Chappie
Directed by Neill Blomkamp
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot. From TMDB
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Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 32% approval rating, based on 227 reviews, and a rating average of 4.90/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Chappie boasts more of the big ideas and visual panache that director Neill Blomkamp has become known for – and, sadly, more of the narrative shortcomings." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 41 out of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. According to CinemaScore, audiences gave the film a grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale. Justin Chang of Variety wrote, "Intelligence, artificial or otherwise, is one of the major casualties of Chappie, a robot-themed action movie that winds up feeling as…
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60 of 221 · most liked firstThis fucking guy, man. District 9 gave Blomkamp a huge moment and it was his to capitalize on. Instead he just kind of dicked around and never made that Alien movie and half-assed his way through Chappie. I haven't thought about him in years. Until this. Fucking guy.
negative · AI labelView post →bar hopping in Hiroshima. Went into 8th Street solely for Chappy the dog who was staring at us from inside. His name is a mashup of "child" and "happy." The bartender has never heard of the movie Chappie. He said overseas customers ask if he's named after Chat GPT.
neutral · AI labelView post →10 years ago in March 2015 my podcast @magictavern.bsky.social started. That month was also the beginning of @blankcheck.bsky.social & @criticalrole.bsky.social. Only one thing could explain this creative explosion: the release of the movie Chappie
neutral · AI labelView post →the movie Chappie singlehandedly gave me the ability to feel empathy
positive · AI labelView post →'Starship Troopers' Remake Set From 'District 9' Director Neill Blomkamp. cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26862304 > > A reboot of 'Starship Troopers' is in the works at Sony, with 'District 9' and 'Chappie' director Neill Blomkamp attached to helm.
neutral · AI labelView post →The correct answer is District 9. However, I find I'm often disappointed by sequels to great movies. I feel like there are far more mediocre movies that failed to fully explore the depths of a good concept, where a sequel (perhaps in a different genre) would retroactivel make the first movie better. For that, I also choose Johnny Mnemonic. Also, In Time, Elysium, or Chappie. I also think now would be a great time for a Galaxy Quest sequel. There's a lot of fertile sci-fi tropes that…
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m running a cyberpunk red game this weekend so I’m rewatching the most cyberpunk movie of the century: Chappie.
positive · AI labelView post →Chappie is a good movie
positive · AI labelView post →"Blomkamp will also produce the feature alongside Terri Tatchell, his partner and wife who co-wrote the South African filmmaker’s District 9 and 2015 outing, Chappie." As usual, this thread will be updated as soon as necessary.
neutral · AI labelView post →ICYMI: Columbia Pictures has hired Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium, Chappie, Demonic, Gran Turismo) to write and direct the new STARSHIP TROOPERS movie, which will re-adapt Robert A. Heinlein’s novel rather than outright remake Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Me, with misguided confidence, the moment any movie character enters a scene: that's Chappie
neutral · AI labelView post →this movie was perfect and needs no remake and blompkamp, creator of another perfect movie (Chappie), should know that
positive · AI labelView post →Over a decade ago, when I was working supermarket night fill, I wrote a script treatment about someone with my job who has to train the robot being trialled to replace them. About a year later Chappie came out so I stopped pitching it. Now there's an AI movie studio, meanwhile this shit is happening
neutral · AI labelView post →Chappie and District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is set to write and direct a new Starship Troopers movie. It will be the first film adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's sci-fi novel since Paul Verhoeven's 1997 cult classic. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Chappie is a weird movie. But no weirder that the other movies he made, District 9 and Elysium. District 9 being my favorite among them.
neutral · AI labelView post →Who called it a film about a down and out boxing robot down under discovering the meaning of the holiday in eight crazy fights and not Chappie Channukah
neutral · AI labelView post →I think the most baffling and genuinely ruinous creative decision I’ve ever seen in a Hollywood movie was Chappie having Die Antwoord on screen for 70% of its runtime
negative · AI labelView post →It is also, like Chappie, a cautionary tale about fully automated oppressive capitalism. It is also a movie that accurately depicts the kind of world imagined by Elon Musk and other tech-bro sycophants. Especially that first scene of the bipedal drone searching folks on the bus.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's basically an arthouse Robocop body running around headless with a stinkpunk crackhead 80s Three Men and Baby heart. Dollar Tree Cinema presents…my defense of Chappie. #letterboxdfriday #filmsky #letterboxd #writers #writingcommunity boxd.it/aR4zcV
positive · AI labelView post →Chappie is 10 years old! Like the previous movies from Neill Blomkamp, you can find some great mech and robot concepts in Chappie: The Art of the Movie. #artbook #conceptart #scifiart
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember that movie Chappie? We can do that with you and a Buffalo Stampede slot machine.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally got around to watching Chappie. Me, watching the first few minutes, which reveals a pretty incredible leading cast: wait I heard this movie was bad how could this director and this cast screw up something with this compelling of a premise— Me, watching the rest of the movie: oooooooooh
negative · AI labelView post →Obviously with the deep historical links and shared culture I should be supporting Wales today but the music of Johnny Clegg and the film “Chappie” really spoke to me on a personal level so unfortunately it’ll be a lekker and brandy day for me. #WALvRSA
neutral · AI labelView post →Isn’t this basically the movie Chappie?
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Chappie on an early date with my partner and we trauma bonded over that horrible movie lmao
negative · AI labelView post →[Movie Clip] CHAPPIE (2015) - robot police team vs gangsters. Invidious link: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=0TWGg7HcvSw Haven't seen the movie, but this scene gives an interesting take on corporate-driven near-future tech, and its effect on the underworld. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappie_(film)
neutral · AI labelView post →Let the right one in. There was also a French film very similar to Chappie that was decent.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Chappie"? You mean the poignant, unsettlingly open-ended movie about a robot who never makes a friend?
positive · AI labelView post →People like to shit on pop culture references in movies and shows and stuff and I agree to a point. Like Star Wars doesn’t ever need to be parodied again, but I unno you reference Enough Said or Chappie or some other movie I haven’t heard of in 15 years then I’m laughing.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the movie Chappie and the whole premise is a future with AI robot cops. The Hugh Jackman character who is portrayed as a crazy psycho was actually right to deactivate them.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Wambsgans are having a sentient robot movie double feature: Short Circuit and Chappie. Chappie has to wait for tomorrow, though. We can’t do two movies in a night.
neutral · AI labelView post →District 9 was pretty good. Blomkamp followed that up with Elysium, which was awful, and then with Chappie, one of the worst films ever made. "Plan 9 From Outer Space" bad. His most recent film is an adaptation of the video game Gran Turismo, which notably has no plot. Dude has no career to ruin.
negative · AI labelView post →people saying this is his worst film since Chappie did not watch Demonic (2021)
neutral · AI labelView post →Ali put Chappie on (we’ve never seen it, but we’ve said “That’s Chappie” during every film since 2015 when a character says the name of the film they’re in), and she was getting a bit upset at how folk were treating Chappie. She said “Chappie just hits different when you’re a Mum” I’m crying
positive · AI labelView post →my pool of reference besides that is just like Chappie and an annoying industry plant pop act and maybe if you push it the villain from a Lethal Weapon movie. And then everything else is being so blatheringly racist that our racists got uncomfortable shaking hands with you
neutral · AI labelView post →Chappie is just a wall to wall awful film, every character is either hateful or annoying. Even Hugh Jackman rocking the hell out of a mullet can't save it
negative · AI labelView post →Sometimes I remember 2010s music. Like LMFAO and shit like that...but then my spine shivers, as I remember....Die Antwoord and the movie Chappie. And I scream and wish for the gods to scrub my brain of all of that shit.
negative · AI labelView post →CHAPPiE (America 2015) was a terrible movie, but the makeover they give the robot is perhaps the funniest thing I've seen in my life
negative · AI labelView post →This isn't deeply important but Neill Blomkamp (the guy who made District 9, Chappie, bunch of other crap) is starting an Ai movie production company. And of course the little he's put (short films) are completely terrible. Once a hack loser ALWAYS A HACK LOSER!
neutral · AI labelView post →I still stand by the fact that Neill Blomkamp's Sci-fi anthology film series is probably the BEST Sci-fi anthology film series ever. District 9 - anti-refugee culture Chappie - colonial/apartheid police culture Elysium - white techno classist culture Told brilliantly through the eyes of Sci-fi.
positive · AI labelView post →Elysium 2 Plans Ideated By Director 10 Years After The Original Matt Damon Sci-Fi. * "Elysium" director Neill Blomkamp wants to make a sequel to the 2013 film because it is becoming more relevant over time. * The potential sequel will take place on both Earth and the space station Elysium. * The Elysium movie would be less of a sequel and more of a new story set in the same world. * Elysium director Neill Blomkamp has shared his thoughts on a potential sequel. The original movie, which…
neutral · AI labelView post →FINCH (2021, Apple, #film) Boomer CHAPPIE. A sentimental post-apocalyptic father/son (dying & robot, respectively) road trip drama that doesn't do a whole lot across two sluggish hours. Top dollar CG (and a generally un-wonky computer dog) keep it agreeable to look at but I kept checking my phone.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yep continuing the unusual movie theme lol. About to watch Chappie for the 50th time. This movie for some reason I like. Die Antwoords acting is something else hahaha #filmsky #chappie #robotfilm #dieantwoord
positive · AI labelView post →I am watching this horror movie called Chappie. Earthlings are so frightening. 😭😢
negative · AI labelView post →For me it's more, "I wonder why critics / audience disagree with me?" It's an interesting thing to think about. I try not to expose myself to any social media surrounding a movie before I watch it. No reviews, no trailers, nothing. Then I compare my experience with others, and it's usually wildly different. It makes me wonder how much of a review is "inertia" from the environment surrounding the movie, rather than the movie itself? As an example, I absolutely loved the film…
neutral · AI labelView post →Chappie is an okay movie! It has its moments!
neutral · AI labelView post →For those interested, Chappie: The Art of the Movie is still available! You can order here; UK - amzn.to/4hjBRzi US - amzn.to/4i5aaeJ #ad
neutral · AI labelView post →Me, finally deciding to find out what this movie is even about: THAT’S Chappie?!
neutral · AI labelView post →I think its the full name of that robot chappie from that movie 'Chappie.' Love in it when he says his famous catchphrase: "(in robot voice) I am Chappie."
neutral · AI labelView post →Blomkamp was very obviously always optimistic about AI given the Chappie movie, it's just a shame he never stopped to read anything about the tech besides advertisements or check the on the ground response to it
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m not a hater at all (I’ll even go to bat, to a certain degree, for CHAPPIE!), but I can’t think of another filmmaker who’s gone from a Best Picture nominee to a film that could be mistaken for the work of David DeCoteau in just over a decade.
neutral · AI labelView post →Chappie. A far more entertaining film than I thought it would be. Just good fun.
positive · AI labelView post →My favorite little detail about Hugh Jackman in Chappie is that he keeps wearing a floppy keycard on a lanyard for the entire movie, no matter what he's wearing or doing in the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Like yeah Chappie was...not good, but goddamn District 9 was such a fun movie that he'll always remain in my good graces Also wtf happened to Sharlto Copley, he was everywhere & then suddenly not. Did Chappie decimate his career?
negative · AI labelView post →If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers. Chappie from the movie Chappie.
neutral · AI labelView post →"What's a movie that is wildly considered bad but you love it proudly?" CHAPPIE (2015, dir. Neill Blomkamp)
positive · AI labelView post →Weirdest movie I feel sad thinking about: Chappie. When my aunt was dying of cancer she watched Chappie so many times. Now, I can’t think of that movie without thinking about her.
positive · AI labelView post →BB may be the most annoying movie robot I've ever seen, and I've seen Chappie. #FrightClub
negative · AI labelView post →*Chock Chappie shows up on the movie screen* That’s Chock Chappie.
neutral · AI labelView post →one like one movie but I just keep posting CHAPPiE
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