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A great teaser poster for DISTRICT 9 has illegally crossed the border and is gonna take your jobs!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Yahoo has premiered the teaser poster for Neill Blomkamp's DISTRICT 9, produced by Peter Jackson. I loved the footage they debuted at ShoWest (read my rundown here) and can't wait to see the full flick.
And I really damn well dig this poster, which reminds me of an exploitation poster more than a sci-fi poster... maybe it's just the target practice image that stuck in my brain from the TICK... TICK... TICK... poster.
Anyway, here's the DISTRICT 9 one-sheet:
Yep, that's nifty. If you're curious, here's the TICK TICK TICK poster I referred to:
See what I mean?
-Quint
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Can't wait to see it
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...you know we have Aliens in South Africa why don't you all come visit us???
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This film might have some.
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Is that really what it all comes down to?
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...glad it seems the movies coming out of South Africa is starting to move away from the Apartheid. Granted District 6 seems to deal with a similar message but it does it in a different way. We have a comedy opening this weekend called 'White Wedding' that actually pokes fun at our different cultural differences here. Good if we can start to laugh at ourselves a bit.
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4 minute Terminator trailer here http://tinyurl.com/62sehn (I hope that score isn't from the film) Also you should see the alternative trailer for District 9 with subtitles & no blurring for the Alien http://tinyurl.com/ofvqvy Adds a whole new layer to what the film is about knowing what the alien is saying
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is this number 9 in a series
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District 9.... There is a District 6 were people were forcibly removed from in Cape Town and relocated in the dark years. Hence my confusion.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_Six
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May 08, 2009 4:36:17 AM CDT
Am I the only one who thinks that the poster makes it look...
by derlanghaarige
...like a comedy?
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I see what they tried to do, but the funny alien caricature just looks too weird.
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Yet another one to add to the must-see list.
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Someone sat down and actually painted them. Miss those days.
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They have become oh so fashionable in the South West. La va la stupido!
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... to get to Earth but they let a bunch of Afrikaaner racists push them around? Listen aliens, time to break out the plasma rifles and barbecue some bigots!
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flicks gekyk? Agree with you dude, this looks like it may actually be a good SA film, but much more importantly for me, an actual good SA sci-fi film....wowza!
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shitty alien design though....
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What, he is Tarantino now?
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The negative reactions are interesting. I like this poster a lot, actually. It visually references still-heavily-armed South African society, while showing that humans are resisting a technologically superior visitor with (probably) inferior weapons.
On a side note, a lot of public gun ranges in the US ban human-shaped 'body silhouette' targets, or disallow head shots on them. I betcha someone's going to reproduce these as actual targets.
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damn immigants givin us leprosy too. Lou Dobbs is a god.
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No, he isn't Tarantino. He REALLY produced it and not just slapped his name on the poster after the movie was finished, to do a friend a favor.
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"WE DON'T LIKE YER KIND DOWN HERE!" more like I don't wanna be around your kind...hahaha! Why do people buy into such racist amateur jokes?
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but the trailer put my fears to rest. Looks good. Someone earlier mentioned Alien Nation, and the analogy looks valid.
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One of the brightest, on the horizon.
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Doesn't roll off the tongue, does it?
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I can not fathom why they released a trailer where you can't understand what the alien is saying. Everyone in my theater was scratching their heads, thinking there had been a mistake. "What the fuck is he saying??" Big mistake, ad guys. I'm glad they released the trailer *with* subtitles on the net. Its much more powerful.
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Is the big reveal that they're talking about aliens and not human refugees. I'm not one to usually go postal about spoilers but this makes the movie look almost jokey. It's certainly not on the same level as "Let's show the final scene of Quarantine over and over again" but I do think it lessens the impact of the trailer a bit. I'd rather see it without the target and without the ship in the background. Keep some of the mystery.
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This movie looks like it could have a fairly compelling premise. I'll stay tuned for updates...chance at greatness....perhaps. BTW with the blur it just looked like the aliens vagina might be located on its face and thats why they blurred it out...the new trailer cleared things up...
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Looks great, although wikipedia's desc. of these seemingly advanced aliens being forced to work sounds rather silly. Hopefully it's something like giving away tech secrets and not digging ditches and picking strawberries. It'd be awesome if they mashed this up with Poul Anderson's The Martyr: pacifist aliens are repeatedly tortured by humans, what are you hiding? etc., one of the creatures dies and inadvertently reveals the secret--human captor asks if you are so interested in our happiness why have you hidden this from us; what could be more wonderful than that we have immortal souls? Alien responds...you don't.
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Looks like its a good year for short films with the word 9 in it. Though I think 9 is going to be a lot better. I felt that BLOMKAMP hit everything he needed to with his short. As for 9 there is a lot more story to tell there. Not what the fuck is the deal with putting the directors name on the title for unknown directors? I guess when you don't have any name actors hopefully the movie will be a hit and the director will become a name? They did this with Matt Reeves Cloverfield. I call it the M. Knight effect, they put his name on the titles of the movie (though he claims that it was all marketing's idea) and now he is a name.
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I'm curious to see why things ended up this way in regards to the international front. Its cool to see the aliens land somewhere other than America, probably a climate thing, but who stationend them in District 9? Was that the choice of the local government or the United Nations? This looks like some real satire/sci-fi so I'm looking forward to it. I just hope they thought it through completely.
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Don't fall for this joke documentary!!! Send those alien scum back to where they belong!!! They will make our species impure!!! HANG THEM!!!!
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The poster isn't really a spoiler. Nobody is going to walk into this movie not knowing that it's about Aliens. It's the selling point.
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I loved the short film Neil did. He'd be great for a Halo movie, but to bad that's a shit idea to begin with, due to Master Chief not even being a character.
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Well, I know it's the selling point but I guess I'd like them to get to that point a few months down the line, after everyone's had a chance to be surprised by the trailer. I know a lot of people who saw it in front of Wolverine who thought they were about to see a "Blood Diamond" documentary and were completely blown away when they cut to the ship. The poster just strikes me as hit-them-over-the-head-with-it kind of marketing. I've always liked marketing campaigns that have a bit of buildup, where the audience has a few months to wonder what things are about. Then again, Wolverine is making money hand over fist so I may be overestimating the intelligence of the average movie-goer...
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Grew up in Colusa, and while we may not be that racist, I've heard more than a few "they took our joooooooobs!!" rants.
Fuck 'New York, I Love You', the next 'Paris Je T'aime' sequel should be 'Colusa, I Love You.' -
May 08, 2009 6:26:15 PM CDT
PETER JACKSON PRESENTS....hahahahaha. He is Quentin..
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....now. He has officially sold his fucking soul. He is no longer an artist, merely a businessman. This looks interesting, but I refuse to give it a cent of my hard earned cash. Download it is.
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May 08, 2009 6:59:29 PM CDT
I went into this movie expecting just a sci-fi alien romp,
by creasybear
but a funny thing happened: as the movie progressed, I started to realize certain parallels between the humans vs aliens drama unfolding on screen, and real-life problems between illegal aliens and the United States. The aliens of the movie taught me that Americans who don't welcome illegal aliens from Mexico are bad people! We should feel sorry for those less fortunate than ourselves, and give them whatever they need. So what if they're from another planet? Or if they speak Spanish? Thank you, movie, for tricking me into watching a laser-beam movie and actually instructing me how to think. We need more movies like this!!!! I hear that movie Crash teaches us that racism is totally not cool.
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you refuse to spend money on this movie? Is it becos of Jackson? Cmon man help the struggling South African film industry out dude! Bale would be proud....just sayin...
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this was one film short that shoulda stayed short... Oh, well. Trust in Peter Jackson, trust in Peter Jackson. Or as Peter says it, "one more for luck".
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You're wrong about Crash. The only thing it taught me is that having sex on wrecked cars is REALLY hot. Oh, and James Spader is a freak. But I already kinda knew that.
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Love the look, feel, and premise for the film (and loved the whole short like a whole goddamn lot) but I kinda think it'll lose some of its punch if you add characters and a story arc... still, I hope Blomkamp pulls it off. I'd still love to see him take on HALO. If this one works, it could be one of the really original sci-fi flicks of this decade.
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Stick to "reviewing" quint..you know shit about design.
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I really enjoy Tick...Tick...Tick. That is all.
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You're a complete fucking idiot. He said the target practice image of the D9 posted reminded him of the TTT poster. Guess what, they both feature images of living beings which have been used for target practice. Nobody said the two posters are identical or anything along those lines. Pull your head out of your sodomy-widened asshole and stick to correcting what's actually wrong. Dumbass.
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This movie looks awesome.
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He's had a lot of hands on with this, QT presents are mostly distribution deals.
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