Oddly enough this has actually made me interested in the movie.
Oddly enough this has actually made me interested in the movie.
Isn't there also the cut scene from Alien where Ripley finds Dallas cocooned by the xeno? I believe that was supposed to be an alternate method of reproduction, as there was no queen nor method for producing eggs/facehuggers on the Nostromo.
Look a couple posts before you.
But that happens with films today, too. RT could try and find reviews for older films that were written when they came out; they're out and about. And if it's a phenomenon that does happen with them, it's bound to also happen with today's films down the line.It's more that with pre-2000 movies, most of the reviews were written years after the fact, which introduces biases and follow-the-leader effects that aren't (as) present in reviews written when a movie first comes out. If a movie is remembered as shit, it gets a lot less positive reviews down the road, but if it's remembered as great, it gets a lot less negative reviews. The two Star Wars trilogies exemplify both of these trends.
Inarritu doing a blockbuster would absolutely terrible. The guy is less subtle than Nolan or Blomkamp and has really no idea how to stage things either. It'd be pretentious crap with dull action scenes. At least Blomkamp ensures the latter won't happen.
53 %. With the same positive review by Huddleston linked twice, lol.
still gonna see it... can't give up on Blomkamp just yet.
Yeah. It got reintroduced in the "Director's Cut" (not really a Director's Cut) but it's probably the scariest part of the lifecycle, and no director has ever really tried to go back to it.
Essentially, the Alien secretes... SOMETHING. And that something incapacitates you while you slowly, while still alive, morph into an egg.
Yeah. It got reintroduced in the "Director's Cut" (not really a Director's Cut) but it's probably the scariest part of the lifecycle, and no director has ever really tried to go back to it.
Essentially, the Alien secretes... SOMETHING. And that something incapacitates you while you slowly, while still alive, morph into an egg.
Elysium was good though. Surprised this is reviewing badly. 2 out of 3 isn't a bad track record though.
When District 9 came out we were hungry for a visionary, an auteur who could do original science fiction with a message but also give us thrilling action, a guy who proved that blockbusters didn’t just have to be Transformers movies. Two films later it’s become very clear that guy isn’t Neill Blomkamp; instead Blomkamp is the victim of the auteur theory, a casualty of our need for visionaries. Too much has been placed on him, and too much freedom has been given him to make movies from frustratingly undercooked scripts with grade school social messages. It’s hard to imagine that Blomkamp could make a film worse than Elysium, but here we are. Chappie plays like a shitty remake of Robocop done in the style of Neill Blomkamp, an internet parody on the level of those “What if Wes Anderson made a genre film?” shorts.
As is the entire movie itself. I fear giving in to hyperbole, but District 9 invites
it to the extent that I am more afraid of underpraising a movie I’m
sure will be regarded as a science fiction classic. Walking out of the
theater I knew I had seen history being made; at the very least
Blomkamp is going to be a major force in the film industry. The FX work
is impeccable; there were no practical alien suits or animatronic
heads, something I found hard to believe. Between the excellent FX and
Blomkamp’s skill at making the Prawns into characters and not just part
of a CGI showreel I utterly forgot I was watching a movie with special
effects. That’s an astonishing feat.
But beyond that this is a movie that will fire imaginations of
generations of would-be filmmakers. It presents a world so deeply
textured and thoroughly thought out that it will inspire years of
obsessive fandom to sift through every reference, to fill in every
blank. And it ends on a note that demands a sequel; while the movie is
complete and total in itself and can stand alone, the possibilities for
what could come next are so spine-tinglingly intriguing that I’m all
but begging for the next film. District 9 is an amazing
movie, one that will sweep you up emotionally and intellectually, that
will give you plenty to think over and even more to marvel at. It’s an
achievement that needs to be seen to be believed, and once it’s seen
it’s guaranteed to be beloved.
Who are those people? How do they put too much stock in critics opinions? Who are you to decide that they do? Yes, some people enjoy/dislike some movies despite critical consensus.
IMDB and Metacritic are worth less. Especially IMDB. Hype inflated fanboy ratings. Why you put so much stock into them is beyond me.
Lets make it simple. If you have a compelling argument that Chappie is better than the critical consensus, I will listen.
People give the poor script a pass because of the amazing visuals.
With as much that's wrong with Prometheus, the fact people still feel compelled to stack the deck against it is weird. Why exaggerate/misrepresent what's wrong with the film when what's ACTUALLY wrong with the film is damning enough.
Plus whoever came up with that stupid infographic didn't even get the basic details of the shit right.
If a film gets a 30% on RT, that means 30% of critics liked it. Or would recommend it. So what's the problem? We're dealing more in probabilities than black/white "this film is good/bad", more "there's a 30% chance you'll like it." that's how I look at it anyways.
But why people care about the opinions of 200 largely white middle aged American males is something I don't really understand.
If you think a film looks/sounds good, then whatever critical reception it gets shouldn't dissuade you from seeing it.
Yeah. It got reintroduced in the "Director's Cut" (not really a Director's Cut) but it's probably the scariest part of the lifecycle, and no director has ever really tried to go back to it.
Essentially, the Alien secretes... SOMETHING. And that something incapacitates you while you slowly, while still alive, morph into an egg.
People give the poor script a pass because of the amazing visuals.
You have a very believable life-cycle, and a person morphing into an egg ... is not that..
Average Viewer in 1979 said:What the fuck are those round things. What the FUCK just came out of it? What the fuck it bleeds ACID WHEN YOU CUT IT? Why did it just fall off? WHAT THE FUCK JUST CAME OUT OF THAT GUY. How the FUCK did it get that big that fast? What is all that SHIT pouring off of it? Jesus fuck you can shoot it into SPACE and it still comes after you? You can hit it with a rocket engine and it just...floats away?
Cinema is all in the visuals.
Cinema is all in the visuals.
Yep I remember this scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs60aWyLrnI
e: woo we're back down to 40% on RT
Are you kidding me?? That was horse dung...
I disagree about anything in Alien being "believable" on the face of it. In 1979, none of that was anything but horrifying craziness.
Adding "Holy fuck it can coat you in something that turns you into one of those eggs" absolutely fits with that.
Nah, Elysium was a fun entertaining movieAre you kidding me?? That was horse dung...
One hit wonder.
District 9 was basically his student film that had been kicking around in his head for years and clearly the one fully formed idea he actually had.
Everything else seems like half baked ideas that weren't given enough time to fully gestate before a concept was turned into a movie.
One hit wonder.
District 9 was basically his student film that had been kicking around in his head for years and clearly the one fully formed idea he actually had.
Everything else seems like half baked ideas that weren't given enough time to fully gestate before a concept was turned into a movie.
still gonna see it... can't give up on Blomkamp just yet.
Seems like a bit of a reach.
I wish he'd go back to that fake documentary style. Thought that was one of the most interesting parts about District 9.He did a short which was very distinctly District 9.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1hI8c8HzxU
Chappie is sort of a combo of two other of his shorts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTnxP7e7-YA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCS0hNyJf6k
Am I the only person who didn't like District 9 that much?
I wish he'd go back to that fake documentary style. Thought that was one of the most interesting parts about District 9.
One hit wonder.
District 9 was basically his student film that had been kicking around in his head for years and clearly the one fully formed idea he actually had.
Everything else seems like half baked ideas that weren't given enough time to fully gestate before a concept was turned into a movie.
I disagree about anything in Alien being "believable" on the face of it. In 1979, none of that was anything but horrifying craziness.
Adding "Holy fuck it can coat you in something that turns you into one of those eggs" absolutely fits with that. And remember, the Alien in that movie wasn't a screeching, sprinting thing, either. It snuck around. It waited on you. It moved SLOWLY when it wanted. So this slow-moving, malevolent, unkillable grinning penis monster from outerspace secreting some sort of dna-altering goo that turns your body into nothing more than material and food for a facehugger? That's a damn good idea. The natural fear that taps into is essentially being buried/burned/drowned. Just a different way. What if you were dying, you knew you were dying, and you couldn't stop it. That's not an innate, natural fear?
It's not like it can't fit with a Queen, either. It's just one more backup for the xenomorph - you let one of those fuckers live, it's going to start a whole new colony anyway because it just needs to snatch up a living organism, and then turn it into an egg, and have that egg hatch a facehugger, and have that facehugger implant a queen...
Ta da!
I wish he'd go back to that fake documentary style. Thought that was one of the most interesting parts about District 9.
This reminds me: where does the Queen come from? There's only one and I always assumed the lifecycle process for a Queen had to be different than that of regular xenomorphs. Always kind of thought it involved from hot Xeno-on-Xeno action, too much for us to handle probably.I disagree about anything in Alien being "believable" on the face of it. In 1979, none of that was anything but horrifying craziness.
Adding "Holy fuck it can coat you in something that turns you into one of those eggs" absolutely fits with that. And remember, the Alien in that movie wasn't a screeching, sprinting thing, either. It snuck around. It waited on you. It moved SLOWLY when it wanted. So this slow-moving, malevolent, unkillable grinning penis monster from outerspace secreting some sort of dna-altering goo that turns your body into nothing more than material and food for a facehugger? That's a damn good idea. The natural fear that taps into is essentially being buried/burned/drowned. Just a different way. What if you were dying, you knew you were dying, and you couldn't stop it. That's not an innate, natural fear?
It's not like it can't fit with a Queen, either. It's just one more backup for the xenomorph - you let one of those fuckers live, it's going to start a whole new colony anyway because it just needs to snatch up a living organism, and then turn it into an egg, and have that egg hatch a facehugger, and have that facehugger implant a queen...
Ta da!
I wish he'd go back to that fake documentary style. Thought that was one of the most interesting parts about District 9.
This reminds me: where does the Queen come from? There's only one and I always assumed the lifecycle process for a Queen had to be different than that of regular xenomorphs. Always kind of thought it involved from hot Xeno-on-Xeno action, too much for us to handle probably.
This reminds me: where does the Queen come from? There's only one and I always assumed the lifecycle process for a Queen had to be different than that of regular xenomorphs. Always kind of thought it involved from hot Xeno-on-Xeno action, too much for us to handle probably.
Btw, Chappie's at 38% now. I'm not saying this means the movie is good or bad on a personal level (since I haven't seen it yet), but it's safe to say it's not "misunderstood" in a traditional sense. Most critics just don't seem to be feeling it, and at least some of them probably have legit reasons.
Will be interesting to see the user reviews in comparison. I haven't read a review that makes me outright think I'd hate the film or find it worthless, but my expectations have been dampened both by the reviews and the trailers (though they're warming up to me). I'll give District 9 a rewatch to see how that holds up.
Alien 3 introduced the super facehugger that could implant a queen, but Cameron thought it was just another part of the xeno's evolutionary chain.
Really? Damn I just saw that cut only a few months ago, how could that slip by?In Alien 3 Assembly Cut, I think there was a big ass facehugger that carries the queen or something.
Me when I opened this thread