On 08/17/09 08:43, Chambers wrote:
> That's funny, because my reaction was so different :) As an action
> movie, it was only OK. As a movie in general, it was great. As a sci-fi
> movie, it was pretty good.

	Well, I'm comparing it not to other sci-fi movies, but to sci-fi 
fiction in general (mostly novels).

	I couldn't sympathize with the aliens until they showed Christopher's 
character in detail. Up to that point, it wasn't clear that the humans 
were simply being nasty - it may well have been that the aliens psyche 
was dangerous to humans, and they needed to be cordoned off.

	After all, giving human rights to aliens is a bit silly to assume, 
don't you think?

	But then they showed that the aliens were more or less like humans, 
except for the appearance. From a sci-fi perspective, that's not all 
that great. They should have put in some fairly explicit character 
traits of the aliens (not necessarily negative ones) to differentiate 
their behavior from humans.

> Because the aliens that were found on the ship were the worker class,
> who had been bred (and trained) to just take orders. Sure, some of them
> would fight, but most of the time you could get them to back down by
> just being confident and acting like you were in command.

	I must have missed all the indications of this. Did they point out 
different classes among the aliens?

> BTW, don't you live in SA? I read about the forced eviction of District
> 6, and how the movie was supposed to be a reference to that. Any
> thoughts or comments about it?

	I don't live there, and haven't heard of District 6, but yes, it was 
patterned after events in Apartheid South Africa.

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