trailer break: ‘Planet 51’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer...
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I love the idea of the humans as the aliens -- nice about face of the usual. Of course, the aliens aren’t really alien; culturally, they’re not alien at all. But we can expect but baby steps in the evolution of big-budget cinematic science fiction.
This could be the ultimate in colorblind casting: Dwayne Johnson is supplying the voice of the square-jawed Nordic blond astronaut. I’m not sure why the astronaut couldn’t have been square-jawed, dark-haired, and Polynesian, like Johnson, but I guess that wouldn’t have been quite as effective as the stereotype of the Right Stuff jock flyboy.
Planet 51 opens in the U.S. on November 20, and in the U.K. on December 4.
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comments
posted by marshall (Thu Oct 29 09, 3:46PM)
Baby steps in the right direction is better than baby steps backwards - but in the end it remains to be seen how the movie plays out as a whole before saying whether this is the case or not.
posted by Kenny (Thu Oct 29 09, 9:17PM)
Culturally identical apart from the lack of trousers you mean....
posted by MaSch (Fri Oct 30 09, 2:59AM)
Sorry, kenny, I don't quite get what you're ...
WAIT a second: You mean I'm being looked at as weird for not wearing trousers? That eplains about everything about my life so far ...
posted by Kenny (Fri Oct 30 09, 9:08PM)
Well I'm from Scotland.. so I'm kinda with the aliens on frowning on the trews as it were...
posted by Tonio Kruger (Fri Oct 30 09, 11:47PM)
And it's not like there were ever, say, an episode of The Twilight Zone devoted to that premise...
posted by MaryAnn (Tue Nov 17 09, 8:06AM)
Sure, *real* SF has deal with that notion before. Blockbuster movies aimed at people who don't read and don't watch black-and-white TV? Not so much.
The lack of trousers in the film is bizarre, especically considering that the women wear skirts. They also have feet shaped like high heels, which is really strange.
posted by CB (Tue Nov 17 09, 12:28PM)
Ah, I see these aliens go by the Disney Dress Code. Donald doesn't need pants, but Daisy has to wear a skirt.
That is just bizarre. Somehow it seems less bizarre than Angelina Jolie-monster having them in Beowulf, but it's still bizarre.