Based on the
negative reviews, I suspect I'm not going to see Transcendence until it's available on pay-per-view. And based on its bad
box office, I wonder if public interest (whether hopes or fears) in Singularity/transhumanism-type stuff is considerably lower than people who focus on this sort of thing (as I
sometimes do) tend to assume. It could just be that this is such a bad movie that people are turned off, but if people really cared about the subject, they might show up anyway. The recent Pew polling results I
mentioned recently also suggest that a more-than-human future isn't something for which many people are striving, and perhaps that's because they're not giving it a lot of thought.
Also, to follow up: My
review of the Vicious Brothers' Extraterrestrial bucks a trend of
negative takes on that film. (Come to think of it, I shouldn't assume Transcendence is terrible without having seen it.)
UPDATE 4/25: The Vicious Brothers speak.
