Anyone see “M3GAN”?
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Good point, though the Chucky remake was also about an AI going wrong (or rather being manipulated by a disgruntled employee).
I meant in terms of superficial ingredients and feel of it. Killer doll, scenes of unsuspecting to-be victims mistreating the doll or not being afraid of it when we as the audience know how dangerous it is, etc. Same method of generating suspense.The big difference narratively, aside from the AI angle, is that in Child’s Play, Andy is the one who realizes the doll is evil, and the grown ups dont take him seriously. In M3gan, the child grows attached to the doll, which on its own is actually a better message. Absent parental care, kids will become attached to technology. But emotionally, I found Child’s Play to be more efficient. That poor kid is put through the wringer in that movie, even suspected of murder and locked up in an nuthouse – and even there Chucky comes for him. In M3gan, the danger comes from the doll / robot being able to overpower grown ups. It’s like a mini terminator, which is less interesting. I would have preferred if the kid realized its AI companion was evil, but the grown ups didn’t believe her, because they blindly trust technology. What bothered me was that the movie didn’t really seem to know what it wanted to be. It wasn’t scary or brutal enough to be a horror film, it wasn’t emotional or deep enough to be a drama, and the sci fi angle was never more than the usual hollywood techno-babble. Chucky committed to being a horror film, and the other aspects, the drama, the dark comedy, the consumerism or mental health or voodoo aspects never took center stage. It was a killer doll movie. M3gan tries to be more by doing more stuff, but ends up shining at none of them. Still, it’s a nice little thriller with a decent message.
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