another alien movie

[Guest proudsuthrner]

has anyone seen the previews for the new movie coming out in august? its call District 9. i dont know about anyone else, but i think it looks pretty interesting. maybe it'll be better than the Independence Day film.

you can see the preview of it on youtube.

[Guest JHatmaker]

Yeah, I saw the preview before Transformers, and it looked awesome until it showed the "Alien", I mean a huge cricket....

Peter Jackson's the man though, so I imagine it'll be pretty cool. At least it's not another zombie/vampire movie. I'm about done with those.

Now, the Hurt Locker looks like it's going to be good...

Edited July 23, 2009 by JHatmaker

[Guest mustangdave]

Oh damn...I thought you meant "Aliens in the ATTIC"....my bad

[Motasyco]

Is this "Aliens" like in Sigourney Weaver or just Aliens in general?

[Smith]

I think it could be pretty good ...... unless it's some covert social commentary film.

[Guest SMZRU275]

unless it's some covert social commentary film.

From all I've read it heavily is.

District 9 is based on Alive in Joburg(video), a short film directed by Neill Blomkamp, Sharlto Copley, Simon Hansen and Shanon Worley. The title is influenced by real life District Six, Cape Town. Copley also portrayed one of the interviewed policemen. The short film is about aliens landing in South Africa and becoming confined to a specific area and forced to work.

In the movie, aliens make first contact with Earth twenty-eight years prior while humanity waited for the hostile attack or for giant advances in technology, though neither came. Instead, the aliens that arrived were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them. Patience over the alien situation ran out and control over them was contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare. MNU stood to receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' advanced weaponry work.

MNU, thus far, has failed in making the alien weaponry work, for activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA. Tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an MNU field operative, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), contracts a mysterious virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable, for he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Van der Merwe becomes ostracized and friendless and comes to hide in District 9.

From a lot of the plot summaries and such, there is a lot of underlying immigration topics in it.

[Smith]

From all I've read it heavily is.

From a lot of the plot summaries and such, there is a lot of underlying immigration topics in it.

I'm hoping Jackson does as good a job with it as Lord of the Rings. The LOR trilogy is a protestant Christian allegory, yet i thought it was intelligently done to where it made you think and enjoy rather than feel preached at. could go either way I guess.