Resurrection may be a trashy movie, but it's factually more entertaining than the bore that is Elysium. Compared to that thing, there's actually some fun to be had in Chappie.
Neil Blomkamp's Alien film a direct sequel to Aliens; disregards Alien 3/Resurrection
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Resurrection may be a trashy movie, but it's factually more entertaining than the bore that is Elysium. Compared to that thing, there's actually some fun to be had in Chappie.
Bobby Roberts
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This is actually pretty damn clever.
That's good, Michael. Let's do one more, but put some hip into it. Or as much as you can. Okay, reset!
GuitarAtomik
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If they're serious about making this movie, they should just go ahead and shoot it now and then sit on it until Prometheus 2 has past.
lol yeah ok
Alien 3 is fine in a lot of places, it ends the Ripley trilogy, and the Assembly Cut does help a bit.
It's just not the instant classic that Alien or Aliens is, and that's okay. It doesn't have to be.
Favourite of the four.
Don't like the idea behind this film, but whatever happens, it can't wash the taste of Resurrection from my mind
Worth watching to see what Fincher was really trying to do rather than what the studio hacked the film into, but it's still a bad movie and a tremendously wrong-headed followup to Aliens. There is no adequate defense of Alien 3. It was in development hell for so long, mainly because nobody involved really knew what they wanted to do, that it was kind of doomed no matter what by the time they finally pushed it into actual production.
Garrus Vakarian
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And nothing of value was lost.
Hero_of_the_Day
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Huh? Nothing has been lost at all. Last update was Weaver saying it was still coming.
Garrus Vakarian
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Sorry I meant the 3rd, 4th movie omissions lol.
Emerson's Essentia
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Chappie and Elysium are flawed and nowhere near as good as D9, but they're both films with great, stimulating premises and a lot of heart. I can understand people being disappointed by them but to call them bad movies or to outright hate them is beyond me.
But yeah, that doesn't matter since this isn't happening.
But yeah, that doesn't matter since this isn't happening.
Bobby Roberts
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Nah, this ain't true.
You don't have to buy it, but there's definitely something to it.
This shit ain't coming regardless of what Weaver says.
Hero_of_the_Day
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My first inclination was to agree with you, but then I remembered there are two Aliens VS Predator movies. So, crazier things have happened.
I still can't believe we're getting a Prometheus 2.
The cg kills the movie. Never should have moved away from practical effects.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
There is a single CGI shot in the film. The lead cracking across the Alien's dome.
Everything else is mattes and composites.
uncelestial
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Wrong thread?
mariachi507
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One is a mediocre disappointment that was clearly rushed while the other is one of the better action films ever produced.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Blomkamp doing God's work.
Blomkamp ain't doin shit.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
It won't turn out.
JigglesBunny
Banned
Sound it out with me now, t-a-s-t-e.
Also, sorry Sigourney, this flick is never happening.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
You ever read the graphic novels which took place after aliens? That was some good shit in there.
tattooed_dwarf
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I loved Alien 3 when I was young boy and it has special place on my heart still. It isn't shit, even with all it's faults. And I hope Neil gets to do this film, but it seems it's not likely to happen.
PSA: It gets a sweet oversized hardcover release next week
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
SolidChamp
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I'll never understand the over-the-top praise for Aliens. It's a solid film, but nowhere near the action masterpiece some people make it out to be.
It just can't even begin to touch Alien, the one true masterpiece of the franchise and one of the most important sci-fi films ever made.
I know it's probably just me, but this really is a "one and done" film series for me. I doubt this one will be any different, provided it even happens.
It just can't even begin to touch Alien, the one true masterpiece of the franchise and one of the most important sci-fi films ever made.
I know it's probably just me, but this really is a "one and done" film series for me. I doubt this one will be any different, provided it even happens.
Very much "had to be there" case. It's the blueprint for all epic sci-fi action epics to follow. It has a great beginning, middle and end. Combination of period-looks, editing and film-type/stock has made this movie age. Alien with it's handcam look and quality film-stock makes it feel like it was made yesterday minus a couple of effect shots.
Nah. Alien and Aliens are masterpieces. Can't really compare the two because they are so different. Both come from great filmmakers who nailed it.
SolidChamp
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Sounds about right.
Fancy Clown
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No I haven't, I'll have to check that out. Which ones are you referring to specifically since I imagine there are a ton of Alien comics?
Book One (which is getting that re-release this week), Book Two (now known as Nightmare Asylum, I believe) and Earth War (though many don't dig Sam Keith's art (I love it)), and Labyrinth (which features fantastic art by Kilian Plunkett and story by Jim Woodring) were all good. The first three I think more or less go chronologically after Aliens ignoring Alien 3.
I remember being so pumped tha Blomkamp was gonna be doing the new Aliens movie. D9 was great, and I gave him a pass for Elysium since it felt like a movie designed by committee and devoid of the charm he brought to D9. It just seemed like a Matt Damon action vehicle designed to play it safe and attached to an up and coming director eager to make more unique fare in the future.
Then I saw Chappie.
I take it all back.
His decision to cast the worst actors and instantly most hateable duo in the film as semi-protagonist main characters is enough to realize that he might have just gotten lucky having all the pieces fall into place with D9. One line of dialogue and I whispered WTF to my friend who nodded back. Not only are the two aggressively bad actors but to make matters worse it seems they were playing themselves. In that moment I finally really came to understand the terms edgelord and tryhard.
As screen characters they would be unbelievable parodies of narcissistic emotionally stunted 30 somethings who are still stuck in the mind of an angsty 15 year old putting on or doing anything to be noticed. As adults on film they are simply insufferable. From the bizarre made up manner of speaking to the exaggerated clothing then are already incredibly annoying. Just because it works on stage doesn't mean I want to sit through 2 hours or them mumbling through a half baked script and trying to make it their own because sure why the fuck not? Then add in the fact that Ninja (ughh!) is kind of a sociopath and Yolandi seems dumb as a rock and a talks like a lead poisoned child and it's off to a stunningly inept and amateur start. The fact that they couldn't act AT ALL or emote at the level of the worst child actors just makes their need to draw attention seem even more desperate and embarrassing.
Thankfully Blomkamp wrote the script with his wife over the course of 14 days while working on Elysium so the fact that it's poorly paced, plot hole packed rubbish is almost for the best. It would have sucked for a good script to have been hatefucked into obscurity either way by his unconscionable decision to sideline credible actors so Mr Angry and Mrs Paint Chips could be on full display.
By the end I'd imagine few people aren't rooting for the bad guy. Nothing could be worse for anybody even a robot than having to put up with more of them.
Then I saw Chappie.
I take it all back.
His decision to cast the worst actors and instantly most hateable duo in the film as semi-protagonist main characters is enough to realize that he might have just gotten lucky having all the pieces fall into place with D9. One line of dialogue and I whispered WTF to my friend who nodded back. Not only are the two aggressively bad actors but to make matters worse it seems they were playing themselves. In that moment I finally really came to understand the terms edgelord and tryhard.
As screen characters they would be unbelievable parodies of narcissistic emotionally stunted 30 somethings who are still stuck in the mind of an angsty 15 year old putting on or doing anything to be noticed. As adults on film they are simply insufferable. From the bizarre made up manner of speaking to the exaggerated clothing then are already incredibly annoying. Just because it works on stage doesn't mean I want to sit through 2 hours or them mumbling through a half baked script and trying to make it their own because sure why the fuck not? Then add in the fact that Ninja (ughh!) is kind of a sociopath and Yolandi seems dumb as a rock and a talks like a lead poisoned child and it's off to a stunningly inept and amateur start. The fact that they couldn't act AT ALL or emote at the level of the worst child actors just makes their need to draw attention seem even more desperate and embarrassing.
Thankfully Blomkamp wrote the script with his wife over the course of 14 days while working on Elysium so the fact that it's poorly paced, plot hole packed rubbish is almost for the best. It would have sucked for a good script to have been hatefucked into obscurity either way by his unconscionable decision to sideline credible actors so Mr Angry and Mrs Paint Chips could be on full display.
By the end I'd imagine few people aren't rooting for the bad guy. Nothing could be worse for anybody even a robot than having to put up with more of them.
Walker_Boh
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Wait, this is still on? I though Fox put the kibosh on this after Chappie tanked.
Depends when you saw it I guess. I watched it when I was 10 I think, and it was fucking terrifying but not so much as to stop you from watching. If you watched it now for the first time if you were over 20, it might be as ineffective as the horror that the 1950s film of War of The Worlds was to people who saw it in the 1990s.
It's relative to both the age of the film relative to its newer competition, and the age of the viewer.
SlightySweatyPanda
Banned
This is interesting.
However,
I'd rather see a Distrct 10 or Ridley Scott Alien movie
However,
I'd rather see a Distrct 10 or Ridley Scott Alien movie
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Not really
Demoncarnotaur
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Oh between that and Alien Covenant I'm sure they did, I imagine he's just trying to somehow keep it alive via social media attention.
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
Just release a book of concept art. I'll use my imagination.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
That's all this will ever be.
Why is he hyping people up for something that's never getting made?
Psychoward
Banned
I don't trust Blomkamp. He made one great film and two terrible ones.
GringoSuave89
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True pain was when he was sharing shit from the Halo motion picture that never got made. THAT hurt. This does too, but damn.
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