District 9
This is out on DVD, and I wondered if anyone would have a take on Peter Jackson's comment, which he makes in the extras, that this is a 'very funny film'. It didn't strike me that way at all, which made me wonder if I'd missed the spirit of the thing.
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I certainly haven't heard anyone call it funny. In fact I'm a bit scared to watch it (though it's in my Netflix queue).
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
As I recall, he was talking about what interested him about the film, and he said he liked the idea of combining sci-fi with comedy, and that it was really a very funny film.
Maybe he just has an odd sense of humor, or because of his background in spoofy-type sci-fi (as I think I've heard tell), his thinking about those bled into his experience of this one. I mean, you can definitely imagine this one being spoofed the way they've done with 'Alien', and that certainly wasn't funny.
I don't think you need be scared of it, Prim, though it is extremely gripping and somewhat disturbing.
Maybe he just has an odd sense of humor, or because of his background in spoofy-type sci-fi (as I think I've heard tell), his thinking about those bled into his experience of this one. I mean, you can definitely imagine this one being spoofed the way they've done with 'Alien', and that certainly wasn't funny.
I don't think you need be scared of it, Prim, though it is extremely gripping and somewhat disturbing.
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I will give it a try, then, Cerin. Thanks.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
We got it for Christmas but I haven't watched it yet, Oz watched it yesterday. I saw maybe 5 minutes of it.
Actually, on the case it says it's supposed to be funny at first, the stupid aliens, etc. The main human character, a guy with a moustache, makes fun of the whole thing? Can't say, haven't seen it.
Just went to a few D9 websites and the word "funny" appears quite often. I didn't know that PJ was involved in any way until yesterday. The reviews I read say that was a bad thing.
Actually, on the case it says it's supposed to be funny at first, the stupid aliens, etc. The main human character, a guy with a moustache, makes fun of the whole thing? Can't say, haven't seen it.
Just went to a few D9 websites and the word "funny" appears quite often. I didn't know that PJ was involved in any way until yesterday. The reviews I read say that was a bad thing.
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What the hell??? It kinda starts off light-hearted from what I recall but quickly becomes very serious and intense. What the hell......
And extremely violent, in a non-gratuitous way.Cerin wrote:I don't think you need be scared of it, Prim, though it is extremely gripping and somewhat disturbing.
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I can probably handle that. It's violence we're supposed to laugh at, or that people do laugh at, that makes me queasy.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Oh, I forgot about the bloody aspect. I guess that was more cartoonish than the rest of the film (speaking about the effect of the alien weapons).* I think the violence is something different, having to do with the treatment of the aliens, and much more realistic. I don't think that was funny at all.
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*By that time good and bad have been clearly delineated, so the people, er, dispatched, have forfeited all sympathy.
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*By that time good and bad have been clearly delineated, so the people, er, dispatched, have forfeited all sympathy.
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Avatar is being criticized for being cliche-ridden. Well, so is District 9. They both succeed in entertaining the viewer just the same.
There are a great many unasked and therefore unanswered questions in my head about this movie - about the story - that would be interesting to have answered. I had to jump over some very high hurdles in order to watch it.
There are a great many unasked and therefore unanswered questions in my head about this movie - about the story - that would be interesting to have answered. I had to jump over some very high hurdles in order to watch it.
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I liked this movie. I really liked the way that it broke away from the clichés of the aliens coming to earth genre – it was great to see a setting outside New York or Washington D.C., and also great to see aliens that weren’t mindless monsters or ethereal superbeings. The heavy-handed message didn’t bother me all that much.
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