{"id":3879,"date":"2015-03-04T10:37:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T15:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2015-03-04T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T15:46:08","slug":"ex-machina-official-trailer-looks-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/03\/04\/ex-machina-official-trailer-looks-amazing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ex Machina&#8217; Official Trailer Looks Amazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Isaac has made some great film project choices, as he&#8217;s recently starred in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/02\/18\/oscar-isaac-real-deal-violent-year\/\"><em>A Most Violent Year<\/em><\/a>, and\u00a0<em>Inside Llewlyn Davis;\u00a0<\/em>he&#8217;ll also be starring in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/01\/07\/who-are-the-exciting-new-additions-to-star-wars-the-force-awakens\/\"><em>Star Wars: the Force Awakens<\/em><\/a>. However, from the looks of the first trailer and the talent invovled, <em>Ex Machina<\/em> might be his most interesting project yet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ex Machina<\/em> weaves the story of a young programmer that&#8217;s chosen to stay at a testing facility to evaluate the capabilities of an extraordinary female A.I. Alex Garland wrote and directed this film, and he is quite a talent, at least in the writing department. Garland has penned such scripts as <em>28 Days Later<\/em>, <em>Sunshine<\/em>, and <em>Dredd<\/em>. It definitely looks like a breath of fresh air in the Sci-Fi genre, even though the A.I. plot has been done before. This film looks disturbing and intelligent, with a very intriguing plot that will question our passion for technology and the extent of the human condition.\u00a0Did I mention it&#8217;s not a sequel or a remake?<\/p>\n<p>Joining Oscar Isaac is Domhnall Gleeson, who plays the young programmer Caleb, and Alicia Vikander, who plays Ava the female A.I. Obviously, the title derives from the Latin phrase &#8220;Deus Ex-Machina,&#8221; which means &#8220;God from the Machine.&#8221; The term is used in plays and cinema to describe a celestial event or being that saves a seemingly hopeless situation. That doesn&#8217;t seem to be the case in this film though, or at least I hope it won&#8217;t be.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ex Machina<\/em> has just shot up to the top of my most anticipated films of 2015 list with a bullet.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bggUmgeMCdc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Isaac has made some great film project choices, as he&#8217;s recently starred in A Most Violent Year, and\u00a0Inside Llewlyn Davis;\u00a0he&#8217;ll also be starring in Star Wars: the Force Awakens. However, from the looks of the first trailer and the talent invovled, Ex Machina might be his most interesting project yet. Ex Machina weaves the<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/03\/04\/ex-machina-official-trailer-looks-amazing\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":3881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,138],"tags":[1798,1796,1795,1178,1720,1797],"class_list":{"0":"post-3879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movie-trailers","8":"category-movies","9":"tag-a-i","10":"tag-alex-garland","11":"tag-ex-machina","12":"tag-movie-trailer","13":"tag-oscar-isaac","14":"tag-sci-fi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}