I saw the 3D version last night. After a half hour, the 3D slipped into the background. A good thing since I feel it shouldn't be the focal point. If it were scene after scene of things flying out at me it would mean that the effect is the star, not the story.
Now the story. YAWN. Seen it many times.
Star Wars: Living force, large mechanical war machines vs a technologically inferior population. And getting their clocks cleaned.
Star Trek: The Katra, the soul/consciousness of the departed deposited in some physic gestalt.
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Corp. A mega powerful corporation that is evil personified. See Robocop, Blade Runner, and many B movies for this easy foil.
There are also elements of Little Big Man and Dances With Wolves.
I guess when you spend all the money on special effects and green screen stuff you have to cut and paste story from wherever.
One question. If we let the earth get to the state that it is such a hell hole, how did this corporation ever get the money to fund such a huge expedition across millions of miles to mine a far off planet? For an element that the writers had no imagination in naming interestingly? Lamer than bad film school writers.
I like Science Fiction and Fantasy work but there must be substantial story there. I like the attempt in the Star Wars series but There is maybe a 4 hour story in all that 12+ hours of cinema. I wasn't a fan of Aliens, spent the time in the theatre calling out the plot minutes before it happened. No surprises there.
Not a movie I plan on buying. Or seeing a second time. YMMV. I should have seen Alvin 2 (the Squeakwel)
First off I agree, but have to say I actually disagree with the repeat story line.
I missed the Star Trek generation by a few years, never liked Star Wars much, didn't watch any of the "deeper" movies with similar storylines.
What I'm trying to get at here is, just because it's something similar to old stuff, doesn't mean it necessarily has to be a repeat for everyone, yeah you have been around longer and seen the old stuff, maybe enjoyed it. At 19 missed some of the old stuff, and really enjoyed Avatar.
I mean, at some point just about everything is a twist on a copy of something old. New ideas come, but not always, sometimes you have to tweak old ideas.
As for the other things, I don't think Earth in the story was a total hell hole, just that society is corrupted, the word is no longer "virgin." Humans as a whole are a pretty bad species.
As for being a smart *** in the theater, I guess that's what separates some people from others, just because you have foresight to the movie, I get the feeling you over think something that is supposed to be enjoyable.
Now I don't actually mean that disrespectfully, I to have a hard time sometimes just sitting back and enjoying something, but sometimes I think that's pretty important to do, rather than analyze everything, take a breather and just pretend.
Rant off.
