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danny_galaga:

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--- Quote from: shmokes on March 23, 2011, 12:57:55 pm ---The social commentary in District 9 was pretty ham-fisted.  Like . . . they didn't trust the audience to make the appropriate associations w/r/t/ apartheid so they just set the thing in Johannesburg? 

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It was set in Johannesburg because the writer/director was born, raised, and lived in Johannesburg.  He originally made a short film which was seen by Peter Jackson who was able to get the funding to turn it into a full movie.

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Lol . . . Well, that's a little bit better I'll admit.  I still seem to remember it being not very subtle in its parallels to apartied.  But I saw it in the theater, so It's not fresh enough in my memory to comment reliably.

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And not just that, the original short was a parody of the TV show, COPS. Which was pretty clever I thought...

dre-w:

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--- Quote from: Vigo on March 23, 2011, 04:09:55 pm ---Alien Nation and District 9 are both the same premise, but completely different takes on the idea. I like them both, but neither are fantastic films. Alien nation is almost like a lethal weapon style movie, but toss in some recently immigrated aliens and an alien cop as partner. Meh, its worth a watch...it's stars James Caan.


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Oh its a movie? I thought it was a TV show.

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It's both, it got turned into a TV show. I haven't seen much of the tv show, so I can't really comment on that.

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Oh dude you should totally comment on that, everybodys doin it..  they haven't seen the movie but will start comparing about how much better another movie is they saw..

I didn't want to have to really get into explaining about why I didn't like D9 since this topic was about BLA but since the two movies are about aliens coming to Earth.. why not.

- In BLA the aliens aren't ---Bad words, bad words, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when saint censors you?--- and actually use their weapons instead of trading them in for cat food..

- I couldn't really tell if D9 was trying to be a documentary or a movie switching back n forth between steady cam.

- In the D9 trailers I saw in theaters, they were interrogating some alien with subtitles asking how their weapons work and the aliens subtitles stated they didn't want any trouble but at the end it said something along the lines of he would be sorry if he didn't let them go.. wasn't in the movie and lead me to believe that there was going to be some sort of showdown.. funny how now I'm looking for it on youtube and they pulled that trailer.  And none of the tv spots I saw back then had the main --cream-filled twinkie-- character with the accent.  Not one of those trailers that are on youtube now did I see in theaters or on tv.

- In D9 I get the device was alien, but you're going to tell me that the same stuff used to fuel their ship is what turned that guy into an alien?  What the hell are they using for fuel some sort of alien dna piss?

- I may have missed the part in the movie where they explained why they allowed this mobb to run the center of the alien camp hoarding all the alien weapons.

- Eviction notices given to aliens.

- The ship that started to fly away at the end, would never happen..  Even though it's in South Africa, Team America would have had that place locked down as soon as some sort of rebellious activity started.


What really did it for me was how much hype was circulating this movie.  Everywhere I went there was D9 posters or signs telling me the bathroom was for humans only or my local comic book store was for humans only.. especially in LA.  I have to admit, their marketing campaign was genius.  Me and my friends were so looking forward to this movie.  The only thing though is that after we saw the movie, some of my friends didn't want to admit they got all caught up in the hype and instead gave this movie way more praise than it deserved..  They went and had to research why the "prawns" were a bunch of wimps and their addiction to catfood to answer some of my questions, and even then their answers still didn't make sense to me. Yeh I saw the short film Johannesburg and the guys other work and was really impressed.  The transformer dancing car commercial was pretty sick.  I just think BLA was more enjoyable than D9.  I mean who here doesn't enjoy Gears of War?  I wouldn't pay to go see BLA in theaters as it would make a great Netflix or rental, but if I had to choose between the two, I'd pick BLA.  But again that's just my opinion and everyone has different taste here.

AtomSmasher:
Sounds like you're opinion of movies has a lot to do with you're expectations going in and the hype surrounding it.  D9 was hyped to be great, but it was just okay, so you thought it sucked.  Critics say BLA sucks, but it was just okay, so you thought it was really good.

dre-w:

--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on March 27, 2011, 02:02:04 pm ---Sounds like you're opinion of movies has a lot to do with you're expectations going in and the hype surrounding it.  D9 was hyped to be great, but it was just okay, so you thought it sucked.  Critics say BLA sucks, but it was just okay, so you thought it was really good.

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Well I did post a number of other reasons I didn't like this movie but the hype did play a role in it as well for me.  Maybe if the trailers showed more than just 15 seconds of helicopters flying up to the ship and alien interrogation and I knew what I was getting into.. maybe I wouldn't hate it as much as I do.  I had no idea it was going to be part documentary part sci-fi love story with some annoying main character (FOOK!)

You can check back at my previous posts if you want I never really edit unless it's a goofy typo, but I don't remember saying anything about BLA being really good..  all I said was I enjoyed it more than D9 but that's about it.   :cheers:

SNAAKE:
I dont know what you people(lol) are smoking but d9 was GOOD.

personal opinion of course. much better than most sci-fi movies. I liked the story, music, acting, action sequences. "FOOK!" dude was all right too.

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