Electroma is a meaningful story about 2 robots who want 2 be human. As you can see from the 10 minute highlight reel below, the robots drive in cars, put on plastic human skin, and then burn themselves’ alive.
I can’t even remember when Daft Punk’s film ELECTROMA came out (in 10 total theatres). Is it still in post-production? Is it coming out soon? I know that as an electroDescendant, I must find Daft Punk to be ‘authentic’/'a respected elder’, but just unsure about this lil robot film thingy.
Maybe because of the Masked DJ era, it’s more difficult to take a film about masked DJs who put on human masks seriously. I’m sure it provides relevant commentary on technology, humanity, and other important teen issues, but I don’t know if I will ever ‘get’ it. Maybe it’s a concept film like that one Wall-E.
Maybe I can identify with scenes like this where you feel like an alt in a mainstream world. :-(
h8 it when I go out in the sun & my face starts to melt.
SRSLY THO… who has actually SEEN all of ELECTROMA?
Do u know n e 1 who has actually sat through Electroma?
Do u know n e 1 who owns Electroma?
Do u know n e 1 who went to a [RARE] screening at an authentic movie theatre in a major metropolitan area in order to see it? Do u think they wasted ___ minutes of their lives’ watching a sillie robot film?
If this film was made in the 1960s, would we have seen it on Mystery Science Theatre 3000?
When a movie has a 4 minute long face-melting suicide scene, should we take it seriously?
(do scenes like this make ELECTROMA the greatest film ever made?)
I’m in crisis, yall. Don’t know how to feel about Electroma. Was it a landmark in filmmaking? Just wanna know if people have actually seen it. Have yall?
Why do all of the modern electroActs just make documentaries? Why can’t they make fictional stories about themselves and their quest 2 b __________.
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Hi there, i was fortunate enough to watch this film and wasnt dissapointed at all! Its definitly a film for those who like arthouse or arthouse style films, there are alot of long sequences which may sound boring but it does give you alot of time to reflect on the movie, and funnily enough yourself. I loved it from start to finish, my partner hated it with all her might, so i guess it just depends on what your into. Its definitly one of those you’ll either ‘love it or hate it’ films. But watch it anyway, i loved it
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//////////Reply by Weekend At Bernies
//////////Posted October 14th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
@the film kiwi,
u = FGGT
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//////////Reply by the film kiwi
//////////Posted October 14th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
@Weekend At Bernies,
FUCK YOU.
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//////////Reply by LKTROzMUZK2
//////////Posted October 14th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
@the film kiwi,
lol @ @berns must have not realized u were just joking to make ur pbrand more identifiable-with
Dude, this movie is great. seriously a bit slow at times, and some of the scenes just ‘dont work’. but some of the scenes, like the melty face sceen that ya mentioned, are awesome, and trample many films nowadays. i mean, if ya love movies, and d punk, ya gotta watch the whole thing to get an opinion for ya-self
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Sooo b0ring!
watched it and wept because it was so long. love daftpunk so much, but wouldn’t waste another 75 minutes on Electroma. Interstella 5555 is so kick ass tho!
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i went to a private screening of this last year, while i had been drunk off cheap wine. I felt like i was there a half hour and they still were driving the car. I was too drunk to stay so i went upstairs to a dance-partay.
i’m glad i saw the 10 minute version now though
that’s pretty much all i need
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hmm maybe if it wz lyk interstella & daft punkz wz the musiquez it wouldve been better. i thght getting drnk would make it better but… its hrd 4 me to diss daft punkz cuz i love em buttt… :-/
p.s. i<333 all thezz electr0docz. maybe i lead an unfulfilling lyfe then tho…
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I went to a private screening/exotic liquor tasting event last year. I thought the first 15 mins looked like Daft Punk meets Mad Max/was a lil’ confuzed.
“Hey we are just a couple of French robots cruisin the desert in our sweet Ferrari 412, trynta have an authentic human experience yall.”
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hge pile o’ flamn 313ctr0 p00pii !!!
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i watched it and then i sold every daft punk thing i owned which were kinda many at that point actually
looked real nice but was basically a boring piece of shit edited by dicks
3rd album was the warning sign i ignored
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//////////Reply by princemoney
//////////Posted October 14th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
@oliver,
whoa inspired hateration
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I’m embarassed to admit ive sat through this garbage film. it was slow as hell and the only people who like are jerk off d punk fanboys who want to seem really authentic by ‘getting it’
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saw it in theaters. it was ok after i left to smoke a bowl
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i saw it in marseille. they screened it at my girlfriend’s art opening. (busy p is her cousin.) it was certainly provocative, but i had had so many glasses of sancerre by the time the film was over that i couldn’t tell you how meaningful it was.
xavier and i were talking about it in the bathroom in between blowing lines. he said he hated it.
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//////////Reply by b.
//////////Posted October 14th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
@a.,
you’re so full of shit. who are you trying to impress, asshole?
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//////////Reply by Gaspard
//////////Posted October 14th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
@b., settle down there fggt. I believe every word cause I was there too. My brother (feadz) and my sister (uffie) and I were impressed. However, too much sangria and sparks led me throw up in the bathroom, mehdi threw cold water on me. My opinion of the movie was no different than the product of mixing too much sparks and sangria
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//////////Reply by Anonymous
//////////Posted October 14th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
@YALL
I was totally blowing lines w/ my uncle Michael Jackson and my older brother Pope Benedict XVIIXMX the other night while watching Across The Universe. Mike got a nosebleed and it got all over my new white leather sofa. S0000 pissed! But N E WAYZ, we should all have a big family reunion with Uffie and her brother/ex-boyfriend Feadz and Guy-Manuel and Busy P and Busy G and Busy E and Busy V this Christmas. Need to catch up with yall, been a while.
//////////Reply by a.
//////////Posted October 14th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
@Gaspard and Anonymous,
true, y’all, it’s been s0 long!
i’ll send out e-vites to the whole fam!
we could meet up at the family ski-lodge in the andorran pyrenees!! so psyched!
I sat through it. Loads of people got up and walked out. Anyone who says there was anything good about it is lying. It started off so promising but there is nothing redeemable about it at all. It’s just so nothing.
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actually saw it, kinda weird, not a complete bag of pooop
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i saw it, it’s ok
but it’s great if you see it on fast forward
less boring
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Carles???
blogging about thyngies from bloglightyears ago?
that’s so not like you suppose to be, isn’t it?
anyways, i like it, great soundtrack!
nobody mentioned that!!!! stoopids!
take blogging more serious..you start getting lame
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It’s pretty good to watch once, it’s really pretty if you have a big HD tv. Also this has been available for free on Google Videos for like two years. You can download it and watch it on your Ipod.
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i saw this and loved it.
it was really hilarious at times and i liked the minimal style of the movie. simple idea, done really beautifully.
i especially loved that scene where the desert landscape pans out and looks like a vagina with tons of muff.
carles, you should love it.
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honestly, i loved it. at the very least i think one would have to admit that it’s provocative. the friend that i went with hated it but either way it sparked a good discussion. i’d say it’s definitely worth seeing.
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the only thing this movie’s good for is playing on a screen at a party/school dance. or i guess any other setting where people aren’t supposed to be really paying attention to it.
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I downloaded it off the internet and it was really slow and long. I expect “film” people to like because of the meanings blah blah blah but it just did not have enough explosions and gunfights for me.
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this movie sucksss on the computer
if u dont have like a monster tv and sound system….just kill yrself.
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fucking legends.
respect, yo
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well at least daft punk is ‘human after all’
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Downloaded it off Kazaa/bearshare/bittorrent/limewire, sat through it all, music wasnt even by daft punk, prefer interstella, needs more BANGERS
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well
i found about this movie last year when daft punk was touring and everybody was talking about ALIVE, so i got reaaly interesting about them, i mean i love their music and i downloaded the movie but i just seen some parts of it… and i think its a little bit complicated to understand it but… i dont feel like watching it one more time hahaha
cheerioo
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I loved it. It’s not really something most altbags would enjoy, though, because it actually requires at least a few brain cells and an attention span past 30 sec. The final scene was to die for… err…
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i’v seen it. I downloaded it coz it’s meant to be soooooooooo good, but was pretty disappointed in the end. And i didn’t even see the whole thing. about 4/10 for me.
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i rented it from itoons. watching it felt like i had had a lobotomy. the themes and tone and everything was so obvious — like watching american idol for the hipster set.
bottom line: a fake art film for people who want to be arty or feel “deep” but are actually neither.
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best move ever made or greatest movie ever made?
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this is for people who are jaded to feel like something actually matters. because dying children in africa is s0000 mainstream.
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i thought it was a great movie, the soundtrack is appropiate, and the end is so powerful. thats all.
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ITZ GOT NO TITAEZ WHICH UNFORTUNATELY = A GHEY FILM XOXO
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The first time I saw Daft Punk’s Electroma, it was nearly one year ago to the day, and it was with my future girlfriend. She’s still not my girlfriend.
Fuck.
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friend downloaded it illegally, watched it, sucked bad, returned it to the internat
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Blog about Quentin Dupieux AKA Mister Oizo’s film Steak;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlYRBSXmf2A
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//////////Reply by dubl*a
//////////Posted May 9th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
@Anonymous,
seriously! when the fuck is this gonna get released to DVD in the US? i waited for a solid year just to get a copy of the soundtrack.
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y’all are fggts
i saw it. its boring. y’all just like it because its dftpnk.
srsly, you wont watch it if someone else made it.
go hipsters.
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//////////Reply by andy
//////////Posted October 15th, 2008 at 7:52 am
@sergeee,
true for some.. but electroma is an almost exact replica of Gerry by gus van sant. which is a fucking excellent movie, and plenty of people like. if you actually like _film_, not hollywood vomit for people who can’t sit still for 15 seconds without having to see somebody get shot, it’s a great piece of filmmaking.
surprised nobody has mentioned gerry… there was a lot of controversy about electroma being a total copy when it came out
anyway, electroma has some amazing moments. overall it’s pretty good. van sant did better.
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//////////Reply by Anonymous
//////////Posted October 15th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
@andy, in my film studies class we watched gerry. i think it was a bit overrated.
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//////////Reply by andy
//////////Posted October 15th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
@Anonymous, what about electroma? just curious
i seen it. whats with the vagina bit at the end? anyone know what thats about? desert vagina? nup?
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I’ve got it on DVD
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I watched this with my homie Batman. I loved it but he hated it.
I guess it’s a robot thing.
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s0000 facken b000000ring
(i have it on an altCD-R anyway because im a serious member of da altCREW)
next time blog about alts who ride BMXs
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i’m so happy that i’ve never even heard of this film! i’m REMOVED, a lil? OK, so completely off topic, I was leaving a BK club where I was DJing the other night (what is the girl equivalent to AltBag???? you really need to touch base on that one) and some bro/dude/? kept yelling “Aggy! Aggy! (I have bleached hair) HRO!!! Aggggyyy is that you???” HRO: you’re HUGE and you complete me, you define me, you make me laugh and wince and RE-evaluate (and I’m a lil drunk at work).
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srsly the past few posts have been shitty brogging. carles come back – miss u ryte now.
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//////////Reply by patrick duffy
//////////Posted October 15th, 2008 at 10:52 am
@elektrowarrior,
carles got some AZNs in his basement that do the job for him
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CRLS! blog about Oizo’s Steak (if you can find it) – that shit was only released in Russia besides France,… equally poo flick as Electroma
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//////////Reply by cityslick
//////////Posted October 15th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
@dthmtl3000,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0889665/
just found the IMDB link for Steak.
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Uhh, you forgot to include the demographic that I fall into, which is “watched it all, but on youtube”. Personally, I thought it was a gimmick that daft punk was gonna use to lose their helmets.
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I bought Electroma and I’ve nvr looked back since…
The shiny silver box that cont8ns the DVD reminds me that i have ALT sensibilities that need to be met and rare authentic films like these need to be purchased to fulfill them
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I saw it… I really liked it :D
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I sat through it on Pitchfork.tv. It was one of those one week only things. I liked it. Appearantly (people have probably already said this) but it matches up a la “Dark Side of the Moon”/Wizard of Oz to “Human After All”.
Or something like that, who knows.
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Torrented it. Watched it. It was absolutely… well, not horrible… but, I don’t think I’ll watch it again soon.
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I saw it at my city’s modern art gallery cinematheque. I loved it. But then I’m pretty comfortable with having better taste in cinema than everyone else.
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i felt “dead inside” watching this for 3 minutes. i clicked the x and came back to life
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I’ve seen the film several times and have it on dvd, it’s just preference, if you like it you like it, if you don’t then you don’t end of really, there’s no need to be rude or ignorant about the film, if you don’t understand it then you’re less like to like it.
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Liked it. Once. My 3 y.o. likes it 2. Bought it cz material makes me feel pwrfl.
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that vag scene was sneaky. tellier did it first though. those frenchies are soooooooo sexual.
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Take some shroomies and this movie is the best movie you’ll ever see!!! Even if you’re not on any mind bending drugs, this movie provokes thought. And inspires the need to find who you really are… If the party is dying out, put this shit on your HD TV and you’ll be trying to figure out if there gay, human, robots or whatever you can imagine! Fucking Great mof-ing movie!!!
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Terrible film. Saw it at Cannes. Saw it at home on DVD. Just sucks. One long boring preachy music video. Some beautiful images but could have been cut down to a nice 15 mins and been palatable.
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I own it. And as a 75 minute long mind fuck, it succeeds admirably. As a film….lets just say Thomas and Guy Man probably won’t be winning any Oscars anytime soon. That being said, it was beautifully filmed and there are a few really amazing scenes (the all white laboratory scene springs to mind).
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I saw the entire thing through.
I love Daft Punk, but,
As far as a movie goes, Electroma is a piece of shit. As far as a piece of artwork goes, it is still decent at best.
It is extremely long too. Really, really, really long.
That’s what she said.
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Watched it at Mar del Plata’s Film Festival ‘07. People started shouting at the screen in the mid of the movie. They thought they were going to see Discovery.
Some left.
I stayed.
But i knew what to expect. I still like it though.
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i saw it 2 days ago. i thought it was a authentic rep. of human mechanoid tension in todays society. made me wish we could all get along and get back 2 h8ing the terrorists.
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I own Electroma. I’ve seen it like 50 times. It gets better after you watch it 5 times.
But seriously the movie could’ve been 15 minutes long and I would’ve loved it and taken it seriously.
the way they dragged it out was like…. UGH. GET ON WITH IT ALREADY. And they played shitty music too.
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At first we were impressed that Daft Punk made a tribute movie to The White Room but then after downloading it with Bit Torrent (who’d pay for it, anyway?) we watched it and realised that it’s not really a tribute because our movie actually had a story and really cool music and this didn’t. it’s actually just a big load of shit, really.
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It was an awesome, artsy movie, but also really really really boring. I still liked the music though, I mean the scene where they drive (yeah, I know it’s about half the movie) is so dreamy. They dragged out something that could’ve been done in about 4 minutes, but that’s art for ya!
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Oh, and I “own” it, and by that I mean I downloaded it, shit, who pays for anything these days?
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janelle monae . is frm KS.
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