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Is it just me or is this a rip-off "Valerie" 23 from The Outer Limits? Really, having sex with a computer generated voice is deserving of high praising? I like Joaquin P., but this movie is complete garbage. I wanted to shoot my T.V. after watching this movie. Some will call it genius. Some will say 'Oh, that was the directors intent'. Well if his intent was to make me miserable, than he succeeded. But I can tell you, if you want that feeling, let me know. I too am gifted at dishing out misery, and I won't even charge you.

Avoid this movie! The ratings are over-hyping this movie. Don't get sucked into the vortex, of actually believing this was anything more than dung.

Imagine a bunch of horny geeks dressing like the sixties...thats the future! And somehow I'm not surprised looking to the reactions to this movie in the present.

There is no way I can connect to the silly concept of this movie. The thought of having the so called "artificial intelligence" (called by people who don't even know what intelligence is and have the philosophical depth of a banana, but I digress) the idea of having a software being exactly like a person is more than unbelievable to me its truly annoying that people can even conceive or fall into such an incoherent concept. But even believing the concept of such an advanced artificial immortal omnipresent intelligence it still doesn't make sense by all the reasons imaginable...but I don't even want to go there.

The idea that anyone can connect to it its beyond me, I guess there is a new kind of human and Im not part of that new branch of the specie.

The content can be resumed to this: dull dialogs where they raise a bunch of corny superficial existential questions (but you suppose to believe they'r deep) in the most boring way possible and before you realize how non-sense or meaningless the whole situation is, they probably be making "voice sex" to make it even deeper. Truth is you substitute the "software girl" by a "flesh girl" and you have basically no movie, or a bad movie that is not so ridiculous.

And by the way where was the "comedy"? I haven't seen any moment when I had the chance to just smile. Last thought: artificial "intelligence" might be growing but natural intelligence seems to be definitely fading and this movie its just another evidence...

This movie seems like Ingmar Bergman came back from the dead, locked Spike Jonze in a closet and decided to make a cool, dark AI romantic comedy, and sadly came up with the most coma-inducing folderol of the year, masquerading as trenchant social commentary of "the way we live now.." In his Twilight Zone heyday, Rod Serling would have told this curious fable in 25 minutes, and you would still be watching it on Twilight Zone collections. Deadly and glacially paced. And don't get me started on the music. That treacly endless "sensitive" piano. How'd you like to be the guy playing on this soundtrack? Best part of this affair iwatching Amy Adams say f**k a lot. This country has become a nation of bewildered, ineffective dweebs staring into glowing rectangles. Just because of this, I'm gonna go see Robocop and watch stuff blow up. I'll stop now.

I honestly can't tell if this movie was supposed to be a drama or a comedy. I can't really relate to any of the characters, even though they are played by grown up actors they all behave like mopey teenagers. These people suppose to be married, yet have the emotional maturity of a twelve year old. It's hard to root for protagonists who are so unlikeable. Also, who the hell read the script of this move and went like "A film about a future where nobody does anything of consequence, so the entire human race can focus their collective attention on being neurotic and whining about their dysfunctional, childish relationships? Great idea!" Woof, thanks, no thanks.

8.3? Are you kidding me? I had to continuously push myself through to watch it till the end of the movie because I kept waiting for it to take a sharp turn from all the slow-boring-serious-emotional drama. The ratings had me completely fooled. The plot: "A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system..." sounds funny to begin with, and I'd be happier if they used this plot to make an outrageously funny movie. I'm happy I chose to watch it in the day, not late evening cause I'd be tired from work and I'd have fallen asleep in minutes. I'm sorry but 2 hours of my time got flushed away.

In case you are wondering, I'll save you two painful hours. Yes, he does get it on with the phone and yes its really creepy.

Very depressing version of "the beast with a billion backs." I literally got no joy from watching movie. I laughed few times but I totally saw no beauty as some other viewers claim. Guess lot ppl can relate to a movie bout computer sex.

I hate movies that are categorized as science fiction when there is no science and only fiction. I am a graduate student in computer science studying robotics and I can assure you that this kind of artificial intelligence (AI) technology doesn't exist today, will not exist in twenty years or even in fifty years. Only just recently did an AI program--a chatbot called Eugene Goostman--pass a test that managed to convince 30% of a panel of human judges that it is a somewhat autistic, 13 year-old human boy. That is a far cry from Scarlet Johansson's Samantha, an AI program in a computer operating system that has the personality of a smart, seductive grown woman dripping with hypnotic allure. Alan Turing, the Einstein of the field of computer science, predicted that a Eugene Goostman would be possible only by the year 2000. He predicted this in 1950. , Do you know how hard it is to program emotional intelligence? If this film was about a man who got his hands on a piece of AI software that had been secretly developed by the government or was a secret project at Carnegie Melon University that had been refined over many decades, I might be more credulous, but as it stands this is pure fiction. While I realize the public would love to have a Samantha or Sam on their desktop, anyone with a smattering of knowledge in computer science will reject this utter fiction and demand greater scientific accuracy.

I think people who praised this film have little understanding of the field of artificial intelligence or just don't require scientific accuracy in their films!

SO! Really this film is based on a great concept. As any other film this film has lots of flaws but thats not the reason this is a poor movie.

WOW! First we think over what is good in it. The film uses a bit know concept but mostly its refreshing and considerable, so this is good about the movie. Amazing solo acting and voice performance by lead actors , and not to forget (just joking but) pretty catchy movie poster.

BOOOO! Now comes the boom, all the wrong and ugliness of this movie. As i mentioned earlier, I found it as a misuse and exploitation of a nice "could have been" story. Right from being a typical melodramatic romance story to the useless events occurring the whole time marks the lack of creativity of the makers. Everything you see (may entertain you if you call it entertainment) but wont give you a chance to explore the other possible dimensions that are significant. It feels...I said feels...... as if one who is jobless or unemployed or unoccupied in beauty of life somehow.. like "I don't have any ambition or any wish to search for reality" can enjoy this film with a long praise but anyone with even a tiny amount of his life engaged in scientific thoughts will definitely discard the movie as good but useless attempt.

HENCE! This movie will sure have just two polarities, one who loved it a lot and rest who hated it a lot. The point that I feel after watching this movie is that why we are giving importance to creepy romance and boring melodrama packed in the beautiful gift pack of interaction between natural and artificial intelligence.

Billy Bob Thornton recently said that cable TV series are now better than the movies coming out these days, and "Her" is a perfect example. I was thinking as I watched -- all that money, all that hype, and I'd rather be watching a rerun of Six Feet Under.

The script was carefully controlled to maintain a tone of predictable blandness and Joaquin Phoenix amazingly cooperated 100% with that intent, never showing a sign of actual flames behind the smoke, or a spark that could ignite an unexpected or even interesting dimension to his character. Scarlett Johansson's perky/wistful voice also contributed to the sense that this was in fact a Disney movie hardly gone off the rails. If the studios cannot turn out something that can hope to compete with the tight scripts, emotional impact, character development and pure entertainment value of TV cable series, is it any wonder that paying good money to see a movie in a theater is becoming as obsolete as square dancing?

Good things: The music. Bad things: Phoenix adds to his list of obtuse characters. Far fetched storyline. Uninteresting supporting players. Gritty cinematography. Who goes to the beach fully clothed and sits talking to himself and no one notices????? Depressing and totally creepy movie.

If anyone doubt's P.T. Barnum's assertion that no one ever lost a dollar underestimating the taste of the American public, the ratings of this "film" should confirm it once and for all. Ploddingly paced and more than a little creepy, this is an ordinary little sci-fi plot that would have been better treated as a 20-30-minute radio play. As the scenes drag endlessly and inconsequentially on in this brutally non-visual story you can actually feel the pain Spike Jonze went through trying to come up with something, ANYTHING to put on the screen. Of course, as the scriptwriter of this mess, he had only himself to blame.

Can you just imagine what sort of a world this would be if more and more people suddenly began to fall in love with their computer's operating system? I mean, talk about a revealing statement when it comes to the likes of loneliness and the apparent aversion to physical intimacy.

If this sort of computer-age love affair (as depicted in "Her") became the latest trend, can you imagine how drastically that would affect human pregnancies (unwanted, or not), as well as the transmission of STDs? And, of course, on a really positive note - The expectation of buying one's sweetheart presents (when you're romancing your computer's operating system) would be just about nil.

Anyway - I thought Her's story was very poorly conceived and really unsatisfactory as far as entertainment goes. And, not only that, but, in all of its shallowness and pretentiousness, I inevitably felt nothing but total contempt for the slimy Theodore Twombly character.

There are some good things about this film, the production design was on point, the costumes, the direction, and the concept itself were all really great, but those things don't carry the film through it's entire runtime.

By the final act it begins to dawn on the viewer that the narrative is literally going nowhere and nothing of any consequence is going to happen. For the first half I kept expecting some twist, some injection of drama, some actual narrative events, but none ever occur. If the setting weren't 'the future' and one of the protagonists weren't 'a computer' then it would be the most boring, uneventful rom-com of all time.

We are subjected to wave after wave of inane romantic chit chat that maybe a 12 year old girl with braces and a keeper-trapper might find profound and 'grown up' sounding. And we have to hear it drudgingly stumble from the face hole of the most boring, lifeless, mono-toned motherf*er this side of the 20th century.

I honestly fear the kind of people who find this kind of wafer-thin material profound, and that this film stands with a rating of 8/10 right now is about as depressing as this films absurdly boring vision of the future.

The movie is slow and uninteresting. The main character is beyond normal ugly, unfashionable and full of emo. I feel it's a waste of my time watching this.

Totally not able to understand how people liked the movie? :(

I cannot believe the positive reviews for this film. How can anybody sit through this ridiculous monotony and not laugh out loud (presuming the didn't fall asleep)? The premise is flawed beyond explanation and the conclusion is contrived out necessity because there is no possible real ending for such a moronic story line. This would be an interesting short film or experimental student project but as a feature, it is a complete flop. There is no way any sophisticated fan of the art of film could give this a rating above 4 stars. How the Producers spent $23 million on this amateur looking mess is beyond me. I presume $20 million went to the cast and Director. The rest was spent on a DP trying hard to create Sofia Coppola style imagery but failing on many levels.

I feel this film really genuinely wanted to be a cute, funny, candid film, and it might have been were it not for the fact that it were deeply deeply disturbing. Not like H.R. Giger disturbing or H.P. Lovecraft disturbing. Giger and Lovecraft were sane, rational individuals who sat down with the intention of deliberately creating something deeply disturbing. No, this film was that subtle, slowly building, deeply unsettling sort of disturbing that can only come about when a madman sits down with the intention of creating something charming, innocent and witty, while completely oblivious to how deeply unsettling the product really is. The sort of disturbing that starts out seeming as if its just kinda quirky, but slowly builds from there. "Oh, this is a bit uncomfortable." "Wait... what?" "Okay... I'm starting to get a bit worried here, movie," until it suddenly dawns on you that what you're watching has been deeply disturbing for at very least the past half an hour and you just want to go home and take a shower, and possibly consider converting to Luddism.

I've been throwing around the word "disturbing" a lot lately, and I now regret that, as it diminishes the effect the word has, and there's really no other word that can effectively convey how deeply, genuinely disturbing this movie was. Seriously, what is even the ever-loving f██k?

I'm actually a bit disgusted with myself for being talked into seeing this, even though there's really no way I possibly could have known what would await me.

I really wish I was being hyperbolic. I really, really do.

Meaningless, drawn out drivel, says my wife but she did manage to stay awake throughout. I think she may have underrated it. I would have given it a three (just). It's a bit of a shame really because the acting was pretty good. However, the storyline line was tedious, in places boring and frankly unbelievable. I don't know what else to say really...I've never marked as low as this before. Just do not bother to watch it unless you think it must be good as it averages an 8, if you do you will see what I mean. A complete and utter waste of the three pounds fortynine for the Amazon rental and the 2 hours of my time.