Chappie isn't even out, and I'm already disappointed

[Darks63]

Don't discount it yet. The movie Short Circuit has a similar premise and its a great fun movie. Even the military fighting parts are funny and witty especially when he fights his fellow robots.

 

[Callate]

I didn't mind the thematic stuff in Elysium. The "fatal encryption" drove me nuts, though. ("Let me get this straight, this encryption doesn't prevent someone from copying the data, using the data, or even recognizing what the data is supposed to do remotely... So what, exactly, is the point of doing this from a practical standpoint, other than MacGuffining the plot...?")

From what I've seen, Blomkamp's strength isn't plot. It's the ability to make fantastic science fiction technology seem plausible, and even mundane, in the hands of the occupants of his world. When you think of how many sci-fi movies have to have their moments of, "Whoa, flying spacecar! Take a moment to admire the flying spacecar! Look at the alien vista, and all the flying spacecars whizzing back and forth in front of the lens flare!" It's rather refreshing to have a filmmaker whose characters say, "Yeah, yeah, flying spacecar. Look, do you spend this much time in the real world ogling a Honda Civic?"

In that regard, Chappie may well be worth seeing- the application of a functional AI-controlled android to a plausible setting. As far as plot goes, yeah, it's sounding increasingly like the gritty reboot of Short Circuit. Still, I think it may well be worth seeing for the former.

 

[happyninja42]

So Chappie was a movie that caught my attention with its initial trailers. They seemed to be of a robot with a childish mind that was in a world not too dissimilar to our own, with the story revolving around an A.I. learning what it means to be alive and the antagonists being people who feared what he was, and what he represented. It seemed like an interesting science fiction movie that actually gave logical, understandable and even relatable motivations with the fear of the unknown.

Then the more recent trailers have started to show up where the villains are working for the government, and that Chappie was created to fight the big evil government, and I just feel as though they took a more interesting movie and turned it into a generic one right before my eyes. I know have no interest in the movie and have no intent in watching it.

Am I the only one who feels this way? I really wanted to see the movie of the first few trailers I saw, not the boring looking generic movie that's being advertised now.

Never ever ever trust trailers. Either good or bad. Trailers are put together by other people, to try and hype the movie, they will splice things together way out of sync, because in a 3 minute format, that's got the most impact and punch. Just go see the movie and judge it based on how it was actually put together.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

From what I've seen, Blomkamp's strength isn't plot. It's the ability to make fantastic science fiction technology seem plausible, and even mundane, in the hands of the occupants of his world.

This I will definitely give Blonkamp credit for. His movies are some of the few Sci-fi films I've seen in which futuristic weaponry actually feels visceral and brutal, like they've taken the already brutal power of firearms and amped them up to an almost sadistic degree, which is what you'd expect of futuristic weapons.

If they EVER manage to get the greenlight for the "Altered Carbon" movie, he'd be an awesome director for it.

 

[beastro]

My guess is that the whole "AI turning against its government masters" thing is going to be some sort of anti-militarism message being thrown into the mix.

It left me wondering what kind of movie this will actually be.

Its being made by the guy who also did District 9, so if you've seen that, you can probably guess - tons of various political messages alongside a movie with sudden but competent genre shifts.

Isn't that guy the commie lunatic who also made Elysium, aka "everything rich people have should be public property because fuck rich people who aren't me"?

Hence why I'm quite worried how he's going to handle the next Alien movie.

 

[kris40k]

This I will definitely give Blonkamp credit for. His movies are some of the few Sci-fi films I've seen in which futuristic weaponry actually feels visceral and brutal, like they've taken the already brutal power of firearms and amped them up to an almost sadistic degree, which is what you'd expect of futuristic weapons.

If they EVER manage to get the greenlight for the "Altered Carbon" movie, he'd be an awesome director for it.

I'll agree with that. While I found District 9 a "meh, worth Netflixing" movie, I will say that he made the alien weaponry holy-shit-snacky powerful. My girlfriend actually disliked the movie because of how brutal the violence was. I said "that's the point; violence is brutal and ugly and I think the director wants that to be seen."

 

[Scarim Coral]

Honestly at this point I am fed up with the troupe "fear the unknown/ AI/ machine" (The Second Renaissance from the Animatrix, X-men and etc). I mean yes it is a reaction to fear the unkown but with those films in mind, can we at least try to show some friendliness/ kind approach to the unknown as I'm pretty sure that should worked in the long run of things.

Regardless I probably will end up watching Chappie due to it being a Neill Blomkamp film.