[dinopello]

Just saw this movie last night. Anyone else see it and what did you think ?


It reminded me of the good sci-fi stories I used to read. I'll post more later.

[JJ]

thought it was great...

[GoghGoner]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JJ', 't')hought it was great...

[davep]

Yeah, it was a pleasant surprise.

[Tanada]

I think you guys have no taste and it was one of the worst movies I ever paid to see in the Theater.

Pure racial stereotyping without the fun of Avatar, IMO of course.

[dinopello]

Thanks for the alternate opinion Tanada. I found it a little hard to watch at times for various reasons having to do with what it said about us humans and our current society. Overall I did like it though. I thought the premise was kind of cool - that humans feel the need to help out this alien culture (seems they had a hive-like hierarchy) and then it just all turns sour. Also interesting was the hyper specialized culture of the aliens that could create the intersteller spaceship but when it's structure was fractured and the leadership lost, the workers regressed to savages. The whole cat-food thing was funny.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'T')hanks for the alternate opinion Tanada. I found it a little hard to watch at times for various reasons having to do with what it said about us humans and our current society. Overall I did like it though. I thought the premise was kind of cool - that humans feel the need to help out this alien culture (seems they had a hive-like hierarchy) and then it just all turns sour. Also interesting was the hyper specialized culture of the aliens that could create the intersteller spaceship but when it's structure was fractured and the leadership lost, the workers regressed to savages. The whole cat-food thing was funny.

[GoghGoner]

I didn't think the movie had anything to do with aliens. That was just a metaphor. It was an examination on racing stereotyping and how humans treat minority groups.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GoghGoner', 'I') didn't think the movie had anything to do with aliens.

[Pretorian]

the movie was well-made, too preachy though. Paying cash to learn someone's agenda?

[JJ]

someone PAID to watch it?

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JJ', 's')omeone PAID to watch it?

[JJ]

OK I was just joking...my 26 year old spends who knows how much money on every new movie that comes out,,,he's got thousands. Every once in a while I watch one.

[dorlomin]

I thought it was generaly a very well done film. It was what good scifi movies should be, that is just short stories fleshed out. Trying to do classic sci fi novels as movies almost always fails unless they are so different as to be totaly different from the book (see Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep as an example).

The film drew very strongly from the experiance of Apparheid from a white perspective but it was not about it. The whole idea of the town ship and the way it was run, the manipulation of the 'prawns' the failure to recognise the shared 'humanity' of other sentient beings. But the film was 'about' modern immigration fears. Especially strong in South Africa where immigrants from other parts of Africa compete with already poor locals for jobs and facillities. The film also worked well because it used Wikus as a vehicle for the audiance to experiance a journey of discovery of understanding the 'prawns'.

A great deal about the film was intended to keep the audiance unsettled and in unfamiliar territory.

The one down side was the use of Nigerian gangsters. It was clumsily done but understandable as a group of black South African gangsters would have brought complaints of stereotyping South African blacks, white South African gangsters would have seemed a touch rediculous and other foreign gangsters would have been to far for the audiance to buy into. Nigerian crime gangs are a problem in South Africa today.

It was a nice bit of old skool scifi. B movie with a bit of a budget. Nice but not great.

[timmac]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'I') think you guys have no taste and it was one of the worst movies I ever paid to see in the Theater.

Pure racial stereotyping without the fun of Avatar, IMO of course.

[timmac]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '
') I spent the movie quivering in my seat, shaking, sweating, and watching half the flick through a little hole cupped by my fingers.

[Ainan]

Just watched it, pure comedy gold. The working class 'aliens' reverting to savagery was the most interesting theme to me, not enough films explore this.