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Love this movie, but there are some things that bugs me about the story


I have this feeling that many don't understand the movie as it is meant, but that's up to each, so I don't really care.

What I do care about are somethings that bug the hell out of me.
I'm not a super genius, but I still feel that the smart thing to do once you had a secure base is design secure and secret backup solutions.

And a system as powerful as descried in this movie is way smarter than me so it should have easily seen the same flaws I do (and I see several).

Worse still is that with the nanite tech it would have been easy to build secret and secure backups, and then disappear any links after activation. It is just plain stupidity to NOT do it.

And this bugs the hell out of me in regards to this movie. Grrr

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I feel the same way. The AI was so intelligent, and thought so fast, it just seemed pure plot-stupidity to have that silly bunch of anti-AI guerrillas actually threaten and destroy his set-up.

Yes, no back-ups? An AI like that doesn't have a copy of itself somewhere safe in an underground bunker somewhere?

Knocking out a few solar panels left him so low on power that he had to make that silly choice at the end to save EITHER his wife or his best friend? What, when a cloud crosses the sun he is weakened? He's dead at night? That's ridiculous. He would obviously have had not only backup grid power, but underground battery storage for his solar panels.

But I know, they had to move the plot forward and he had to be beaten somehow in the end. But they should have come up with a better way. This was like Kirk and Spock blowing up the android world's brain by acting illogical until sparks and smoke started coming out of their heads:)

Maybe they ran short on time and money and had to film a quick wrap-up scene?

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Will was Nuclear Man from Superman IV: Quest for Crap.

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A backup is useless if the entire world was shut down... no internet at all! What is a backup gonna do? Think you missed the point on that one. As for the solar power, that was never an issue. He couldn't save both because of the time, not lack of power.

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I thought maybe that secret nanite flower garden shown at the very end was a hint that there was a partial backup.

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