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last thought for the afternoon	5:01pm 7/28/2005
Looking at the ads for Stealth, Jamie Foxx's seemingly ill-conceived followup to Ray, i can't help but think that the whole thing is a slightly more ominous telling of Short Circuit. A cutting-edge robot gets struck by lightning and doesn't want to obey its programming any more. Wouldn't it be great if the AI pilot in Stealth tries to hook up with Ally Sheedy? Is there a comical foreign character like Fisher Stevens? It's interesting that in the ~20 years since Short Circuit, lightning is apparently now considered a bad thing for electronics, as opposed to the intelligence-bringing force it was in 1986. I've got an idea ... let's make an Alien Vs. Predator-style flick where all the self-aware robots from the annals of cinema, including Number Five, the AI pilot from Stealth, SkyNet from the Terminator movies, HAL 9000 from 2001, that impossibly annoying monstrosity from AI, Robocop, and any others i've forgotten duke it out for the fate of humanity. My money's on SkyNet. I don't think Number Five's pop-gun laser and lousy puns are going to make much of a difference. At least we'd get to see someone disassemble Haley Joel Osment though.
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Matthew	8:01pm 7/28/2005
I read Stealth finished filming before Foxx started even filming Ray. I'm guessing they were looking for a more 'war-friendly' time to release the movie. Foxx getting an oscar inbetween can't hurt either.....

ted (www)	10:34pm 7/28/2005
Roger Ebert put it as "[Jamie Foxx] in his speech on Oscar night should have thanked God this movie wasn't released while the voters were marking their ballots".

naomi	6:25pm 7/29/2005
you're forgetting W.O.P.R. he can play chess and thermonuclear war. he may not be good at tic tac toe, but he can obliterate the world! mwaha!

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