Chappie (Neill Blomkamp, Hugh Jackman, and Die Antwoord)

I was college age when I lived there; had a friend who lived in an apartment near the CBD with his Dad and even though it was only 15 minutes down the highway from where I lived, it felt like a completely different place. Having my parents drive me there in their silver Audi A4 was a great way to feel you'd be hijacked at any possible moment.

O.D. said:
Just got back from seeing this. Worth the watch.

Very heavy accents to work with.
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Glad to hear, accents shouldn't be a problem for me!
 
District 9 didn't really go anywhere or do anything, neither did Elysium so I'm not going to hold out high hopes for this
 
Castiel said:
District 9 has got to be one of the worst films I've ever seen. I have tried to watch it half a dozen times, never getting to the end.

I quite liked Elysium, not ground breaking or anything, but better than D9.

This looks quite good though.
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I will never trust any film reviews you write from now on. How can you watch half a film? Even if you hate a film, you must finish it :p
 
Clov!s said:
Did you watch a different version to the rest of us? D9 is brilliant.
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really? i found it quite boring, and none of the characters particularly likeable or relateable or even hateable, i genuinely didn't care what happened to any of them, couldn't get invested in the story at all. Everyone was just bland and it all seemed rather pointless.


also i hate the fake documentory style of filming

Elysium, plot wise pretty bad, as a generic dumb turn off brain action film it had some good moments but nothing spectacular.
 
I actualy really enjoyed it to be honest.
It's set "just in the future" so 2016 is mentioned and then "18 months later" I believe, so 2016-2018.
The robot has been very well done - assuming motion capture, annimation etc. On the screen it works extremely well and you do start to feel there is an actual robot there.
Storywise it's fun enough - cannot spoil of course, but you've got a "new born" struggling with identity and family and what the future holds....mortality or immortality.
Some dialogue was very poor - Jackman's character is a little....strange, but it transpires also has a god-fearing unhinged personality.
Weaver is as you expect post Alien, run of the mill, roll could have been filled by a thousand and one different people, but she has a prescence on screen never the less.
The "gangsters" are fun enough, if not a little OTT at times - not knowing SA at all I've no idea if some of that crap actually goes down or not!
Ending - you are going to either love or hate it. Again no spilers here, but you feel it could have ended 15 minutes of so before it does for a gritty end, or the more sci-fi, but suprisingly pleasent and euphoric ending it does get.

I'd say well worth a watch, but only my opinion of course.
 
Saw this at the weekend and it was, in my opinion, average at best. I could feel no empathy towards any of the main characters who pretty much got everything they deserved and their motives were dreadful. The fact the film ends with Chappie doing what he does is also very questionable given again the motives of the people who are involved. I like district 9 and Elysium was ok, but based on this I have dwindling hope for Alien 5...
 
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Saw this today, it was decent enough but easily forgettable.

I found the gangster punks (Some hip hop due from SA) to be pretty annoying, I'd of much preferred Chappie to have spent his formative years elsewhere.

6/10.
 
Just got back from watching this. I can see why critics have been slating it, but I enjoyed it. A mess of a film, but good fun. Worth watching.
 
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