http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXwichuGW28
What you may need to know:
1. A low level tech in a large company creates the first Artificial Intelligence robot with the ability to think and feel. The robot is named Chappie and he learns from his surroundings, some good, some bad.
2. It’s Neill Blomkamp’s third film after the excellent District 9 (2009) and the awful Elysium (2013).
3. Sharlto Copley is obviously included. He is the voice of Chappie.
4. Copley met Blomkamp when Blomkamp was 16 and just finished school. Copley provided Blomkamp with use of his agency to help with pitches for various projects and computers to help Blompkamp with his design and animation work.
5. Die Antwoord of Enter the Ninja fame help to up the weirdness. Coincidentally they released their latest track Ugly Boy on the same day as the trailer.
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: The Zef is strong in this one.
Release Date: TBC
Delboy is watching the US mid-term election returns. Dylan is Tom Dillon, our Navan-born social media wrangler.
This is going to be brilliant i am so excited. Neill Blomkamp is awesome and i enjoyed Elysium.
I also enjoyed Elysium
Elysium was good, bloke is from Navan in fairness.
Are you saying i am from navan?
yes Elysium was far from terrible.good leftwing SciFi.
Elysium was a well-dressed turd.
Mani, always such a beautiful way with words.
Thanks Drogg. I’ve been brushing up on my ingerlish.
Number 5 is alive!
Its no Short Circuit but a good effort!
Looks great but the presence of Die Antwoord is very distracting.
+1 my thoughts also….also the AI/Robot premise has been done to death of late
I’m really excited that Die Antwoord are in it. They should be great!
Yeah, Elysium, was not awful. It was a 3.5/5 kinda movie. Did I miss something where everyone thought it was sh*te?
I’m wondering that too. It wasn’t mind-blowing but it was definitely watchable.
If Elysium were released on VHS today the packing would have written on the cover something like….
” * * 2 stars – this movie is watchable ”
and on the back…
” Give it a go, I watched to the end ”
It’s no ‘Nostril Picker’ or ‘Oversexed Rugsuckers From Mars’ tho, which were proper VHS trashy stuff!
Elysium: Matt Damon was terribly miscast. And that it lacked the humour of District 9 even though it had the potential to have a few gags in it. And that it was really predictable. So what resulted was a film where it looked like Hollywood marketing types had more say in making the movie then Blomkamp. And what was up with Jodie foster’s accent? And her characters dialogue was terrible. That whole ‘well if you had children you would’ monologue she had made me embarrassed for her.
It went absolutely nowhere, Damon’s character was baldy established (I’m a good guy, but no, fcuk this sick kid, hang on, I’m a good guy again because emotions), Jodie Foster appeared to have suffered a stroke, producing the kind of side-effects you’d read in an Oliver Sach’s book. Sharlto Copley was just about the only watchable presence on screen.
I was at a cinema on Halloween and there was a girl dressed up as Yolandi – she was so like her that I’m still not sure it wasn’t Yolandi.
She even responded to a casual lyric drop.
Aaaannnnyyway – Elysium was enjoyable and I don’t think any of the complaints above warrant it being put in the “Awful” box. Also, I presumed Jodie Foster’s look and her quasi French accent was based on IMF supremo Christine Lagarde.
Yolandi had said Bloomkamp would make her a movie star in a previous track. And that they were going to “blow up like Chappie’s Bubble Gum”. I remember wondering what that was at the time, so I looked it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappies
So if Neil Bloomkamp was Irish, this film would be called “Tayto”.