Actually, on reflection I am behaving like a fanboy, and you are right in saying Christopher could have been written better. Your oh-so-clever attitude and subtle(and not so subtle) digs pissed me off and I wasn't going to back down, but what the hell.
I still disagree with your reasoning, as my first point above says.
And despite it's flaws, I did thoroughly enjoy the movie - I'm going to see it again.
Actually, on reflection, I am being somewhat of a fanboy, and you're right that Christopher could have been written better. I'm man enough to admit when I'm wrong
Your oh-so-clever subtle digs pissed me off, so I wasn't going to back down. But what the hell.
But I stick by my first point in the above post - you might be right about the plot holes, but I disagree with your defence.
So your saying you can't rationally plot a characters irrational actions? If so, I disagree. The two don't appear to be mutually exclusive to me.
Hey, I'm all for different opinions. But some/.er trying to tell me how much I enjoyed a movie? Not so much. If you're so open to the perspective of others then what's with the personal sniping? Get off your high-horse.
What seems sad to me is someone who's so obviously enamoured with his own towering intellect that he can't enjoy a good movie.
I disagree with your philosophical premise, and the rest is subjective. So unless you want to keep trading insults, I suggest we agree to disagree.
I have to wonder if you even watched the same trailer as I did. I certainly had no trouble cluing that the plot is basically a paraplegic "Space Marine" gets uploaded into an avatar designed to mimic the locals, then goes native and fights his original masters, and possibly there's an alien love interest, too.
I'll have option C thanks, to interpret that his motives are deliberately incomprehensible to humans and credit the scriptwriters with an above average product that doesn't rely on the tired cliche of aliens who are essentially a funny looking people.
Spoken like a typical extrovert who has no understanding of introverts. The reason they don't enjoy interaction with others is because they don't enjoy interaction with others.
Introverts don't sit at home brooding, they enjoy being by themselves.
"The cure for this"??? WTF? Are you saying there's something wrong with not being an extrovert? It's fuckheads like you putting pressure on introverts to "cure" themselves that leads to unhappy introverts.
The aliens are a hive mind. The leadership component was killed. Search on IO9 and you'll find an interview with Blomkamp that explains it, pretty much as did the exposition near the start, that you seem to have missed.
Really? If you could steal with absolutely no chance of ever being caught, and no-one being hurt by your actions, you wouldn't do it because of your moral stance?
Fuck sending meatspace people anywhere. Let's get virtual and then send that system. Smaller, faster, less risk, better in-flight entertainment. Although, the off-site backups are going to be tricky.
Oops, forgot to say, patch you PC's! Run WSUS and annoy the crap out of users with 5 min repeat prompts to restart
BTW, we had Conflicker as a zero day. It took Trend a day and a half to get a signature update out. The only machines to get hit were a couple of R&D non-domain units that weren't configured to get updates from our WSUS server. I openly discussed it with the CIO, who took it to the exec. In the end it was positive, and we get a lot of backing from on-high now. Now we have a policy that insists all devices are configured for updates, on pain of death.
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OK, lets review what we've seen so far.
Spaceships? Check.
Mech-suits? Check.
Aliens? Check.
How could Avatar possibly be considered sci-fi...
"...of course these should have big-assed shotguns"
There, fixed that for you.
Actually, on reflection I am behaving like a fanboy, and you are right in saying Christopher could have been written better.
Your oh-so-clever attitude and subtle(and not so subtle) digs pissed me off and I wasn't going to back down, but what the hell.
I still disagree with your reasoning, as my first point above says.
And despite it's flaws, I did thoroughly enjoy the movie - I'm going to see it again.
Actually, on reflection, I am being somewhat of a fanboy, and you're right that Christopher could have been written better. I'm man enough to admit when I'm wrong
Your oh-so-clever subtle digs pissed me off, so I wasn't going to back down. But what the hell.
But I stick by my first point in the above post - you might be right about the plot holes, but I disagree with your defence.
And I did thoroughly enjoy the movie.
I'm going to get in serious trouble here, as the first rule of Usenet is, you do not talk about Usenet.
But torrents are so last year. Usenet (and I use Easynews) is damned fast - it maxes out my ADSL 2 every time.
And it's all SSL...
So your saying you can't rationally plot a characters irrational actions? If so, I disagree. The two don't appear to be mutually exclusive to me.
Hey, I'm all for different opinions. But some /.er trying to tell me how much I enjoyed a movie? Not so much. If you're so open to the perspective of others then what's with the personal sniping? Get off your high-horse.
What seems sad to me is someone who's so obviously enamoured with his own towering intellect that he can't enjoy a good movie.
I disagree with your philosophical premise, and the rest is subjective. So unless you want to keep trading insults, I suggest we agree to disagree.
I'm surprised they're not trying to tie it to terrorism in some way.
Once again you miss the point entirely. I'm saying he's possibly acting rationally for his species - we just don't understand his thought processes.
That doesn't equate to irrationally human, - that'd be anthropomorphising, hence my OP.
I have to wonder if you even watched the same trailer as I did. I certainly had no trouble cluing that the plot is basically a paraplegic "Space Marine" gets uploaded into an avatar designed to mimic the locals, then goes native and fights his original masters, and possibly there's an alien love interest, too.
Your post smacks of trolling/hating.
I'll have option C thanks, to interpret that his motives are deliberately incomprehensible to humans and credit the scriptwriters with an above average product that doesn't rely on the tired cliche of aliens who are essentially a funny looking people.
Bull-fucking-shit.
Spoken like a typical extrovert who has no understanding of introverts. The reason they don't enjoy interaction with others is because they don't enjoy interaction with others.
Introverts don't sit at home brooding, they enjoy being by themselves.
"The cure for this"??? WTF? Are you saying there's something wrong with not being an extrovert? It's fuckheads like you putting pressure on introverts to "cure" themselves that leads to unhappy introverts.
The aliens are a hive mind. The leadership component was killed. Search on IO9 and you'll find an interview with Blomkamp that explains it, pretty much as did the exposition near the start, that you seem to have missed.
Wrong, it's number one athe box office ATM...
"no psychologically sound person would do that."
Anthropomorphise much?
Really? If you could steal with absolutely no chance of ever being caught, and no-one being hurt by your actions, you wouldn't do it because of your moral stance?
I find this humour a little off key.
Cocaine and hookers, you mean - don't forget the pron ;-)
People who generalise suck.
Oh, wait...
Awesome, where do I get the plans?. Oh wait, you said flashlight...
"Meow sir, if you'll just spit into this machine"
Fuck sending meatspace people anywhere. Let's get virtual and then send that system. Smaller, faster, less risk, better in-flight entertainment. Although, the off-site backups are going to be tricky.
What's wrong with WD? The sysvol on the PC I'm typing this from is WD and I've never had an oc uren e of l st d ta, ev r
Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's swimming and screaming.
I for one welcome our... ah never mind.
Oops, forgot to say, patch you PC's! Run WSUS and annoy the crap out of users with 5 min repeat prompts to restart BTW, we had Conflicker as a zero day. It took Trend a day and a half to get a signature update out. The only machines to get hit were a couple of R&D non-domain units that weren't configured to get updates from our WSUS server. I openly discussed it with the CIO, who took it to the exec. In the end it was positive, and we get a lot of backing from on-high now. Now we have a policy that insists all devices are configured for updates, on pain of death.