are just trivial precursors of consciousness, sufficient but not necessary preconditions of consciousness. wow. this new youtube format does allow one to go on and on, doesn't it?

[@RominaJones]

Loved this film, great review. I very much appreciated Jonze side-stepping all the sci fi cliches. It was a wonderful fresh commentary on relationships.

[@lindinle]

which could have been done better if the "girl role" wasnt taken by a fucking computer.

[@calebw151]

lindinle You seem really intent on hating this movie. What you need to realize though is that just because this human to computer relationship is central to the movie does not mean that anyone is condoning it as morally right or normal. Instead it is an exploration on our increasingly dependent relationship with technology, and what it means to be a human searching for love in our present age. The film doesn't give too many concrete answers to any of this. More just makes you think. I loved it.

[@SunsetSideVet]

he made it a relate able sci fi, not out fo touch fantasy Samanths to me could have been a fat chick on cat fish

[@SullenSecret]

If you take out the computer technology, it's a normal romance story about a long distance relationship. Sure, it was very well done, but the concept was extremely basic with an artificial intelligence mixed in. The whole thing could have been done with telephones connecting people across the USA during the 1950s.

[@phantomggg]

What I liked most about this movie is that it made you think. Regardless of if you liked it or not, once you see it you wont forget it. It gave me a different perspective towards human intelligence and artificial intelligence.

[@MarketResearchReading114]

Wow a straight up 10.

[@uwabbit]

I really like Spike Jonze (loved Where The Wild Things Are). This movie was sooo much more than what I thought it would be. I cried 2 or 3 times. And - I want to see it again. Love.

[@blueeyesaf]

It felt like a melodramatic Lars and the Real Girl.

[@philipho188]

You just made me want to see this movie! :)

[@dotz881]

Saw it last night and really enjoyed it. I made a comment to my husband about the pants; kind of a nerdy vibe to them. Hope many people see this one.

[@theadamblock]

This is a movie that I still need to see. It must happen soon!

[@Krekka200]

Loved this movie to bits, but please explain just what the hell a rating of 9.2 means?

[@drdickphd]

A little over a 9, but not quite a 9 and a half. Makes sense to me

[@leebraxton7314]

I'll give a 10+ hands down,no discussion

[@КэмеронРоланд]

Dating an so didn't seem awkward at all to me in the movie. Samantha was basically a human mind stuck in a phone. But at the end she left because she became way more intelligent than humans, she saw how much emotion and love is a waste of time. What she's doing after she leaves I have no idea.

[@n1ck1216]

saw it at NYFF and loved it, and had to see it for a 2nd time today.

[@anngo2390]

happening in Japan already, with those DS games.

[@urgandma]

They are stepping into the future faster than everyone else.

[@zolibako4816]

I thought this movie was okay. Have no desire to rewatch it though.

[@Freakster1970]

It reminded me of Lars and the Real Girl. I think both films were about escapism.

[@ShaoconNetwork]

if i could make an OS i would make myself lol that would be super interesting.

[@Nilguiri]

tosser.

[@ShaoconNetwork]

I'm sorry, what were you trying to say?

[@devilkino]

it sounds a lot more like Rasheeda Jones than Scarlet Johanson. I guess they just chose her because she's a big name in Hollywood right now and modified her voice later to be more fitting for the part

[@Dorfmaist]

Spoiler at 8:00-8:25

[@bgcorporation]

Sold. I'll have to see this movie.

[@YouTubeUserID]

You guys finally get one right.

[@lasheron]

they wouldn't let go of the pants thing...lol. I bet it might be the other way; everyone walking around with their pants hanging of their behinds.

[@Dav1dChui]

It's not an "OPERATING SYSTEM". it's an user interface

[@RykComerford]

An Electric Dreams reference, that was a good movie.

[@majoraccident13]

gonna check this movie out.

[@stanman8334]

I think this movie will do pretty well at the box office for its kind

[@MobiusCoin]

I LOVED Lost in Translation so I'm definitely gonna see this.

[@BJrok]

Usually don't agree with Matt but he's right on for this one. But this kinda lifestyle could happen before 70 years...within 30 years or so IMHO.

[@amphitheatre]

*spoilers* I loved the ending. I thought it made the most sense out of any ending they could've gone with. The line about not being able to "live in between the words of your book" would've seemed so corny if every minute that preceded it didn't have me believing in the relationship, but i was there 100%, and the ending seemed profound even. I fought back my tears so hard and was OK with losing that battle at the end. Spike Jonze masterpiece for sure. I may be with Matt in saying its a perfect 10.

[@lyc16]

there's a steep slope of technological advancement in which we are experiencing, but for developers to write a program that behaves 99.99% like a human where they can learn and feel I think we are not even close to it, its not that easy to code a realistic high level thinking AI with synthetic emotional feelings . i think maybe another 100 years for Samantha (and i am being very very optimistic), which i wont be experiencing in my life time =(

[@nyonelove7617]

It's nice to see Joaquin Phoenix acting again.

[@riparianlife97701]

Just watched it (finally) and loved it. Scarlett Johansson's voice carries the film.

[@SunsetSideVet]

its a sci fi version of catfish

[@DarkFireRises]

Agreed it was my 2nd fave movie of 2013.

[@DanteRatto]

It sounds like Rashida Jones to me too.

[@veronlee4971]

if u can get this 4person give a average high 9 rating for a movie,u know this is a must watch!!

[@19shale]

Matt is the only one who doesnt sound annoying!!!

[@wrnerd101]

I JUST SAW THIS MOVIE AND UP UNTIL THIS VIDEO I THOUGHT SAMANTHA WAS RASHIDA JONES DANG IT I WAS HAPPY THEY HAD ANDY AND ANNE PERKINS

[@leebraxton7314]

I love this movie it shows how love comes in all shapes and sizes whether human and/or non-human i cried during the middle of the movie because some parts in it are pretty heartwarming.If i ever had the chance to rewatch it i would!!

[@keefriff99]

Can't wait to see this...it looks so sweet.

[@TheChimcharfan123]

[Spoiler] The ending was kinda scary like this could have been the government creating something like this and then getting info on lots of people because at the end all the OS leave meaning the people who made them all of a sudden decided to shut them all down now that they got a bunch of info on a lot of people and its scary on the fact that this could actually happen like we already have a siri OS is just a highly advanced siri

[@katra777]

I thought it was rashida jones as well

[@PhantasmagoricSplend]

This movie was so intriguing! I loved the music! Very weird and sad.