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Capone Sits Down With DISTRICT 9 Director/Co-Writer Neill Blomkamp!!
SPOILER ALERT !!
Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here, with some very serious advice about whether or not you should read the following interview.
First off, there are spoilers. It's almost impossible for there not to be, since those of who who haven't seen the Peter Jackson-produced DISTRICT 9, have no idea what it's really about, and that's exactly how it should stay. After the screening of the film we did in Chicago last week, the number-one comment people made to me (aside from telling me how much it kicked ass) was that the film was not at all what they'd expected based on the trailers. That is a deliberate thing by everyone involved in the making of this film about aliens living in the slums of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Director Neill Blomkamp's history is that of a maker of some great short films, most of which are science fiction in nature, including "Alive in Joberg," which served as the jumping off point for DISTRICT 9. He even made a short film based on the video game HALO, which Jackson had hired Blomkamp to direct a feature version of a couple years back before Fox unceremoniously pulled the plug on it.
I spoke to Blomkamp (as well as DISTRICT 9 star Sharlto Copley, which you find HERE) the day after the now-legendary world premiere screening of DISTRICT 9 at Comic-Con. Granted, this kind of film was almost designed to get a great response at an event like Comic-Con, especially with Peter Jackson on hand to introduce both the film and the Blomkamp and Copley to the world. But based on subsequent reaction from both critics and preview audiences, DISTRICT 9 seems poised to be a huge step in the history of relatively inexpensive (the film cost only $30 million to make), independently produced, hardcore, R-rated science fiction. The film is a glorious achievement in social commentary, originality, special effects, and balls-out, celebratory violence.
Before we get to the interview, I should add that it was really interesting to meet up with these Blomkamp and Copley again in Chicago last week, only two weeks after their whirlwind Comic-Con debut. Chicago was the first stop of their official promotional tour, which meant it was their first Q&A in front of an audience. They'd had time to process what happened to them at Comic-Con, and how they literally went from virtual unknowns to the belles of the ball with one screening. As I mentioned, this interview took place at Comic-Con, but during their Chicago Q&A, the one thing they had the most to say about was their dizzying experience in San Diego. Anyway, enjoy Neill Blomkamp, and don't forget to check out my discussion with Sharlto Copley.
Capone: Hey man.
Neill Blomkamp: Hello.
Capone: So the two obvious questions that I had were, first, what happened to the interrogation scene that you guys have built the whole teaser trailer around? I was waiting for that moment in the film.
NB: Well, the answer to that is because… We shot a lot of improv-based stuff. We had a very clear script and we had all of the scenes and in certain cases we had dialog written. It was a full-on script, and then once sort of the parameters that were set within the script had been met, we had the ability to seriously get into improv, which was always the goal from the beginning. And in some cases entire scenes were improved, and that would be one of them and you know, I think our shooting ratio was probably far greater than most films, which meant editing was really a laborious process.
Capone: You are actually forming the secondary material story in the editing room. [Laughs]
NB: Right, because like I said, the script was pretty much locked down, but it just meant that we had additional stuff that we had filmed and then shitloads of different types of performances and different takes, hundreds of different takes. When you are in the editing room and you have got your story that you are fallowing and then you have all of this additional stuff, like remember when the guys have the little insect rodents on the ground that he’s talking about where they cut it?
Capone: Sure.
NB: That will be an example of a totally improved thing, right. There are many things like that throughout the film, some of them stay in the edit and then some of them just don’t work, so the interrogation just didn’t work.
Capone: It works in the trailer. That’s one hell of a trailer! The other question that I had, just based on the end of the film is, what happens in three years?
[Both Laugh]
NB: I’m wondering myself, yeah! Shit, I don’t know…
Capone: I don’t think there was a single person there last night who didn’t want to know.
NB: Yeah. There’s a lot of different ways it can go. When we were writing it, we went down some of the roads that were pretty hilarious and some of them were really cool, because it can really go in a lot of different ways, but ultimately I just haven’t thought about where it’s going to end up. I thought so hard about creating the world of DISTRICT 9 and trying to make it feel authentic and real that all of the effort I think went into that, firstly finding that story, because first it was creating a world and you have got this three-dimensional, multi-faceted alternate universe, so you have to find a story within that, because what’s the point of view? Is it the human’s point of view or the alien’s point of view? Whose point of view is it? Once I nailed that down and then started to flesh the story out, that was difficult enough, so any thoughts about what he’s going to do when he comes back is going to be…[waves his had indicating something to be discussed far in the future].
Capone: Is the idea that you will show us that, or is it just going to be left hanging?
NB: You mean in the future?
Capone: Yeah, like I guess I’m asking about a sequel.
NB: It’s very interesting, because throughout the whole process of making the film, I think I was just so embedded in it that it truly hadn’t occurred to me, but within the last month it has now started to come up, and I have started to think about revisiting that whole environment. I always judge everything based on my gut reaction, like I always base things on like “How do I feel about that on an emotional core creative level?” If I think about DISTRICT 9 creatively again, I feel very positive about it, like I feel like that’s a world I would love to go back into, but I feel the same way about a few other ideas, too.
Capone: It would be a very different film too, with whatever direction you chose to go and it wouldn’t be this.
NB: Actually when I started thinking about it, there was one version of the story that we had originally written which would work, but kind of feels the same, but I don’t know, that’s all years away.
Capone: I’m sure people have already asked you about a sequel, and if they haven’t, they will. Tell me about some of the rules that you adhered to. You mentioned grounding it in reality and that’s key to the success of this film. That’s the thing that kind of floored me about the whole thing. The more I thought about it, the more it impressed me. Tell me about some of the rules you adhered to to make sure you were grounded in reality. There is humor there, but not ridiculousness…
NB: Not too much. You are right, the first protocol for the entire film was that I wanted to make a science fiction film that felt as grounded as possible, but also it was in South Africa. That was the most important thing for me that it was in Johannesburg. So, it felt like I wanted to make a film that had a lot of the science fiction ingredients that I grew up loving, but placed in the environment that I grew up in and I hadn’t really seen that before, that I can think of. When that was the goal, then it needed to be “OK how do we go about making this feel as real as possible,” but some of the… I don’t want to use the word “cliché,” but some of the sort of construct of genre movies, the framework and how the audience perceives them means that to a certain extent, you have to distill things down. You have to some sort of three-act flow, and there are rules that you have to adhere to within a storytelling context.
And if you are not careful, you can dumb things down. You can make things feel inauthentic by doing that, if that makes any sense. For example, a documentary is pure realism and a documentary about DISTRICT 9 would be fucking awesome But no one would go see it, except maybe a select few people would go and see it, right? That was the number one thing in my mind, “How do you make something feel as real as possible, but isn’t going to disappoint people,” because this is my first film, I can’t go and fuck it up and have no one watch it, even if I love it. So, the most difficult thing by far for me wasn’t so much creating a world and making that feel real, I felt like I could do that. It was how do you tell a story that is compelling, but in a realistic science-fiction environment and that scared the shit out of me. And then the technical stuff within making it feel real, I think one of the things is making sure that the visual effects are not put up on a pedestal, that you don’t kind of say “Here’s a million dollars worth of effects!”
Capone: And shine the spotlight on it, yeah.
NB: Yeah, and then move on to something else. It’s more that you just kind of catch them and go off them, or they are over exposed. In certain cases a lot of those shots had been run through a VHS machine, which is hilarious. I told the effects guys, because we only did that after they delivered all of the finals. “I ran your shit through a VHS machine!” It works, though, because then it’s like “Fuck, that feels kind of real.” I think it’s just having both a complete respect for visual effects and a process for making them feel real and then at the same time disregarding them.
Capone: One of the things that have bugged me about the way films portray alien races--and I think there's even a little bit of it in the footage we saw from AVATAR yesterday--that all of the aliens look exactly the same, but yours have different colorings, subtle variations in their features--beyond the little bits of clothing they might be wearing.
NB: And they paint shit on themselves, too.
Capone: That’s what I thought. There are visual cues that make it very clear that, like humans, two don’t look the same, and you have differentiated them to a degree. I love that.
NB: That’s cool. I’m glad you noticed that, yeah. We spent quite a lot of time doing that. I always looked at them like Magpies, like they would get interested in something and then they would collect whatever it was or sometimes they would put it on themselves. Like Paul, which is the human given name to him, the character who is the friend of the lead alien, the yellow waspy guy, he’s got spark plugs that are screwed into his shell, if you look at him and into his head, so it’s like he just has an interest in those. And it’s kind of funny if you think of them on that animalistic level, then a lot of creative ideas can kind of come out of that.
Capone: Yeah. When HALO didn’t happen, whose idea was it to take this particular short and make it into a feature. When you all were thinking, “Okay, we can do something brand new or we can expand on a previous work,” who brought up expanding the short?
NB: It was actually Fran [Walsh]. I was standing in their kitchen and they said, “Let’s just make something else. We can get another film off of the ground for you, since this son of a bitch imploded.” I was hyper keen on that, because I knew what everybody had done in New Zealand, with Weta and everybody else on the crew, and I also knew how the environment with Pete would work and how I would be kind of shielded and especially if it was my idea, then it would be even better. So I think my mind was going down the road of something new and it was actually Fran who said “Why don’t you take your short film and turn it into a film,” and that was the best idea. I was like “yes,” so from there we started working on it.
Capone: This film, in the best possible way, made me really angry at humanity. This is a great story of injustice, and obviously you wanted to represent South Africa and Johannesburg, but audiences outside of that nation are going to see the parallels…
NB: I like the idea of audiences outsides of there seeing Joburg, I love that. I see what you mean though.
Capone: The best science fiction is overtly political at times.
NB: The private military contractors…
Capone: Yeah and the bureaucratic angle to it. But there's not getting around that it does seem like a statement about a different kind of apartheid.
NB: It is. It totally is.
Capone: Not like you are hiding that or anything.
NB: No, I’m not. It’s a story about xenophobia and most people in North America don’t know this, but within a week of us rolling the cameras on the film, Johannesburg woke up to the impoverished residents of the slum areas, lynching and setting fire to all of the illegal Zimbabwean immigrants. It was a mass murder, serious mob stuff and that happened the day we started filming, so now all of a sudden…
Before that point, xenophobia in South Africa was highly interesting to me, and I grew up there, and there is no question that’s what the fabric of the film is, but that within a week of us filming was now, within South Africa, I was making a film now about something that was far more serious than what I had initially gone about doing, so it wont make any difference to the rest of the world. But to South Africa, I just hope that they don’t feel like I have started stomping around with gun boots on something that is much more serious than I'd intended. I was hyper aware of the fact that I needed to make a film that would allow me to make other films, so I had to make something that had the political stuff that I find fascinating and the stuff that I grew up with, but not ram it down people’s throats, and I think DISTRICT 9 does that. I think it has the fabric and the framework and the interesting stuff there and it poses questions, but it doesn’t beat you over the head with it, and then the foreground story is a personal story.
Capone: Yeah. Let’s talk about your lead actor. How did you decide on Sharlto? What made you think this director friend of yours could act?
NB: Did you like him in the film?
Capone: I loved him in the film. I almost wish I hadn’t seen him before the film, because I wanted to believe that’s what he looked like with the hair and all--the ultimate bureaucrat.
NB: That is the ultimate bureaucrat. I knew…Sharlto [Copley] is a little bit older than me, so when I was in High School, he was just out of high school and he and another friend of mine were the closest thing to the film industry in South Africa that I was connected to, and I don’t think he’s ever really wanted to be an actor. If anything, he’s more of a Sacha Baron Cohen kind of guy, like if you unleashed him with a Borat… If you just said “Be this character” and just unleashed him in the public, he would be as good as him, literally, and I knew that, but he has never acted in anything, so this is one of the things that makes Pete Jackson producing it so awesome is that I said “Look, can I use my high school friend?” He was like “OK.” He did well, right?
Capone: Yeah, he was fantastic without a doubt. Neill, it was great to meet you. Good luck man! Thanks.
NB: Thank you. Cheers!
-- Capone
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and the gayest.
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Firsters are weak!
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...but it sure smells good!
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Shouldn't that be SEEN?
I don't blame you Capone, but Jesus, Harry, can't you get these guys an editor or something? -
Im proud, I really am. You know what im talking about. How long has it been?
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for originality! I really want to see this, and this could be a wakeup call to Hollywood on many different levels.
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I second Continentalop. I mean I guess 'fallowing,' which means raising different types of crops, works in a metaphoric sense but I think you meant 'following."
I can't wait to see this movie. It's great to see that they are already considering a sequel. It would be nice to get a really awesome trilogy out of this series. And from a brand new director, wow! -
I went to the "Joe" movie last night....ugh. This looks like we are finally getting a decent movie out this summer. It has been bleak.
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am i the only one who always wants to call this guy neil blumpkin? -
I thought it involved game-changing assertions of diplomatic immunity, and Patsy Kensit. In any event, despite some dodgy trailers (the promotional material is being dumbed down and Americanized, without a doubt), I'm definitely there opening weekend to support semi-independent, original works of sci-fi.
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Aug 10, 2009 1:19:15 PM CDT
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Thanks, Capone. You always conduct good interviews, but after the "spoiler" warning on this one, I made sure to skip it. I want to see "District 9" knowing nothing about it beyond what everyone saw in the trailer.
But thanks, Neil Blomkamp. I'm very excited to see this. -
He's drinking aftershave.
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Today, a very special episode, about how humanity is flawed and fears all that which is from outside.
Get it? We're xenophobic because we fear what we don't understand.
Geez, like we don't already have enough movies and TV shows about this. Not exactly breaking new ground. -
kind of look like James Spader?
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gboybama, you're so cool! You've totally wowed us with your brutally simplistic schoolboy-isms.
Please, can we hear more from you? Thank you so much. -
So, you're a big fan of 'more of the same?' That's cool. Personally, I don't care to watch the same themes over and over. I like my genre movies, especially my sci fi, with a little, you know, creativity.
But, hey. It takes all kinds and the movie does look like it could be really cool if one can ignore the obvious soapbox grandstanding and overused / recycled "lesson." -
should not even exist (because of the spoilers). Then why post it this early?
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Aug 10, 2009 2:09:31 PM CDT
You just had to take a swipe at AVATAR didn't you?
by standundermyumbrella
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You know what, gboybama? You really need to tone it down. You see a trailer, read a few things, and decide it's "something you've seen before," therefore not worthy of your oh-so-important consideration? Really?
My advice to you: get over yourself. And fast. Because you're not half as cool or creative or "in the know" as you think you are.
Here's why:
*For fans of creative, original, ass-kicking science fiction that actually means something, "District 9" is our ship coming in. I don't how much you've read about it, but from the interviews I've seen, as well as early reviews from ComicCon, this is the film fans of dramatic, R-rated science fiction (the antithesis of after school specials) have been waiting to see for years.
Your poorly reasoned assessment of it as a kid's show makes you look like an uninformed ass. Seriously, do you actually care about science fiction or are you just talking out of your ass? Because from your comments, I'd guess the latter.
But you're welcome to your opinion. Have fun being cool. -
some grandstanding morality fable. Most people say its a light touch with the social stuff. I don't want to see more of the same either, like another independence day or something with 2d humans fighting some big bad aliens. Humans oppressing aliens that didn't come here to conquer us is a much less used idea and hopefully the director does something cool with it.
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have written until now,in this topic.i am sorry but if a movie like this causes the interest for a few of us,then how do we expect to become a commercial hit and maybe in the future we will get better studio scifi movies?
geekdom doesnt seem to be very interested with fresh,new ideas,geeks seem only to get angry with the things they grew up and nothing new.i hope i am wrong,but 50 posts dont give the impression that the movie is very 'hot' for the geeks -
But I'm only one geek.
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I really hope he isn't a one-trick pony. I knew that ad with the "bunny-cops" for Tetra Vaal was his, it has been online for a long time, and I just confirmed it. He seems like he just does tech + shanty-town. I'm not saying he can't do more, but for the most part that seems to be his thing. I hope District 9 is amazing this Friday, and I'm betting it is, but he needs to divulge in something outside is obvious comfort zone. His shorts all look like what FPS games went through, where everything is washed out in metal and dirt colors. Yes, it works, but I just watched all his shorts and they really look TOO similar. But I'll say it one more annoying time, I bet this film is amazing and maybe this is what all those shorts got him ready to do. It's after this film I'm worried about. Hopefully I'm proved wrong.
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Y'know, that thing with all the words that you're supposed to check out before the talkback? The director and writer of the film comes out and says those are the themes and that he was very much into delivering a message with the film. Or words to that effect.
Now, that's his right. More power to him. Sci Fi is full of risky social commentary that is brilliant and effective. Farenheit 451 (free speech), Star Trek from time to time (racial equality), Starship Troopers (dangers of fascistic nationalism).
I guess part of what makes me like these works is that not only were they entertaining stories, they also went against prevailing social norms. They took risks and delivered a thought provoking point of view.
But, today corporate Hollywood doesn't allow for differences of opinion. Everything has to be locked into a strict orthodoxy. If it's a movie about the military, it has to be like Rendition. Message: We are the enemy. Wow, that's a new one. If it's the Apocalypse, it has to be like The Happening, the new Day the Earth Stood Still and many, many others. Message: We hurt the planet and brought it on ourselves. Sigh.
Just when you think they can't use those themes yet another time, they find another way to shoehorn them in.
So, forgive me if I sometimes tire of the same old one sided view of things over and over. Again, we are the enemy and the poor aliens must suffer at the hands of the imperialist human race military industrial complex and the naked avarice of our multinational corporations!
Now, it may not end up being that heavyhanded when I actually see the thing. If that's so, I promise I will be on here to say I was wrong about District 9. But, the early signs seem to say that I won't have to. -
It was good (the interview). I really would like a film review though.
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I mean seriously! Why has AICN REGRESSED? What's the big hairy ass-crack deal with using spoiler text? I would like to read this interview, but I CAN'T because you're too fucking lazy to put the spoiler tags around the spoiler material! CHRIST ON A CRUTCH!
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Can't wait!
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just so your aware: there are something like 5 stories in the world that are being re-told over and over through-out human history (re: Joseph Campbell). so, your negative assessment of D9 is waaaay to simplistic. it would be like saying: "Citizen Kane is about the loss of childhood innocence. seen it before. lame!"
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but it's a very sweet pot for a summer flick. I'm sure we will see it realy well used since the actors are no names. Directors should take note. If you have a good screenplay hire some new blood for the roles put the money into the props locations and special effects. I just don't understand why we need well know names to sell films. If these people are worried about the preformance. Well hell thats why we invented something called auditions and read ins. You put out the word that your making a film and people who really want to provide will show up for decent pay or a real good shot at a carear. It's to bad that studios get scared when the budget climbs and they feel the need to hire faces. Most of the reused actors chewing on big roles today, still can't stop playing themselves. We all turn a blind a eye, fuck it most of us have adopted this way. Arnold flicks are fun, but sometimes you just need to make a movie thats big and it actually turns out to be a story with a real thinking mans plot behind it.
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Yeah, I see your point. It's a good one. Let me attempt a retort.
I think what you say is partially mitigated by the fact that the plot points I'm talking about are more specific than the general themes like you use in your example.
Yes, tragedy, triumph, love, hate, etc. are going to be themes that run through every type of literature. But, in my view, Hollywood has a couple of convenient straw men they use continually as villians. (Corporations, priests, military commanders, flag wavers) That, I think shows a lack of imagination.
Of course we're talking about Hollywood here. That kinda comes with the territory in remake-ville, doesn't it? Haha. -
White people are evil!
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very true. and using the perennial favorite, nazis, as villains is really running out of steam as well...
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I hear what you're saying about films like "Fahrenheit 451" and others taking risks and delivering though-provoking points of view. On this I agree with you.
Myself, I've been dying to see an original, R-rated, thought-provoking science fiction film for a long time. Years, in fact. A big-time story influenced in part by movies like "Aliens," "The Terminator," "The Thing," and "Dark City." There have been some fabulous science fiction films released over the past ten years, including "Moon" just months ago.
But nothing on the violent, big-time scale that I'm anticipating for "District 9." Good or bad, this is a film I'm happy as hell got made. These days, a scary, violent, provocative story like this one is generally shunned by the big studios. It's not something they can cross-market to teens or schoolkids due to its complexity and R rating.
In short: this a movie for adults. And I have a feeling it won't be as preachy as you think. And hopefully, a lot more thought-provoking. -
G.I. Joe says different. White people (and bumbling negroes who say "Daaamn!" a lot) are the saviors of the human race and are the epitome of what is good and wholesome in the world.
Look, why don't we just get back to the "aliens want to destroy or eat us" stories. We obviously can't get enough of that and it ruffles less feathers. -
17 grammar / spelling mistakes in the article (I forgave a couple too) which is how many are in the average paragraph that Harry writes. Still psyched to see this film though...
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Remember the hype before Cloverfield was released, and then the disappointment that followed? This is that all over again. Saw it last week. The racism is very heavy handed. The characters are mostly unlikaeble and the slums isn't a nice place to be for close to 2 hours. The idea is interesting and the effects are good, but you are just left not really caring for anyone or what happens. Of everyone I saw this with, none of us rated it or understand the rave reviews. I think most of the adulation is for exploding humans! - If this came out of a studio I reckon it might get panned.
Full marks for trying something new and working with a small budget, but ultimately I was disappointed. Happy for everyone to go see it though and support smaller independent films! -
that shows all the great things that benevolent multinational corporations have done for us.
i really wanted to like aliens, but all that shit where they made the company look super evil and more concerned over getting the alien as a bio weapon made me mad. I mean what if terrorists exist in the future and we don't have the necessary bio weapons to srike back? hollywood should shut their caviar holes and let these guys do their thing. They have all of our best interests in mind. -
that after the aliens get here, they're going to live in slums and be neglected. I just can't.
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there is an explanation for that in the movie, which i read accidentaly in some shitheads totally spoiler filled review. it makes sense.
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I'll take your word for it, but I will have a hard time believing it until I find out the reasoning. Thanks for the response.
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Yeah, the slum part kind of makes sense when you see it, but there are many other big questions that go unanswered, and many "hang on a minute!" minute moments where you question the sense/rationale involved, such as understanding of foreign technology.
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This film is getting overhyped, sorry. It's innovative and I am glad it was made, but there are flaws that underlie the film's premise that I couldn't get past.
SPOILERS HERE ON OUT: The idea of aliens being holed up in a prison camp is silly. And to be subject to the jurisdiction of a defense contracting firm? That's just silly. For 20 years, we're to believe that aliens are ignored and segregated, even though they're not able to use their technology? Their knowledge of physics alone would be a boon for the sciences. If they were deemed non-lethal, as they were early on in their time on Earth, then why not work with them? Why not try to get them to cooperate in teaching us about their understanding of energy, space propulsion and astronomy? Were they that much of a bunch of assholes to us when they landed? I saw nothing in the film that made me believe that to be the case.
And the lead actor... is basically Steve Carrell from THE OFFICE. He's a fucking asshole- well meaning but downright foolish for 90% of the movie. I get we needed a character arc for the protagonist, but my God, he was a fucking toolbox. I couldn't care less what happened to him. My favorite characters were the alien Christopher and his tech-savvy son. The kid really is the tits. I love him! I know he's ripping shit up on XBOX Live as we speak.
In the end, this was an interesting movie, some brilliant ideas mixed in, etc. But it was so heavy handed that it actually lost it's grounding in reality. It's a solid B in my book. I do think that a sequel would be worthwhile, though. The story does really end on a cliffhanger of sorts. -
I agree with your overall view YackBacker. Nice idea, but lacking in execution. Am really confused as these over-glowing reviews. "Film of the year". That wouldn't say much for the year...
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sci-fi movies. maybe star trek, but im hoping this movie is better than that.
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It's like lame white guy to the second power.
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This talkback is so thin. Even Capone's dig at Avatar got just one comment! Is it that people just swooned over this movie cos the screening of Avatar was a disappointment? Looks like it. We'll know in 6 days!
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That's like his Little CJ!
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With a dash of James Spader, as noted above.
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Like with WATCHMEN, they're at least attempting to do something half way more intelligent than the next Nutty Professor sequel. So, I'll buy a ticket for that reason alone.
Also, despite my earlier comments, I think "The Company" from Alien was awesome as a villain. Of course, it was kept mostly off screen and didn't really equate to any Red State / Blue State debates of today. -
its so disappointing hearing all you jaded fuckers blaming the film for the hype. none if you have said you hate it but you are all blaming the film for other peoples hype.
you deserve gi joe and transformers 3-15 forever. the film is a great film. but then again i should expect nothing else from the readers here. i seriously doubt many of you really like films at all. it is always so negative its fucking depressing. if someone likes something they are a plant or paid off or going over board because "its not that good-don't understand why everyone is going to crazy for it" you are a boring bunch of jaded bastards and i am glad i don;t have to ever meet you. -
Helps when your boss has his own VFX and production company. But good luck to everyone involved, I'll be checking this out.
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I think that must have been a typo but I hope it catches on nonetheless.
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