I agree! And I'd add that the parts that aren't sufficently hard are reasonable for the demands of a good narrative. I'm willing to accept that pirates got Hamlet back to Denmark, and I'm willing to accept that the fuel turns the protag into a prawn.
I'm very pleased that the movie is doing well, too. Box Office Mojo estimates it cost $30million to make and has so far done $120million box. So that matches trash like Transformers 2 for ROI. Good news! Decent SF thriving! cd On Sep 12, 1:09 pm, Eric Scoles <[email protected]> wrote: > I liked it a lot. I liked that the characterization was a little bit > unconventional (though only a little*) and thought it was really well done. > Copley did a great job creating this weak, dweeby guy and making a plausible > presentation of him becoming more dangerous as needed. As SF, it's at least > as well thought out as most space opera, modern or otherwise (and much more > so than most). I liked the ending a lot -- I know some people hated it, but > to me it did a couple of things I like to see: avoided the pat feel-good > ending without being outrageously bleak; and creates a clear connection > between The Character Who Changes (because we ALL know characters MUST > change!) and what he was before he "changed." > A lot of people seemed to me to be disappointed by what it didn't do. It > wasn't a penetrating social commentary picture with lots of sympathetic > alien characters interacting with humans in Very Special Moments. But then, > neither is 99% of print SF. I went in expecting an action movie with > culturally significant subtexts, and that's what I feel like I got. > > -- > *It's very much in the 'do the right thing against his better judgement' > school of anti-hero characterization (like Bogie in Casablanca, The Man in > Yojimbo/Fistfull of Dollars, Han Solo in Star Wars, or The Continental Op in > Red Harvest). > > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Alicia Henn <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > I liked it, too. As long as I didn't think about the plot too much. > > It was gruesome in a lot of different ways, but good. > > A damning judgement of humanity and terrific effects. > > > On Sep 12, 2009, at 11:54 AM, delancey wrote: > > > > So, I finally saw District 9 last night. I know some people (e.g., > > > Nancy) didn't like it, but I thought it was great. About as good as > > > big budget SF gets (granted: that's a kind of faint praise). Am I > > > alone in this opinion? > > > > cd > > -- > eric scoles ([email protected]) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
