District 9

Intriguing film - look forward to see how the sequel pans out. Role reversal with humans getting put in the camps?

Funny and strange.
 
Just watched it on a Blu-Ray, thought it was a fantastic film :)
Great that they left it wide open for a sequel!!
 
Evangelion said:
District 9 is the thinking man's Avatar. It's the movie James Cameron could have made if he'd been more focused on substance than style.
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I doubt that. Neither of them seem particularly subtle. District 9 looks about as ''intellectual' as The Dark Knight.

Either that or they're just not comparable. Both films come across as equally ridiculous anyway, using the age old tactic of attaching human characteristics to (humanoid) alien creatures.

Make a film about silicon based lifeforms that communicate to each other via sonar and are invisible to the human eye. Then I'll be interested.
 
Evangelion said:
I think it's cute that Avatar fanboys are so insecure.

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I'm not insecure, I liked District 9 and agree that if I had to pick a better movie in terms of ideas and plot, D9 would win. However, your constant banging on about Avatar being "simple" and nothing of any real interest comes off as incredibly arrogant. If anything it paints YOU as insecure, trying to defend your own intellect. You don't seem capable of accepting that some people liked avatar because it's a good movie.
 
I really liked it in the cinema, probably my film of the year. Then watching it again the other day I didn't find it half as good, just one of those films that doesn't lend itself to multiple viewings I guess.
 
For me this is how it goes..

Best film in cinema..

2006 - The Prestige
2007 - Bourne Ultimatum
2008 - Cloverfield
2009 - District 9
2010 - Avatar (so far)
 
Just watched this, to begin with I was ruing purchasing it because it was just so out there but by the end I thought it was a really good film. So innovative, along with Avatar film goers were really spoilt last year

Not sure how many more times I'd have the need or want to watch it again but it was still a really good film nonetheless

Glad to read that they'll be a sequel, presumably set 3 years later..... :p
 
I really enjoyed it. But then it had power armour in it, I like any flim with power armour in. Hence not watching the third Starship Troopers movie as that is meant to have power armour in it but I cannot bring myself to say I like it.
 
I loved it. The premise was refreshing and with a high level of immersion and believability that alien films rarely give it was intriguing all the way through.

I do get the feeling the concept artists played a lot of Half Life. Did anyone else think the alien technology looked particularly Half Life esque along with the alien symbols and then when he used the grav gun to fire a pig.. I thought.. thats it.. this is HL2 inspired.
 
drunkenmaster said:
It actually had a pretty huge budget, yes it was only $30mil, if it was made in the states with an A-list cast it would have cost $100. But thats because it would have spent $60mil on the cast, and $20mil on locations and crew's and all the other crap. The $30mil, was almost purely for making the film, giving it a very competitive budget in terms of effects and money to put into sets, locations and all that important malarky.

If it was $30mil done in the states with a few well known actors, then $25mil would have been on them, and the rest would have been a pitiful budget. Considering they removed all the main budget problems, location, crew, wages of major actors, then that $30mil goes a heck of a long way. Basically, the money spent actually making the film would have been the same as any other major film, just the actors fee's would have been vastly different with an A-list cast.

Take any current huge film(bar Avatar) and swap out the actors for unknowns and you'd slash 2/3rds off the cost of the film.

It was similar to Transformers in that it was style of substance, action which jumped around all over the place, while not much happened, the final fight sequence was awful, dragged out and was just flat out stupid.

The main plot points weren't strong, the script wasn't actually all that good, take out all the prawns and the lead stumbling through lines, and not much happens.
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This post is just one big LOL. So you're a film financier?
 
I don't think District 9 was the film of the year, but as sci fi films go it was bloody entertaining. It almost had a Paul Verhoeven feel (Starship Troopers, Robocop, Total Recall). :)
 
gord said:
I loved it. The premise was refreshing and with a high level of immersion and believability that alien films rarely give it was intriguing all the way through.

I do get the feeling the concept artists played a lot of Half Life. Did anyone else think the alien technology looked particularly Half Life esque along with the alien symbols and then when he used the grav gun to fire a pig.. I thought.. thats it.. this is HL2 inspired.
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Yeah, it was reminiscent of half life.
 
gord said:
I do get the feeling the concept artists played a lot of Half Life. Did anyone else think the alien technology looked particularly Half Life esque along with the alien symbols and then when he used the grav gun to fire a pig.. I thought.. thats it.. this is HL2 inspired.
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This is exactly what I was thinking all the way through and was quite refreshing to see.
 
Evangelion said:
I find it interesting that everyone focuses on the apartheid message and completely misses the additional subtext, which is quite obviously about illegal immigrants and asylum seekers.
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Which is very relavent in south africa now. There is mass immigration from zimbabwe, keyna and other unstable southern african states. There is a huge amount of jobs lost to black south africa workers where employees are hiring illegals way below minimum wages. Which has lead to violent riots against the illegals - even necklacing of illegals (putting a burning tyre over the neck of a live victim)

The movie is about the past and present south africa, and highlights old and new discriminations. Not just white against black
 
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