That's because they used foreign actors. You know the pretty boy American actors don't come cheap. Also, since Peter Jackson was the producer I'm sure Neil Brokamp received a sweet deal from WETA to do the effects.
Guh. How about a movie where the humans aren't the bad guys? Everything about Hollywood is so predictable. Why, for once, can the aliens be the dicks? And I mean complete, not viciously-predatory-yet-won't-sell-out-other-aliens-for-a-buck kind of predatory (Aliens), or vicious-yet-noble-hunters-who-give-you-a-fair-shake-and-an-18th-century-pistol kind of dick (Predator)? I suppose there are these films too but they're never as big and fuck me but they just don't register.
The book was written by George Orwell, a British socialist, and was published before Joe McCarthy was even elected to office. :bugeye:
Animal Farm was a classic, draqon. Those taking up the cause of the proliteriat should keep it in mind at all times. Zapata is another such work.
We tried to watch this the other night. I burned it and unfortunately there were no English subtitles for when the Aliens started talking...Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Anyway we watched the first 10-15 mins or so and both of us said I don't think I am going to make it through this. We both thought it looked like a pile of shit! It almost seemed like a comedy, which I doubt that is what it intended to be. So, I might give it another shot or maybe not. I hope the Aliens have something really important to say because otherwise it looks like a big waste of time.
I'd say it all amounts to something along the lines of You keepin' us down, man ! (get it ? LoL) We's people too ! By the way... ...I will gladly pay you Tuesday, for a can of cat food today... Seiously, though... ...how could you not like those "lightning bolt" guns that blasted people to smithereens ? Man - what I could do with one O' them babies ! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
HA HA!!! Nietzsche was like WTF?? the Aliens are speaking Russian.....LOL Everything was in English until the Aliens spoke and it was subtitled in Russian! We didn't get to the Lightning Bolt gun part yet. I guess I will have to give it another shot at least until I see people being blasted to smithereens. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I thought it was a great movie. Perhaps as some critics have suggested, the movie had trouble deciding whether it should be a social commentary, or a straight-up sci-fi action flick, it wasn't able to reconcile the two aspects. Still thought the overall execution was great, didn't feel anything went overboard to the point where I couldn't take the movie seriously anymore. My parents and grandparents all came from or immigrated to South Africa, and I visited it a few times as a kid. Thus I think I can appreciate Wickus' character more than most people; his exploits throughout the first 75% of the film show him to be boundlessly selfish and shockingly callous towards other intelligent creatures, and this is the impression I have of apartheid-era white South Africans from personal experience. Nearly two decades after apartheid has ended, some of them still act this way behind the scenes, even today. Wickus also shows the same ignorance, stupidity and lack of caution that typical white South Africans used to have in the apartheid days- if any people on this Earth could be foolish enough to mistreat a vastly superior alien race, it would probably be the Boers. Also one last note on my end- I was surprised at the lack of international presence in the movie. I probably only saw 2 Americans in the whole thing, if even that. In real life I could imagine every nation on Earth would be banging at the door demanding access to these aliens, and I think the US would freak out if it saw another country stuffing aliens into a ghetto and making us look like intergalactic turds. Obviously lots of details about the backstory were left unexplained, so I guess there's plenty of room for a sequel to explain some of this stuff, or for the viewer to just speculate on their own.
Please do give it another look. If you're like me... usually I can sum up a movie's potential in the first few scenes... you probably judged it too soon. Its plot doesn't really develop right off, and once it does, it evolves and changes and just really held my interest completely. The 1st impressions though - it doesn't do the movie justice.
LOL, I think you would quickly shoot yourself in the foot. If not, I think your neighborhood would be cat free right quick. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Well this time around, I got a good copy. It did get more interesting the further along it got. We did burst out laughing quite a few times. Was it supposed to be funny? :shrug: That guy seemed like a real calamity to me, esp when he kicked that poor Alien down and tried to fly the spaceship by himself and got shot out of the sky. Another thing we wondered. Wouldn't black ppl be offended by this movie? I mean insinuating that black women were screwing the aliens in cross species prostitution? I would think they would feel portrayed in a really bad way in this movie. I did however find it funny when that guy when in to get some food after he escaped and everyone saw the news bulletin to watch out for him because he was turning into an Alien because he had sex with them. lol So it looks like a District 10 in the future.... I found it entertaining, but can't say I loved it or anything.
Quite possibly, but considering the location was in a really bad part of Africa, I think it should be accepted since the majority of the population....
Wasn't the part that fell off the mothership at the beginning the same shuttle that reintegrated at the end? The "bridge module" as it were? I figured that was the whole reason that the prawns were stranded...can't control a Mommy Ship without a Bridge!
WTH?:bugeye: Wasn't it obvious that it was that small craft that was under the guys house that he needed to get back to the Mother Ship. Ummm Yeah, I thought that was pretty obvious.
It's not a movie, but a TV show: First Wave. If you're not familiar with it, it's about an alien invasion that was prophesied by Nostradamus and a man whose wife was killed by the aliens and framed for her murder. The aliens have infiltrated various levels of human society, and the hero travels around the country, guided by Nostradamus' predictions, trying to thwart them. The aliens have their share of drug addicts (salt acts like a drug to them) and even a high-level operative who becomes a traitor and begins helping the human hero.
See guys?? A woman makes a much better Captain, and thats why I like Janeway. She'd have things figured out like Shorty here... cuzz it isn't always really obvious, and then by the time we realize there's a ship burried down there, we've forgotten all about something falling off the ship. LOL Seriously, I musta not been paying attention cuzz I remember re-watching something fall off the ship. However - its not seeing what's on the screen so much as 'listening' because don't they say 'command module' in the report as they show it falling? I guess it depends what mood a guy's in while watching, and if they're in 'analysis' mode or only half paying attention just to see stuff blow up. lol
What about Independence Day , where the aliens were of the kill-the-entire-human-race-and-consume-all-natural-resources-on-earth variety of dick ? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Yep! I'd forgotten all about it til after the movie was over. Christopher and his kid were digging through trash, they'd been there decades, he had computer parts all over his home....I figured him and his friends built it under his house. and War of the Worlds. They didn't just kill us, they harvested us.
