District 9 - Peter Jackson goes Sci-fi!

Simon_Says · Last edited by Simon_Says on Thu May 21, 2009 1:08 pm; edited 1 time in total

Thank God they're not making a Halo move, but this instead.
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Frost · Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 9:40 am Post subject: Re: District 9

Simon_Says · Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 12:15 am Post subject:

Hrmph. Only two people here actually care about another Peter bloody Jackson film.

Maybe I'm not so good with making catchy thread titles...
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Frost · Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 12:57 pm Post subject:

Simon_Says · Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 1:09 pm Post subject:

There we go.
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Alternate Spideygal · Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 12:44 am Post subject:

That trailer looks awesome! I can't wait for the movie to come out.
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Aramor · Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 5:27 am Post subject:

Independence Day meets the Siege?
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Syn · Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 6:20 am Post subject:

As a New Zealander I will say "Go Peter Jackson" he is the only successful kiwi since.... yeah...

"how do your weapons work?"
"Well... you gotta remove the fringe modulator and back couple it to the flux capacitor, you getting all this...? Well then once you have done that, press alt ctrl delete and kiss your pink asses good bye!"
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Frost · Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 4:51 pm Post subject:

To the weapons question, I think the alien responded: "Um... Magic?"

I just sort of realized that I have only replied to statements made by other people in this thread and have not yet given my opinion on District 9.

I was very excited by this trailer. I have to say, I think Blomkamp's realistic style is refreshing. Until the "they aren't human" line, I really could have thought this was some sort of documentary.*

*But I didn't because I recognized Neill's name and am familiar with his style, but if I weren't (because lets face it, he's not that well known) I can see someone thinking it was a documentary.
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Lunabella · Gender: Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 420

I'm curious about this movie. The trailer surely got my attention, and as a director, I kind of like ol' Pete.
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Azrael · Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:00 pm Post subject:

Peter Jackson is not directing this movie, it's Neil Blomkamp.

I saw the trailer for this film a long time ago, and I thought it looked interesting, it looked like a satire on foreign policies and containment of illegal aliens with actual extraterrestrials as the setpiece, and that's why I wanted to see it. The idea seemed clever as the bugs are used as a metaphor for aliens, and the general alienation from everyone else torwards them brings up real-life implications of fear and distrust for foreigners. Then more trailers came up, really actiony-and explody trailers came up, that dashed away all wthat I was speculating....

Now it appears as an action flick about aliens stuck on earth, not a bad idea, but I was hoping for a different execution rather than that. Gears of War was introduced similarly, an extensive viral merketing campaign explaining the collapse of a civilization that is relying too much on a new fuel-source that ultimately brings about destruction and a great civil war. Then it skipped alll that to bring big alien monsters killing people and forgot it's own premise entirely by the time it released. I'm not saying that is bad, just different from what they originally previewed.

I still want to see this movie, it still looks good, and I'm hoping the new trailers are just bullshitting us and the film really is an analysis and not just an action-packed popcorn flick. Hell, I still loved Gears of War after their marketing stint, so maybe District 9 will be great anyways.
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Simon_Says · Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:53 pm Post subject:

Yeah... I haven't seen the new trailers yet, but from Azreals tale of Bay-esque trilers... I seriously hope they;re jsut pulling another stupid In Bruge-type advertising fuck up.
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Werewolf 13 · Gender: Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 158 Location: NZ

i really want to see it too

Simon_Says · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:43 pm Post subject:

NUUUU!
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Bloo · Gender: Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 3131 Location: vertigo

It was never an actual movie, it was just a movie-game... I was expecting something more interesting than those interactive cut scene things that were in Spider-Man 3. I don't know if it's still in production.

Frost · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:45 am Post subject:

Actually that's not true, Peter Jackson's Halo: Chronicles and the movie were not the same thing. They were both shut down though, but the "game" made it longer than the film.

Chronicles was being made by Wingnut (Peter's game studio) but the Weta Studio/Blomkamp project was, indeed, a movie.
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Bloo · Gender: Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 3131 Location: vertigo

Oh, I assumed you guys were talking only about Halo: Chronicles.

Anyway, yeah, I just heard it's been confirmed that Spielberg read the script and 'loved it'.

It's war, which means it might be good (I'm mostly thinking about Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan)... but then again, it's sci-fi, which undoubtedly means it's going to be overloaded with CGI and mindless action (Transformers...).

See, Transformers worked because it was made for kids, it was basically a cartoon brought to life (like G.I. Joe, but I haven't seen that yet). Halo, on the other hand, isn't for kids. I can't see parents bringing their seven-year-olds to the theatre to see a hundred Spartans (and countless other humans) die during the fall of Reach (I also heard the first movie is being based on that, but I'm not sure).

This can go a lot of different ways, most of which might probably lead to fail.

Frost · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:46 pm Post subject:

The script Jackson and Blomkamp were doing wasn't about the plot of the first book (Fall of Reach), but the new script that Spielberg likes is based on the Fall of Reach.
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Bloo · Gender: Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 3131 Location: vertigo

Are they going to base the next few movies off the other books, too? Assuming there are going to be more movies...

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Bloo · Gender: Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 3131 Location: vertigo

^That was a long time ago, shown in my own Halo movie thread.

Lunabella · Gender: Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 420

Halo should never be a movie, and neither should a shitload of other games/classic tv series.
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Bloo · Gender: Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 3131 Location: vertigo

You know what would suck is if Uwe Boll directed a Half-Life movie.

Lunabella · Gender: Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 420

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