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There are exceptions. I recently watched District 9 and was very pleasantly surprised. The CGI effects were beyond reproach, but the movie did not use them as a
by krylon 10y ago
There are exceptions. I recently watched District 9 and was very pleasantly surprised. The CGI effects were beyond reproach, but the movie did not use them as a substitute for plot or character.
Sunshine was very good, too - the script had logical holes in it that could swallow an entire galaxy, but the actors were so good, and the atmosphere so dense it was still a really, really good SciFi movie. Again, the special effects were good, but used sparingly.
So not all hope is lost.
- ekianjo 10y agoHowever after District 9, Neil Blomkamp is on a downward trend. His recent movies are much less engaging, and Chappie was really, really bad: it tried to copy the frame of District 9 but every story aspect was much worse and smelled fake kilometers away. Really disappointing after the excellent experience District 9 was. I found Sunshine quite poor, too. First the whole story makes no sense (even the largest spaceship you could build would anyway be way too small to do anything meaningful, it's so obvious it's preposterous), and the last scene is a deal breaker: after they succeed, you see a woman and a child playing on the snow. Oh, I thought people were starving on Earth, but no they are actually enjoying the snow and winter sports? So what was the big emergency all about? That was stupid.
- agumonkey 10y agoTrue, I darkened the thing a bit, and yeah D9 was a pretty amazing surprise all around.