Mike: "I'm so sick of movies". If I had to watch and review the dozens and dozens of crappy movies that Mike and Jay do each year (not even counting the shit from their Best of the Worst series), I'd be burned out as well.
They like a shit load of things. I feel like they are even being generous when they say they were "entertained" by general schlock movies. Having standards isn't the same as being above enjoyment. The fool laughs at everything, even though he himself is the joke.
You guys know what's crazy? In The Dark Knight, they changed The League of Shadows from Arabians to Asians to avoid offending people, while in Iron Man, they changed Iron Man's captors from Asians to Arabians to avoid offending people (or be more modern I guess). Just something I noticed.
@@rawrdino7046 Well I'm sure they could just say that it was a far east branch of the League of Shadows or something. But just looking at any other interpretation of Ras Al Ghul other than Nolan's should give you a hint.
Just wanna add that Ras Al Ghul was the Arabic name for the star Algol, also known as Beta Persei, so with a name like that, him being Arabic checks out
Let’s change any and everything about a film to cringingly appease randos who complain about things no one in the right mind would complain about because we desperately want everyone’s money equally and will do absolutely anything no matter how disgraceful to appear “progressive” to pseudo-intellectuals under 30 because we’re so backward I mean forward thinking and we want to be cool too so you give us your money
>It's impossible to shut down all the police robots, they are only accesible physically, so they can't be hacked remotely >Hugh Jackman does literally that
Chappie was like a big-budget student project. It was a lot emotional/angst driven themes that werent totally thought out interspersed with artisticly gratuitous violence and dark bits. Also the strong impression the actors are fresh from a theatre background.
I just rewatched Chappie on Netflix for the first time since I saw it in theaters. I still don't quite know what to make of it. It has so much going for it- a lot of the elements work, the idea is fascinating and it is pretty entertaining. I did have fun watching it, and I'll probably watch it again within the next year... but it doesn't really come together at any point. It's a situation where the sum of the parts is greater than the whole.
It's a good bad movie. I'll watch it like every 2 years or when a particular group of friends shows up. There's nothing in it particularly worth analyzing or studying, but it's got enough dumb charm to keep it from being boring or annoying. And it's great to pick apart all the dumb moments with a crowd.
This is why I love the director but hate his direction. Blohmkamp has great sci-fi ideas but a flawed execution. This was the nail in the coffin for his career.
The whole thing with Jackman & the Ed209 thing never made sense to me. Why would you think a policeforce wants a giant robot with gatling guns and rocket launchers? Doesn't the police usually work in a city, with houses and streets and lots of crowded spaces? Why isn't he selling this thing to the military which would probably want a walking battle-tank?
Because a Tank: a fast, relatively maneuverable low profile vehicle with a low center of gravity is better suited to combat than a slow cumbersome building sized machine that can't take cover behind most terrain and has the potential to topple over? If walkers were the best way to do it we would be using them right now. They just look way cool.
I think this movie's point was that it was a rebuttal of that whole "AI is going to destroy the world" schtick you see in every other AI movie, it essentially goes "well, humans are already doing a pretty bang up job with that". The ending scene is just saying that no, humans aren't this magnificent unreproducible miracles, let's just get robo-bodies and let's all be robocop. So it's basically pro-AI and pro-transhumanism.
Awesome: a nihilistic, misanthropic movie for the whole family :) Also, mankind is terrible and should all be robots...but as long as you've still got money you don't mind giving a little to the humans who made this garbage movie, right?
I remember when this movie came out. It was around then that I was getting really excited about Mike and Jay finally fixing Mr Plinketts VCR, what a disappointment every single thing in the world turned out being
Say what you will about Neill Blomkamp, at least he's honest when he feels he made a bad film. He literally said "I feel like I fucked it up" in regards to Elysium. How many directors or writers are ever that honest? Lookin' at you Lucas, Shymalan, Bay, Boll, Paul W.S. Anderson, Roberto Orci....
+Dann Benn Without context I'll just assume he meant it didn't rake in enough cocaine money or something. I don't think Bay has had self-aware moment in the last 20 years.
For a guy who said he didn't want to make a District 9 sequel because he wanted to work on new original ideas I find it odd that he just decided to basically make the same movie again twice, Elysium then Chappie, and then go on to work on an existing sci-fi property... I can't wait to see Sharlto Copley play a down and out Xenomorph living in the slums of South Africa dealing with the social injustice of being a slave for the white Colonial Marines who are mean to him because of class inequalities and stuff :)
its all the same universe. tetravaal was the company that was researching alien technology from district 9, the ai in chappie is used to build elysium.
@@somerandominternetweirdo9962 which TOTALLY excuses all three movies feeling like worse derivatives of the same plot and effects with no meaningful improvements and many problems added each repitition
The whole time i watched this video I 100% thought they were talking about the other Hugh Jackman robot movie Real Steel. Smh no wonder I was so confused
They did try. They called it the Star Wars prequels. Here's some actual program code from it: //scene:two people talking on a couch //shot //reverse shot //shot //reverse shot //shot //reverse shot //end scene
Tony Midyett her* first of all, and it's pronounced roughly like "Dee Ahnt-voord", not "Die Aunt Ward". If you already knew this and are just trying to make a joke, I r8 your b8 0/10.
Schwiggity, your abilities know no bounds... and I commend your smarts, but I'm too old and too tired to be learning about new-fangled things like adblock, homosexual haircuts and snapchat. I just wish RUclips would use half of their tiny minds sometimes...
How is a browser extension "MIT level computing knowledge"? Maybe google search is enough to watch porn for you. But I assure you, you can use it to find wonderful things. Until then, get used to having ads all over the place.
The design of Chappie immediately made me think of Apple Seed. This whole movie seems like an amalgamation of Robo Cop, Short Circuit and the works of Shirow Masamune. Odd because the Ghost in the Shell live action movie was recently announced.
Patlabor was what I landed on but he definitely looks like the archetypical 80s mecha. edit: and yeah Huge Ackman would be the last person I'd put in a robot movie at this point.
If you are or know some one who was manipulated by their parents as a child, you know exactly the social commentary the movie is going for. I liked the message and the tone so much that I didn't realize how often I was saying "that's stupid, that makes no sense".
BrutalFuzzball Wow dude, do you put THAT much of yourself into youtube arguments that you return months later to try and goad someone into continuing the argument?
I find it hard to believe, by the end of GITS (1995), that you see the Puppet Master as just a robot, I can see like Hal and even Chappie and stuff because of the presentation being perceived that way but yeah if you want an A.I. that you can fully empathize with then watch Ghost in the Shell
I didn't think the film was all that bad, to be honest. I like Neill Blomkamp's visual style, I like how he usually has a pretty dystopian look at the near-future. Chappie is nowhere near as good as District 9, and neither was Elysium. I think Blomkamp's strength is establishing a world that feels grounded and intriguing, and thereby saying: "What would my story look like if this was the world's current state?", as his films are always very ambitious, but with Elysium and now Chappie, the potential of the story was never fully reached. I would advice him teaming up with a new and better writer, as that would make his films way better.
I think the most interesting thing about the film the idea of an AI which imprints on undesirable people. The consciousness transfer, the human controlled robot, the ridiculous climax of the film and the bad taste ending unravelled and devalued that interesting idea totally.
When Hugh Jackman puts the gun to whats his faces head and everyone in the office is like wtf, but then he just says im joking and no one does anything i shut it off and had a hearty chuckle, that was unintentional comedy.
NOOOOOOOO! NOOOOOO! GOD NO. the Sham Hammer has cracked out utter crap since Signs, which was over 10 years ago. Neil has some great potential and just needs creative restraint. Blomkamp has to abide by the canon of the first two Alien films and by what the studio says. Sometimes I think most of the RLM fanbase just likes to bash everything to be just like Jay and Mike
+Michael Martinez Now that's just harsh, Shyamalan at least made 3 mostly well-received movie's and a divisive flick before going off the deep end (and a few months after this came out had a minor comeback with The Visit). Blomkamp only made one great film, then a greatly polarizing flick, and now a dookie.
It's very interesting seeing this in 2023 where now Mike is the cyinical dork and Jay is more optimistic but in this it's like the polar opposite. Even the hack frauds can change
I personally really enjoyed CHAPPiE. I'm really sick of sci-fi movies trying to be completely realistic and down to earth and so having all the crazy ghost in the machine stuff was really fun to me. I liked the characters and how cartoony a lot of the stuff was. I think any movie where a human soul is put in a flash drive isn't trying to be 100% serious. It did remind me more of the high concept sci-fi films of the 90s which happens to be my favorite genre.
That doesn't change the fact that I enjoy what it is. I have no way of telling what the intentions were but I don't think they'd recruit Die Antwoord and have a scene of Dion asking his Omnibot for a redbull if they were going for stark realism. Not to mention everything is really stylized and brightly colored. If they were going for stark realism then they failed, but if they were going for a live action Otomo anime then they succeeded.
Chappie extracts human souls on flash drives using a stack of playstations for fucks sake. I REALLY don't think they were going for the gritty realism they did with District 9.
This movie is your typical sci fi action movie, but it's entertaining and funny in parts. Even though it has some faults, it's still funny and entertaining.
I often agree with what these guys say, but I liked CHAPPiE. I think the blend of the naive baby with extreme violence works well because of the juxtaposition. It got a bit overblown, and was probably drawing on Robocop too much, but the world and the characters were effective.
The problem with RLM in this review is that they couldn't watch the movie without comparing it to other stuff. It has nothing to do with Robocop aside from having a robot cop.
Chappie was fine until the moment the "soul transfer" plot happened. A machine learning about mortality would've been a much better story, even if it's overdone.
Fuckin' love Chappie. Fuckin' love Blomkamp movies (except Elysium). Fuckin' love Half in the Bag because they have their own opinions and I can respect them. My only concern is that people let reviews cloud their judgement before forming their own opinion. Make up your own minds, friends, don't let people tell you what is good and what is shit.
Paul K The thing is that though opinions are subjective, the technicalities those are based on are very much objective. This movie technically failed to develop any of the characters besides Chappie, and most people realize that. You can have a personal opinion that disagrees with the norm, but realize it's not going to be popular because you're getting over technical failures that most people realize.
I would argue that the protagonists learned how not to raise a kid. While the character development is lacking, this movie stars a South African rap duo raising a child-like robot directed by a guy who makes scifi action movies with sick visuals. In this context, I find it very easy to forgive the poor character development. I think more people should think outside the established rules of narrative storytelling, lighten up a bit, and learn a thing or two about the context of the film. Who directed it? What kinds of movies do they like making? Why did these make these stylistic choices? I feel like those are all good questions to ask yourself, before assuming what you're seeing is objectively wrong. If it doesn't vibe with your preference, you're not wrong. But, that doesn't mean the director was wrong for making the movie they wanted to make.
16:30 this scene is actually set up much better than they tell it. in an earlier scene when chappie and the gang robbed some guys you see chappie stealing a lot of playstation 3's. he then is hooking them all up to utilize the gpus for neural network calculations to find out about consciousness. later he says "i figured out consciousness" which leads him to later transfer the consciousness of the person into a robot. of course thats not how it would work....even if on those whimsical gpus he would have made a neural network that acts like consciousness he would have to replicate the entire neural network of the brain perfectly. This is one of the rare occasions i disagree with you guys. I only reluctantly watched this movie but in the end I gave mental standing ovations. especially how effortlessly blomkamp creates this world, like its really there and he just has to film it. Lots of the AI stuff in this movie actually makes sense. what didnt make sense is the character of sigourney weaver, but i guess it adds to the fairy tale part of the story, just as jackman does. the CGI on chappie was contraire to their opinion outstanding. this was one of the first movies that used ACES colorspace which leads to a much more realistic integration of cgi and reality. I consider this movie a high tech anti fairy tale
Chappie 'found out about consciousness' by googling it so it all makes sense that a robot that doesn't know how knives work can swap a human consciousness into a robot body and the CGI looked like zero-gravity dogshit, get off Neil's cock
Makes me feel bad for all the people really excited about this movie, I haven't seen District 9 or Elysium but it's sad to hear that a director who's done one great film has failed to live up to it with his next two projects. :/
Well, I'm a big District 9 fan. I can't speak for everyone else, but Elysium already smashed my hopes for Neil Blomkamp. And Elysium seemed like it might be good, like it might at least be a decent action movie with some fun space stuff. But when I saw the trailer for Chappie, I absolutely had no hopes for the movie already. No.
I'm really hoping he redeems himself with the new Alien film. It'd be awesome to see that happen too, it's a bigger risk and bigger challenge to take on that property. Honestly if it isn't good, he'll just be done. I'm still optimistic, but this is his last chance. Also, District 9 is a modern classic and is one of the best movies of recent times. If he redeems himself with Alien, District 10 might happen!
pretorious700 The weird thing is that they originally wanted to cast Eminem as the lead in Elysium, but Eminem insisted that the movie be set in an even more run down future Detroit so thy turned him down. Having seen how Elysium turned out, putting Eminem in it and using Detroit as the background with all the connotations of late 20th century American labor/industrial failure it brings with it would probably have fixed the film.
Meh, District 9 wasn't "great". It's much better than the average blockbuster, which is why it's so hyped. (Like Nolan's Batman movies. Yeah, I said it.) But not great.
I think Jay and Mike are reaching that age when they realize all movies are just rehashed crap that's been done before. The good news is in ten years they'll stop giving a shit and enjoy them anyway.
I considered rewatching Chappie to see if it's a grower but I realized that would be like making someone take a shit in my yard at gun point and hoping an apple tree grows out of it in the off chance that a: there's a seed there in the first place and b: it successfully fertilizes.
I Just rewatched Chappie again and I have to say even to this day it's still a classic in my eyes😊But even I'll admit I had some problems with it,but not alot it's definitely not a terrible movie by any means
I'm actually going to rewatch it now, having watched this video. I haven't seen it since it came out but I remember I watched it a few times. On purpose! I liked it. It's a very South African take on a Hollywood trope so i don't think it was meant to hit exactly the same cues. Also, I think it's easy to completely miss parts of this film if you're not reasonably familiar with Die Antwoord. They're ligit fucking crazy people. I remember getting really stoned one night and watching it on mute with a Die Antwoord playlist running. Not sure I could do that again but it was an experience! ;¬)
Actually, Chappie was pretty good. It was no District 9, but it sure the hell beat Elysium. There were a few flaws here, and there, but unless you have a thumb up your butt 24/7. Then you'll more than likely enjoy this movie, and what is has to offer. Blomkamp has a "out there" kind of mind. Which is nice to see, because it's original, not a remake, and it sure the heck didn't come from a gosh darn book. It's quite nice to see someone attempting something on their own, and actually making some good with it. When I left the movie theater. A majority of the people around me were talking about how wrong the critics were. Note, critics also originally gave Avatar, Titanic, and a few other high grossing films bad ratings in the beginning.
I wonder if I should pull a Blomkamp and upload my concept art for my Starman remake (starring Gosling reprising his emotion-impaired alien character from Drive) to Instagram.
Chappie was a potentially great film that needed script and casting changes to turn despicable main characters more sympathetic. The rest is brilliant, lost in the muddle. Watch it and see what you think.
I am surprised at all the hate this film is getting here, saw it recently and absolutely LOVED IT. Its an action movie that is not supposed to be totally realistic I mean die antwoord are in it for gods sake. Chappie was the cutest thing I have ever seen, for me he definitely was not just a robot. The "creator" says don't do this, do this and then "dont tell anyone what you can or can't do" SURE but what parent does not do that. I dont think we can criticize characters for not being perfect, if he was then you would criticise him for not being realistic. And there never was a "transfer" it was just a saved copy of your brain activity. So it definitely was never a "soul" that was just a word they used because chappies mommy explained it to him like that. Please don't let the comments here or the video discourage you from seeing this film, have a look for yourself.
I absolutely despise this film. The main characters were despicable and they tried to force sympathy for them. And yes, the character isn’t perfect, but it should be established that he isn’t perfect and shown that what he said was wrong. Character flaws are to be consistent and part of the plot. There’s nothing in the love saying that he’s sending mixed messages, so it comes off as a mistake, which I don’t doubt it was.
I thought it was good; I read it as being more about Chappie growing up and becoming his own person. I'm also a sucker for "can robots be alive" stories and Neill Blomkamp's visual style, though
Kevin Bacon's overnight creation of code for invisibility while binging on twinkies in Hollow Man was not as laughably bad as Dev Patel's Red Bull fueled creation of sentient AI in Chappie. This film was tonally all over the place. It's a shame, too. I genuinely enjoyed District 9.
The concept of this movie seemed like it had a ton of potential, I was really looking forward to exploring the idea of ai and rogue ai and stuff, what I got was some thugs teach a robot to be a thug, which was just stupid. The entire premise of the movie made me depressed, not because it was a depressing movie, but because there is so much wasted potential.
I really wish Mike and Jay could enjoy video games, because there's so many games that tell AMAZING stories that are, in many ways, way better than movies now. One of my favorites, that deals with similar themes to this, in a much better, and horrifying way, is SOMA. I'd love to hear their opinion on that game.
Little known fact: Chappie's AI kernel actually took *twelve years* to make.
12 years to make? I didn't know that!
twelve years a slave robot
Polymorphable I, Robot: Unchained
Starring Will Smith
That coincidental! Because BOYHOOD took twelve years to make also and I FUCKING LOVE BOYHOOD!
GoldGreninja Really? *12 years?!* It must be the best joke in the history of Mankind!!
Mike is the only man I’ve ever seen to consistently laugh without smiling
Aaaaaahhh
I definitely laughed at this movie without smiling to be fair.
@@corndogrequiem1728 make that 2 I suppose lol
Jay has sure perfected his hair and beard over the years.
@@caseyoberle7341 good for him
It took him 12 years to grow.
Like a ken doll
Mike: "I'm so sick of movies".
If I had to watch and review the dozens and dozens of crappy movies that Mike and Jay do each year (not even counting the shit from their Best of the Worst series), I'd be burned out as well.
Even the best job sucks if you have to do it indefinitely without a break.
what? Yes, but they don't seem to like anything. They are above enjoyment, apparently. That's for weak-minded folks...
They like a shit load of things.
I feel like they are even being generous when they say they were "entertained" by general schlock movies.
Having standards isn't the same as being above enjoyment.
The fool laughs at everything, even though he himself is the joke.
They review like what, 20 movies a year? 40 hours, maybe?
And yet we watch them watching it
You guys know what's crazy? In The Dark Knight, they changed The League of Shadows from Arabians to Asians to avoid offending people, while in Iron Man, they changed Iron Man's captors from Asians to Arabians to avoid offending people (or be more modern I guess). Just something I noticed.
I'm those China dollars had nothing to do with it
@@rawrdino7046 Well I'm sure they could just say that it was a far east branch of the League of Shadows or something. But just looking at any other interpretation of Ras Al Ghul other than Nolan's should give you a hint.
Just wanna add that Ras Al Ghul was the Arabic name for the star Algol, also known as Beta Persei, so with a name like that, him being Arabic checks out
Let’s change any and everything about a film to cringingly appease randos who complain about things no one in the right mind would complain about because we desperately want everyone’s money equally and will do absolutely anything no matter how disgraceful to appear “progressive” to pseudo-intellectuals under 30 because we’re so backward I mean forward thinking and we want to be cool too so you give us your money
@@esquilax5563 Ras al Ghul is arabic for "Head of the Monster/Demon"
Chappie used the internet to learn everything from human hisory, but didn't have time to learn what knives do...
He had to study dank memes.
They make you go sleepy weepy, right?
>It's impossible to shut down all the police robots, they are only accesible physically, so they can't be hacked remotely
>Hugh Jackman does literally that
THEY LIED!!!
I just realized Mike still talks about external storage as a "zip drive", iOmega's famous portable disk drives from the 90's!
They're not called floppies? Like that game taco bell use to have as a toy?
Chappie was like a big-budget student project. It was a lot emotional/angst driven themes that werent totally thought out interspersed with artisticly gratuitous violence and dark bits. Also the strong impression the actors are fresh from a theatre background.
the two gangster people were rappers by trade, not actors, so that'll be why.
Neil is just never going to be a real director, he's got like five movies under his belt and he still does everything like a complete amateur
Traffickers, now 😂
Confirmed for Jay.
I just rewatched Chappie on Netflix for the first time since I saw it in theaters. I still don't quite know what to make of it. It has so much going for it- a lot of the elements work, the idea is fascinating and it is pretty entertaining. I did have fun watching it, and I'll probably watch it again within the next year... but it doesn't really come together at any point. It's a situation where the sum of the parts is greater than the whole.
It's a good bad movie. I'll watch it like every 2 years or when a particular group of friends shows up. There's nothing in it particularly worth analyzing or studying, but it's got enough dumb charm to keep it from being boring or annoying. And it's great to pick apart all the dumb moments with a crowd.
This is why I love the director but hate his direction. Blohmkamp has great sci-fi ideas but a flawed execution. This was the nail in the coffin for his career.
The whole thing with Jackman & the Ed209 thing never made sense to me. Why would you think a policeforce wants a giant robot with gatling guns and rocket launchers? Doesn't the police usually work in a city, with houses and streets and lots of crowded spaces? Why isn't he selling this thing to the military which would probably want a walking battle-tank?
It's shit commentary. That's what it is.
Doperwtje because walking battle tanks are worthless let's raise the profile and center of gravity of a tank...
Flat-Tanks are the future
Because, the movie sucks.
Because a Tank: a fast, relatively maneuverable low profile vehicle with a low center of gravity is better suited to combat than a slow cumbersome building sized machine that can't take cover behind most terrain and has the potential to topple over?
If walkers were the best way to do it we would be using them right now. They just look way cool.
[whispering to Mike and Jay watching Chappie when Chappie first appears on screen] That's Chappie
I think this movie's point was that it was a rebuttal of that whole "AI is going to destroy the world" schtick you see in every other AI movie, it essentially goes "well, humans are already doing a pretty bang up job with that".
The ending scene is just saying that no, humans aren't this magnificent unreproducible miracles, let's just get robo-bodies and let's all be robocop.
So it's basically pro-AI and pro-transhumanism.
Awesome: a nihilistic, misanthropic movie for the whole family :)
Also, mankind is terrible and should all be robots...but as long as you've still got money you don't mind giving a little to the humans who made this garbage movie, right?
+broodrunsclear I take it you didn't enjoy Westworld?
Dope The original or the series?
Either.
Dope The original is enjoyable. The series is another dismal, convoluted mess :/
I remember when this movie came out. It was around then that I was getting really excited about Mike and Jay finally fixing Mr Plinketts VCR, what a disappointment every single thing in the world turned out being
Say what you will about Neill Blomkamp, at least he's honest when he feels he made a bad film. He literally said "I feel like I fucked it up" in regards to Elysium. How many directors or writers are ever that honest? Lookin' at you Lucas, Shymalan, Bay, Boll, Paul W.S. Anderson, Roberto Orci....
+Neal X Bay once sayed that he fucked up ... For Transformers 2, I think.
+Neal X
Admitting you're shit doesn't mean you're forgiven for making absolute garbage.
+Dann Benn well he should. Transformers 2 was horrible.
+Dann Benn Without context I'll just assume he meant it didn't rake in enough cocaine money or something. I don't think Bay has had self-aware moment in the last 20 years.
Dávid B Great point man :)
I always actually wondered why you guys never talked about women in a sexual way. Congrats on coming out to your fans RLM!
Nicolas Tyler Doyle The dating app said they were gay,
Grindr is Tinder for dudes looking for dudes
yea. who cares either way. The reviews are dope
Malakhi Reynolds
I'm pretty sure if Jay is dude then other gay dudes care cuz he's pretty cute!
I think that was a joke
Anyone watching cause Neil Blompkamp just said he wants to come on the show and talk about Chappie?
wall-e was the only robot I actually felt for.
Does Data count?
MyOnlyFarph I'm not sure. Never watched more than one or two episodes.
bubo from clash of the titans?
+Paul Thoresen Hal 9000?
avicenna Yeah, bad things. I never trusted him. I do like the kevin spacey robot in the movie "Moon".
Even if I didn't like anything else about the movie, Chappie's voice always gets me, it's strong.
For a guy who said he didn't want to make a District 9 sequel because he wanted to work on new original ideas I find it odd that he just decided to basically make the same movie again twice, Elysium then Chappie, and then go on to work on an existing sci-fi property...
I can't wait to see Sharlto Copley play a down and out Xenomorph living in the slums of South Africa dealing with the social injustice of being a slave for the white Colonial Marines who are mean to him because of class inequalities and stuff :)
its all the same universe. tetravaal was the company that was researching alien technology from district 9, the ai in chappie is used to build elysium.
@@somerandominternetweirdo9962 which TOTALLY excuses all three movies feeling like worse derivatives of the same plot and effects with no meaningful improvements and many problems added each repitition
I think Chappie should have been a short TV Series. Could have explored the themes more and not rushed through them.
Me and a buddy were going to watch this movie. We instead decided on The Kingsman. That decision was glorious.
I decided to watch Kingsman 2 instead of Blade Runner 2049.
I decided to watch Kingsman 2 instead of my son's birth
I decided to _die_
I love Chappie (the character) and the idea was great imo.
While I agree with most of the issues you guys raise I still very much enjoyed the movie. People should definitely go see it.
lol good one m8
The whole time i watched this video I 100% thought they were talking about the other Hugh Jackman robot movie Real Steel. Smh no wonder I was so confused
Can't wait until robots are better than humans at making movies.
They did try. They called it the Star Wars prequels. Here's some actual program code from it:
//scene:two people talking on a couch
//shot
//reverse shot
//shot
//reverse shot
//shot
//reverse shot
//end scene
Whoa, dude, you're so edgy.
Oda Swifteye Hey dont tell anyone , but i Found chappie full movie at "free movies . com" just remove the spaces
***** Screw Hollywood then, Bollywood is exactly the same but with humans, right?
***** I thought robots were already making these movies?
"Destroy that robot. Burn it to ash!"
Huh?
Burn this screenplay a new draft.
***** That's so far fetched that it might actually be the answer.
As opposed to burning it to water? lol.
Gaming with Mikey! Chappie is metal... don't get no ash when you burn that... "lol"
Tomanista You'd get molten slag. I found this video which appears to produce ash from metal: ruclips.net/video/G6X_8Ob9XPU/видео.html
Is that Die Antwoord?
Yes
Of course ;)
Tony Midyett her* first of all, and it's pronounced roughly like "Dee Ahnt-voord", not "Die Aunt Ward". If you already knew this and are just trying to make a joke, I r8 your b8 0/10.
Tony Midyett Much edgy.
So hip.
Very teenage.
Wow.
zef so fresh
Only through the elimination of adverts in the middle of videos can we achieve world peace!
if youre a disgusting mole rat like me, you'd use adblock
Schwiggity, your abilities know no bounds... and I commend your smarts, but I'm too old and too tired to be learning about new-fangled things like adblock, homosexual haircuts and snapchat. I just wish RUclips would use half of their tiny minds sometimes...
hehe
How is a browser extension "MIT level computing knowledge"?
Maybe google search is enough to watch porn for you. But I assure you, you can use it to find wonderful things.
Until then, get used to having ads all over the place.
i was waiting all episide for the "los locos" scene from short circuit 2 and by golly they delivered! thanks for that!
The design of Chappie immediately made me think of Apple Seed. This whole movie seems like an amalgamation of Robo Cop, Short Circuit and the works of Shirow Masamune. Odd because the Ghost in the Shell live action movie was recently announced.
Really? Because it immediately reminded me of that other robot movie that Hugh Jackman acted/sucked in. You know, that bad one? With the robot?
Oh yeah, haha, I'd totally forgotten about that one.
Real Steel
And Johnny Appleseed's real last name was Chapman. And Jack, as in Jackman, can also be John. Bigger conspiracy theories have been built on less.
Patlabor was what I landed on but he definitely looks like the archetypical 80s mecha.
edit: and yeah Huge Ackman would be the last person I'd put in a robot movie at this point.
16:40
"I'm not human." Mike's CHAPPiE voice is perfect.
If you are or know some one who was manipulated by their parents as a child, you know exactly the social commentary the movie is going for. I liked the message and the tone so much that I didn't realize how often I was saying "that's stupid, that makes no sense".
Then you're blinded by concept over substance. your argument is essentially still saying the movies fucking stupid and bad.
I liked Chappie, call me a hack fraud now
And Brian Jensen was never heard from again.
BrutalFuzzball
Wow dude, do you put THAT much of yourself into youtube arguments that you return months later to try and goad someone into continuing the argument?
You are all funny. I like this show. My greetings from Japan. By the way, "Chappie" will start playing at theatres in Japan on May 23.
The opening with the Grindr bit and Plinkett nearly falling out of the sky was hilarious haha
I find it hard to believe, by the end of GITS (1995), that you see the Puppet Master as just a robot, I can see like Hal and even Chappie and stuff because of the presentation being perceived that way but yeah if you want an A.I. that you can fully empathize with then watch Ghost in the Shell
I'm so happy i am not the only one who broke out laughing during the whole NO MORE Violence's Scene.
I didn't think the film was all that bad, to be honest. I like Neill Blomkamp's visual style, I like how he usually has a pretty dystopian look at the near-future. Chappie is nowhere near as good as District 9, and neither was Elysium.
I think Blomkamp's strength is establishing a world that feels grounded and intriguing, and thereby saying: "What would my story look like if this was the world's current state?", as his films are always very ambitious, but with Elysium and now Chappie, the potential of the story was never fully reached. I would advice him teaming up with a new and better writer, as that would make his films way better.
I think the most interesting thing about the film the idea of an AI which imprints on undesirable people. The consciousness transfer, the human controlled robot, the ridiculous climax of the film and the bad taste ending unravelled and devalued that interesting idea totally.
Rich Evans, you are a national treasure my friend......
We can break into him to steal the declaration of independence
haha i'm so happy you included the short circuit 2 scene LOS LOCOS!
"every movie has great special effects but nobody makes a movie any more."
Now in a post Covid world, movies aren’t shot anymore with multiple people physically present in a scene. Great stuff
When Hugh Jackman puts the gun to whats his faces head and everyone in the office is like wtf, but then he just says im joking and no one does anything i shut it off and had a hearty chuckle, that was unintentional comedy.
3:39 A WEAPON TO SURPASS METAL GEAR
METAL GEAR?!
Hllspwn METAL GEAR!? SnAaaaaaaaaaaake!
Neil Blomkamp, the new Shyamalan.
NOOOOOOOO! NOOOOOO! GOD NO. the Sham Hammer has cracked out utter crap since Signs, which was over 10 years ago. Neil has some great potential and just needs creative restraint. Blomkamp has to abide by the canon of the first two Alien films and by what the studio says. Sometimes I think most of the RLM fanbase just likes to bash everything to be just like Jay and Mike
Blomkamp wasn't even THAT good to begin with. District 9 is cool, but nothing much.
+Michael Martinez Now that's just harsh, Shyamalan at least made 3 mostly well-received movie's and a divisive flick before going off the deep end (and a few months after this came out had a minor comeback with The Visit). Blomkamp only made one great film, then a greatly polarizing flick, and now a dookie.
I don't know about Shyamalan's other movies, but I'll take District 9 over the Sixth Sense any day of the week.
maikeru01 Unbreakable.
It's very interesting seeing this in 2023 where now Mike is the cyinical dork and Jay is more optimistic but in this it's like the polar opposite. Even the hack frauds can change
I personally really enjoyed CHAPPiE. I'm really sick of sci-fi movies trying to be completely realistic and down to earth and so having all the crazy ghost in the machine stuff was really fun to me. I liked the characters and how cartoony a lot of the stuff was. I think any movie where a human soul is put in a flash drive isn't trying to be 100% serious. It did remind me more of the high concept sci-fi films of the 90s which happens to be my favorite genre.
Duplexide yeah this whole movie is like a live action carton lol. BUT, what if I told you this movie was actually trying to be serious. What if...?
That doesn't change the fact that I enjoy what it is. I have no way of telling what the intentions were but I don't think they'd recruit Die Antwoord and have a scene of Dion asking his Omnibot for a redbull if they were going for stark realism. Not to mention everything is really stylized and brightly colored. If they were going for stark realism then they failed, but if they were going for a live action Otomo anime then they succeeded.
Chappie extracts human souls on flash drives using a stack of playstations for fucks sake. I REALLY don't think they were going for the gritty realism they did with District 9.
At first i was like "Wow! Die Antwort is in the intro to this!?" And then it just kept going on...
This movie is your typical sci fi action movie, but it's entertaining and funny in parts. Even though it has some faults, it's still funny and entertaining.
I often agree with what these guys say, but I liked CHAPPiE. I think the blend of the naive baby with extreme violence works well because of the juxtaposition. It got a bit overblown, and was probably drawing on Robocop too much, but the world and the characters were effective.
The problem with RLM in this review is that they couldn't watch the movie without comparing it to other stuff. It has nothing to do with Robocop aside from having a robot cop.
these men are pawns
Ishtar....
prawns?
Michael Martinez goongas
I can't believe these men may control the fate of the Middle East =/
Michael Martinez FOOKIN' PRAWNS!
Chappie was fine until the moment the "soul transfer" plot happened.
A machine learning about mortality would've been a much better story, even if it's overdone.
they did the soul transfer thing in star trek tng with data.
Fuckin' love Chappie. Fuckin' love Blomkamp movies (except Elysium). Fuckin' love Half in the Bag because they have their own opinions and I can respect them. My only concern is that people let reviews cloud their judgement before forming their own opinion. Make up your own minds, friends, don't let people tell you what is good and what is shit.
Paul K The thing is that though opinions are subjective, the technicalities those are based on are very much objective. This movie technically failed to develop any of the characters besides Chappie, and most people realize that. You can have a personal opinion that disagrees with the norm, but realize it's not going to be popular because you're getting over technical failures that most people realize.
I would argue that the protagonists learned how not to raise a kid. While the character development is lacking, this movie stars a South African rap duo raising a child-like robot directed by a guy who makes scifi action movies with sick visuals. In this context, I find it very easy to forgive the poor character development. I think more people should think outside the established rules of narrative storytelling, lighten up a bit, and learn a thing or two about the context of the film. Who directed it? What kinds of movies do they like making? Why did these make these stylistic choices? I feel like those are all good questions to ask yourself, before assuming what you're seeing is objectively wrong. If it doesn't vibe with your preference, you're not wrong. But, that doesn't mean the director was wrong for making the movie they wanted to make.
I saw the movie on Friday and wasn't a fan. There is a good movie in there somewhere. It was just very poorly executed.
I LOVED Chappie
lol opinions
Thank you for that Grindr joke. You honor my people.
Right, so Chappie spends a lot of time on the internet but somehow doesn't find out that stabbing hurts people.
Giovanni Foulmouth Chappie should have watched The Fifth Element.
Chappie was parental locked out of Worldstar
16:30 this scene is actually set up much better than they tell it. in an earlier scene when chappie and the gang robbed some guys you see chappie stealing a lot of playstation 3's. he then is hooking them all up to utilize the gpus for neural network calculations to find out about consciousness. later he says "i figured out consciousness" which leads him to later transfer the consciousness of the person into a robot. of course thats not how it would work....even if on those whimsical gpus he would have made a neural network that acts like consciousness he would have to replicate the entire neural network of the brain perfectly. This is one of the rare occasions i disagree with you guys. I only reluctantly watched this movie but in the end I gave mental standing ovations. especially how effortlessly blomkamp creates this world, like its really there and he just has to film it. Lots of the AI stuff in this movie actually makes sense. what didnt make sense is the character of sigourney weaver, but i guess it adds to the fairy tale part of the story, just as jackman does. the CGI on chappie was contraire to their opinion outstanding. this was one of the first movies that used ACES colorspace which leads to a much more realistic integration of cgi and reality. I consider this movie a high tech anti fairy tale
Chappie 'found out about consciousness' by googling it so it all makes sense that a robot that doesn't know how knives work can swap a human consciousness into a robot body
and the CGI looked like zero-gravity dogshit, get off Neil's cock
As mentioned previously, all roads lead back to Robocop.
The first Robocop movie was truly ahead of its time!
"He's a bad guy, because he goes to church." XD
It felt like an interesting attempt at a new Short Circuit and was cute at times
Makes me feel bad for all the people really excited about this movie, I haven't seen District 9 or Elysium but it's sad to hear that a director who's done one great film has failed to live up to it with his next two projects. :/
The problems is Elysium is not a great film. He made a good film in District 9 and has been coasting on it for years now :|
Well, I'm a big District 9 fan. I can't speak for everyone else, but Elysium already smashed my hopes for Neil Blomkamp. And Elysium seemed like it might be good, like it might at least be a decent action movie with some fun space stuff. But when I saw the trailer for Chappie, I absolutely had no hopes for the movie already. No.
I'm really hoping he redeems himself with the new Alien film. It'd be awesome to see that happen too, it's a bigger risk and bigger challenge to take on that property. Honestly if it isn't good, he'll just be done. I'm still optimistic, but this is his last chance. Also, District 9 is a modern classic and is one of the best movies of recent times. If he redeems himself with Alien, District 10 might happen!
pretorious700
The weird thing is that they originally wanted to cast Eminem as the lead in Elysium, but Eminem insisted that the movie be set in an even more run down future Detroit so thy turned him down. Having seen how Elysium turned out, putting Eminem in it and using Detroit as the background with all the connotations of late 20th century American labor/industrial failure it brings with it would probably have fixed the film.
Meh, District 9 wasn't "great". It's much better than the average blockbuster, which is why it's so hyped. (Like Nolan's Batman movies. Yeah, I said it.) But not great.
Thanks for the birthday gift Red Letter Media!
"His next film is Alein 5"
If only...
If only.
These men are prawns
I think Jay and Mike are reaching that age when they realize all movies are just rehashed crap that's been done before.
The good news is in ten years they'll stop giving a shit and enjoy them anyway.
Unless they suck syphilitic dog dick like this pile of shit
And here we are 😅. Only now they also talk about good films that don’t get attention
Watching this while eating cheap popcorn and drinking a 40 out of a plastic bottle.
The authentic Half in the Bag experience.
Half in the bag is awesome but We need more Mr. Pickett reviews
I was just hoping you guys would review this. Nice!
I considered rewatching Chappie to see if it's a grower but I realized that would be like making someone take a shit in my yard at gun point and hoping an apple tree grows out of it in the off chance that a: there's a seed there in the first place and b: it successfully fertilizes.
I was waiting the entire episode for the "Los(las?) Locos" scene from Short Circuit 2 to be played. Was not disappointed.
After watching this, I hope you guys might review Ex Machina.
its nice to finally see a half in the bag episode thats actually timely for once.
I Just rewatched Chappie again and I have to say even to this day it's still a classic in my eyes😊But even I'll admit I had some problems with it,but not alot it's definitely not a terrible movie by any means
I'm actually going to rewatch it now, having watched this video. I haven't seen it since it came out but I remember I watched it a few times. On purpose! I liked it. It's a very South African take on a Hollywood trope so i don't think it was meant to hit exactly the same cues. Also, I think it's easy to completely miss parts of this film if you're not reasonably familiar with Die Antwoord. They're ligit fucking crazy people. I remember getting really stoned one night and watching it on mute with a Die Antwoord playlist running. Not sure I could do that again but it was an experience! ;¬)
Chappie was one of the best movies that I had ever seen
Four years later: Wrong, Chappie is underrated!
Is it strange that I typed "hack frauds" in the search bar and it brought me to red letters media?
Complete forgot Hugh Jackman was in this. Thought they were doing a Real Steel joke.
at 20:40 it really sounds like Chappie is saying, "YOU ATE MY PIZZA!"
Actually, Chappie was pretty good. It was no District 9, but it sure the hell beat Elysium. There were a few flaws here, and there, but unless you have a thumb up your butt 24/7. Then you'll more than likely enjoy this movie, and what is has to offer. Blomkamp has a "out there" kind of mind. Which is nice to see, because it's original, not a remake, and it sure the heck didn't come from a gosh darn book. It's quite nice to see someone attempting something on their own, and actually making some good with it.
When I left the movie theater. A majority of the people around me were talking about how wrong the critics were. Note, critics also originally gave Avatar, Titanic, and a few other high grossing films bad ratings in the beginning.
Half in the Bag, maybe the best thing on RUclips.
I wonder if I should pull a Blomkamp and upload my concept art for my Starman remake (starring Gosling reprising his emotion-impaired alien character from Drive) to Instagram.
If fan reactions are good the studio will greenlight it. "I'm not working on this. Oh I'm actually working on it now i guess!"
I think the government confused Mr Plinketts house for a Chinese spy balloon.
I actually liked this movie, it's a cool action movie.
I bet you say that about a lot of movies. "It's cool." And then your brain shuts off because you're not here to think about things.
Chappie was a potentially great film that needed script and casting changes to turn despicable main characters more sympathetic. The rest is brilliant, lost in the muddle. Watch it and see what you think.
ed-209 is connected to wolverine via cerebro
RedLetterMedia's Up.
whenever I hear "Hugh Jackman" it sounds like huge ass man
Huge Jacked Man.
I am surprised at all the hate this film is getting here, saw it recently and absolutely LOVED IT. Its an action movie that is not supposed to be totally realistic I mean die antwoord are in it for gods sake. Chappie was the cutest thing I have ever seen, for me he definitely was not just a robot. The "creator" says don't do this, do this and then "dont tell anyone what you can or can't do" SURE but what parent does not do that. I dont think we can criticize characters for not being perfect, if he was then you would criticise him for not being realistic.
And there never was a "transfer" it was just a saved copy of your brain activity. So it definitely was never a "soul" that was just a word they used because chappies mommy explained it to him like that. Please don't let the comments here or the video discourage you from seeing this film, have a look for yourself.
I absolutely despise this film. The main characters were despicable and they tried to force sympathy for them.
And yes, the character isn’t perfect, but it should be established that he isn’t perfect and shown that what he said was wrong. Character flaws are to be consistent and part of the plot. There’s nothing in the love saying that he’s sending mixed messages, so it comes off as a mistake, which I don’t doubt it was.
1:30 setting up the gay marriage plot year in advance, genius
I thought it was good; I read it as being more about Chappie growing up and becoming his own person.
I'm also a sucker for "can robots be alive" stories and Neill Blomkamp's visual style, though
I think the original script was going to focus even more on that but apparently Ninja from Die Antwort wanted more screen time
I guess they should have called this movie CRAPPIE (ba dum tss)
Kevin Bacon's overnight creation of code for invisibility while binging on twinkies in Hollow Man was not as laughably bad as Dev Patel's Red Bull fueled creation of sentient AI in Chappie. This film was tonally all over the place. It's a shame, too. I genuinely enjoyed District 9.
This movie sounds like the pet project of some guy whose childhood was defined by being babysat by Short Circuit 2 on repeat.
The concept of this movie seemed like it had a ton of potential, I was really looking forward to exploring the idea of ai and rogue ai and stuff, what I got was some thugs teach a robot to be a thug, which was just stupid. The entire premise of the movie made me depressed, not because it was a depressing movie, but because there is so much wasted potential.
Chappie 2: Chappie Chaplain Goes To Church.
I really wish Mike and Jay could enjoy video games, because there's so many games that tell AMAZING stories that are, in many ways, way better than movies now.
One of my favorites, that deals with similar themes to this, in a much better, and horrifying way, is SOMA. I'd love to hear their opinion on that game.
Saw Chappie thinking it'd be a dumb, fun Die Antwoord movie.
Ended up actually catching some feels.
Who'd've thought.
Shit made me misty eyed
He just wanted knew that everybody deserves a good nap. I’d nap all the time in a world like that!
*sips beer*
Haha I nearly pissed myself laughing at the '2 guys DTF' Confirmed Gay hahaha!!!
Man i freaking love chappie
Chappie was written by blomkamp and his wife. A collaboration.