charlieomar

Wait, nvm, it was Seven Pounds. It was a good movie, but the end didn't impact me as much mostly because I found the movie so predictable.

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Its really not. Compared to any other high profile alien movies its nothing special. The plot is non existent, actors are average, and the ending leaves much room for improvement.

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It's a really good movie, but it's not a flawless masterpiece or anything, if people call it that, it's because a genuinely good sci fi movie these days is such a rarity.

I thought the main actor was pretty good, and an interesting choice for a protagonist. Overll it was well writen, some surprisingly clever satire thrown in. The special effects were excellent, some of the best CGI I've ever seen. Lots of satisfying action too.

Still, there were some things that bothered me and yeah, SPOILER ALERT:



I liked the humor, but sometimes it distracted from the intended seriousness. Some of it was a bit too campy, like aliens paying for hookers, betting on alien c0ckfights, telling the humans to get off their property while chugging down cat food like a can of beer. It was funny but maybe a bit too funny to really belong in the movie. Despite the alien's crustacean-esque appearance, I still felt the movie made their personalities and mannerisms way too "human" to be truly believable. These are supposed to be aliens, but they didn't act like aliens, which I guess is the joke, but it did bother me.

I also thought the whole subplot about south africans eating aliens to "consume their power" was way too over the top. I would have also liked to see a more complex villian rather than just your typical meatheaded goons. And of course it ends on a cliffhanger. It pissed me off but still, it DOES make me want to see the sequel.

There were also those uncomfortable moments where I felt like I was watching someone play a Halo video game rather than an actual movie.

But overall, it's a really good sci fi action movie and if that's your cup of tea, I highly recommend it. Great fun.

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Burn after Reading with Gerorge Clooney and Brad Pitt. Hilarious!

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Astronomer

I kind-of liked how the aliens demonstrated human qualities. I mean, they'd been on earth for 20 years. But mainly, the way in which they made the aliens have human-like mannerisms made you relate to them more and feel more sorry for them. I dunno, I liked it. And a lot of aspects of the film I didn't think were funny but instead quite sad because of the social issues they attempted to raise.

I also thought the protagonist was a good/interesting choice for the main character. And it's true that a lot of it felt like I was inside a video game but the action scenes were actually pretty stimulated and I'm normally one to be quite bored by action stuff. I agree about the whole thing with the Nigerians eating the aliens - that was a bit too ridiculous for me. I also think they could have chosen better villains.

But overall I'd have to agree it was a pretty good and entertaining sci-fi; something different from anything I'd seen lately.

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Well I understand that the aliens needed some human qualities so the audience could connect with them, but I felt that there should have been a bit more effort put into making their culture and customs more unique from ours, because I'm pretty sure that if a bunch of aliens made a pit stop here, they wouldn't be just like us in the way they act. The film would have been a lot more interesting if it actually made a clear distinction between us and the "prawns", as in what makes them different from us and why we can't get along. I think that was a great opportunity that this movie missed, maybe the sequel will pick up on this. I certainly hope so.

Also this was a not so subtle commentary on racism, and I think it would have been more effective if they didn't try to make the aliens the ONLY sympathetic characters in the film (aside from the main character) and all the other humans into comic book archtypes. One could argue that the depiction of south africans as superstitious savages is, I dunno, a little racist.

I do however like how this is a twist on the usual "misunderstood alien/fantastical creatures mistreated by evil, greedy humans" formula (Day the Earth Stood Still, ET, Starman, Enemy Mine and the upcoming Avatar are good examples of this). Unlike other sci fi movies that use this plot device, the aliens were not part of some idealized utopia, they were not cute and cudley and were not to be f*cked with, and they were prone to all the same evils and shortcomings as humankind, that I liked.

So in that sense, the aliens can be sympathetic, but it's still made pretty clear that they can pose a threat to the human race, why did they come here in the first place? And why did they bring so many weapons? So the movie isn't just painting everything in black and white. As in, we're the bad guys and they're the good guys. This message would have been a lot more powerful though if so many of the human characters weren't so cartoonish. Still it IS a sci fi action movie so something like that dosen't really bother me.

I'm just nitpicking really. Jackson has yet to put his name on a less than stellar movie.

And yes guys that includes King Kong, I liked it, sue me.

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Rumor is that it was originally supposed to be the Halo movie.

boo boo

Heh, I forgot all about that supposed Halo movie that Jackson was working on but eventually dropped.

It's a shame, I don't even like the Halo games but if Jackson did the movie it could have been the first good video game movie ever.

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Well the same director who did District 9 was supposedly going to direct the Halo movie as well.

If its true im glad they dropped it in favor of this.

Silent protagonists don't work well on screen.

LoathsomePete

Actually from what I read the movie was suppose to be about the marines with Master Chief popping up every now and then, also he wasn't a silent protagonist as he did have lines.

Anyhow this was the last movie I watched, a pretty good documentary on punk music even if it was a things I already knew before.

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