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segunda-feira, agosto 24, 2009

District 9 - A few questions

I watched District 9 last weekend. Overall, it was interesting, with some interesting ideas, but, in the end, I felt frustrated with the wasted potential. It could have been so much better. It is shocking how little attention is given to the quality of the script these days. It is supposed to be a movie made by professionals.

I can't help but believe that they chose a stupid guy as the main character to justify the plot holes and some bad plot decisions. Maybe the plot holes were just laziness, which is even worse. I can ignore the mother ship parked above the city, it might be solar powered. There are some more intriguing things that deserve an explanation.

  • Why did the aliens exchanged weapons instead of using or selling them?
  • Does it make sense that among more than a million aliens there was a single smart one?
  • Don’t they have sedatives? Why where the medics and the MNU people discussing all they were going to do with Wikus in front of him? Why they went to extract his heart with him alive?
  • Why did Wikus hit the alien, his only chance to become normal again, and stole the ship? Where was he going?
  • Does it make sense that after smelling the ships fuel and being scratched Wikus started to become an alien? That is some strange fuel.
  • Wasn’t it a little silly that Wikus opened the canister so carelessly?
  • Why did Wikus had access to the deep levels of MNU when he decided to get back the canisters? Did he have clearance to go anywhere? Shouldn’t they restrict his access once he was on the lam?
  • Why didn’t Wicus get rid of the most threatening people like the guy in the wheelchair and the military commander?

Many of these nonsense happenings can be explained by the fact that Wicus wasn’t really smart which also helped in creating tension like in the end when he leaves Christopher (the smart alien) to be killed and changes his mind later.

In the end, I left frustrated because the movie had so much potential.

terça-feira, dezembro 02, 2008

Oscar - Best Movie - My choices

Just an exercise. Served more as a review of the nominated movies. In reality, apart from the party, the Oscar is useless in his purpose. The choices are usually frustrating.

If you want to create your own list go to: Academy Awards Database.

My list, the real winners are between parentheses:

1985 - The Color Purple (Out of Africa) - The real winner would be my second choice
1986 - Platoon (Platoon)
1988 - Rain Man (Rain Man) - The nominees were not that great.
1989 - Dead Poets Society (Driving Miss Daisy)
1990 - The Godfather, Part III (Dances With Wolves)
1991 - The Silence of the Lambs (The Silence of the Lambs)
1992 - A Few Good Man (Unforgiven)
1993 - Schindler's List (Schindler's List)
1994 - Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)
1995 - Braveheart (Braveheart)
1996 - The English Patient (The English Patient)
1997 - Titanic (Titanic)
1998 - Saving Private Ryan (Shakespeare in Love) - WTF?
1999 - The Sixth Sense (American Beauty) - WTF?
2000 - Traffic (Gladiator) - WTF?
2001 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring(A Beautiful Mind) - WTF? The last four years are lazy thinkers choices, or pseudo intellectual choices.
2002 - The Hours (Chicago)
2003 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
2004 - Million Dollar Baby (Million Dollar Baby)
2005 - Brokeback Mountain (Crash) - WTF? The winner was the weakest competitor and the homophobia was blatant.
2006 - Babel (The Departed)
2007 - Juno (No Country for Old Men) - I still don't get the point of this movie, or There will be blood, as well.

segunda-feira, dezembro 01, 2008

I Believe in Father Christmas

I Believe in Father Christmas

U2 releases a cover version of a Christmas song for (RED)WIRE.

Song: I Believe in Father Christmas, by Greg Lake.

sábado, novembro 22, 2008

A Vision of Students Today

In the IT field, every new technology is widespread after six months and it is in use after a year. Our educational system hasn't changed for decades and it takes around fifty years for a new educational theory to spread.
Today people are saying the students have attention disorder. In reality, it is hard to pay attention to something uninteresting when you are used to a fast paced environment where you are exposed to more interesting stimulation.
Something's gotta change.