• Arsecroft
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    715 months ago

    This person is the kind of person that would keep wishing on a monkey paw. The rest of Niell Blomkamp’s movies have been not great, and a sequel would probably be so bad to make the original worse.

    • BigFig
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      515 months ago

      What the FUCK did you just say about Chappie???

      • Arsecroft
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        345 months ago

        Chappie was bad, and I say that as a Die Antwoord enjoyer.

        • @thesmokingman
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          435 months ago

          I was Die Antwoord enjoyer until recently when I learned all the recent controversies they’ve been stirring up since at least 2013. It’s worth researching if you’re still riding off that old 2008 MySpace/OG Website high like I was.

        • BigFig
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          175 months ago

          I hate Die Antwoord, but Chappie is a good boy and shouldn’t be lumped in with them!

      • @[email protected]
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        245 months ago

        In comparison to District 9, Chappie was pretty awful. I was VERY excited for it but left disappointed. It was so campy and…unrealistic? That sounds stupid to say in the same breath as praise for District 9 but I don’t mean the settings, I mean the stories. The character writing and plot were just not great.

        • @[email protected]
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          175 months ago

          Unfortunately, Bloomkamp is one of those good directors that mistakenly think they are also good writers (See also: Zack Snyder, M. Knight Shyamalan).

        • @[email protected]
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          85 months ago

          yeah, a dude “figuring out” complete AI in a single night of hardcore coding was super weird

          • southsamurai
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            135 months ago

            That was more a scene of his final night of work. It was still kinda weird, but they set it up so that it was supposed to show that he was working all night, every night on the project, and finally hit the right “code” to make it work.

    • edric
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      35 months ago

      He just needs a good writer by his side to keep him in check and reign him in.