| Author |
 Topic Search  Topic Options
|
Ricochet 
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: February 27 2005
Location: Nauru
Status: Offline
Points: 46301
|
 Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:29 |
 A Person wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Serious thought. Why don't I listen just to classical music this month?
|
I wish I had that much classical music.
|
It's highly obtainable.
|
|
|
 |
Tsevir Leirbag
Forum Senior Member
Joined: May 03 2009
Location: Montréal
Status: Offline
Points: 8321
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:28 |
A Person wrote:
Tsevir Leirbag wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Serious thought. Why don't I listen just to classical music this month? |
Two things...
- Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring |
I think I prefer Les Noces.
|
Les Noces is great but Rite of Spring... That's something 
|
|
Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
|
|
Ricochet
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: February 27 2005
Location: Nauru
Status: Offline
Points: 46301
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:26 |
Tsevir Leirbag wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Serious thought. Why don't I listen just to classical music this month? |
Two things...
- Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring |
That's gonna fill the entire month?  I do like Stravinsky hours, otherwise I'm not interested in Orff.
Edited by Ricochet - March 08 2010 at 16:26
|
|
|
|
A Person
Forum Senior Member
Joined: November 10 2008
Location: __
Status: Offline
Points: 65760
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:22 |
Tsevir Leirbag wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Serious thought. Why don't I listen just to classical music this month? |
Two things...
- Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring |
I think I prefer Les Noces.
|
|
Epignosis
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: December 30 2007
Location: Raeford, NC
Status: Offline
Points: 32549
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:21 |
Spoilers in white- highlight to see:
1. The prawns clearly outnumbered the black market people. The alien weaponry is seriously powerful, and the black market guys have a hoard of it. The prawns also have superior reflexes and agility (as shown in the beginning of the film), and even more convenient is the fact that humans cannot use their weapons. How hard would a coup have been?
2. Wikus and his MNU cronies serve eviction notices in the beginning (why, I do not know...the whole "human rights" thing seems rather silly, but okay- not my point here). We see the aggression some of the prawns have toward the humans- ripping off limbs and such. Why are there no prawns helping Wikus and Christoper Johnson in the end? In fact, I didn't see any prawns at all.
3. The fluid used to leave Earth seems to serve whatever purpose the scriptwriters need it to. Not a plot hole, admittedly, but kind of silly nonetheless.
4. Christopher Johnson and his son get back on the mother ship. How do they plan on flying the thing if it's been up there for decades? Are we to believe that the magical fuel will power the whole giant fortress or something, and that two aliens (one a child) can pilot the thing alone? And if all this is the case, why the hell didn't the aliens use the fuel that was on board in the first place to be on their way instead of chilling over South Africa? Granted most of the prawns are worker class, but CJ should have known this and been able to wrest them from their circumstances.
5. Wikus goes from a pansy little bureaucrat to someone who is able to pilot various alien craft almost perfectly in less than 72 hours despite not even knowing how to turn any of it on, and he has amazing precision shooting alien weapons that he's never wielded prior to his transformation (and no, becoming a prawn himself does not grant him these abilities, because most of the prawns are shown to lack these skills).
6. How did all that weaponry (especially the mech suit) get from the mother ship to Earth?
7. Communication clearly isn't a problem. So why in the hell doesn't CJ (or any other prawn) basically say to MNU, "Hey, we know you don't want us here. We're looking for fuel. Let's find it, and we'll leave your primitive and tasteless planet." Yes, we know MNU wants to research the weapons, but so what? Twenty-plus years of living in a slum?
8. Why was there no reverse engineering on the mother ship if the military got in and had decades to examine it?
9. Presumably the mother ship wasn't functional, but it could fire a tractor beam?
10. The humans cut into the hull of the mother ship. How can it function in space?
11. The prawns lack opposable thumbs.
Still, a fun movie. 
And the final scene is perfect.
|
|
|
|
Tsevir Leirbag
Forum Senior Member
Joined: May 03 2009
Location: Montréal
Status: Offline
Points: 8321
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:21 |
Ricochet wrote:
Serious thought. Why don't I listen just to classical music this month? |
Two things...
- Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
|
|
Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
|
|
jampa17
Prog Reviewer
Joined: July 04 2009
Location: Guatemala
Status: Offline
Points: 6802
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:21 |
yeah... nothing better than prog to lift the spirit... remember to drink hot soup and a lot of orange juice... 
|
|
Change the program inside... Stay in silence is a crime.
|
|
A Person
Forum Senior Member
Joined: November 10 2008
Location: __
Status: Offline
Points: 65760
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:17 |
Ricochet wrote:
Serious thought. Why don't I listen just to classical music this month?
|
I wish I had that much classical music.
|
|
A Person
Forum Senior Member
Joined: November 10 2008
Location: __
Status: Offline
Points: 65760
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:16 |
jampa17 wrote:
A Person wrote:
jampa17 wrote:
I'm inspired. 5 reviews already... in one single day... and I'm asleep... jajaja... imagine full on strengh... |
Wow.
|
Jajaja... I know... strange but in the right mood... how's that cold Matt... better...? |
No, I'm just coming down with it. : ( Not to worry though, I have prog to help me.
|
|
jampa17
Prog Reviewer
Joined: July 04 2009
Location: Guatemala
Status: Offline
Points: 6802
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:15 |
A Person wrote:
jampa17 wrote:
I'm inspired. 5 reviews already... in one single day... and I'm asleep... jajaja... imagine full on strengh... |
Wow.
|
Jajaja... I know... strange but in the right mood... how's that cold Matt... better...?
|
|
Change the program inside... Stay in silence is a crime.
|
|
Ricochet
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: February 27 2005
Location: Nauru
Status: Offline
Points: 46301
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:14 |
|
Serious thought. Why don't I listen just to classical music this month?
|
|
|
|
A Person
Forum Senior Member
Joined: November 10 2008
Location: __
Status: Offline
Points: 65760
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:13 |
jampa17 wrote:
I'm inspired. 5 reviews already... in one single day... and I'm asleep... jajaja... imagine full on strengh... |
Wow.
|
|
jampa17
Prog Reviewer
Joined: July 04 2009
Location: Guatemala
Status: Offline
Points: 6802
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 15:58 |
|
I'm inspired. 5 reviews already... in one single day... and I'm asleep... jajaja... imagine full on strengh...
|
|
Change the program inside... Stay in silence is a crime.
|
|
Conor Fynes
Prog Reviewer
Joined: February 11 2009
Location: Vancouver, CA
Status: Offline
Points: 3196
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 15:57 |
|
|
|
Epignosis
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: December 30 2007
Location: Raeford, NC
Status: Offline
Points: 32549
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 15:49 |
Ricochet wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
We just watched District 9 this weekend.
I thought it was okay- entertaining I guess- except for all the massive plot holes.
|
Like...?
|
Oh come on.
|
Quenching.
But I asked seriously.
|
Give me a second.
|
|
|
|
Ricochet
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: February 27 2005
Location: Nauru
Status: Offline
Points: 46301
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 15:47 |
|
|
|
|
|
Epignosis
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: December 30 2007
Location: Raeford, NC
Status: Offline
Points: 32549
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 15:45 |
Ricochet wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
We just watched District 9 this weekend.
I thought it was okay- entertaining I guess- except for all the massive plot holes.
|
Like...?
|
Oh come on.
|
|
|
|
rushfan4
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: May 22 2007
Location: Michigan, U.S.
Status: Offline
Points: 66516
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 15:45 |
I have to reverse my previous comment again. I did see District 9. That movie was awful. I would never have guessed that it was nominated for any awards.
|
|
|
|
Ricochet
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: February 27 2005
Location: Nauru
Status: Offline
Points: 46301
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 15:44 |
Epignosis wrote:
We just watched District 9 this weekend.
I thought it was okay- entertaining I guess- except for all the massive plot holes.
|
Like...?
|
|
|
|
Epignosis
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: December 30 2007
Location: Raeford, NC
Status: Offline
Points: 32549
|
Posted: March 08 2010 at 15:43 |
|
We just watched District 9 this weekend.
I thought it was okay- entertaining I guess- except for all the massive plot holes.
|
|
|
|
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.
/PAlogo_v2.gif "Progarchives.com Homepage")
SRXII: It lives!
