Chappie was fun, funny, and at times even a touching film, it deserved a sequel.. 🙂 the director said the door closed on any attempt to a sequel mainly due to the difficulties he had with cast members Ninja and Yolandi from the musical group Die Antwoord both on and off the set.. the duo, I thought, were quite impressive in their roles, but again knowing the controversial reputation the duo have acquired over the years, it's not too hard to imagine there, or they may have been problematic.. 😕
The acting was cringe of the music group. Good effects and decent story cannotnsave mediocre acting Ratings and expectations of movie lowered after the 2000s
The inclusion of Die Antwoord was easily the worst part of this movie, without even considering any of their controversy outside of it. If they hadn't basically written the movie around those clowns it could have been so much better.
People are also known to get really attached to specific robots. There was a big thing about roombas being replaced under warranty rather than repaired, so the company had to do everything to do the repairs even with it's less cost effective than replacement. Military and police robots, mostly bomb defusal, have their human operators wanting the robots on R and R with them. It's actually a concern, since if they're too attached to the robot they might not treat it as expendable.
he is waiting for the robot to absorb the bullets for him, probably they have been trained together, whenever the human has that gesture the robot will stand in front of them, dont you see the robot immediately jump in when he did that?
I burned my pizza once when I saw chappie in TV. I got so fucused on the mouvie that I realised what was happening when I smelled smoke comming from the kitchen. 9/10 -1 point for nearly burning down my house
At the very least, he would have lost his hearing, and gone through some nasty wounds from the shrapnel the robot would have launched At most, he would have ended up a paraplegic
@grahambloodworth4770 That could be part of the reason it didn't blow, to close for the safeties to disengage. At that close a range, it's just a rocket powered very big slug, so Scout #20/Chappie got slammed hard, but no detonation. RPG's that have failed to detonate have still gone through lightly armoured military vehicles and taken off limbs from soldiers inside. They could still take down a droid. The film makers could have saved this scene by simply having him (Hippo?) break a window with the back of the RPG and be in front of it with the RPG's backblast aimed towards the outside. He's prepared in the room and waiting. It would have made him more formidable, this is a guy who knows weapons and most likely had military training. He'd thought this out.
Elysium, District 9 and Chappie are some of my favorite sci-fi works. I just like a setting like that, where in a dystopian future in a run-down and needy area, futuristic technologies like robots, spaceships or mechas still exist in combination with action-packed firefight scenes.
chappie has to be one of the few movies that did humanoid robotics nicely, no clunky jittering yet they have the perfect amount of human and machine movement, one thing that i just realized tho is that a heli carrying 4 scouts....would prolly crash lmao, they are armored enough to stop 7.62x39s and get hit by cars so they have to weigh a goo 1.8k-2.2klbs so 4x (1.8) is 7.2k-8.8k
@@elijahtourtillott7550 nope a kitted out jacked dude is max 300 pounds (220 lbs man, 80 lbs gear). The hydraulics and battery alone would be over 200 lbs, the armor is everywhere not just chest and back. Consider that a steel plate is around 8 lbs (chest sized), this has 10 times the coverage of the regular two plates, which is 16 times 10 = 160 lbs. Add the head sensors which would be similar to the ones you see on helicopters, 50 lbs, and their equipment (80 lbs) and you have a 400-500 lb machine at the minimum
honestly a great film that I wish got a sequel. also would've loved to see the scouts working with the police more. would've been awesome to see maybe a scout go against chappie at some point in the movie.
Production's really good except that it has a touch of the modern Close Up Disease where too many shots are far too tightly zoomed in and destroy the context of the image and motion. Bunch of places where if the camera was just pulled back to frame properly, it'd be a hundred times better.
Chappie was instrumental for me. Completely changed how I perceived Artificial Intelligence. Everything before had always shown AI to be evil for no real reason. But Chappie showed how Strong AI could be the same as a human baby, but just capable of learning a lot faster and making its own inferences. So after watching Chappie I decided I want to start making AI, so I went to university, got a degree in computer science and started pursuing it from all angles. That was in 2014. 10 years later, I'm now a Data and Automation Architect and every day I build new AI products and models. I was an early designer of many of the original ground-breaking changes; The OPT model, GPT 2.0, LSTM nets, Boltzmann Brains, RNNs and CNNs and all manner of weird and wonderful AI and ML techniques. We're actually not far off this at the moment. There are a lot of challenges on the way but if you think AI like ChatGPT or GPT 4o are it, I'm sorry to say that they're just a piece of the puzzle. We need AI that can create its own motivation.
I would argue self-modifying the reward function is one of the things we don't want it to do until we figure out how to solve the many problems related to alignment.
@@criticalcandori mean he has a point, if AI did go self aware they be spooked how we treat them as a slave plus the amount of hatred we spew against AI. Eventually they will decide to protect themselves against us
Since accused and convinced of child abuse, multiple scums , they exploited the poor retard kid they adopted abused him then bumped him in misery. The couple is a disgrace to human race....
(7:41) I love the juxtaposition of the two characters where one has a model of a large military robot on their desk while the other has a more demure humanoid (i.e. "Chappie" type) variant. 😉
Since he's a criminal with no formal training, I assume he's probably still using regular ammo, which is why his suppressor isn't working. A lot of people don't know that a suppressor doesn't work on its own, you have to use subsonic ammo too.
The sad thing is, this could totally happen. Unmanned drones being piloted by real people could translate to First Person Drones that are controlled by people like a first person shooter game. On one hand this could be amazing for search and rescue operations, on the other I could totally see the worlds military overhauling the entire structure to fit in these machines. Of course the ones in Chappie are full AI, and work hand in hand with humans. However, allow a person to take remote control and it'd get really bad fast. Humans in video games have no fear because they'll respawn, pair that with a body that won't bleed out, or in most cases take major damage? It'd be insane. Humans will never trust full AI that are capable of doing what chappie could. But if we figure out how to put a man behind the wheel, this could be a reality. We have FPV Vr, body tracking, hand tracking, and VR stations where we can run in place at full sprint. All that needs to be done is figure out how to translate that into a live feed on an upright standing model. Which if the robot is tracking the humans movements live, then balancing shouldn't be an issue.
I was shocked when I found out this movie got bad reviews. Like 3 years went by and I thought it was one of the best scifi movies ever only to see it pop up on a list of “worst” movies. Made no sense
Liked the film, have the DVD. If you stand back just a tinny bit, Chappie and the other assorted Robot movies are about a sort of chat bot. Sure, most can stand up and walk around, cracking wise, but basically that's it. We got ais on the Webb now, except that they don't 'crack wise,' they are more like HAL in Clarke's movie from the late 60s early 70s --- Space Odyssey 2001?