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On August 15 2009 07:45 CharlieMurphy wrote:
The people who rush to see a movie and are quick to give a review are always biased in liking it. Because who rushes to pay 10$ to see a movie they don't want to see or thinks will suck?
I went to the movie with 0 expectations, I didn't even know what it was about. I think that 99% of the movies made in the last 5 years have sucked dick, so I am pretty sure I am unbiased enough to see an exception. My credentials:
Suck a dick I need no credentials, BIZZAAAAAA
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On August 15 2009 08:45 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
I didn't like this movie, it made no sense wtf :S
Am I alone here? D:
Or, rather, I didn't hate it, but, like, it was "huh, what just happened?"
It was a little weird, but it definitely made sense IMO. What did you not understand? Maybe I can help you out. I thought the movie was pretty deep in some ways and definitely had an unexpected plot.
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What was there not to get? Made sense to me :O
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I didn't get what the movie was supposed to prove. Was it just "humans suck and hate others who are different from them?" That's all I got out of it :S
Also there was hardly any context for a lot of the stuff :[ And why the hell did MNU want to -kill- Wikus? Wouldn't his, you know, ability to use alien weaponry be more valuable to them than if he was dead? What did they expect to get out of a dead body?
Oh and Wikus is a douche.
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On August 15 2009 09:34 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
I didn't get what the movie was supposed to prove. Was it just "humans suck and hate others who are different from them?" That's all I got out of it :S
Also there was hardly any context for a lot of the stuff :[ And why the hell did MNU want to -kill- Wikus? Wouldn't his, you know, ability to use alien weaponry be more valuable to them than if he was dead? What did they expect to get out of a dead body?
Oh and Wikus is a douche.
"humans suck and hate others who are different from them?"
Isnt that esentially what racism is? You hate other people just because they are different? I think this movie was also a criticism on people. I think there was a reason why the film took place in South Africa.
MNU wanted to kill Wikus because they wanted to get his DNA and organs so that they could either
1) study it and try to replicate to use the alien weaponry
2) use his organs and plant them in other things to try and use the alien weapons.
Yeah, not exactly rationale, but I if you have before you potential to dominate and control the world, then you probably wouldnt make the most rational decisions either.
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I didn't enjoy the movie at all it seemed to drone on for far too long. I got the anti-prejudice vibe from it but based on the previews I saw a completely different movie with enough uses of the word Fuck to even make money train blush.
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I'm going to see it in a couple hours. I will bitch moan and flame others for bitching afterwards.
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Why didn't the aliens just use their way overpowered technology to own the MNU since afterall, the MNU kidnapped a lot of the aliens and experimented on them as well as treated them badly? The aliens seemed to be too retarded to have such awesome technology and not put it to good use.
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On August 15 2009 10:57 Gnaix wrote:
Why didn't the aliens just use their way overpowered technology to own the MNU since afterall, the MNU kidnapped a lot of the aliens and experimented on them as well as treated them badly? The aliens seemed to be too retarded to have such awesome technology and not put it to good use.
Yeah, that was what I was thinking too, but my guess is that since the aliens have been on Earth for nearly 20 years, they lost their sense of being civilized and turned to being savages. They could have easily overpowered the humans, but instead they didn't fight back and was abused.
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I guess what was so interesting to me about it was the fact that it did portray humans as, well, the evil beings that we are. We can't even get along with other races of our own species, so clearly, how poorly would we treat a new species from another planet, especially a refugee species? I think this movie held true to that regard, showing us essentially dissecting them like rats, trying to figure out things about them. And when one of our own is "infected", we try to cut him down as if he was never one of us to begin with.
I can't believe this film was made with a $30 million budget... it just makes me say F U all the more to Transformers 2 and terminator salvation... with their $175 and $150 million budgets, respectively, being a total waste for those of us who wanted to view a decent flick. Unfortunately, both of those movies have made over double their investment, so we can expect more of that horridness, as always.
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On August 15 2009 10:57 Gnaix wrote:
Why didn't the aliens just use their way overpowered technology to own the MNU since afterall, the MNU kidnapped a lot of the aliens and experimented on them as well as treated them badly? The aliens seemed to be too retarded to have such awesome technology and not put it to good use. They stated in the movie that these aliens were mainly "worker-class", and were good at being told what to do, but could not think for themselves. Clearly, "Christopher" was one of a higher class, and held the intellect to change things for their race. I just wish they went more into the explanation of the "fluid", and why it took 20 years etc...
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OH MY GOD THIS MOVIE IS SO GOD DAMNED AMAZING.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN A BETTER SCI-FI MOVIE IN MY LIFE
CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL
But seriously, go see this or you have missed out on the best sci-fi movie in the last decade.
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On August 15 2009 11:03 Alpine wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2009 10:57 Gnaix wrote:
Why didn't the aliens just use their way overpowered technology to own the MNU since afterall, the MNU kidnapped a lot of the aliens and experimented on them as well as treated them badly? The aliens seemed to be too retarded to have such awesome technology and not put it to good use. They stated in the movie that these aliens were mainly "worker-class", and were good at being told what to do, but could not think for themselves. Clearly, "Christopher" was one of a higher class, and held the intellect to change things for their race. I just wish they went more into the explanation of the "fluid", and why it took 20 years etc...
Thanks, I really missed that important fact and it makes sense now. I agree on the "black fluid" since how did they gather it? Was it extracted from the planet Earth? I wonder if there will be a sequel? + Show Spoiler +Since Christopher did say he'll come back in 3 years and maybe it'll be like Independence Day lol? Or it'll be one of those movies to leave us wondering.
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On August 15 2009 11:03 Alpine wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2009 10:57 Gnaix wrote:
Why didn't the aliens just use their way overpowered technology to own the MNU since afterall, the MNU kidnapped a lot of the aliens and experimented on them as well as treated them badly? The aliens seemed to be too retarded to have such awesome technology and not put it to good use. They stated in the movie that these aliens were mainly "worker-class", and were good at being told what to do, but could not think for themselves. Clearly, "Christopher" was one of a higher class, and held the intellect to change things for their race. I just wish they went more into the explanation of the "fluid", and why it took 20 years etc...
It took 20 years because they needed to extract enough from the weapons to power a space ship, how is that not really obvious? All of the plot points were well explained imo.
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Yeah they mentioned it about the time where Witkus was trying to tell "cristropher" about the eviction, and he basically got called out on it being illegal. He said something like, most are workers, this guy is a little smarter, so he tried the approach of taking his kid away because it was "illegal" to have a child living in "dangerous" conditions.
I thought that right there showed some truth to how humans treat other humans...we make laws that not everyone even understands, but we still enforce them, or use them against those that dont quite get it. I guess I agree with the statements above that this was a representative movie about our inherent racism.
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On August 15 2009 11:17 ghermination wrote:
It took 20 years because they needed to extract enough from the weapons to power a space ship, how is that not really obvious? All of the plot points were well explained imo.
I never said it wasn't "obvious". I just didnt like how it was brought up so non-chalantly, like...ok we're good to go back into space, let's roll...there was no build up to it. I still give the movie a 9/10 overall so it wasnt a bid deal for me.
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Oh and also, they said stuff about a command module falling off and that's why the mothership doesn't work. Except the mothership magically worked for the ending...?
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On August 15 2009 11:06 ghermination wrote:
OH MY GOD THIS MOVIE IS SO GOD DAMNED AMAZING.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN A BETTER SCI-FI MOVIE IN MY LIFE
CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL
But seriously, go see this or you have missed out on the best sci-fi movie in the last decade.
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