3Amoviegos

This week on 3Amoviegos Ian, Martyn & Joe hop the border to obverse patriotism in a very sporadic conversation inspired by the 1996 Roland Emmerich disaster film, Independence Day. In the first of many Dystopian and Alien appearances over a career of films, Will Smith stars as Captain Hiller, an air force pilot who finds himself thrust into an alien invasion scenario and must team with Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman and Harry “The Goose" Connick Jr. to save the United States…and the world. Independence Day is an ultimate encounter of the third kind when a mysterious and hostile squadron of aliens mount an all out invasion against the human race. When 15 mile wide ships appear and begin exterminating every major city all over the world, the human race must band together and try everything they can to survive and defeat the invading extra-terrestrials…(cue “USA” chant). Light up a few fireworks and maybe a good weenie, take a step back in time with us and hear your heroes bounce from topic to topic all inspired by the plot of the film, and end with a barbecued version of Highlepenos, on this week’s Star-Spangled episode of 3Amoviegos.

This week, Ian, Martyn & Joe metaphorically shave their heads in an attempt to “Be Happy” while they talk about George Lucas’ debut feature film, THX-1138. THX-1138 is set in a society where sex is illegal, mind altering medications are mandatory to ensure their ability to perform dangerous tasks, and all surroundings are white, plain and maze-like. When factory worker THX-1138 (Robert Duvall) and his female roommate LUH-3417 (Maggie McOmie) start altering their medications and feeling emotional attachment to each other, they attract attention of the controlling entity of this dystopian 25th century world. Separated and imprisoned, THX sets out to rescue LUH and escape the powers that be, accompanied by the tempting and manipulative SEN-5241 (Donald Pleasance) and a hologram they encounter along the way, SRT-5752 (Don Pedro Colley). This 1971 American Zoetrope cult classic film calls into question the corporatization and medication of a culture, which seems to have being happening concurrently in the real world. It reminds us that we are humans and should not exist as puppets of the state in a suppressed, self-policing culture, and that we need to wake up to that on our own. All this, and the re-introduction of our rating system, Highlepeños, on this week’s episode of 3Amoviegos.

This week on 3Amoviegos Ian, Martyn & Joe ride side-saddle with special guest @Jenniferwillcut and discuss the concepts of Alex Winter’s Deep Web, moreso than the film itself. Deep Web is the story of Silk Road and the trials of Ross Ulbricht, creator and one of the administrators of Silk Road operating under the shared pseudonym, Dread Pirate Roberts. Winter explores the vast section of the World Wide Web that extends far beyond the confines of entities like Google, Facebook and even the Banking System. From the first appearances of Silk Road, to the waves it created for the problematic and failing “War on Drugs,” and revealing the blatant corruption and injustice that goes on daily in pursuit of an archaic crusade that has fostered more violence and corruption than the acts it was designed to combat. Deep Web is a film that everyone should see to understand certain elements of privacy, how it’s being subverted by the watchdogs of governing bodies everywhere, and how Keanu Reeves can narrate the hell out of a movie. All this and much more on this week’s 3Amoviegos.

This week on 3amoviegos, Ian, Martyn & Joe invite Shelby along to join them in seeing Dwayne “The Rock Cock” Johnson in San Andreas. In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, Ray (Johnson), a rescue-chopper pilot along with his wife (Carla Gugino) makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter, Blake (Alexandra Daddario.) Meanwhile, Paul Giamatti plays Lawrence, a Cal Tech seismologist who, along with his partner Kim (Will Yun Lee) have discovered a formula by which to predict and detect earthquakes. The question is, will it be enough? See how many different ways our heroes can switch up Dwayne “The Rock’s” name, on this episode of 3Amoviegos.

This week on 3Amoviegos, our heroes are left with the open question of what is morally wrong when it comes to creating and how to treat A.I. as they chat about Alex Garland’s Ex Machina. Computer programmer Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) wins an an opportunity to spend one week in the estate of Google-like company Bluebook owner Nathan (Oscar Issac) in the mountains. Upon arrival, Caleb discovers that within this state-of-art research facility, Nathan has requested him there to perform a Turing test. We then discover that Nathan has created an artificial intelligence in a female body called Ava. Caleb is supposed to evaluate Ava’s A.I. and determine if it’s beyond doubt that she is a live consciousness. Through many interactions with Ava, and also with Nathan, Caleb is torn in many directions on my different moral levels, until we are all left with the question of what is life, what is consciousness, and what is truth? And we wrap up with show with a little chat about Bruce Jenner, on this week’s 3Amoviegos.