Uncanny Valley/Quotes
Oh my god... OH MY GOD, it's the invasion of the army of PLASTIC WHORES! |
This new one's kinda creepy —Jonathan Coulton, "Todd the T-1000"
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An eldar looked almost human from a distance: two arms, two legs, two eyes, a nose, but everything else was different. An eldar radiated wrongness, from its huge, liquid eyes to the many jointed, worm-like waving of its fingers. They were disgusting and unnerving, and Alaric hated them.
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"If a commercial features children or animals doing things that children or animals are incapable of doing without the help of a computer, I'm almost certain to hate it."
—Scott Tobias on a common bane of watching Superbowl ads
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"The more realistic CGI tries to make its characters, the more creepy and unreal they look. The human eye is nature’s finest bullshit detector."
—Steve Heisler's I Watched This On Purpose column on S1m0ne
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Frank: You see, as artificial representations of humans become more and more realistic, they reach a point where they stop being endearing, and become creepy. |
"Very much funfair. There's nothing creepier than something that's supposed to look friendly and human, but doesn't manage either. Oh, dolls, they just shouldn't smile."
—Steven Moffat, about the Smilers
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"You'd think I'd be into life-size, realistic robots, but that thing makes me wanna barf up my earlier energy drink into the one I'm currently drinking."
—Sci Fi Greg, Teen Girl Squad Issue 15
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"I think Jack is trying to ramp up the “adorable”, but he instead drives full-force into the grotesque." |
"Oh dear God, have we entered the school of the damned here? Why are they all speaking in unison and what's with their eyes?!"
—Linkara on the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids
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"God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image, but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance."
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"Seeing myself transformed into that... lurching, waxen nightmare... Do children really respond to this?"
—Andrew Ryan, BioShock (series) II, describing an anamatronic puppet of himself for Rapture's Theme Park/ museum.
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"Oh my God, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR FACE?!!"
—Mr. Plinkett of Red Letter Media
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To see the snowman is to dislike the snowman. It doesn't look like a snowman, anyway. It looks like a cheap snowman suit. When it moves, it doesn't glide--it walks, but without feet, like it's creeping on its torso. It has anorexic tree limbs for arms, which spin through 360 degrees when it's throwing snowballs. It has a big, wide mouth that moves as if masticating Gummi Bears. And it's this kid's dad.
—Roger Ebert's review of Jack Frost 1998
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"Get a hold of yourself. That wasn't a body, nor was it a mind or anything. It was just energy. I know that. But this sinking feeling in my stomach means I'm not truly convinced."
—Ed of Fullmetal Alchemist, expressing frustration that he can't get over those... things attached to Envy's true form.
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"...while nothing in Tintin is quite as richly nightmarish as the waxen-faced corpse of Tom Hanks sauntering through The Polar Express or the kinky video game avatar of Angelina Jolie in Beowulf, it's still a bit eye-watering in places. Particularly in the beginning, before one has a chance to really get used to the sight of almost photorealistic people with comic book facial features, which we've never really had in the movies before, and Jesus Christ is it ever something the brain's not really equipped to deal with."
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"Everything about [Rune/Sara] seemed off, from the moment I met her. The indistinguishable presence, the expressions devoid of emotion, and the lifelessness... —Ritona's thoughts, fault milestone one
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