There were no children in this movie

Rating: 2/10 (7 May 2006)

And that was on the top of my mind the whole time. Are we really to believe LA could be ten times the size and population it is now in just a matter of decades? This film has an impossible view of reality. The truth is, you can't have overpopulation if nobody in the future makes babies. Sounds old fashioned, but that's the grim reality of the 21st century, which in just a few decades will see perhaps the first voluntary decrease of the entire world population. We're just about at our peak, folks. The issues of the coming century will be how to have a stable society in which all its institutions become increasingly evacuated. Liberals who make these sci-fi films just don't get it. The future is not going to be a mechanical, sexy, technological utopia. It will be filled with religious strife as it has for millenia, because it's the pious who procreate more.
Sure, maybe we will one day have androids that look human, maybe even think somewhat human. Maybe we will love them, like we love a pet. But it's absurd to say we will farm them out like slaves. Imagine that. We make these droids in our own likeness with our own emotions and then submit them to slavery. Like humanity could sink so low and still have a working civilization. We could have made them look like machines, but instead we chose our likeness. Riiight.
I think I would have swallowed this stuff when I was a fifteen, but thankfully I've since matured just a little.
I don't care much for special effects anymore, though I'll give the critics the beneift of the doubt that there were breakthroughs in style and technique here...too bad they were wasted.