Chappie Cast- a critique by Movie Trivia Schmoedown.

Full-text transcript of the Chappie review:

[00:00:06] Hey, guys, so for this review, I reprogrammed Christian. Check this out. OK, Christian, what’s your favorite band? Van Halen. OK, what’s your favorite snack, baby? Carrots. What do you hate eating? So she OK, now, wife says, who’s your new best friend?

[00:00:26] Does not compute, does not compute danger, danger or malfunction, malfunction. Hello, Snowville. That was a lot of fun to choke Mark out, but it was not a lot of fun to watch Chappy. Yeah, we’re going to reveal it right off the bat. This is a disappointing film

[00:00:48] Directed by Neill Blomkamp. Here’s what you got in this film. Kids, you have some humans, you have some robots and a couple really bad haircuts. And Christian, like you said, Neill Blomkamp is a guy you rely on for great effects and some social commentary. We got some one, we got some of other. But we got a really bad story.

[00:01:04] We got really bad writing. The writing was just all over the board. There were no characters ever really developed. And the ones that they did feature. Oh, I know we’re on different pages here. As far as this particular point, what’s this rock band that they put? Well, I

[00:01:17] Know it’s Ninja and it’s your Wandy. And there are two huge pop stars, and they they factor into the film prominently. You can see them in the trailer and you’re not going to know, are they

[00:01:25] Good or are they

[00:01:26] Bad? Will they turn out to be kind of scumbags? We focus on way too much, way too much.

[00:01:30] And that we’re on the same point, which because for me, the the acting for these is fine. But they seem like background criminals that Robocop should have killed in the first five minutes of the Robocop sequel. And they’re in this movie for way too long. They focus on it. Milbank tries to manipulate you into liking them. I never liked them. I was rooting for Hugh Jackman, the villain, to kill them throughout the movie.

[00:01:52] Well, I had less of a problem with them. As a matter of fact, I warmed up to their characters a little bit, not because I was manipulated. I think because I had a larger problem with this film is that the main characters that Fitow and Hugh Jackman and Sigourney Weaver is also in this film, she was there at less than these two and every one of those characters. There’s multiple times in this film when I’m like, why are you making that decision? It makes no sense. The only thing that has any logic to it is Chappie.

[00:02:17] Yes. And that was the biggest problem is the fact that in this trailer, all the moments in that you see in the trailer were just showing the trailer. And that’s that’s all I focused on was in the trailer, because what I wanted to see, what I thought was the relationship between Dev Patel and Chappie, who was his maker. And you watched this happen. But it doesn’t you don’t you want Chappie to learn about life and become alive, almost like whether it be Johnny five or moments of Robocop, you don’t see any that it’s just stealing cars and doing all it’s garbage.

[00:02:47] You bring up Robocop and it’s a valid point because if you saw especially the reboot of Robocop there, it’s about the future and how you have these life forces that aren’t human. They’re artificial intelligence, policing societies, and it’s being tested in Johannesburg in the very near future. That’s why Chappie comes along. But Hugh Jackman has another machine that looks strikingly like an end to a night is going to be better at it. There’s different ways that those things go about there. And when him and Dev Patel clash, it feels like office space when Lumberg is coming down on.

[00:03:17] It’s so true is it’s a back and forth office battle and there’s really no motivation. And the ending. Oh, my gosh. So what are you watching this movie in general at first? Because, look, I didn’t love Elysium as much as you did.

[00:03:29] I was a big fan of that industry District nine.

[00:03:31] I can tell you that it was a well-made movie with this, maybe too much, too much message in it. This is just a bad movie. It just it really is. Because you’re watching this movie has potential. OK, I’m watching it. I’m bored. I’m bored. I’m really getting bored now. It’s just stupid. When you when you get to the ending, you’re like, no, no, no, no.

[00:03:51] It’s very silly. And actually reminded me of a movie I really hated from last year. But look, there are some redeeming qualities to this is that the effects are fantastic. You know, you’re going to have a Neill Blomkamp. It was a spectacular action sequences. And I liked when I got to see some of these characters work with Chappie and watch the way that that artificial intelligence develops emotion. I want more of that was a really neat story. And I wanted

[00:04:14] To write it was it was that much of it. He focused way too much on the relationship between these two popstars. By the way, you taught Ninja their names in the movie. And they do they do the same. They promote their music and their shirts and it’s playing in the background. It’s a cheap promotion. I couldn’t stand them. But overall, I really wanted this movie to be special. I was excited to see it as a major let down one point nine at a much. The more and more I talk about it, I, I, I’m beginning to hate this

[00:04:44] Below the Mendoza line. Now I’m going to go to point three out of five Smos, because this is a tremendous disappointment for me as well. If Hugh Jackman was wasted, there’s some qualities about his morning weaver.

[00:04:55] Who’s that

[00:04:56] Overall? I’m sorry, I really this was on my most anticipated list of the year, and I don’t think you need to see this one in the theater.

[00:05:02] No, it’s really a disappointment to the problem. We’re talking about Neill Blomkamp. Yeah, for me one for three I know for you is two for three. But it’s

[00:05:12] I work. I’ll give anybody a miss. And now that this guy, he’s he’s going to be doing the new aliens film, he’s going to try to reinvigorate that franchise. This guy’s got a lot of ability. I’m not giving up on a dude because he made a crappy movie that didn’t have a good script. I think he can rebound. This is not a Shahmaran situation yet. I hope he knocks this next one out of the park. Right.

[00:05:29] There you go. All right, Smallville, how about you? Are you going to see Chappy? Do you want to see Chappy? Do you see Chappy if you’re watching this common. Tell us, if you like, that you thought I was out of my mind or you thought, oh, you didn’t really?

[00:05:41] I gave it more than you. The only difference between us is that I didn’t leave the theater about 90 minutes in to go to the bathroom when really I to

[00:05:48] Do haven’t stepped out of a movie in a long time because I was so bored. I even tweeted that I said, I’m bored, I want to sneak in the Kingsmen, but I, I sucked it up and I went back in the theater.

[00:05:57] You know, sometimes people on that walk like they have to pee. He didn’t have that walk. He just wanted to breath easy. Oh, wait, hang on, we got to talk about the podcast awards, so we got nominated for best movie podcast.

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[00:06:25] Come on guys. We have to see Chappy and Unfinished Business in the same unfinished business. We’ll get to that later.