http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/new-%E2%80%98alien%E2%80%99-movie-confirmed-with-director-neill-blomkamp/ar-BBhJeDS?ocid=ansVariety11
If it is half as good as District 9 I will be very happy. I haven't been interested in this franchise in a long time but after the last video game and now this news, it really seems like Fox is working hard to make it good again.
This should be good.
If it's half as good as District 9 I'll actually be disappointed, because District 9 wasn't a good movie.
Now with the Chappie trailer out, it further proves to me that Blomkamp is a one-trick pony writer and director who takes existing sci-fi ideas and concepts, places them in South Africa and injects the most heavy-handed and flimsiest social commentary I've ever seen into his films, just to confuse people into thinking his films have something "important" or "interesting" to say.
I'm tellin' ya, his Alien sequel will have something to do with the Weyland corporation being evil, exploitative and greedy (again). Or not. I hope not.
District 9 wasn't good, it was great.
It told a real story in the found footage style without being a slave to it. It didn't pretend someone just happened to be recording everything you see and the way he was able to take bug ugly aliens and make me feel something for them after years of watching Sci-Fi and being jaded by it just blew me away.
It is one of my all time favorite films. It some how combined gritty sci-fi with buddy cop action, I have never seen that done before.
I can't wait to see what he does with Alien.
DrCrowTStarwars said:
District 9 wasn't good, it was great.
Correct!
DrCrowTStarwars said:
It some how combined gritty sci-fi with buddy cop action, I have never seen that done before.
1988's 'Alien Nation' wants a word with you...
VIZ TOP TIPS! - PARENTS. Impress your children by showing them a floppy disk and telling them it’s a 3D model of a save icon.
That's no sequel.... It's a reboot.
The article Drcrow linked to said:
Blomkamp .... had been teasing the project in recent months but said the extra-terrestrial reboot was likely abandoned. It was supposed to star “Alien” veteran Sigourney Weaver.
Laaaaame.
Ryan McAvoy said:
DrCrowTStarwars said:
District 9 wasn't good, it was great.
Correct!
DrCrowTStarwars said:
It some how combined gritty sci-fi with buddy cop action, I have never seen that done before.
1988's 'Alien Nation' wants a word with you...
I have never heard of that before. I will have to see if I can track it down.
Ryan McAvoy said:
DrCrowTStarwars said:
It some how combined gritty sci-fi with buddy cop action, I have never seen that done before.
1988's 'Alien Nation' wants a word with you...
Also, "Men In Black".
JEDIT: sorry, I didn't notice the word "gritty" being there. I'll shut up now.
There's a superficial level of "meaning" in District 9 that grabbed my interest, but there was so little substance underneath some random body-horror and a randomer Mech-battle.
Suddenly there is a thread title I want to rewrite.
Sorry Frink, you aren't a mod or admin...yet. O.O
Nobody sang The Bunny Song in years…
Not that they will ask, but modding one place is enough for me.