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slag said:
Well, now that Pacific Rim has come out and consensus is pretty good, this is the next one that holds promise as a good sci fi flick. I'm looking forward to seeing it, anyone else? I like Matt Damon movies and I pretty much like everything sci-fi or futuristic.
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I saw pacific rim, and was very disappointed. So much technobabble, and just so WRONG. "Mine is analog, so it will still work"...

And the guy building the brain interface device with a bellows attached? Dear god. Made me want to cry.

It may have been a good popcorn movie, or perhaps a good movie for younger kids (8-12), but I couldn't maintain any suspension of disbelief.

Frankly, Cloverfield was superior (BARRING the whole building scene, and the girl's magically healing shoulder).
 
Pulsar said:
I saw pacific rim, and was very disappointed. So much technobabble, and just so WRONG. "Mine is analog, so it will still work"...

And the guy building the brain interface device with a bellows attached? Dear god. Made me want to cry.

It may have been a good popcorn movie, or perhaps a good movie for younger kids (8-12), but I couldn't maintain any suspension of disbelief.

Frankly, Cloverfield was superior (BARRING the whole building scene, and the girl's magically healing shoulder).
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I said it in another thread and i'll say it again here. If you went to Pacific Rim to pay attention to dialog, then you set yourself up for failure. Much like Independence day, the technical part doesn't have to make sense because no one listens to that crap. The movie is about shit blowing up, fight scenes, futuristic crap and explosions. It sounds like you went in as a critic instead of someone wanting to be entertained. You have to suspend disbelief as the whole premise is wonky.. That's what makes it fun to watch.
 
SaurusX said:
How has no one mentioned that this is basically the entire plot of the Battle Angel Alita manga that's been out since the late 90's?
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I can come up with a lot of reasons why many people might not have mentioned how this is basically the entire plot of the Battle Angel Alita manga.

Let me start with reason #1 and #2:

1) WTF is Battle Angel Alita manga?
2) See #1
 
Fingolfin269 said:
I can come up with a lot of reasons why many people might not have mentioned how this is basically the entire plot of the Battle Angel Alita manga.

Let me start with reason #1 and #2:

1) WTF is Battle Angel Alita manga?
2) See #1
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It sounds like some of that Asian cartoon pr0n.
 
slag said:
I said it in another thread and i'll say it again here. If you went to Pacific Rim to pay attention to dialog, then you set yourself up for failure. Much like Independence day, the technical part doesn't have to make sense because no one listens to that crap. The movie is about shit blowing up, fight scenes, futuristic crap and explosions. It sounds like you went in as a critic instead of someone wanting to be entertained. You have to suspend disbelief as the whole premise is wonky.. That's what makes it fun to watch.
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Exactly. In movies, technical things don't make sense.

Kinda like movies with hackers.

Although the TV show Leverage did a pretty decent job with it.

Kinda like Under Siege 2, when the guys like "A gig of ram should do a trick" and he decyphered some code.
 
slag said:
HA.. love it!

😛
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Oh, in Pacific Rim they did everything they could to make the chick look like she came straight out of some tentacle porn movie. Same manga haircut, blue highlights, big eyes, always tilting her head forward... it was fairly obvious what they were going for and I'm not really a manga fan.
 
Sharlto looks bad-ass
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I just saw this last night. It was okay. Kind of stupid plot elements though. It's just like 'rich people in space being assholes for the sake of being assholes'.

Such as at the end: why did they have those giant mobile med bay ships just sitting there and not even attempting to use them on Earth? And if it's an economics thing, why even build them in the first place? It would have made more sense if they simply were rationing care to only themselves because the medbays were resource-heavy and expensive to operate...

And then there was the fatal radiation exposure in the oven that wasn't quite an oven. Why was he not burned by the radiation? Why did the rich out of touch owner care about changing the sheets when the worker was injured if he doesn't care about the workers to begin with? He's not letting guests stay in the med-area of his factory....
The depth of the movie was just a little too shallow.

It seemed like the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Critical Care" meets Gattaca with a ridiculously heavy dose of out of touch rich people being assholes in a dystopian future.
 
Fan's rating on RT is only like 74%. Which means that even the targeted audience isn't that impressed by it.
 
Thinly veiled propaganda.

Actually, scratch that. Open propaganda for socialism.
 
I had hoped to like it a lot more than I did.

It was okay.

But yea, the messages of "rich white people bad, poor brown people good" were even more heavy-handed than expected.

I don't get why it's so horrible of the people who built Elysium not to want a bunch of people flooding in? Taylor Swift has a mansion near where I live... is she a bad person if she doesn't allow me to show up and try to move in? Does that make her a horrible greedy person, or does it just make me a crazy douche if I try it?

The movie opens with "Earth is hugely overpopulated' and ends with
tons of medical ships going to Earth to ensure everyone lives forever in health
all I could think was "yea that should clear that overpopulation problem right up!
 
1. 6/10
2. Too many flashbacks of sappy stuff that was irrelevant. Negatively affected the pacing.
3. Mediocre acting, from solid actors. Therefore, I blame the director.
4. Mediocre writing. I guess Blomkamp needs Terri Tatchell to help out with the writing.
5. It kinda looked like District 9, but bigger, with more money. However, it didn't actually look better.
6. Kruger was kinda irritating.

To sum it up: It's a mediocre summer sci-fi popcorn flick, nothing more.

NB: District 9 is one of my favourite sci-fi movies of all time.
 
I was not impressed. i swear everyone on Elysium was white maybe i missed the black people. everyone on earth was Mexican or such.
 
Brainonska511 said:
I just saw this last night. It was okay. Kind of stupid plot elements though. It's just like 'rich people in space being assholes for the sake of being assholes'.

Such as at the end: why did they have those giant mobile med bay ships just sitting there and not even attempting to use them on Earth? And if it's an economics thing, why even build them in the first place? It would have made more sense if they simply were rationing care to only themselves because the medbays were resource-heavy and expensive to operate...

And then there was the fatal radiation exposure in the oven that wasn't quite an oven. Why was he not burned by the radiation? Why did the rich out of touch owner care about changing the sheets when the worker was injured if he doesn't care about the workers to begin with? He's not letting guests stay in the med-area of his factory....
The depth of the movie was just a little too shallow.

It seemed like the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Critical Care" meets Gattaca with a ridiculously heavy dose of out of touch rich people being assholes in a dystopian future.
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I figured that the medbay things probably use a lot of power, which is why they do not let non residents use them.

That said, they probably needed them for residents who commuted from the station for work. I'd imagine that they had a lot more CEO types coming home for visits when the station was first built.
 
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