District 9
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I really liked the way the film was made, and the background to the films production and creation really is some interesting stuff...
According to the director the film was meant as a pretty direct satire of the way black people were treated under apartheid. In fact the name of the film is even based on an actual black people's squatters camp called District 6 in Jo'burg (I can't find the reference but I remember reading Blomkamp saying that and a SA friend of mine confirming it) from which all the 'squatters' were evicted en massse during apartheid.
*Edit* Ooops - cape town
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From IMDB.
All the shacks in District 9 were actual shacks that exists in a section of Johannesburg which were to be evacuated and the residents moved to better government housing, paralleling the events in the film. Also paralleling, the residents had not actually been moved out before filming began. The only shack that was created solely for filming was Christopher Johnson's shack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_Six,_Cape_Town
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All the shacks in District 9 were actual shacks that exists in a section of Johannesburg which were to be evacuated and the residents moved to better government housing, paralleling the events in the film. Also paralleling, the residents had not actually been moved out before filming began. The only shack that was created solely for filming was Christopher Johnson's shack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_Six,_Cape_Town
See! Interesting!
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Well put!
Yeh the film is extremely deep and wholey relevant to whats going on today as well as during apartheid!
Today in SA, alot of violent crime is committed by desperate people from neighbouring countries. Like the recent killing of a Welsh ex-pat was committed by Mozambicans!!
It angers me that South Africa is seen as being a violent place to visit which costs the country. We lose out on vital revenue for development because of these people. Nigerians are especially to blame as they run all the major cartels in Jo'burg & Durban.
Therefore people dont think twice about being derogative towards these Africans!
South Africans want to move forward but the country's image is being tarnished by these violent foreign criminals!!
I acknowledge the symbolism and like how it is a different type of alien movie.
But overall I can't help the feeling that more could've been made of this. The second half was all gore and rather average (imo) action. While there's nothing wrong with that per se, had the movie been a little more quiet a little longer it had made a more lasting impression on me.
Still a good movie, 4/5.
But overall I can't help the feeling that more could've been made of this. The second half was all gore and rather average (imo) action. While there's nothing wrong with that per se, had the movie been a little more quiet a little longer it had made a more lasting impression on me.
Still a good movie, 4/5.
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Didn't go to watch Transformers 2 and I didn't even know what G.I. Joe was up until a few weeks ago.
I didn't want to watch the main guy constantly blabber something and sweat at the same time. It was all talk and no action, or so I thought first.
there's no such thing as a good movie that is all action and no talk.
unless you have a brick for a brain. then I suppose all action and no talk would be just fine.
sure district 9 had a bit too much talking, but would you really care about the 2 main chars at the end if they hadn't had all that character development?
I personally think there was PLENTY of action from start to finish!
The end piece would have had to be ridiculously epic & thus destroying all credibility, if there was 'more action'
The end piece would have had to be ridiculously epic & thus destroying all credibility, if there was 'more action'
Sure, but it shouldn't be like that the first half is a CNN documentary and the other half is non-stop gibbing.
I wouldn't say there was no action at all in the first half. It just wasn't as much as the second half.
The CNN documentation part was the innovative (if you want to call it that) one wasn't it? I mean a nerdy guy blasting his way through aliens, evil mercs and blacks isn't exactly new It's like Half-Life plus Nigerian warlords
Anyways, to each his own. This way, at least everyone had his half glass of water and it seems everyone thought the glass was half full and not half empty.
It's like Half-Life plus Nigerian warlords Anyways, to each his own. This way, at least everyone had his half glass of water and it seems everyone thought the glass was half full and not half empty.
It was based in South Africa, a refreshing change from the USA TBH, so being set in SA the underlying racism would always be a part of anything that comes out of there given its past.