Does anyone else see the correlation between the plot of District 9 and apartheid (which was a cultural crisis based in, you guessed it, Neil Blomkamp's home country)? Maybe I'm just drawing strange conclusions, or maybe this is a publicized connection for the film. But I was wondering if I was the only one.
Nice Trailer, I don't understand how an advance alien race superior to ours can be forced to stay on Earth while we look at their advanced technological goodies? I guess I have to see the movie to find that answer out.
@Darksider1972: It has something to do with the fact that they need fuel or energy that we somehow got ahold of and won't give back. The aliens also seem like they don't want to use force (at least at first) so they just let us push them around.
So a technologically advanced species with superior intellect and machinery is supposedly locked down in ghettos, isolated from humans, for 28 years.
It is possible to make a movie highlighting the problems inherent to any one group oppressing another without it being totally ham-fisted. You can even use aliens as a metaphor without it being totally ham-fisted. Too bad this movie's message looks totally ham-fisted.
Completely willing to look past the initial setup, though; it looks to be awesome after you get past a few ridiculous premises.
@zeroprime: I bet there were a lot of people in 1979 that thought a movie about space marines and an alien would be really dumb just based upon the preview.
i like the special effects, something is odd about it. my first impression was that it was cheaply done, something about lighting. but it just looks like a nice new visual take.
@deliciousburglar: It is cheaply done. IIRC it had a 30 million dollar budget... total. That was probably the catering expense on Transformers 2.
Its a concept film. You get a lot of people that weigh everything the same but you can't put a movie like this and transformers against each other. They're not the same kind of movie. Its like all the people trying to compare Moon to the summer blockbusters, you can't do it.
Weta is going to do an awesome job like they always do, don't get me wrong. They're just not going to be able to throw money at it like a big blockbuster.
@IcemanD: There is no way this can be as successful as the Halo games. It literally just can't happen, not to mention the likelihood of this being any kind of blockbuster is pretty small.
This movie isn't going to have anything to do with the Halo project. Halo just got way to big, way to expensive, and way to many hands in the pot way to quick.
@nutbastard: I remember reading about that. It makes me a sad panda. Reeves isn't gritty enough to be Spike, he's too detached.
Spike doesn't talk much, but he's a goddamned MAN. Keanu will give us contorted facial expressions, and badly-delivered one-liners.
Hugh Jackman would make a better Spike, and he's really better suited to Jet.
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Really? Then explain Eyes Wide Shut.
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anybody will do anything they need to do to be in a Stanley Kubrick film.
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ROFL!
Seriously though, amazing use of the green screen.
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It is possible to make a movie highlighting the problems inherent to any one group oppressing another without it being totally ham-fisted. You can even use aliens as a metaphor without it being totally ham-fisted. Too bad this movie's message looks totally ham-fisted.
Completely willing to look past the initial setup, though; it looks to be awesome after you get past a few ridiculous premises.
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Just saying.
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Its a concept film. You get a lot of people that weigh everything the same but you can't put a movie like this and transformers against each other. They're not the same kind of movie. Its like all the people trying to compare Moon to the summer blockbusters, you can't do it.
Weta is going to do an awesome job like they always do, don't get me wrong. They're just not going to be able to throw money at it like a big blockbuster.
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WTF halo has a huge following and this dude is bad ass, so why not make it? he and peter look like they'd do a wicked movie.
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This movie isn't going to have anything to do with the Halo project. Halo just got way to big, way to expensive, and way to many hands in the pot way to quick.
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I cannot WAIT! That was incredible!
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i know. slim pickin's lately. and i STILL want firefly back : (
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did you know they're making a live action cowboy bebop movie... and keaneu reeeves is locked in as spike spiegel?
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Spike doesn't talk much, but he's a goddamned MAN. Keanu will give us contorted facial expressions, and badly-delivered one-liners.
Hugh Jackman would make a better Spike, and he's really better suited to Jet.