On 08/18/09 14:52, Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> I think the prawn part just skipped by me, because it seemed to be more
> of a pejorative name than all the descriptive. Maybe I am just haven't
> eaten enough prawns.

	Well, it _was_ pejorative, but it chosen because it was descriptive. In 
the documentary scenes in the beginning, one person points out that they 
look like prawns, and hence the name stuck.

> Of course, on the art film level, it made a few points that I really
> hope were just accidental and resulted from them aiming for something
> sci-fi-like. I mean, a movie about apartheid where the victims are
> 'workers' caste with only one leader left to rescue them?

	Well, you're getting to why I'm complaining. Using aliens to make a 
movie about how humans treat others is a bad idea from the beginning - 
unless they put in the effort to do it *really* well (which is possible, 
I believe).

	Otherwise, I could come up with all kinds of reasons why the aliens 
should be afforded good treatment, but not my fellow human beings, and I 
could do likewise for the converse. The subtleties are important.

> As just a summer movie, I liked it. It had a nice enough blend of
> artsy/sci-fi/action to hit a matinee for. As anything other than that,
> eh, I know when the school year starts up again I am going to be hearing
> a lot about this movie.

	Oh - I liked it too. Good action and acting, at the very least. I just 
felt that were it not for these issues, it would be more than just a 
good movie. As it is, I like it more for the action than for its 
attempts at deeper depictions.

	I simply view it as a movie that could have been phenomenal, but ended 
up not being so because of issues that could have easily been fixed. In 
a sense, it's a sloppy movie.

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"Carpe Dentiem ... Seize the teeth!"

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