lol transformers :lol
Should be better than any other scifi movie this year, except possibly Moon.
Should be better than any other scifi movie this year, except possibly Moon.
Should be better than any other scifi movie this year, except possibly Moon.
Dude AVATAR.
Want to see this pretty bad, didn't realize that there was a whole internet sensation about the film, I just saw the trailer before Terminator and thought it looked interesting. Still holding out hope that AVATAR lives up to the hype.
The #1 reality-based opinion of Avatar coming out of Comic Con:
LOWER YOUR EXPECTATIONS
BTW the same people hyping District 9 to no end are the same people who were humping the Cloverfield hype train.
I thought Cloverfield was fun, especially for January fare.
I think Quarantine was some sort of actual sequel to it
I would not have guessed that. With both of them being thrillers shot in first-person.
I would not have guessed that. With both of them being thrillers shot in first-person. I think quarantine would actually work as a sequel to cloverfield though.
I would not have guessed that. With both of them being thrillers shot in first-person. I think quarantine would actually work as a sequel to cloverfield though.
Seriously, dude, are you mildly distinguished mentally-challenged?
both movies were forgettable and rather boring, so i can see the confusion.
D9 has long since hit and surpassed the distinguished mentally-challenged level of hyperbolic hype that makes me hate the internet. At this point it pretty much needs to fellate me to live up to the praise.
Nope, Im thinking of D9. The only hyperbole for Avatar is coming from Jim Cameron and Scullibundo over at GAF. Otherwise, its not getting a lot of buzz. D9 on the other hand has been christened the lord and savior of sci-fi for the past few months.
I never heard about this movie 'til recently, I accidentally stumbled on its trailer on youtube. AVATAR on the other hand is in my face wherever I go, ugh.
Nope, Im thinking of D9. The only hyperbole for Avatar is coming from Jim Cameron and Scullibundo over at GAF. Otherwise, its not getting a lot of buzz. D9 on the other hand has been christened the lord and savior of sci-fi for the past few months.
Let’s see if the Spielberg bashers put-off by the metaphysics in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will be as offended by District 9’s mangled anthropology.
District 9 represents the sloppiest and dopiest pop cinema—the kind that comes from a second-rate film culture. No surprise, this South African fantasia from director Neill Blomkamp was produced by the intellectually juvenile New Zealander Peter Jackson.
This contemporaryset dystopic, sci-fi flick never becomes fun. (Michael Bay bashers who stupidly complain about the cultural-status of the twin Autobots in Transformers 2 should park their rectitude here.)
G.I. Joe's unabashed appeal to the pop-commercial synapses also demonstrates livelier filmmaking than such utter banality as Iron Man and Star Trek and Harry Potter’s Half-Blooded Chintz.
With inconsistent and arbitrary affectation, they demean defensible movies like Transformers 2 and G.I. Joe as if to deny that what used to be called “mass culture” has, generally, lost its former standards.
None of its stunts are especially witty—and real distinctions must be made for Transporter 3 and Torque's superior pop art—but G.I. Joe’s in the same innocuous class as the Laura Croft and Thunderbirds movies. It has the spirit of Saturday Afternoon toy commercials, even to the extent of extolling basic American values: the very realistic appreciation of militarism as a foundation for capitalist freedom that supplies delight in both G.I. Joe and Transformers 2. There’s more realpolitik here than in the now-overrated The Hurt Locker.
Sommers isn’t quite in Michael Bay’s directorial class, but he has the ability to envision a nightmare and spin it into a provocative coup the Surrealists wouldn’t dare.
This Eiffel Tower image also recalls the postmodern epigraph that closes Godard’s In Praise of Love : “I will go to my grave with more visions than man has previously ever known.” The trashy secret of G.I. Joe is its ironic capitalizing on the fact that awesome, dread-filled visions don’t necessarily destroy childhood innocence. Seeing the Eiffel Tower fall is part of loving it (which could not be said of the World Trade Center). The Brothers Grimm understood.
wow, Solo dinging something for internet hype ::)
Nope, Im thinking of D9. The only hyperbole for Avatar is coming from Jim Cameron and Scullibundo over at GAF. Otherwise, its not getting a lot of buzz. D9 on the other hand has been christened the lord and savior of sci-fi for the past few months.
Well, GI Joe's still showing. Have fun!
wow, Solo dinging something for internet hype ::)
Im all about hyping the shit out of something if Ive actually seen it and loved it. Im talking about this hype from people who havent seen anything more than a trailer before placing it above 2001 or Blade Runner or whatever.
wow, Solo dinging something for internet hype ::)
Im all about hyping the shit out of something if Ive actually seen it and loved it. Im talking about this hype from people who havent seen anything more than a trailer before placing it above 2001 or Blade Runner or whatever.
Take it up with the people who are actually saying it, then.
"Turns into an action film half way in."
"Turns into an action film half way in."
Just got off the phone with my buddies who saw it last night:
"It's one of the best popcorn flicks of the summer, but considering the summer, that's not saying much."
"Turns into an action film half way in."
"The main character is not likeable whatsoever."
"It's not 'this generation's' anything. People comparing it to Blade Runner need to get shot."
"Director shows promise, but this also feels like a filmmaker's first, real feature."
"Pay matinee price."
Just got off the phone with my buddies who saw it last night:
"It's one of the best popcorn flicks of the summer, but considering the summer, that's not saying much."
"Turns into an action film half way in."
"The main character is not likeable whatsoever."
"It's not 'this generation's' anything. People comparing it to Blade Runner need to get shot."
"Director shows promise, but this also feels like a filmmaker's first, real feature."
"Pay matinee price."
So what's the verdict on this?
So what's the verdict on this?
Just got off the phone with my buddies who saw it last night:
"It's one of the best popcorn flicks of the summer, but considering the summer, that's not saying much."
"Turns into an action film half way in."
"The main character is not likeable whatsoever."
"It's not 'this generation's' anything. People comparing it to Blade Runner need to get shot."
"Director shows promise, but this also feels like a filmmaker's first, real feature."
"Pay matinee price."
I wish I could be paid to troll.
it's weird how i feel the exact opposite. the first part of the movie was what didn't work as much for me and it picked up and got much better as it got closer to the end.
why the hell was this heralded as the best sci fi movie in the past 150 years again?
why the hell was this heralded as the best sci fi movie in the past 150 years again?
Stop reading GAF so much.
why the hell was this heralded as the best sci fi movie in the past 150 years again?
Stop reading GAF so much.
88% on Rotten Tomatoes. :(
completely unlikable main characterthat was the point
At least, there were no blatant bits of distinguished mentally-challenged to got under my skin like in 90% of action movies.
I wouldn't let this dude direct halo either.
To a degree. His character was supposed to be unlikeable to a point, but he never really has a fully developed arc. He ends up doing something out of necessity instead of good writing.I thought he was a pretty well developed character, up until
At least, there were no blatant bits of distinguished mentally-challenged to got under my skin like in 90% of action movies.
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Wikus was so much of the casually, ignorantly amoral type that drives real "evil corporations" that it was chilling, and made it more effective when he started to wake up. In fact, the whole eviction sequence was chilling.Plus he was an obviously underqualified individual that was only promoted because of his relation to the CEO's daughter. I can kind of see it as a condemnation of monarchy.
Was there any significance to the cat food?
The idea of the prawns being obsessed with cat food came from two inspirations. In impoverished areas of Johannesburg, Neill Blomkamp would see people selling cheese poofs and other snack foods out of large 3-foot tall bags and wanted the aliens to have a similar cheap food. The decision to make them cat food came from one of the producers who used canned cat food to bait hooks when fishing for prawns in Vancouver.
That totally should have been the real trailer for 2012! :lol
Also, even knowing that it'll be an absolutely terrible movie, I want to see it for all the crazy-awesome scenes of CG destruction that seem to be liberally sprinkled throughout the movie.
Also, also:
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:rock
It was pretty good. The way it was shot and the special effects were awesome I thought. My only complaints are that the main character was annoying, and that some things didn't make a lot of sense. You'd think the aliens, with their ridiculous weapon technology, would be able to bargain their way into better arrangements than some shitty ghetto.
An entrepreneur should have brought a "catfood for weapons" exchange program to the table.