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Things I learned watching Chappie

posted 9 years ago by facunap
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1) Being a genius that invents police-robots pays a *beep* salary.
2) Redbull can help you create artificial intelligence.
3) It's ok to reap-off old robot movies ideas if 15+ years have passed
4) CEO giving notice by speakers is all you need to release a letal war robot.
5) South african police chiefs enjoy their fruit while discussing new robot prototypes.
6) No heavy security to THE key that controls police-robots is Ok.
7) If your consciousness is transferred to a robot, you keep your voice
8) Numer 7) can also be done wirelessly.
9) Numer 7) and 8) are possible... *beep* science, philosophy and religion

[–] Dobbsyisonfire 9 years ago

Numer.

[–] nosuchluck220 9 years ago

10)Pick out any detail you can find to hate on the movie.
11)fancup cant have fun and watch an entertaining movie.
12) fancup reasons are the most retarded things ive ever read for which to describe what youve learned froma movie

[–] QTKeet 9 years ago

13. If you're going to transfer concsiousness, be sure the original body is good and dead beforehand, cuz otherwise you'll have a really inconvenient problem.

[–] chunkiefroth 9 years ago

If you're going to transfer concsiousness, be sure the original body is good and dead beforehand, cuz otherwise you'll have a really inconvenient problem.

Good thing that's not what happened in the film.

[–] ikelleigh 9 years ago

xx) Neill Blomkamp should never work for the South Africa tourism board.

[–] SamKQboro 9 years ago

Yes, if you guys saw any of the extras from the blu ray, my god! Neill really piles it on to JoBerg, I guess he must love living in LA. LoL!

[–] jmhow 9 years ago

15) To look gangsta, wipe your nose (or similarly placed appendage in the case of robots) after every sentence.

www.freerice.com

[–] chunkiefroth 9 years ago

1) Being a genius that invents police-robots pays a *beep* salary.

Movie never discusses Deon's salary.

2) Redbull can help you create artificial intelligence.

A lot of people use Red Bull to stay focused when pulling tedious all-nighters.

3) It's ok to reap-off old robot movies ideas if 15+ years have passed

LOL. Blomkamp didn't "reap-off" anything. He is very open about inspiration and homage. . . nothing new to the world of art. Keep reaching.

4) CEO giving notice by speakers is all you need to release a letal war robot.

Sure. . . because a boring scene of drawn out paperwork and red tape would have been way more fun. . .

5) South african police chiefs enjoy their fruit while discussing new robot prototypes.

Large companies often provide food and even gifts when trying to "romance" a "valued" customer into heftier purchases.

6) No heavy security to THE key that controls police-robots is Ok.

Because security issues aren't realistic? How did Russia get nuclear weapons? They walked passed the guard posing as tourists and took pictures of classified documents with shoe cameras.

7) If your consciousness is transferred to a robot, you keep your voice

Funny point, but it's just a movie.

8) Numer 7) can also be done wirelessly.

???????

9) Numer 7) and 8) are possible...

Oh. . . I get it now. Irrelevant, dude. Science fiction is fictionalized science combined with imagination. . . . Pretty much the cornerstone of the genre. . .

*beep* science. . .

*beep* science? Is this the only science fiction film you've seen that features impossible elements? Really?

[*beep*]philosophy. . .

LOL. The entire film was philosophy from surface to subtext.

and religion

Woah. . . . super LOL. Since when does art have to reflect your personal religious superstitions?

[–] ImReallyANarc 9 years ago

Sure. . . because a boring scene of drawn out paperwork and red tape would have been way more fun. . .

I'm an indie filmmaker and you have inspired me for the next movie I'm going to produce. It's about a giant war-machine robot that an evil corporation is about to unleash on the city, but in my film you never actually see the robot. It's two and a half hours of businessmen and attorneys battling legal injunctions. How exciting!

[–] chunkiefroth 9 years ago

HA-Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 

First great laugh of the morning. . . Thank you.

[–] SamKQboro 9 years ago

Well done facunap! There's obviously a fan boy or someone heavily invested in this film or just blindly supports anything SA related, that continues to bombard this movie's threads if anything is said against it or finds it's obvious faults.
If anyone saw or read about this movie's premise and found no similarity to Robocop or even the robot controlled by Hugh Jackman's character and saw nothing resembling from it, I have nothing to say.

[–] chunkiefroth 9 years ago

If anyone saw or read about this movie's premise and found no similarity to Robocop or even the robot controlled by Hugh Jackman's character and saw nothing resembling from it, I have nothing to say.

Nobody's saying there isn't a tangible connection. Homage is hardly new. Neither is criticism without research. . .

[–] lmv92 9 years ago

I agree, it's very similar. Both movies have, uh... robots. I mean, it's practically a carbon copy.

But, let's be honest, other than point 7, none of his "obvious faults" made any sense. Rather than degrading the movie, they speak volumes about the genius who came up with these "faults".

Anyway, I'd like to point out something I believe was actualy flawed in the movie. At the end, the news caster claims that the authorities have launched a search for Chappie. Chappie's (ex)body was right there in plain sight, when the cops barged in. Why would you keep searching for a fugitive, when his corpse is literally right in front of your face? Of course, we (viewers) know Chappie and Deon are still alive in a different body, but the cops don't have that information.

[–] rhadoo32 9 years ago

I also learned that the really bad gangsters in South Africa are all white. Imagine those odds, at the population ratio and the poverty and crime ratios that country has. I call apartheid on that!
The blonde 1.4 meters blonde chick was especially a scary apparition.