YMMV / Daft Punk's Electroma

• Audience-Alienating Premise: Divorced from its own merits as a film, a lot of the mixed reception it initially got was because of the fact that it's a Daft Punk movie without any Daft Punk music...and it's a Daft Punk movie that's an extended dialogue free tone poem about what it means to be human. Since the last Daft Punk film Interstella 5555 was a fairly straightforward adaptation of the Discovery album, it definitely confused a lot of people who were expecting the follow up album Human After All to get a similar treatment.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The random shot of the vagina-looking structure while they're walking through the desert.
• Broken Base: Almost everyone who's seen the film agrees that it seriously takes its time, most infamously the extended montage of the main duo silently walking across the desert. Whether this makes it more atmospheric and emotional or merely boring and padded is greatly up to individual interpretation.
• Fan Nickname: Officially, the two main characters are known as "Hero Robot #1" and "Hero Robot #2", but fans often call the gold one "Guy-bot" and the silver one "Thomas-bot" for convenience's sake.
• Spiritual Successor: To The White Room, the infamous unreleased film by The KLF: another atmospheric road movie set in the desert created by a secretive European house group. There's a couple scenes in this movie that could be homages...
• Vindicated by History: While not exactly disliked, the film did get rather mixed reaction. During the film's premiere at Cannes, audience members walked out during the infamous desert hiking sequence, leading to one critic to infamously compare it to The Brown Bunny. Nowadays, it's gained a following on the midnight movie circuit for its Scenery Porn and moody atmosphere. The fact that the ending scene was used by the band to announce their official break-up probably cemented the film's reputation as an important part of the band's mythos.

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