luckygodzilla
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Care to elaborate for those of us who haven't seen it?
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First reviews for Neil Blomkamp's Chappie
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Nappuccino
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The director's cut basically proves the director had no real understanding of why Donnie Darko worked in the first place. It overexplains everything and what it explains is hilariously silly.
Fudgepuppy
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I'm quoting myself from the other thread:
Yeah DC is awful, so many unnecessary scenes that serve no purpose and title-cards in between that tries to make it easier to "understand" the movie.
DD has always been about interpreting it yourself, as all different ways indicate what part of the story you enjoyed the most. Some people see it as a movie about depression and schizophrenia, some see it as a movie about selfless sacrifices and some see it as a science-fiction movie about alternate universes.
Yeah DC is awful, so many unnecessary scenes that serve no purpose and title-cards in between that tries to make it easier to "understand" the movie.
DD has always been about interpreting it yourself, as all different ways indicate what part of the story you enjoyed the most. Some people see it as a movie about depression and schizophrenia, some see it as a movie about selfless sacrifices and some see it as a science-fiction movie about alternate universes.
Anton Sugar
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Friend of mine said this was like watching a movie about robot Jar-Jar Binks who kills people.
He thinks Dev Patel's character should have died in the beginning to prevent Chappie from existing.
He thinks Dev Patel's character should have died in the beginning to prevent Chappie from existing.
Might give in and see this tuesday since the tickets are cheaper that day, not sure.
Editors on that movie must have been working overtime to get the film to turn out the way it did because the DC is a damn mess in comparison.
Saw this last night with my girl. It was decent....until it took a nosedive towards the end. Fuckin WOW. I probably have missed something but
Why didn't Chappie rush Deon to a hospital or something? Nevermind the whole bullshit about the extraction and transferring of human consciouness (and the fact that you could fit a human brain into a thumbdrive) but when Chappie kept on blabbering frantically about it AND Deon didn't seem to mind....i don't know. I felt that it would have been a much better ending had it been about an ethical dilemma...Deon protesting NOT to be transferred into a robot body and then struggling to grasp the reality once his conciousness has been transferred.
alfredofroylan
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Well Box office isn't that great but the small budget won't hurt so much.
Still #1 movie on the box office this weekend, budget is $49M
Chappie has now surpassed Speed Racer (39%) and is fast approaching Miami Vice (47%).
How is the Life Aquatic considered bad? The fuck is this.
You're telling me that if you had the chance to live as a human for an average lifespan you would choose that over living forever as a robot? Personally I would go full robot.
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
I want to know this aswell. In what universe is Life Aquatic considered bad?! Sure, you might not like Wes Anderson but that's a damn good movie.
Cow Mengde
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This movie was suppose to be a comedy though. So... WTF?
Film was surprisingly watchable. I absolutely hated Elysium, terrible plotting, piss poor storytelling, atrocious editing, the whole thing was awful.
Chappie on the other hand was smarter, fun, slick, and touching at times- it even played off the themes a lot better than Disritict 9 and Elysium combined (even if it felt on the nose sometimes). Some of the pacing got weird near the end; but it's a cool movie that moves speedily enough (with another bombastically awesome score from Hans Zimmer). Everyone's performance was also great, and I like how they layered the antagonists.
If the movie had less slow motion, it would have been a lot better.
Chappie on the other hand was smarter, fun, slick, and touching at times- it even played off the themes a lot better than Disritict 9 and Elysium combined (even if it felt on the nose sometimes). Some of the pacing got weird near the end; but it's a cool movie that moves speedily enough (with another bombastically awesome score from Hans Zimmer). Everyone's performance was also great, and I like how they layered the antagonists.
If the movie had less slow motion, it would have been a lot better.
I thought it was way better than Elysium.
Your friend is wrong.
Anton Sugar
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Eh, opinions. I haven't seen it yet, but he loved District 9 and liked Elysium, so he was a bit predisposed to liking Chappie. Thought it was far worse than Elysium.
Loved district 9 but Elysium was simplistic garbage far worse than chappie to me.
SCReuter
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Don't take TomatoMeter percentages too seriously. That's the point I'm getting at with these silly score tracker images.
the black pearl
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Elysium well directed, but had a mediocre script. Jodie Foster was so-so in it as well. His movies seem a little self serious.
blame space
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yeah this was definitely better than elysium. kind of goofy but it was OK.
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Delta Assault
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This and The Order 1886 review in one week? Life is good.
Who said it was supposed to be a comedy?
Oh look the result everyone would have expected
Sounds about like the trailer
Movie reviewers don't watch each film they review 3 times.
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