Adam Nuhfer on 26/8/2009 at 08:05
Quote Posted by Fafhrd
It's also poor form to edit a post nearly a week after making it to remove all evidence of that.
The purpose of the edit was to enclose it in spoiler tags. I didn't see that option from within edit screen so I opted to remove those lines so as not to continue the spoil.
belboz on 28/8/2009 at 07:00
How long was it, just so I can tell how much has been cut from the UK version when they get round to releasing it here.
Tumbleweed on 28/8/2009 at 16:32
omgdistrict9hegetsalightninggunthatmakespeoplegopopandthenigerianwarlordgoespopandhehasarobotsuitthatgoespewpewpewandheusesagravityguntoshootsomeonewithapig!!11
I actually saw it like weeks before any of you did, so that makes my opinion more valid than any of yours.
Yeah.
Elusive Paladin on 29/8/2009 at 13:15
Great film. All the little South Africanisms is helping to making it a massive hit over here. Wikus lapsing into Afrikaans at random was great.
Morte on 30/8/2009 at 17:06
Quote Posted by Ko0K
So, yeah... I think it makes total sense for a desperate guy to 1) beat the crap out of the only guy possibly capable of helping him, 2) try his hand at piloting a vehicle without having any clue as to how to dock that thing, and 3) wander around the mile-wide alien ship hoping to find something he can't identify or operate (why, I wouldn't be surprised to see loot glint in the director's cut version). ...as opposed to, say, put a choke hold on the little one and force the dad to cooperate.
I mean, I can forgive some character inconsistencies effected by unintended plot holes, but in this case it seems pretty obvious to me that most of the character issues resulted from the director's attempt at forcing the audience to feel specific ways about the major characters at every turn. I'd think it's entirely possible that he stood in front of the screen with a bunch of cue cards at the premier.
A not very bright middle-manager doing something stupid while under extreme amounts of stress? Heavens, how implausible.
The big "Run!/I'm not leaving you behind" moment was slightly undeserved though, but only in that I didn't buy Christopher's reluctance to risk it and not return to his son. Granted, the guy's about the only moral character in the entire movie, but nothing in how Wikus treated him earned that kind of loyalty.
Anyway, I really liked it.
Ko0K on 30/8/2009 at 18:41
Quote Posted by Morte
A not very bright middle-manager doing something stupid while under extreme amounts of stress? Heavens, how implausible.
I guess you would know through your own personal experience, then?
(edit) You're missing the point.
Taffer36 on 30/8/2009 at 21:27
Quote Posted by Ko0K
I guess you would know through your own personal experience, then?
(edit) You're missing the point.
No he isn't.
Ko0K on 30/8/2009 at 22:07
Elaborate.
(edit) Actually, I don't give a shit. You're going to keep defending a shitty movie, and I'll continue to disagree. I see no other outcome resulting from this exchange.
Morte on 31/8/2009 at 10:13
Quote Posted by Ko0K
You're missing the point.
No, I'm not. You think that the director is just jerking the characters around. I disagree with your assertion that the characters' actions don't follow from what we're told about them and the plot, especially in that example. Yes, hitting Christopher over the head with a shovel was not particularly clever, but Wikus has a history of being not particularly clever, and weak.
He can't stomach the thought of turning prawn and waiting three years for a cure, has a vague conception of something that will fix him on the mothership and in his desperation hits the guy on the head. I find that more likely than him holding a gun to the kid's head, especially since even though he has patronizing racist attitudes towards the prawn, he still has lines he won't cross, and he has gained a modicum of respect for Christopher and his kid as people this point.
