MovieBob said:
Transcendence - SkyNet? More Like SkyNot
Transcendence is a movie that's trying really, really hard to be smart, but ultimately comes across more insulting instead.
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BIG GRIPE: Polio has NOT been cured. Widespread vaccination has made it a basically non-issue in the modern developed world. BUT people in the developing and un-developed world still get it (Anti-Vaccination crowd, good luck fighting this off by eating dirt - you're playing Russian Roulette). ALSO, those lucky enough to have survived Polio, can have a relapse - POST POLIO SYNDROME - if their immune system is compromised due to subsequent illness, excessive physical/emotional stress, auto-immune disorders, old age, etc., or just because. All those people that got it in the epidemic in the 50's and lived through it can, and do, relapse.
The Polio virus is like Chicken Pox. You get over it but it NEVER leaves your body. If your immune system is compromised it can relapse as Shingles. To reiterate, Polio DOES NOT have a cure (like certain pox, HSV, HPV, etc.). It has a vaccination to prevent you from getting it. If you do get it, the BEST you can hope for is to live through it without permanent paralysis.
Secondary Gripe: Hey Virtuosity was cool (no need to wink to the point of a nervous tick, or whiplash, or ruining your own joke - we got the reference). Jim should do an MDF on it. But yah, I could tell just from the trailers this was going to be pseudo-intellectual garbage. A big-budget Lawnmower Man with none of the fun.