.@GreatDismal was right. Storytelling is conventional & takes shortcuts, but Chappie is a powerful metahumanist scifi tale w awesome action
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I mean, if you thought ET was contrived/soppy, and District 9 was too militarized, you'll prolly hate Chappie, but I loved both those films
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Blomkamp is this era's Verhoeven: he revels in the dirt & bling of humans & machines, knows how to direct, move, destroy & connect them.
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Chappie is less explicitly political than D9 (& Blomkamp rejects templates), but it's more than a homage to Robocop w equally awesome action
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If you liked Chappie, it's worth delving into Almost Human (series which Fox predictably sabotaged & killed), and Stross' Saturn's Children
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In closing on Chappie: that's how you make an engaging/earnest scifi blockbuster (been complaining a lot about them lately, for good reason)
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@asteris Could 've hired actors instead of rappers tho. The baddies-turned-goodies gave straight-to-DVD perfs. Jackman's mullet did better. -
@ltsouknidas I did say the storytelling was conventional, incl. AI learning, but overall, it worked. Besides, you're obsessed w mullets :p - 2 more replies
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