I was also really impressed with the set design. The slum looked so realistic!
Some of the filming was done in a Soweto squatter camp, known as Chiawelo.
I was also really impressed with the set design. The slum looked so realistic!
I saw it last night with my husband and daughter. Hands down, the DUMBEST movie I have ever seen in my entire life. I hated every minute of this movie from the beginning to the end. LOL! Could not wait for it to be over with. The camera made me dizzy and the "news" aspect of it was silly. I can't BELIEVE I got talked into that one. LOL! I wanted to see Inglorious Bastards, dammit. LOL!
I can't believe how many people loved this movie!! I DESPISED IT!! Ten minutes in I was praying for it to be over! I thought it was boring, predictable, and had some serious plot gaps. I know they were setting it up for a sequel, but if you think about this movie too much, you realize how much they left out, stuff they should have answered in the first movie to have it make more sense. Maybe I'm a cold-hearted b*tch, but I didn't feel bad for the aliens at all. If I was president, I wouldn't pay to take care of millions of aliens, when some of my own kind live in such conditions. And actually thinking about it now, total plot fail right here -- the aliens were trapped on their own ship emaciated and dying, but then Kristopher just gets juice from his own technology which had to be on that ship to begin with!! then just flies up and goes on his merry way. Seriously? nobody could figure that out before? Sorry, I just can't buy that.
And actually thinking about it now, total plot fail right here -- the aliens were trapped on their own ship emaciated and dying, but then Kristopher just gets juice from his own technology which had to be on that ship to begin with!! then just flies up and goes on his merry way. Seriously? nobody could figure that out before? Sorry, I just can't buy that.
Seriously? nobody could figure that out before? Sorry, I just can't buy that.
I don't know if this will help, but all I know is the aliens ran out of fuel and food on their return to their home planet. They searched for the closest habitable planet, which happened to be Earth. This lack of fuel explains why they could not power up their ship immediately. Over 20 years they had to scrounge up enough of this biotech fuel from nearly depleted fuel canisters and other technology to get enough to restart the command module and head back home.
I understand that you didn't like the film, but I happily ignored the plot holes like you mentioned (and let's face it, most films have them). It's sci-fi, so I'm able to suspend belief, so a film like this doesn't have to be credible in my world, it has to be credible in the world in which it's set.
Nobody could figure it out because it was mentioned in the film that most of the aliens/prawns were worker drones. They were more or less slave labor, not engineering geniuses.