The Creator: the film that could have been great 

I had two main issues with the story: 1. The bad humans were laughably bad and were allowed to do things internationally that made zero sense. 2. The robots were perfectly good. The one interesting thing we were led to believe they did, they didn't. This is the James Cameron "Avatar" school of storytelling.

You might think posting this late at night that nobody would notice... but we're watching Lindy. We're always watching.

"Only one thumb!" Throwback to the video were Lindy passionately advocates for a second thumb.

A guy once told me about seeing Star Wars for the first time when it was in theaters back in 1977. The thing that stuck with him the most was the moment on Tatooine where C-3P0 is waiving at the Jawas while standing in front of a giant dinosaur skeleton. Obviously Lucas didn't create Tolkien level depth to his lore, but little things like that conveyed that there was a vast universe here and we're only seeing one story in it.

A major drawback of robotic limbs is constantly looking for recharging points, & when you find one realising you've picked up the wrong charging lead, again. 😂

You know a man is genuinely charismatic when you enjoy watching him rant about Sci-Fi for twenty minutes straight without letting you get a word in edgewise.

the visual inconsistencies of Nomads size/orbit triggered me so hard

"The characters visit a monastery and all the monks are robots." [Douglas Adams has entered the chat.]

Ah good to see Lindy criticize movies again!

"It is/looks cool" can be a valid reason for any single aspect of a movie but that can't be all you hang your hat on - at least not in aggregate

I didn't know Gareth Edwards did the cinematography himself, but it very well explains why it looks beautiful while the acting falls completely flat. I bet the actors jobs were a lot easier not having to take notes and direction as much as typical, but man does it show in their performances.

I actually forgot that I have already watched this film and a few days ago I saw the cover and title again and thought "Oh, that film might be interesting, maybe I will watch it" but in the end decided to watch something else. Now I am watching your video and the memorys come back that I already watched it. So yeah, not really memorable... I totally feel the "Oh, what was it called again?"

Showing the NOMAD before the end of the film was a big mistake. It should have been nothing but ominous targeting lights until a big reveal at the end.

I, as a human in the real world, do, in fact, announce when the power comes back on, even if it is already apparent to everyone present

Sorry for being a know-it-all but as a VFX artist I want to point put that special effects are the practical props and effects like fire and explosions on set The post-processing/CGI is part of the Visual effects department So: Real boom made by explosives = special effects Fake explosion made with computer-generated graphics(CG) = visual effects Salty VFX artist shall return with more movie facts next review! :D

Lindy is flapping his mouthparts in a way that creates interesting vibrations of the air that my movable head-bone parts enjoy swinging in tune with.

The quality is such that I completely forgot I saw it a month ago, until I just looked up the trailer.

The film does briefly explain why the main character lost his limbs. It was a throwaway line about the nuclear "attack," in LA. He lost his family and was crippled by the blast.

I never thought I'd see someone who has seen Monsters. It's a little gem.

The giant laser light thingy did look great, but thought it was rather a dead giveaway for the sneaky sneaky soldiers making their way up the beach. Very impolite of high command to do that

Yes I saw this film and had many of the same issues. I was disappointed to not get anything truly sci Fi at all. It became clear that the world building was not very thought through. Really enjoyed dune part 2

I was 9 minutes in where you started talking about the east and west divide on AI before I realised I have watched this movie. Goes above forgetting the name the day after.

18:17 the moment when Lindey was asked to resign from his club and return his Blue Peter badge.

Never heard of it...ignorance is bliss. Thank you for your hard work sir.

Great review. I went to see The Creator at the cinema. I thought the trailer looked impressive in terms of special effects, but it did looked a bit shallow. The film never really went past the plot of the trailer in my view. The carnage of the giant tanks was just so over the top that it got exceedingly boring. The 'AI' was obviously the good guys!

Have you watched The Expanse? Almost all of my many questions had brilliant in-universe answers, either in the TV show itself, on the books, or occasionally provided by the writers. It really is the pinnacle of hard Sci-Fi... ...in my opinion!

The main problem with this film is that the studio wanted him to make Rogue One again, but different. There are many similarities in the plot, but many of the new elements simply fell flat and the world building was not convincing. I checked out when the friend poked the child with a screw driver for 30 seconds and by doing so, discovered her unlimited potential.

I thought first, the light coming from the station were a scanner searching for robots. And I was annoyed that the designers let it flicker, so that even if they flew directly over a target, there would be a big chance to miss it because the laser was currently off, and because they would nit use the whole available width of the ship to scan. Other things about the station that had me question things: Why does a military base have reaserch centers and plantations? Why do they have crosshairs directly underneath when the munitions flies hundreds of miles away? Why is a military base publically reachable? (I might misremember that one) Why does the eastern military not oppose a big effing ship violating theyr airspace? (I did not really pick up the discrepancies on orbit hight by myself, but what the hell???) Also on the story: so many almost hinted at but co.pletely missed opportunities for an actually good plot with depth. Overall feeling: good visual team, scripted by chatgpt

I'm glad to see someone else who appreciates Rogue One! I think it's the best of the recent Star Wars, arguably the best of them all.

"... like she knows that [...] because she's read the script"... somehow I heard this in a combination of Lindy's and Critical Drinker's voice...

A movie about AI that feels like it was written by ChatGPT. Like seriously, it's like Gareth Edwards opened up ChatGPT and gave the software pretty much every tired Sci-Fi movie trope as a prompt. Oh and Denzel's son can't act to save his life.

Battlestar Galactica had the cyborgs, the Cylons, resurrected if destroyed by transferring their "soul", their consciousness and personality, into a body double (there was a limited number of Cylon "models") as long as a "Resurrection Ship" was close enough for the data transfer. apart from similar base character traits for each model, no two Cylons were actually alike due to different personalities resulting from different experiences. this was a great concept and a great show.

I just spoke to a friend who had seen the movie. When I asked him what he thought of it, he gave me a four letter review, which was, and I quote: "Toss."

Lloyd is a better media reviewer than almost anyone else on youtube today. Not fussy, not full of himself, not trying to decipher the symbolism of every fuckin tree branch

“We’ve got power back” or “we’re back up [online]” are said often and annoyingly in films, but ironically people actually say that IRL despite it being obvious.

All great points Mr Beige, wondered why this film didn’t really click for me beyond the visuals and here we have it

In Search of Hannibal: the comic that could have been great

I think my favorite thing about Lindybeigh is the incredible range of topics he can cover. From historical lectures (my favorite) to production commentary. This channel is one of my favorite content creators in the history of RU-vid.

Nothing better than Lindybeige ramblings but it is 1:35 am in Turkey and I am way too drunk to catch up with him. Someone reply to this in 12 hours so I will be reminded to come back to this video pls thx.

"Once Upon a Time in Mexico" is a decent-ish 2003 American action western-type film written, directed, produced, photographed, scored, and edited by Robert Rodriguez. Is the same in concept and uses the early 4K cameras that enabled an 'ordinary person' to make flims - as Rodriguez explains in the extra bits on the DVD. But twenty years on we find that content is still king, and Lindybeige is really just saying that no matter how much tech you have, story writing is the real driver.

When I saw the trailer for this film, I had an intuition that it might just be propaganda to increase support for AI. Looks like I might have been right… Thank you for the review!

Agree with everything. World building is maybe the most important component in fiction. Tolkien world building combined with modern story telling and visuals are needed. Game of Thrones was close, up to season 5 and they decided to just ignore the world building.

Wonderful critique. I am so impressed with your knowledge of filmmaking. That's what I've done with the last mini years of my life so my compliments to you. I always love your channel.

He swore ! He done a cuss! Never thought I'd see the day.

Great to see you back Lindy! 🎉🎉🎉

Nice review. I had a lot of similar thoughts. Came out of the cinema thinking it was a setting written by a teenager for a younger sibling.

"World Building" = The 13 episodes of "Firefly" followed by "Serenity". Then you get to mourn forever that no more exists.

I just watched this last night, perfect time to watch your analysis!

I absolutely love the variety of topics you speak on.

"Flapping the mouth parts" is such a fun way to say "talk". I will use it myself

Awww. I had great hopes for this. Been a while since a trailer had excited to see a movie.

Many of the things Lloyd brings up I feel are answered in the film. And the film is displaying a "protracted war," which means the conflict has gone on for a long time, the two sides have dissimilar forces and tactics, and the society has compensated from the carnage. I am curious if Lloyd has watched any of the "Ghost in the Shell" shows and movies.

A huge comeback to old (stellar) form. Appreciated.

01:22 his hit and run style for Monsters wasn’t surprising. I met him a couple of years before he made that film at the Sci-fi London 48 hour film challenge, a competition where teams of filmmakers are given 48 hours to produce a short film based around some key words you are randomly given as the title. My team’s effort was called G.L.I.B. Edwards’ team won with an amazing short called Factory Farmed! Which made most in the competition look amateur by comparison! 😂

More movie reviews plz! This was on point!

Visually appealing with tired tropes and unrealistic depictions of AI and lacking character depth, I love the general message of empathy and acceptance but so much of it was just unbelievable to me. One of the aspects that really caught my attention that no one else seems to be mentioning much is the depiction of "New Asia" with a lot of American stereotypes intact. It really felt like it was trying to be a Vietnam war film, in my mind. Also, the robotic limbs! Yes, I'm glad you mentioned those! I really expected there to be some discussion about people with cybernetic augmentations (something that would make them sort of halfway between human and AI). One more wasted opportunity. And remote, wireless communication is one of the biggest fears people have of AI, I think. Being able to coordinate virtually instantaneously has huge advantages and is tech that is ubiquitous even nowadays. Obviously, it would be possible for future AIs too. That clunky story scene really caught my attention because of their use of the word "species." The AI says that the two "species" (meaning human and AI) could live in peace. It's obvious that whoever wrote that intended to send a message of empathy but I don't think it's scientifically accurate to call AI (even self-aware AI) a species. Though, that does open up an avenue of discussion that is worth exploring, in my opinion: the question of how we define life and what subsequent rights come with that. It's one that so many good sci-fi works have explored and for good reason!

I can only hope to live long enough to see the Lindybeige movie. I'll be patiently waiting....

Ah man I love these random tangent videos on this channel ❤

I'd not only forgotten the name of film but also that I'd seen it. Your description reminded me that I had, still can't remember what happened in the film. Which is probably for the best...

There is not just one, but two scenes in which an animal blows up something using explosives. And it's a different animal each time.

Looks like a portfolio for cool stuff, I want to watch it now

The fact that Lindy knows about disneys absolute steam rolling of the starwars franchise makes me so happy

I was very excited to see this film.. I watched it quite recently....and I really couldn't tell you ANYTHING about it.... which tells you everything you need to know and about how invested I was in the story....

Wonderful review.

The 80’s Dune movie wasn't the most expensive movie ever made at the time. For instance, The Blues Brothers cost over 80 million and it was estimated that about a third of that went to cocaine. Dune had a much lower cocaine budget.

Feels like a slightly better Neil Blomkamp movie. Kept me mildly entertained whilst watching but I can't really remember what happened in it.

Splendid as always

A recurring theme in many modern films: special effects, action scenes and rump pumpy take precedence over such old fashioned aspects such as acting, characterisation, or a plot. Once upon a time I recall some one ranked the British newspapers by the average reading age required; it would be jolly fun to see what sort of intelligence watching a given film requires. And yes - I switched onto your channel Lloyd because of your reviews of such films as Troy (crap archery in) and Iron Clad. I would happily watch more of this.

Good insight re Tolkien and the sense of depth and dynasty you got from LotR. The appendices gave me a sense of divine revelation in the mythos.

Good to see you're still a strong advocate of the two thumbs per hand idea 👍

It wasn't a bad film, it wasn't a good film either if I'm being honest. One thing that did interest me was the idea that the "bad guys" used robots too, but their lack of trust in robots meant that they used them as walking bombs. We were clearly meant to regard these little bombs as quirky, whilst their deployment was deliberately ruthless, gave me a certain 40k vibe, a child-friendly, with colouring pens, 40k vibe, but still a vibe.

Lindybeige detected, veins injected.

The part where the absurdly giant tank painted targets was just odd. Why would you telegraph your attacks?

I feel you. If you start looking for logical rationality in a movie, you are not the intended audience. The trailer gave the impression that the set designer was inspired by Blade Runner and Simon Stålenhag's art. (Huge sci-fi technology in the distance viewed by children in the foreground set in a desolate 80's Sweden.)

OMG i love this, more Beige movie reviews Please :)

The first hour was good I thought it was going in a direction but then it shifted entirely to a quick and odd ending that just felt rushed. Sad because you did invest in the characters.

I love these reviews.

I always saw his missing limbs as a middle ground between those who hate AI and those who don't. Here we have a guy who is fighting robots but is half robot himself, kinda shows he is not totally on one side or the other. Makes the whole flip flopping allegiance more plausible.

Hearing "no shit Sherlock" from Lindy was so satisfying.

When this popped up, I wondered if you would have the same issues I had and I am glad you did. I found it so weird the AI side was shown to be living in shacks etc with no explanation.

everyone does concur with your rouge one option, was house Motague or house Capulet the good guys? I still dont know whos side im on but is a good story.

I used to have difficulty remembering film names just after watching them, after sharing a friends "stash" at collage 40 years ago, now I think it's because I'm getting old, it happens to us all mate, I wouldn't worry about it.

Lindy you forgot that the base always needed to move above its target to shine its sights and then blow it up. But at the end the light could shine everywhere the it could blow up everything everywhere 😂😂😂

Sincere thanks- Just what I needed to break through this rainy day malaise😊

The Creator... The movie could have been great. But I got completely LOST in all the grandiose scenes. Also it didnt quite come together as a movie. It was more like a bunch of incredibly detailed, high-production scenes. But there was no red thread through the movie to follow. A but like equally high production quality, but weak-sauce Tenent

Hannibal: The Graphic Novel that could have been .

Hey, i like the new set background!

Monsters, and its soundtrack, is one of my personal all-time greats!

I liked the Creator. Like Lindy says it touches on many interesting ideas. And makes us think about them. It obviously made him think about them. Not everything has to be explained. I can come up with good reasons for why things are like they are in this movie. It works well enough for me and if the movie got us to think about it, it maybe achieved it's goal.

Would love a(Loyd Rants) reviuw of the unfortunate Disney Star Wars movies Keep up the good work, sir : ) And SKÅL from Denmark

Hi Lloyd! Off topic, but I figured I'd have a better chance of getting a response on a new vid. Can I ask who made the arming doublet you wear? Every time I order one, even when I select the "thin" option, it comes to me thick as a body builders duvet. Yours looks nice & accurate. I have a mighty need.

The big hole through the heads of the robots annoyed me no end. Why have a huge opening for dust and dirt where you can see sensitive mechanical parts inside?

I feel like you'd do a brilliant job creating a "pitch meeting" video for some of these, uh, favorite films.

I saw the thumbnail for your video and though "I should probably watch the movie before watching Lloyd's video". I started the film and realised that I'd actually watched it already, about a week ago. Also not a great sign.

love to see you review the movie: Zone of Interest

I suppose if you did have a robot arm and robot leg you would want them to be similar strength to your human ones or you'd be really unbalanced. You might have small advantages like a stronger grip and perhaps some armour on them and lack of pain if they get damaged.

Never mind the content, subject, message. We.. Watch.,... Lindy 😅😂🎉

Brilliant! Nicholas, old thing, could you do a video like this on Equilibrium? I would really REALLY love to know what you think of it.

“In Search of Hannibal.” The book that could have been great.

Holy hell. A new Lindybeige AND a new Tourette's Guy on the same day!?? What did I do to deserve such a glorious Monday!?