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A Thoughtful Sci-Fi Film? Who Could Imagine?

Leave It to a South African / Dustin Rowles

Trailers | May 1, 2009 | Comments (24)

I don’t usually like sci-fi films all that much, mostly because sci-fi directors — like Michael Bay — aren’t all that interested in nuance or story. They just want to unleash aliens that eat people. Aliens probably aren’t bad folks, you know. They’re probably just like us, only not as fat.

District 9 looks like the kind of sci-fi flick I could love. It comes from South African director Neill Blomkamp, and it’s being produced by Peter Jackson. It’s been a top-secret project for a while — many thought it was actually a cover for a Halo adaptation. It’s not. It’s about these internment camps in Africa, where the world government hides away the aliens. A biologist, however, apparently gains some insight and become sympathetic to their cause.

Sort of a weird, but compelling trailer: It’s framed like a documentary and the one alien shows in the trailer has its face blurred out. I like the idea. I think District 9 may just be a fairly thoughtful sci-fi film, probably one rife with cultural and political messages, which probably means no one will ever see it.

Check out the trailer over on Apple.


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Comments

Them's my people!

(The South Africans, not the aliens)

Anyway, that trailer is actually one of the rare, incredibly well-done trailers... completely misleading for the first 30, then a bit of a mind fuck for the rest.

Sold.

Posted by: TK at May 1, 2009 10:30 AM

Whoah.

Okay, this, I shall certainly be seeing.

Notjust for what looks like an awesome film but for the fantastic Sith Efrk'n excents on show.
But...You're bleck!!! Aaaah Lethal Weapon 2

Posted by: Nadine at May 1, 2009 10:31 AM

I'm waiting for the inevitable fake trailer for K-9. Affirmative master.

Posted by: BWeaves at May 1, 2009 10:33 AM

what, no will smith? then how will humanity survive?

i dunno about this...

Posted by: gp at May 1, 2009 10:33 AM

Can you really call Michael Bay a sci-fi director? His version of sci-fi is just so not my idea of what good sci-fi is most of the time. Sci-fi, when done well, is just amazing.

And now I'm done saying sci-fi a billion times.

Sci-fi.

Posted by: Carrie at May 1, 2009 10:34 AM

SyFy?

No.

This looks cool. I love me some sci-fi actually made with thought and nuance.

Posted by: twig at May 1, 2009 10:40 AM

I'm so there.

Posted by: Cindy at May 1, 2009 10:44 AM

A place where the aliens are hidden away? Does it cover where Cheney's bunker is?

Posted by: PaddyDog at May 1, 2009 10:51 AM

Could this be the first completely non-shitty trailer we've seen in weeks? I feel like I should be dancing in joy right now.

Posted by: Kolby at May 1, 2009 11:00 AM

Great a movie I will probably fall in love with but everyone else I know won't even get. I need some friends with some scifi chops.

Posted by: humorless dick at May 1, 2009 11:36 AM

Welcone no eart!


Alien scum.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at May 1, 2009 11:54 AM

Dude, I am so in. I'll even buy popcorn!

Posted by: PaleoLithchick at May 1, 2009 12:03 PM

Hmmm. I'd be willing to pay money to see that.

Posted by: peachfish at May 1, 2009 12:15 PM

Yeah TK, you claim not to be an alien...

I agree this movie looks good and did my duty of spreading the word (by sending a link to this here page).

Posted by: tamatha at May 1, 2009 12:16 PM

Fuckin' rights.

Posted by: Sapphiar at May 1, 2009 12:21 PM

I just got all tingly, and not just in the naughty place. This looks terrific.

Tamatha, it's a well know fact that aliens have a distinct distaste for popcorn. This should be your TK litmus test.

Posted by: admin at May 1, 2009 1:00 PM

I know the ending!

Because Will Smith is in this, the aliens were never officially welcomed to Earf. This is why there are problems.

It's so simple now.

Posted by: JakesAlterEgo at May 1, 2009 1:21 PM

wow, that trailer was 14 different kinds of awesome.

Posted by: Stella at May 1, 2009 1:48 PM

I don’t usually like sci-fi films all that much, mostly because sci-fi directors — like Michael Bay — aren’t all that interested in nuance or story. They just want to unleash aliens that eat people.

That's why Michael Bay has never made a "sci-fi" film. It makes me cringe seeing that label applied to him. Real sci-fi (most frequently of the literary sort and very rarely seen on the big screen) is about ideas, philosophy, and the way that humans might interact with changes in social conditions and technology. It's about discovery, but it's rarely about the concept of discovering that something is about to eat you - or it's rarely only about that.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at May 1, 2009 4:10 PM

The Force is strong in you DarthCorleone.

Well said.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at May 1, 2009 4:32 PM

Mmm hm, that was lovely, Darth. Well said indeed.

I oculdn't watch this trailer until just now. It looks super. And now I really need to join Netflix, because this will never come to theaters in this area. Well, possibly in NYC.

Netflix it is!

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at May 1, 2009 7:11 PM

Looking forward to this movie and to Moon with Sam Rockwell. Both look like the kind of smart, thought-provoking science-fiction that rarely appears and is usually dismissed (I'm looking at you, poor, poor Sunshine).

Posted by: Fredo at May 2, 2009 1:21 AM

Blomkamp shot this about 5 years ago, and District 9 sounds very similar.

It's a 6 minute short of "aliens in South Africa".

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1185812222812358837

Posted by: Bathoz at May 2, 2009 5:33 AM

Went to see Wolverine last night (I was with friends, lay off) and this trailer was definetly the best part of the whole experience. Can't wait to see more.

Posted by: UncivilizedMike at May 2, 2009 8:26 PM