No, I think this is really serious...
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From: "C.W. Badie" <astromancer2...@yahoo.com>
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 11:12:17 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Looking forward to "District 9"
Aw...If you remember, the first Mummy trailers came off as serious. It was a
really pleasant surprise when it was released....I'll never forget the line,
"But is it supposed to be so...juicy?"
From: Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:32:15 PM
Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Looking forward to "District 9"
Oh definitely not! Check those trailers to see it's pretty darn serious...
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From: "C.W. Badie" <astromancer2002@ yahoo.com >
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:23:07 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Looking forward to "District 9"
Oh well...That kills my speculations about District 9 going to be a
tongue in cheek comedy...
--- On Tue, 8/11/09, Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net > wrote:
From: Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Looking forward to "District 9"
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 11:04 PM
I knew about it, but never made the connection until I heard it on Slice of
SciFi.
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From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker013@ lycos.com >
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 8:00:28 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Looking forward to "District 9"
Thanks for that, Keith. I really didn't know about the Halo movie.
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Subject : Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Looking forward to "District 9"
Date : Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:41:07 +0000 (UTC)
>From : Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net>
To : scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
I heard on the podcast "Slice of SciFi" a fan call in and say how District 9
reminded him of ID4 and the videogame "Halo". The hosts said, "yeah it looks a
lot like 'Halo', down to the aliens". They said that this is the case because,
if you remember, Peter Jackson was initially engaged to do a movie version of
"Halo". Ultimately that project fell through, but the rumour is he was so far
into planning for "Halo", he decided to do a different concept, and gave the
project over to another guy to direct as "District 9". Not sure if this is
true, but I do remember Jackson was working on a "Halo" movie. So i guess it's
not a big stretch to think that the production setups he might have had in
place for that were then moved to this flick.
I need to do some research for the truth of this...
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From: "Martin Baxter"
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2009 7:51:36 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [RE][scifinoir2] Looking forward to "District 9"
Keith, I'm hyped for it as well. I've been avoiding any websites that hawk it
in anyway, primarily because of my aversion to critics. All but one person I've
spoken to regarding it are keen to see it as well. (That one refers to it as an
" 'Alien Nation' ripoff".)
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Subject : [scifinoir2] Looking forward to "District 9"
Date : Sat, 8 Aug 2009 06:55:00 +0000 (UTC)
>From : Keith Johnson
To : scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
The "District 9" flick has me really intrigued. with its locale of South Africa
(so different from usual Hollywood story locatons), it's gritty look, and the
fact that it's a Peter Jackson joint, i have high hopes. Indeed, I'm actually
looking forward to it more than I have any other movie so far this year,
including Star Trek. Anyone heard any early buzz? I did find favorable reviews
via jumping from Rotten Tomatoes (something I loathe to do, but as local
newspapers fire more critics, I'm having to venture further afield to even find
real critics).
http://www.rottento matoes.com/ m/district_ 9/
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http://boxoffice. com/reviews/ 2009/07/district -9.php
District 9 is about the apartheid struggle in South Africa. For those under the
age of 35 or so, apartheid was the system of racial segregation legally
established by the government of South Africa between 1948 and 1994. No matter
what else it seems to be about, District 9 , a film made a young, white, South
African director, is about apartheid. Co-writer/director Neill Blomkamp spent
his formative years living under the system of apartheid and has
conscientiously insinuated the issue into his film. The attitudes, ideals and
actions of the characters, from everyday citizens to government officials and
those in business, reflect those that were common during the apartheid regime.
The filmmakers, including producer Peter Jackson, have stealthily laid the
artifacts of these dark days beneath the guise of an Alien invasion movie that
is intense, graphically novelistic (though it’s an original story) and just
funny enough to keep you thoroughly entertained, even while the s! ! ubtext is
of a very serious nature. Buzz and an also clever marketing scheme suggest this
should be worth a few bucks at the box office—especially if the audience is
mostly under 35.
The film is told using a number of cinematic modes including documentary
footage, mockumentary footage, newsreel accounts, surveillance cameras and the
standard story elements of narrative fiction. This is actually less chaotic
than it sounds and serves to move the narrative along at a brisk pace. There’s
little need here for filler. The filmmakers can justify any narrative
exposition by putting a camera on the action (any potential camera) and just
showing us, or having the characters explain the action to the cameramen. When
all else fails Blomkamp inserts a movie moment and presses on. Lovely. Mister
Blomkamp is a fine director who cut his teeth on commercials and music videos,
and at the knee of director and special effects guru Peter Jackson. Between the
two of them (Jackson’s company was employed for the effects) they’ve come up
with the best CGI effects film to date. The spacecrafts, the cityscapes, the
weapons effects and the aliens themselves (which we are! ! told are 100 percent
CGI) are all exceptional. But the best thing in the movie is lead actor Sharlto
Copley, a long time friend of the director and fairly novice actor. Copley is
pitch perfect, delicately straddling the line between ordinary Afrikaans racist
and empathic hero.
The narrative of District 9 revolves around a giant alien spacecraft that came
to rest above downtown Johannesburg, South Africa, some 20 years before the
story began. Inhabited by one million crawfish-like, cat food and raw meat
eating, humanoid aliens, little can be discerned about where the ship came from
or who the creatures are. They are simply here. They are strong but without
direction or purpose, mostly docile and apparently of little use to humanity.
So we warehouse them—in District 9. Then, we decide to forcibly move them to a
different, shoddier, interment camp.
While other nations are far from guiltless of such cruelties, the emphasis here
is on the South African history. Still, the structures the film employs are
incisive and direct and, if you’re over 35, they might piss you off.
Distributor: Sony Pictures
Cast: Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt, Sylvaine Strike, William
Allen Young and Robert Hobbs
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Screenwriters: Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
Producers: Peter Jackson
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: Rated R for bloody violence and pervasive language.
Running Time: 113 min.
Release date: August 14, 2009
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=JQdwk8Yntds
http://www.youtube.. com/watch? v=JQdwk8Yntds
