Netflix Sci-Fi Anthology - Love, Death & Robots

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Binged this over the weekend and felt it was deserving of its own thread.

An anothology of animated (and 1 live action) shorts covering various sci-fi concepts and tropes.

Even the worst ones (of which there are only a few) are ok, and the good ones are really good!

Plenty of swearing, violence, and often even nudity, so not for the kids.

My personal favourites were Three Robots, Suits, Good Hunting, Shape-Shifters, Lucky 13, Blindspot, Alternate Histories and Secret War.

I can't wait for us to be able to play games at the level of some of these graphics.
 
I also binged them all. It's rather like the Dust Youtube channel, in that they are all shorts (and I'd actually read several of the short stories that these episodes are based on). It's kind of like Heavy Metal magazine, in that they are all different stories with different art styles. Some of the animation is great, and I'm sure there's quite a few with a sort of "augmented live action" where it's real actors against CGI, but also CGI over the actors to make them look animated.

If you like Dust, or you like reading Sci-Fi short stories, you will enjoy this as the video equivalent. It's definitely not for kids, it's a bit too scary/violent/explicit sex & nudity, so don't be fooled by the "animation" moniker. It's certainly the sort of thing that Netflix should do more of, as mainstream TV doesn't do this kind of thing any more.
 
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Watched quite a few of these and absolutely love them. The episode set in Siberia towards the end of the episode listing is my favourite. The animation and cgi is superb.

Agree about the live action episode, it was really well done but oh so short
 
I need to watch these, I was going to anyway but found out three of them are based on short stories by John Scalzi who writes some cracking stuff, h is short story anthology "Miniatures" is £2 on amazon at the moment, which is a little expensive for a 100 page book but he's great fun to read.
 
caught this at the weekend after reading a post on here. loved it binged them all in one sitting. The short length and difference in episode styles makes them very easy to watch as there's nothing to get burned out over
 
I watched a few of them this morning and so far I'm enjoying them, it's a really good and varied collection of different stories :)

I thought the first story's name sounded familiar and within about 10 seconds of the animation I was sure I knew exactly what it is, it's based on the Peter F Hamilton short story of the same name from his "Confederation" story universe (specifically from the "Second chance at Eden" collection), and I've been wanting to see some of that made into TV or film for nearly 20 years:p "Sonnie's Edge" is one of the prequel's to the "Nights Dawn Trilogy" of books.

Three Robots was very good, with a nice twist at the end :)
 
Werewolf said:
I watched a few of them this morning and so far I'm enjoying them, it's a really good and varied collection of different stories :)

I thought the first story's name sounded familiar and within about 10 seconds of the animation I was sure I knew exactly what it is, it's based on the Peter F Hamilton short story of the same name from his "Confederation" story universe (specifically from the "Second chance at Eden" collection), and I've been wanting to see some of that made into TV or film for nearly 20 years:p "Sonnie's Edge" is one of the prequel's to the "Nights Dawn Trilogy" of books.

Three Robots was very good, with a nice twist at the end :)
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If you watch the end credits, just after the director's name, they will tell you the author and the short story it's based on.
 
Ep 1 - One with the arena monster fight - 9/10
Ep 2 - One with the funny Robots and cats - 9/10
Ep 3 - Time Loop set in Hong Kong - 10/10 (idea, execution, style, art and graphic all done so well, amazing)
Ep 4 - American farmers crossed with Starship Trooper - 6/10
Ep 5 - Dracula - 4/10
Ep 6 - Yogurt? - 3/10
Ep 7 - Prometheus cross with The Matrix (The most realistic looking one so far) - 8/10
Ep 8 - Human fox robot - 8/10
Ep 9 - Dumpster eviction - 6/10
EP 10 - Taliban werewolf - 7/10
Ep 11 - Gravity without Sandra Bullock - 7/10
Ep 12 - Salesmen in the desert - 4/10
Ep 13 - Lucky 13 - This one looks almost real, better than Ep7 - 9/10
Ep 14 - Zima Blue Art - 7/10
Ep 15 - Fast and Furious in the year 2599 - 8/10
Ep 16 - Live Action with Eric from That 70's show - 8/10
Ep 17 - Hilter dies 6 ways - 7/10
Ep 18 - Russian in WW2 vs ??? (great CGI) - 9/10
 
I'm just over halfway through. Very varied, visually interesting, and full of interesting ideas. The way it swings from dark-as-all-hell to whimsy to gore is extraordinary. The very short, no fixed length format really helps it and is the kind of thing that only Netflix-style production can do.
 
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I'm just over halfway through. Very varied, visually interesting, and full of interesting ideas. The way it swings from dark-as-all-hell to whimsy to gore is extraordinary. The very short, no fixed length format really helps it and is the kind of thing that only Netflix-style production can do.
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Like Dust, it wouldn't work on TV because they have a standard format where each story has to be a certain length to fit into a 45 minute show, with ad breaks on top to bring it to an hour long, two stories per episode, etc. Not having to follow that standard time/format means the story can be as long or short as it needs to be for good storytelling.
 
Episode 1 - Sonnie’s Edge is based on a short story by Peter F. Hamilton from “A Second Chance At Eden”. I spent the first coupe of minute’s wracking my ailing memory to figure out why it seemed very familiar until I clocked the name of the fighting beastie and it all clicked into place.

All the episodes are very different and very well done. Possibly the weakest story for me was the manga styled heist one.

Secret War is properly epic and so Russian that you can almost taste the papirosa tobacco.
 
It seems there are 4 different versions of episode order, I wondered why I was getting so confused when people were talking about episode number x or y which wasn't to same as what I had seen!
 
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