District 9...
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Join Date: 2008-09-26 Member: 65075Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Hrm...</div>District 9, was a pretty odd movie. It was originalish. The aliens and the hole idea of their ship was original. The crises that plagued the movie's "World" were all taken from the real world's problems. The weaponry in the movie was neat but the ideas behind them have been forever as old as firearms themselves. With that being said the movie was actually pretty good. The fact that they kept it cryptic in the previews was nice because it didn't clue you in to the whole story in the movie. The only thing I didn't like about the movie was the fact that the plot/story was very predictable after about 30 minutes into the movie. However you may have known what was gonna happen but you didn't know the special effects or how things were going to completely unfold. So overall the movie was actually very nice, I enjoyed it.
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it was the first movie in a long time where i couldnt guess what was going to happen next
i hope the powersuit is copied into ns2 :P
Wow, I hadn't thought about it, but you're right.
you see those disturbing scenes of that slum full of waste harvesting, garbage and catfood eating , very alien creatures first, but then you realize how ###### up humanity is compared to them to make them live like that and the apartheid going on against them.
and suddenly you get those mental images of slum peoples in ..like.. south america or take any other 3rd world country digging in garbage of the rich just to find food to survive...
and of course alot gory splatter scenes.... i want one of those microwave rifles to blow up gorges with.. and that powered exoskeleton was just pure awesome
you have to watch the original short movie Alive in Joburg, peter jacksons adaption was based on, you can watch it on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNReejO7Zu8&hl)
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it is done in the same documentary style as district 9 was done aswell, giving it this authentic touch
It's not.
But yes - best movie I've seen in theatres in a LONG TIME.
Best part in the film = the way the mech suit blocks bullets. Also the pig.
I'd go with something more along the lines of Children of Men for an HL2 the movie.
District 9 was rather rad. I might have cut out most of the scenes of Wikus running around the slums trying to seek refuge, that dragged out a bit.
Nice to know this movie broke even in less than a week.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIfMRbb5KBQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIfMRbb5KBQ</a>
Where are you from?
English is one of several official languages of the country.
And of course, the action scenes were great. I cringed every time someone got blown to bits, and I was wondering just they in the HELL anyone in their right mind would fight with one of those mech suits.
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Yeah, but the black guy with the subtitles was from South Africa too, and his english was comprehensible.
It's one of the things that annoyed me about the film, and sci-fi in general.
The aliens are clearly more advanced than humans. Their tech is obviously more advanced, and they're physically superior too. And yet the humans go out of their way to piss the aliens off. It's like tying a tiger to a post with a piece of string and then slapping it in the face for fun.
<span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'> A single mech managed to take out all of an (apparently) well trained mercenary squad, and that had an untrained, half crazed human in control of it. A squad of highly trained alien soldiers would decimate an army.</span>
I guess it's a common theme in sci fi (humans being arrogant) but man. It bugs me. It's like no one in a sci fi film has ever seen a sci fi film.
Look at humans, we have fairly advanced technology but if you took a space ship full of third-world labors and dropped them off on an alien planet how do you think they would represent the human race? </span>
<span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>I got the impression Christopher was the captain of the ship, given he knew so much about the tech and knew about (fell with?) the command module.</span>
Christopher may have been a ship engineer or something, not necessarily bridge crew/officer. </span>
Christopher said he was going back to get help. What kind of help? He's not bringing back diplomats or negotiators, he's bringing back an army to free his people.
"What happens when the rest of the aliens find out what we're doing" should be the number one thought in the minds of whoever is controlling anything to do with them, but it's quite clearly not.</span>
Any reasonable intelligence would hopefully take these mitigating factors into account before simply wiping the floor with us.</span>
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Any reasonable intelligence would hopefully take these mitigating factors into account before simply wiping the floor with us.</span>
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someone hasnt heard of district 6 yet, that situation showed in the movie district 9 happend for real in south africa, cape town between 1867 and 1990 in the apartheid era, the white goverment removed thousands of black africans from the town districts and put them into a camp called district 6. they werent accepted anymore in white areas by law, which makes this as good as a camp guarded by armed forces, and those camps werent built for the protection of the freed slaves, it was just a convinient way to move them out of sight.
In accordance with apartheid philosophy, the goverment stated that interracial interaction bred conflict, necessitating the separation of the races. they deemed district six a slum, fit only for clearance, not rehabilitation. they also portrayed the area as crime-ridden and dangerous; they claimed that the district was a vice den, full of immoral activities like gambling, drinking, and prostitution.
and on 11 february 1966, the government declared district six a whites-only area under the group areas act, with removals starting in 1968. By 1982, more than 60,000 people had been relocated to the sandy, bleak Cape Flats township complex some 25 kilometers away almost on the outskirts of the desert. the old houses were bulldozed.
The plot was predictable as all hell, but had some nice "ah ha" moments.
There was actual character development (man I hated the protagonist at the beginning) and certain parts about being in the slums were a bit heavy handed. Also, I think I was extra tired or something but I got motion sick around 3/4 of the way into the movie. However, the special effects were top notch and integrated believably and artistically. I could actually believe that this story could happen.
It's an actual sci-fi movie that makes you think. Not some action movie with lasers. Kudos to them doing it so well.
In accordance with apartheid philosophy, the goverment stated that interracial interaction bred conflict, necessitating the separation of the races. they deemed district six a slum, fit only for clearance, not rehabilitation. they also portrayed the area as crime-ridden and dangerous; they claimed that the district was a vice den, full of immoral activities like gambling, drinking, and prostitution.
and on 11 february 1966, the government declared district six a whites-only area under the group areas act, with removals starting in 1968. By 1982, more than 60,000 people had been relocated to the sandy, bleak Cape Flats township complex some 25 kilometers away almost on the outskirts of the desert. the old houses were bulldozed.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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