ComptonTerry wrote:My god did this suck. I loved D9 and thought Elysium was above average and just a little short of great. This was just terrible. Every character is terrible, and the characters played by Die Antwoord are some of the worst, most annoying, most fucking detestable characters I've seen in some time. This movie is going to become a classic example of bad character development and just plain simple bad screenwriting. I am now convinced beyond reasonable doubt Blomkamp needs to stop writing and just stick to Directing.

AsianVersionOfET wrote:

ComptonTerry wrote:My god did this suck. I loved D9 and thought Elysium was above average and just a little short of great. This was just terrible. Every character is terrible, and the characters played by Die Antwoord are some of the worst, most annoying, most fucking detestable characters I've seen in some time. This movie is going to become a classic example of bad character development and just plain simple bad screenwriting. I am now convinced beyond reasonable doubt Blomkamp needs to stop writing and just stick to Directing.

Damn...so not even worth watching?

dealwithit wrote:But guys...CHAPPIE HAS FEELINGS!!!

If you didn't like it, I think maybe you just didn't understand the message of the film.

ComptonTerry wrote:My god did this suck. I loved D9 and thought Elysium was above average and just a little short of great. This was just terrible. Every character is terrible, and the characters played by Die Antwoord are some of the worst, most annoying, most fucking detestable characters I've seen in some time. This movie is going to become a classic example of bad character development and just plain simple bad screenwriting. I am now convinced beyond reasonable doubt Blomkamp needs to stop writing and just stick to Directing.

Chappie (the unexpected virtue of ignorance)-

It’s a film not at odds with itself so much as logic itself, so committed to defying rationality, reason, or otherwise common sense that the only appropriate response is surrender. Dialogue is airy, empty, and at times as random as the laws of quantum physics. If there’s a scientific equation to understanding Chappie, I don’t possess it. I can’t provide a plot summary, as there isn’t a plot. I can’t rightfully describe characters, because there aren’t any. Chappie is a high budget parody of a movie that doesn’t exist, a This is Spinal Tap if heavy metal was never invented.

What I can say is that Chappie is about a robot developer name Deon Wilson (Dev Patel), who sees a motivational cat poster and believes he can do anything he wants to do. He steals a defunct robot that a shouting Sigourney Weaver (who plays his boss) told him not to, all so he can install “consciousness.dat.” Or, A.I.. Real artificial intelligence. Deon succeeds, creating a robot brought to life by Sharlto Copley through motion capture. He works for a robotics company that sells “scouts”, the robots you've seen on the posters and trailers, to the police. The scouts have been wildly successful in implementation and we hear crime rates are way down. But this is bad. Very bad. I don’t know why, but Blomkamp said so.

No part of Chappie makes sense, from its non-themes about police states (the police went from robotically following orders to being literal robots-hurhurhur), to lines, to motivations, to the story, to even how it got made. Watching Chappie is a chaotic mindfuck that defies explanation or category. Zimmer’s score is the only aspect that works in a traditional sense, but what’s so strange, what I, even as I type this right now, can’t understand, is that Chappie completely works non-traditionally. It’s a terrible movie with terrible everything, but its loyal and even stubborn commitment to utter irrationality slowly overwhelmed me with a kinetic chaos that can only be called freeing. Chappie is a liberating, misconceived project on every level, devoutly mad and indirectly engaging. To borrow a phrase from Birdman, Chappie demonstrates the unexpected virtue of ignorance. It is, so far, my favorite film of 2015.

D+