Chappie

It's out. Thoughts?

I have to wait until next week for it.

I am gonna see it tomorrow night.

Been looking at some of the reviews, they say its more style over substance.

^^lol i would say that's pretty accurate. But it was a fun movie, i thought. CGI was freakin impressive. the droids movements didn't have the normal jerkiness of a lot of other cgi characters.

i saw chappie today.. didn't care for it.. Hugh Jackman sucked very badly as a villain. the acting was very stale and wooden.. the story could have and should have been better.

If the movie is really that bad or even average, Neill better be on his A game for the new Alien movie.

Yeah this movie's pretty bad. Starts off well, and was a good concept for a film, but it just goes off on random tangents. And the ending is way over the top.

So yeah not encouraged that this is the guy making the new Alien movie.

Thought this was a great fun movie. Cheesy, poignant, good action, strange characters. Took a lot from the Guy Pearce movie "Lockout". Lots of homages to Short Circuit, Robocop and others. Highly recommend it.

Originally posted by jaden101
Thought this was a great fun movie. Cheesy, poignant, good action, strange characters. Took a lot from the Guy Pearce movie "Lockout". Lots of homages to Short Circuit, Robocop and others. Highly recommend it.

Nice. We have similar taste and I was hoping this would be a good SciFi.

It's good fun. Doesn't take itself seriously. Although that often puts people off as trailers can make them look much more serious than they are. It's certainly less so than District 9 and Elysium. The best example of it is the trio of criminals and the crime lord they owe money to. Completely over the top caricatures.

Really? mmm

I'm actually more inclined to scope it out if it's tongue-in-cheek. The melodramatic nature of the trailers was a turn-off.

Apparently Jackman's "Aussie" accent is cringe-worthy.
I'll never understand why Hollywood stereo-types Australians as stuck in the '80s.

Hugh Jackman is Australian, though.

Like, he was born and raised in Sydney. 😐

Your missing the point Esau is trying to make, Hollywood is still living in the 80's when it comes to anything Australian.

I haven't seen the movie yet. Are you talking about like the slang he uses, or?

I don't want chappie I want a district 10

Originally posted by Tzeentch
Really? mmm

I'm actually more inclined to scope it out if it's tongue-in-cheek. The melodramatic nature of the trailers was a turn-off.

It's not really tongue-in-cheek. It has many comedic moments with CHAPPIE but the plot seems to take itself seriously.

I just thought it failed. Not fun-comedic like Short Circuit and not dark like Robocop. But mixed and matched those tones which just didn't work for me.

Actually what didn't work for me is the compete tangent they took the plot in.

I saw it yesterday...i liked it.

The ending

Spoiler:
every becomes a robot

Tell me I'm wrong