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08-19-2009, 12:46 AM | #21 (permalink) |
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The "Tiger Woods lost" reminded me of a news article I saw recently. The headline was "Harry Potter Actor Dies Saving Brother." At the top of the article? A picture of Daniel Radcliffe. I thought that was pretty weird.
I also agree with the Terminator Salvation point Keith made, I think the movie would have been much better if they had not ruined the major plot twist in the trailers. WTF was that all about? I think the producer was snorting too much coke. |
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08-19-2009, 05:24 AM | #22 (permalink) | |
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You know what I love? The way Jesse's laugh carries with it simultaneously enjoyment of the joke, and begrudgement at it. (That's a real word, trust me.)
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District 9 isn't perfect by any means but for any flaw I saw in it I could pick the same number of faults in widely celebrated action sci-fi classics like Robocop, The Matrix, T2 and Aliens. All of these films, as I'm watching them there's two or three times I think, "Well fuck me, that's just sillygoose, he/she/it wouldn't have done that," but they're mostly a shitload of fun and excitement. I mean, we don't all have to agree on shit like this, obviously, that'd just be boring, but this is how I saw it. And me and Christian are right. |
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08-19-2009, 05:35 AM | #23 (permalink) |
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District 9 was a completely enjoyable movie. I wasnt bored at all while watching it (and lately i've been bored by any movie, star trek for examnple). And i agree with my dear buddy Bucho, it's more of a Starship Troopers movie than Children of Men. Not everyone remembers it but Starship troopers was supposed to be a movie with a message too (it was a blood and guts parody of extreme patriotism). District 9 is more of a mirror of Starship Troopers.
And by the way i liked it way more than children of men, which is an overrated dozer. |
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08-19-2009, 05:54 AM | #25 (permalink) |
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You said it many times, and i respect your opinion, but i just dont get what's wrong with a movie being simply entertaining.
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08-19-2009, 07:53 AM | #28 (permalink) |
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I don't know why anyone listens to anything Keith says about movies after he said he liked Don't Mess with the Zohan.
And it was really fucking obvious why the aliens didn't just shoot shit up. 1) They were starving, 2) There's a whole fucking planet that they can't escape that has guns and isn't starving. If you really think they could just start shooting shit and not all die horribly, did you laugh at the end of 300 and say it was unrealistic, the Spartans would have totally won? You wonder why movies have to hammer things to get you to remember them, but see what happens when they ask you to connect the dots? |
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08-19-2009, 08:05 AM | #29 (permalink) |
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I also thought that the aliens had some sort of addiction to cat food. It was like a drug for them, it made 'em kinda like malnourished crackheads.
Not sure about the guns thing though, i'll have to watch it again eventually. |
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08-19-2009, 08:07 AM | #30 (permalink) | |
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I will say, however, that people seem to misread into the movie describing the aliens as they did. I didn't get the sense that they were unevolved or less inherently capable, but just that they're basically blue collar aliens. They are just average dudes, not terribly well educated, not terribly interested in much else beyond their own interests, and not keen on taking charge. They all probably had a very similar function in alien society, and are probably on one of the lower rungs of it. Just like humanity, however, intelligence and capability can be present in any level of society, as we saw from Christopher Johnson. |
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