dsheinem wrote:Neil Blomkamp is BY FAR the most overrated director of the past five years or so. District 9 is a piece of shit, and Elysium was only slightly better. No shocker that Chappie is being panned across the board. I cringed when I heard he got his latches onto the Alien franchise. Would rather see someone like Duncan Jones take the reins on that one...
He's a solid visual director, at least for that kind of material. Seems more like he's a crappy writer, with clumsy attempts to make socially-relevant stories. Elysium was painfully bad in that regard, where District 9 probably avoided it for me (and a lot of other U.S. audiences) by addressing something less familiar.
His Alien movie could probably turn out great if someone else writes it.
dsheinem wrote:Neil Blomkamp is BY FAR the most overrated director of the past five years or so. District 9 is a piece of shit, and Elysium was only slightly better. No shocker that Chappie is being panned across the board. I cringed when I heard he got his latches onto the Alien franchise. Would rather see someone like Duncan Jones take the reins on that one...
I liked District 9, and except for a few scenes I disliked elysium. How you can say Elysium is better than District 9 is beyond me.
dsheinem wrote:Neil Blomkamp is BY FAR the most overrated director of the past five years or so. District 9 is a piece of shit, and Elysium was only slightly better. No shocker that Chappie is being panned across the board. I cringed when I heard he got his latches onto the Alien franchise. Would rather see someone like Duncan Jones take the reins on that one...
I liked District 9, and except for a few scenes I disliked elysium. How you can say Elysium is better than District 9 is beyond me.
Neither is very good, but Elysium was a tad better.
dsheinem wrote:Neil Blomkamp is BY FAR the most overrated director of the past five years or so. District 9 is a piece of shit, and Elysium was only slightly better. No shocker that Chappie is being panned across the board. I cringed when I heard he got his latches onto the Alien franchise. Would rather see someone like Duncan Jones take the reins on that one...
I liked District 9, and except for a few scenes I disliked elysium. How you can say Elysium is better than District 9 is beyond me.
I liked District 9 a lot and Elysium was ok. Mostly it just made me really like Sharlto Copley though. He should be in more stuff, he was my favorite part of the A-Team movie.
Apparently he does the voice of the robot in Chappie, I'd like to see it.
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Stark wrote:Apparently he does the voice of the robot in Chappie, I'd like to see it.
Apparently he did the motion capture too.
I like D9 a lot. Most of the characters are unlikable at first, but they grow. The politics are a little heavy, but manageable. The politics in Elysium bashed you over the head way too much and there were too many silly plot moments. Didn't like it so much. I'll get to Chappie though.
dsheinem wrote:In the Name of the Father and Waking Ned Devine would be two go to films, over Patriot Games easily....
These are two we watch, as well as The Secret of Roan Inish.
We watch Boondock Saints, or atleast the first bit of it. Like I have done ever since I got a bootleg VHS of it in 2000.
If you haven't seen it, go with The Secret of Kells. It is great. (The vikings in the film are genuinely terrifying, however; so, be careful if you are watching it with children.)
I pretty much ignored the politics in Elysium and focused on the action movie and enjoyed it. As for Chappie, I disagree entirely with the notion that it drops its plot threads for an action movie at the end; yes, there's a lot of action and explosions in the finale, but they serve the story.
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