Border_Mind said:Fair enough cookiee_munster
I saw Elysium and far from finding it a boring movie, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and found it's underlying commentary very relevant too, great cast, and all around great movie was my take on it
thank F*** we don't all have the same taste eh ;)
mode_devotion said:
Border_Mind said:
I totally hated it and I am a massive Sci-Fi fan. I had no emotional investment in the characters. The little girl "just about" managed to pull on my heart strings but there were stages where I didn't really care who lived or died. The script drew heavily on themes from Star Wars, Star Trek, Mad Max, Oblivion and Terminator. The whole thing was quite unprofessional and at one point Jody Foster (who looked great) wasn't even lip-syncing in time. The worst bit was the antagonist bounty hunter chap whose accent grated on me during every scene he was in. My friends who I went with thought it was a stinker and my best mate who saw it separately was very disappointed by it.
In contrast I saw Jack Reacher for free on Sky and loved every minute of it (well until the underwhelming ending - but I'd still watch it again).
Border_Mind said:
mode_devotion said:
I mean yeah it's not to everyone's liking, I liked it and I am often very Luke-warm towards a lot of modern sci-fi but I didn't have a problem with this movie at all to be honest.Border_Mind said:
mode_devotion said:
Border_Mind said:
mode_devotion said:
I mean yeah it's not to everyone's liking, I liked it and I am often very Luke-warm towards a lot of modern sci-fi but I didn't have a problem with this movie at all to be honest.Border_Mind said:
I'm just envious that you got your monies worth. :)
MrTemper said:The Conjuring
Nothing really important, just another scare movie, it did nothing to me.
Border_Mind said:
mode_devotion said:
Border_Mind said:
I totally hated it and I am a massive Sci-Fi fan. I had no emotional investment in the characters. The little girl "just about" managed to pull on my heart strings but there were stages where I didn't really care who lived or died. The script drew heavily on themes from Star Wars, Star Trek, Mad Max, Oblivion and Terminator. The whole thing was quite unprofessional and at one point Jody Foster (who looked great) wasn't even lip-syncing in time. The worst bit was the antagonist bounty hunter chap whose accent grated on me during every scene he was in. My friends who I went with thought it was a stinker and my best mate who saw it separately was very disappointed by it.
In contrast I saw Jack Reacher for free on Sky and loved every minute of it (well until the underwhelming ending - but I'd still watch it again).
Individual tastes again, the faults you found didn't register with me at all.
I don't really see what is wrong with films drawing on scripts of other films to some extent, let's face it there is very little truly original or ground breaking 'art' out there these days anyway, and plagiarism is hardly something new. I haven't seen Oblivion, I would say to an extent they drew on the films you mentioned, or could be argued so, but name me a bunch of truly original films from the last few decades and we'll see....
In contrast to you, I thought the 'villain' (Sharlto Copley) was pretty good, and yeah he had an annoying South African accent I thought that was the point surely? ;)
I mean yeah it's not to everyone's liking, I liked it and I am often very Luke-warm towards a lot of modern sci-fi but I didn't have a problem with this movie at all to be honest.
Sartori said:
Saw it this afternoon and enjoyed it , the South African `Afrikaaners` accent is just the new German baddie accent . There were a couple of leaps in the plot but only on reflection did I see them , the rollercoaster effect kept me watching it .
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