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    Image of iCurmudgeon iCurmudgeon
    09/04/09

    In reply to Quantum Physicist Approves the Time Traveler's Wife
    Spindizzies! Year 2018 ain't that far off, and then we can send Scranton and New York into deep space (good riddance).
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    Image of iCurmudgeon iCurmudgeon
    09/04/09

    In reply to Quantum Physicist Approves the Time Traveler's Wife
    And they make possible the spindizzy drive. Year 2018 ain't that far off (anyone read James Blish's Cities in Flight novels?
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    Image of spikespeigel spikespeigel
    08/16/09

    In reply to District 9 Wins The Weekend, Cost-Effective Award
    I want to see this movie, but the "bloody violence" part has me a bit squeamish. Can anyone tell me if it's typical sci-fi violence, or is it all-out gore?
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment spikespeigel was starred spikespeigel was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    08/16/09

    MINOR PORK-RELATED SPOILER:

    @spikespeigel: Wilkus goes through some very messy medical complaints (sometimes played for gross-out laffs) and the alien's energy weapons have very...visceral results. No slo-mo fireballs or long lingering shots with buckets of fake blood. There is a CGI air-pig attack.

    Blomkamp's violence is very quick and sort of realistic (for a film about aliens), gorier than your average SF action thriller but not nearly as repulsive as the violence in Snyder's Watchmen. Does that help?
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    08/16/09

    In reply to District 9 Wins The Weekend, Cost-Effective Award
    I liked how the aliens were not super advanced. It seemed like they were criminals and impovorished. It was like the alien society put all their lower class citzens on a barge and dumped it on Earth. Then they became our problem.
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    Image of CodenameV CodenameV
    08/16/09

    @reddingofish: actually they make it a point that they're not sure what happened, but the running theory within the movie is that the aliens are divided into different castes, i.e. a "leadership/technician" caste and the "worker" caste. The running theory is that a plague wiped out the leadership caste on the ship, leaving the workers too disoriented to figure out what to do with themselves, and after months locked in their ship they were diseased and malnourished.

    The movie sort of implies that "Christopher Johnson" was actually one of the few (possibly only) "Leadership caste" prawns that somehow managed to survive (i.e. he actually knows how their computer systems work, and he articulately interacts with the MNU agents coming to evict him...other prawns say "What is eviction?", he looks at it and says "This thing can't possibly be legal", to which Wikus notes that "okay, he's a sharper one than usual...")
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    tetracycloide promoted this comment CodenameV was starred CodenameV was unstarred
    Image of CodenameV CodenameV
    08/16/09

    In reply to District 9 Wins The Weekend, Cost-Effective Award
    I just got back from seeing District 9 an hour ago: in all seriousness its one of the best science fiction films of the past decade

    Further, on a purely technical note, the alien special effects are so advanced that they *actually look real* (it helps that they bothered to make each of the aliens look slightly different)
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    tetracycloide promoted this comment CodenameV was starred CodenameV was unstarred
    Image of TheDarkWayne TheDarkWayne
    08/16/09

    @CodenameV: I enjoyed the nice little details like how one alien had a spinning beanie hat, another had a bra and a third had kanye west glasses
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    tetracycloide promoted this comment TheDarkWayne was starred TheDarkWayne was unstarred
    Image of Shane Hyde Shane Hyde
    08/16/09

    @TheDarkWayne: I LOVED that one had spark-plugs screwed into his carapace. :)
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    tetracycloide promoted this comment Shane Hyde was starred Shane Hyde was unstarred
    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    08/16/09

    In reply to District 9 Wins The Weekend, Cost-Effective Award
    I liked it - it had plenty of problems, but overall was quite enjoyable. Besides, for $30 million, it was better and more original (faint praise, I know) than most Hollywood productions with ten times the budget.
    .
    I'm in the "no sequel" camp, for the record.
    -Kle.
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    08/17/09

    @Klebert L. Hall: It was wide open for a sequel. They practically had an announcement at the end of the move saying District 10 coming in 2012.
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    Image of HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
    08/16/09

    In reply to District 9 Wins The Weekend, Cost-Effective Award
    It couldn't happen to a better movie.
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    HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. was starred HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of disatess disatess
    08/16/09

    In reply to District 9 Wins The Weekend, Cost-Effective Award
    yay !!!
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    Image of gods-n-clods gods-n-clods
    08/16/09

    In reply to District 9 Wins The Weekend, Cost-Effective Award
    It's a success!
    I can't wait to see District 10: Revenge of the Prawns, and there will be tons of unsold D9 action figures left over at the local BigLots overstock store...
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    Image of TheDarkWayne TheDarkWayne
    08/16/09

    @gods-n-clods: WHAT? Are there actually d9 action figures?!?!
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    HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment TheDarkWayne was starred TheDarkWayne was unstarred
    Image of HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
    08/16/09

    @TheDarkWayne: If there are, I want one of Christopher.
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    HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. was starred HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of gunluva is prepared to drop. gunluva is prepared to drop.
    08/17/09

    @HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.:

    I want the METAL GEEEEEUUURRR?!?
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    gunluva is prepared to drop. was starred gunluva is prepared to drop. was unstarred
    Image of blackoak blackoak
    08/16/09

    In reply to District 9 Wins The Weekend, Cost-Effective Award
    We might want to take into account, when talking about the film making its money back, that the producers/distributors have spent an additional amount of money on advertising. It isn't unheard of for a production to invest (or gamble) an additional fifty percent (or more) above what they spent making the movie promoting it.
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    Image of blackoak blackoak
    08/16/09

    @blackoak: I'm not sure what I typed above makes sense - I hope the film makes at least forty-five million dollars (or more) over the first few days of its run to cover costs.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment blackoak was starred blackoak was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/16/09

    @blackoak: I understood it, and you're right -- the rule of thumb is that a movie must gross 1.5 to 2 times its' film budget to break even.

    Judging by the amount of TV ads I saw for this, that'll be true here. Even with the cost of TV ads going down, and cable ads costing less anyway, they invested heavily in promotion.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of Daumier Daumier
    08/16/09

    In reply to District 9 Wins The Weekend, Cost-Effective Award
    This is a brilliant movie as a stand alone as other people have said, but I can't help but want more. Not necessarily more of this story; I mean more of this world. They don't even have to explain anymore than they have, I just love the human/alien interactions as portrayed in this film. It's so strange and otherworldly while also being uncomfortably familiar. That's the kind of sci-fi I like.
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    tetracycloide promoted this comment Daumier was starred Daumier was unstarred
    Image of Torley Torley
    08/16/09

    In reply to District 9 Wins The Weekend, Cost-Effective Award
    What’s brilliantly special about Neill Blomkamp is that having had so much firsthand experience with 3D animation and computer-generated effects, he understands how to use them with deft balance and treat them as everything else does in the film (I’m paraphrasing what he’s said in several interviews).

    Intriguingly, his staunch supporter Peter Jackson has a parallel with his early days featuring lots of physical and puppet effects — there’s definitely resonant kinship there.

    As a result in Blomkamp’s work, we get the "WOW" factor which gets the desired and focused attention, as opposed to the wrong kind of reaction which goes "Oh geez, another CGI monster?" The effects support the story, instead of distracting from it.

    And, all that ties into resourcefulness — I'm interested to hear what wise budget moves Blomkamp took during making this.
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    Image of Brine Brine
    08/16/09

    In reply to District 9 Wins The Weekend, Cost-Effective Award
    What's up with the interview footage of the alien (as shown in the above still) not being in the movie?
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    FrankenPC promoted this comment Brine was starred Brine was unstarred
    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    08/16/09

    @Brine: Extended edition? It was already over 2 hours.
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    Image of TheDarkWayne TheDarkWayne
    08/16/09

    @FrankenPC: no it was only 112 minutes
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    FrankenPC promoted this comment TheDarkWayne was starred TheDarkWayne was unstarred
    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    08/17/09

    @TheDarkWayne: Ah! I thought it was 127. It SHOULD have been three hours. It needed to slow down towards the last half of the movie.
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    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    08/16/09

    In reply to District 9 Wins The Weekend, Cost-Effective Award
    I'm sure Peter Jackson put a discount on those CG effects so it probably would have cost more.
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    WestMantooth was starred WestMantooth was unstarred
    Image of RavenNemain RavenNemain
    08/16/09

    @WestMantooth: Actually, most of the digital effects aren't WETA, they are from a Vancouver studio (everyone here is very proud of the hometown success) who he first partnered with for Alive in Joburg. So no discount.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment RavenNemain was starred RavenNemain was unstarred
    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    08/16/09

    In reply to District 9 Wins The Weekend, Cost-Effective Award
    Knowing this is half the victory as it makes me feel a touch better about humanity in general.

    GI OhNO! was taunting folks (critics) in commercials this week touting it's the numba WON movie this week. A 68% drop from last week tells me that word of Suck is killing it and/or there are only so many who would actually pay money to see it. Looks like the force of Suck is a stronger force than GI Joe or Cobra.

    I'm going to see D9 next week.
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    Edited by ManchuCandidate at 08/16/09 8:50 AM ManchuCandidate was starred ManchuCandidate was unstarred
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