I watched all of the OatsStudio shorts, which, one after the other were some film-school-level short that's a straight rip-off of a popular film from the '70s or '80s, or Adam: part 2 & 3, which are iRobot rip-offs. Literally, every guy in film school in the '90s was referring to themselves as the next Coppola while spewing the exact type stuff Blomkamp is. Except Blomkamp is in his 40s, it's 2021, and he's made at least 3 films at this point. I've seen better shorts made by young, non-industry guys working from their house.
At first I was watching them because I was expecting them to be on the same level as Love, Death, and Robots, but quickly realized they weren't. Then I was watching them because I was amused by the film-school level quality of story telling, directing, and camera work. Then, after watching the few woman who are in it do nothing but listen to long winded diatribes by men, scream, run, or kneel in submission to men while listening to long winded diatribes, my amusement turned to annoyance. Even Dakota Fanning has no purpose other than to silently listen to a no-name actor man-splain to her at GREAT length his story. If she's the only crew member out of 98 to survive, why does she have to listen to this guy explain how to survive? Then he cuts out his eyes, and his finger, for not much reason other than to show how "manly" he is, even though he gives up part way through after running a short distance. It seemed for no reason other than for a plot device for him to sacrifice himself, to, again, show how manly he is. Oh, and by the way, you can't run outside in the arctic circle during a snow storm with no clothes, jacket or warm outerwear. Also, they were worried about running out of water in the arctic. Where there's snow. Snow. Which turns into water.
I would more expect this to be the writing of a 12 to 16-year-old boy, than a grown man. It makes a lot of sense that he co-wrote District 9 with his wife, his only good film. Clearly she was the talent of the two, who, of course, no one knows her name. Elysium was straight-up, hot garbage.
Since Blomkamp looooves to splain his armchair activism in his films, maybe he should actually man-up and do the hard work of giving the money to things he claims to care about rather than blowing millions of dollars on his crap films. No? Gee, no surprise. He's just one more mediocre white guy in Hollywood there is no seeming explanation other than being born into privilege, why he is given outrageous amounts of money. And having views in-line with the uni-bomber doesn't make him any less mediocre.
Blomkamp is officially in my pile with Eli Roth and Rob Zombie of crap film makers whom you can't explain why they're allowed to make this gratuitous, man-child drivel.
At first I was watching them because I was expecting them to be on the same level as Love, Death, and Robots, but quickly realized they weren't. Then I was watching them because I was amused by the film-school level quality of story telling, directing, and camera work. Then, after watching the few woman who are in it do nothing but listen to long winded diatribes by men, scream, run, or kneel in submission to men while listening to long winded diatribes, my amusement turned to annoyance. Even Dakota Fanning has no purpose other than to silently listen to a no-name actor man-splain to her at GREAT length his story. If she's the only crew member out of 98 to survive, why does she have to listen to this guy explain how to survive? Then he cuts out his eyes, and his finger, for not much reason other than to show how "manly" he is, even though he gives up part way through after running a short distance. It seemed for no reason other than for a plot device for him to sacrifice himself, to, again, show how manly he is. Oh, and by the way, you can't run outside in the arctic circle during a snow storm with no clothes, jacket or warm outerwear. Also, they were worried about running out of water in the arctic. Where there's snow. Snow. Which turns into water.
I would more expect this to be the writing of a 12 to 16-year-old boy, than a grown man. It makes a lot of sense that he co-wrote District 9 with his wife, his only good film. Clearly she was the talent of the two, who, of course, no one knows her name. Elysium was straight-up, hot garbage.
Since Blomkamp looooves to splain his armchair activism in his films, maybe he should actually man-up and do the hard work of giving the money to things he claims to care about rather than blowing millions of dollars on his crap films. No? Gee, no surprise. He's just one more mediocre white guy in Hollywood there is no seeming explanation other than being born into privilege, why he is given outrageous amounts of money. And having views in-line with the uni-bomber doesn't make him any less mediocre.
Blomkamp is officially in my pile with Eli Roth and Rob Zombie of crap film makers whom you can't explain why they're allowed to make this gratuitous, man-child drivel.
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