Everybody knows black dudes always die first in these movies. With the Bugs being so deadly they probably all died before they even got the chance to make this trailer.
Movie's out. So. First thoughts: Gratuitous 3D boobies. The look of the movie isn't perhaps that good considering it's 2012, but it's good enough. They should've spent more time on the tits though, they totally broke my suspension of disbelief. And bigger. Much bigger. This is 3D, you can make them as big as you like!
I wish they made more use of their power armor. We saw that they could go on the bounce like in the books, but they only did so once. And it would have been so useful in so many different parts of the story. The plot had major issues that its too late for me to go into now. I'll just say this, I was highly disappointed with exactly who they decided to kill off and let survive.
It was as good as the TV series. Worth watching at least once. They need to learn how to retreat much faster. Doesn't Karl look like an animated Ben Linus from Lost?
The one point where I turned off my brain in watching this movie was when Chao decided to go kung fu on that bug... then promptly got stabbed. At that point I remembered why this one was based off the movie: looks like they followed its all-guns-and-little-brain execution. Shame the actual powered armors don't do much, but chainsaw-wielding mecha ftw.
At least we got to see some ship combat... Seems like a several characters had stories setup and then BAM... bug food.
Yes, that was my issue. They killed of what interesting characters they introduced, and had the shit tier survive. Damn it, Bugspray and Trig were cute together.
I'd say they did well at least giving all the semi-major characters at least some screentime and background. I mean, sure, it wasn't a lot, but you at least got an idea of what each person was like. It's part of why I wasn't so pissed when they started killing people off. I knew that was coming, but at least when someone died it wasn't just "meh, cannon fodder" in the sense that you at least had some attachment, even if it was very very minor attachment
A few little things bothered me, most, if not all, I've come to associate with Japanese productions, like perfectly synchronized action and awkward/unimaginative use of language among other things. But on the whole, it was a passable run-of-the-mill things-blow-up-and-die movie.
I'm not quite sure how you got the language part. Because while it was directed by a Japanese person(who is an awesome director for this kind of thing), the script etc, was written for English first, other languages second. So blame shitty script writers, not the Japanese
I watched it, can't say I enjoyed it. Don't know if my standards have for some inexplicable reason gone up, or if I am just nitpicking, but the whole thing seemed to me as one overused cliche after the other, the dialog was stilted, and the scenario full of holes. Since the general consensus seems to be that this shit is watchable, I'll not bother trying to explain why I think these things, just keep in mind that I don't think everyone would agree with it.
Oh, there is no question the scenario was full of holes. You could step through some of them. You had to turn off your brain to watch the movie.
um.....asian kung-fu master tries kung-fu against an alien. I can see why this movie can obviously become a success.
Well, I'm an easily pleased person when it comes to overlooking faults and cliches, and I still concur 100% with your assessment. It really could have been better. At the very least though, they show why doing so is a bad idea. Should've just run. ^^;
I was kinda actually hoping that sniper-chick and her 'fuck-buddy' would survive. I mean, i was actually rooting for them (no pun intended.)
Oh yeah, let's make a film out of the book. A film where you see all the soldiers for fractions of seconds because they never stop moving, the screen is constantly flash-blinding the audience with explosions, and the dialogue is nonexistent because everyone's trained so well they aren't chatting with each other all the time. This is a terrible goddamn idea. Modern, or post-modern, warfare is going to look absolutely awful. As much as I rag on Halo for being stuck in Vietnam, honestly Vietnam is probably the latest paradigm of warfare that can still look good on screen. Black Hawk Down managed it because it basically eliminated all of the cool modern doohickeys that make war boring as fuck and it was infantry shooting other infantry. Battle: LA is basically Vietnam, there's no endless fleets of robot assassins because the aliens have air superiority. Saving Private Ryan? WWII.
