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Bad movie; why did people like it?

posted 14 years ago by nyshrink
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This movie sucked and I rarely say that about a film, since I mostly skip horror movies, low brow comedies and the like. I had thought since it was moderately well-reviewed and was produced by Tim Burton, plus I like fantasy/science fiction, I might like it. First of all it was derivative. The basic scenario was a rip-off of the Terminator movies. The movie had almost no plot and except for 1 and 9, no real characters. 9 was a jerk and I couldn't believe he was the "hero." The movie was nonsensical. The creatures were a scientist's creation, but then weird mystical stuff that made no sense whatsoever was thrown in to "explain" what happened,so much for science. And was this supposed to be happening on Earth? Because it looked like the early 20th century in the pictures yet had to be happening in the future. The whole thing was garbled and preposterous. Someone should have warned me. Well, at least it didn't cost much to rent from Netflix.

[–] Koosh_King01 14 years ago

Derivative of Terminator? I guess you never heard of Colossus: The Forbin Project, which did the "evil sentient supercomputer" several years before the first Terminator. The Terminator itself was horrifically derivative where Skynet was concerned.

The dolls were created by a scientist who combined science and mysticism. That was pretty obvious. You yourself said science, then mysticism. Why couldn't you make the connection that he combined the two to do what he did?

The twist was all along we were led believe the dolls were merely the scientist's inventions, but in fact each was more than this; they were "powered" by a piece of his soul. This, again, was very clearly explained and not left at all ambiguous.

Anyway to answer the question posed, I liked it because it was suspenseful and even though I correctly guessed that the dolls were someone's inventions I didn't see the twist of them being powered by pieces of his soul coming, and also I thought the computer taking their/his souls for itself was neat. I agree it wasn't big on character development but the buildup of the backstory made the movie for me.

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