App the move - an interactive movie about Android, Siri and Samsung
Makradar Devices / / December 19, 2019
Yesterday in cinemas started showing interactive movie "Android" ( "App" - in the original), which I got, and I want to share impressions from viewing. The film tells about a certain girl, Anna, who discovers that he is on the Samsung smartphone (in the original, this brand It does not appear only in the Russian adaptation) a new application - voice assistant IRIS (you know, Yes?). And then begin to occur strange and terrible events.
The main "chip" of films was supposed to be some kind of interactivity. Before the start of the session you want to download a special application from the iTunes or Google Play and run during the start of the show. Appendix synchronized with the soundtrack, while viewing vibrated at key points and showed parallel events.
In general, during the film such moments were about ten. And the use of them has been practically no. For example, Anna takes a smartphone in the hands and on the big screen shows a view of a third person as she flips through the menu, and on the application screen shows a view of the first - with a smartphone camera. But often, instead of parallel events and videos with them, we are shown a variety of correspondence in chat rooms and SMS. Appendix showing delayed; actions already occurred occurred on the main screen, and the application is not present - all this spoils the already not very catchy atmosphere.
If we talk about the atmosphere and the story, then there is not only laugh child or an elderly person who does not know, in principle, that such a smartphone. Characters bear frank delirium little less than once every 10 minutes.
- How could you give my phone? There's also all my photos!
It is clear that the service sync photos using iCloud users can not Android, but he has learned to backup fotochki Google Account. About something like Dropbox, I am silent.
In addition to the idea of a two-screen, the developers would probably convey information that is not necessary install apps from unknown sources, and, in general, all the artificial intelligence win. But in fact, it showed that Android - leaky tub of viruses. Yes, the application then replicate itself on the iPhone, and even on the PC, but it has not caused a smile, and feyspalm.
Apparently, it has become fashionable to use smartphones and tablets as additional screens to everything, anything. View at least on Xbox SmartGlass and games like Battlefield 4 and Beyond: Two Souls - each of them has an interactive element with a handheld device. But that's the point: there is an impact on the process, and in the film - no. So it turns out, it was assumed that the film - bullshit, self-realization - nonsense, money - in the trash.
At the premiere in the hall had accumulated a total of six people. On the front seat sat a young man with a machine on "Robots," which restarted a few times something, and then completely put the smartphone in your pocket - apparently, everything is really bad.
For me was incomprehensible only one question: how it realizes that I'm in a movie theater? Access to the network is not like asking only to the microphone. Including trailers - says that a fool. How to watch it on DVD and Blue-ray after the release, it is not clear ...
Fairly good idea ruined, once again, the implementation. The events taking place in parallel, to be displayed with different characters from raznyhe places. Why would I want to watch the same scene from different angles? Although, why would I do it all look?
P.S. WARNING, SPOILER!
At the end of the film, one of the heroes killed by explosion phone, when he brings it to his ear. Good joke Exploding Galaxy.