Chappie (2015)
 

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Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver and.....Die Antwoord!?

I want to see this.

People nit pick his politics in his films but he's consistently had themes dealing with our progress in technology combined with our lack of progress in morality/ethics.

Our toys evolving faster than we are...

Shouldn't it be called Short Circuit 3?

Johnny Five's book?

http://i.imgur.com/XfcgvND.jpg

Q

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=288099

(no offense, first time getting to Q someone :) )

Will rent. District 9 was better than I expected.

Can't wait. And I'd bet anything Neil gets to direct the next Aliens film.

Do NOT search that creepy chick's music. I wanted to boot my cat out the window from the sounds she was making, because I thought the noises were coming from him.

I've seen far too many terrible 80's movies. Immediately thought of this.

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south africans are very strange.

Just pop in your 'Queen' mix tape and you can become a crack F-16 pilot in 2 weeks!

Iron eagle is dope. Especially the one where they fly WW2 planes

Just saw the preview.. **** yes..

Love me some Die Antwoord..

They are some artistic mother****ers. Will be interesting to see how they do at acting.

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A little unusual

who the **** is Die Antwoord?

Support your fellow Chiefs fan bitches!!!

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I already saw short circuit years ago. No thanks. Looks awful.

Not really a fan, but I do find them funny as hell and definitely wierd...

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Chappie is Crappie.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/chappie/

Of the two "Hugh Jackman in a movie about robots" movies, this one looks like the one to see... might end up catching this on a matinee soon.

I pay exactly O attention to rotten tomatoes, they're always trashing movies I enjoyed. Most of their reviewers are some of the most pretentious douchebags I've ever had the displeasure of reading.

It's funny that in every review I read, Ninja and Yolandi seem to be the highlights.

So you don't value reviews at all?

That's all rotten tomatoes is: the average of all the professional reviews printed in newspapers/online.

This guys career has gone south quick. If he screws up the Alien franchise, it's probably over for him.

Elysium got decent reviews and made $286 million.

Depending on the money Chappie makes I think he's going to be making movies for awhile.

[QUOTE=Numbah One;11363264]So you don't value reviews at all?

That's all rotten tomatoes is: the average of all the professional reviews printed in newspapers/online.[/QUOTE

Movie critics annoy the hell out of me, for every time they're right, they're wrong two other times IMO.

I've read plenty of fairly scathing reviews about awesome flicks like Birdman and Interstellar, just to name two recent examples... movie critics like the smell of their own shit.

Both were reviewed at above 70 percent.

While I want to see Chappie, it doesn't bode well that so many people dislike it.

Number Five is Alive!

Rotten Tomatoes panned the shit out of Netflix's Marco Polo. I quite enjoyed it. I don't completely dismiss critics, but a lot of them are pretentious douchebags.

The first clue that it might not be good was the early March release.

I found that early March releases tend to be the case of studios not knowing what to do with a movie. Like 300 or Watchmen.



From what I have found, it sounds like everyone wanted this to be a live version of the Iron Giant, but it is anything but.

Would smash Yolandi.

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I don't know. She seems like the kind of girl that would be into cutting you or herself in the middle of the act.

Maybe if she didnt have the Downs Syndrome haircut.

Don't forget the audience score. If the two are both high, it's a must-see.

Don't read the reviews, just look at the average scores. If the reviewers score it low but audience scores it high, it's probably "fun" but not groundbreaking or original. If both score it low, at least wait for Redbox or Netflix. If critics score it high but audience scores it low, it's an art flick - if you like that kind of movie, watch it; if not, pass.

Spot on

If anything, I'd put more weight in the audience score.

Critics are too often guilty of snobbery, like they almost dont feel like they're doing their jobs if they dont say something bad about almost anything... they're the bigshot Broadway critic from Birdman, they're the same kind of people that kept KISS from the rock hall of fame for so long, etc.

IMO.

Don't care. Would still smash.

I'm a recovering critic, so I'm probably biased. The problem, as I see it, is knowledge and studying. The more you know, the more problems you see.

I understand where you're coming from.

But Roger Ebert wrote several Russ Meyer movies, so they're all hypocrites to some degree is what I'm saying. Anyway, I have rarely used critical acclaim to decide which movies I see... if the subject matter and trailer looks good, chances are I'm going to like it.

Have you seen 'Chef' ?


Good flick. It was obviously Faveau's therapy for his critics. I thought it was interesting

Yeah, I really enjoyed it. Fun.

How is Die Antwoord in the film? Or do they do the standard poor S. Africian motto.

My response was to the question if I'd seen Chef. I haven't seen Chappie.

Great show!!
We enjoyed it.

Ok. I enjoyed it but did not like the ending.

Any thoughts of starting a thread with your own movie reviews?

I used to do fairly in-depth reviews, but haven't in a long time. And frankly, I don't go to the movies that often anymore. By the time I'd be reviewing, it'd be a rental at Redbox. Is that even that useful? :shrug:

Saw it over the weekend... Thought it was pretty good. Character I liked least of all was surprisingly Hugh Jackman. Overplayed his part a bit in my opinion. I had fairly low expectations going in because I didn't love District 9, but Chappie was a good flick. Worth the money. Had no idea that the blonde and her thug boyfriend in the movie were "musicians". They turned in some decent performances for not being actors. You have to overlook some very shotty security practices from the futuristic police department for the story to be at all believable (as much as this sort of sci-fi show can be believable) but if you can't do that, you probably weren't going to like it anyway.

You have a very loose definition of the word "musician."

I do indeed. What is funny, is the movie rolls credit to a song that I just thought was awful. As I was walking out with my wife, I sarcastically said I was going to rush home and download the song. Now I think that it was probably a song from "Mama" and "Ninja" from the movie.

Probably. They're awful.

You shut your mouth.

I miss your review days. NO time anymore?

Chappie (2015)
 

http://moviepilot.com/posts/2015/03/...on-set-2760817

tl;dr Ninja's an asshat.

I appreciate that, thanks. Not really. I travel for work quite a bit, and it's gotta be a pretty darn good movie for me to go to the theater nowadays. I catch a lot once they come to video now.

IMO, yes. I normally do not see movies in theater and you tend to pick up on themes better than anyone on CP. I would enjoy seeing it, even if you were the only one posting to the thread.

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More talented than most American Rappers.. Their videos alone are artistic..

Oh ok. That's too bad.


You should do a year end top 10 thread or just a general movie thread every now and then.


Would enjoy!

Their "music" is terrible. Tear. Rubble. Calling them "gawd awful" is an insult to gawd awful things everywhere.

Movie is way better than the reviews. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

What's up with Jackmans mullet?

RedLetterMedia hated all over it.

I don't always agree with them but I do more often than not.

Shame. I guess I'll wait for Netflix...

It's worth seeing in the theater.

It's better than Elysium but that was strangely better reviewed.

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