Why We Never Got To See A District 9 Sequel
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Date: 2020-07-14
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Comments and reviews: 9
John
Though aesthetically I think he's been very consistent, the other movies after district 9 just weren't as good on a basic level.
The writing especially came off week and occasionally directing. like so many directors whose first time movie is amazing everything that comes after is either hit or miss.
The other stuff is okay it's just not as groundbreaking and as well realized as the first. And of course Elysium was good excuse to use various assets that were going to be used for the canceled halo movie. As for chappie a lot of people would say the fact that it was written in two weeks really shows.
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Though aesthetically I think he's been very consistent, the other movies after district 9 just weren't as good on a basic level.
The writing especially came off week and occasionally directing. like so many directors whose first time movie is amazing everything that comes after is either hit or miss.
The other stuff is okay it's just not as groundbreaking and as well realized as the first. And of course Elysium was good excuse to use various assets that were going to be used for the canceled halo movie. As for chappie a lot of people would say the fact that it was written in two weeks really shows.
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Trevor
in this day and age a sequel is still possible. i would like to see the aliens come back with an army to take back their people but when the arrive they find that the humans have been using them as slaves to do work that nobody wants to do, the prawns are happy with their new jobs because remember they are a hive minded and useless without leadership and humans had figured out how to replicate that role so the humans won't give up their work force without a fight. could have showed the alien home world and their social hierarchy, cool new weapons, cool new alien designs. its such a missed opportunity
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in this day and age a sequel is still possible. i would like to see the aliens come back with an army to take back their people but when the arrive they find that the humans have been using them as slaves to do work that nobody wants to do, the prawns are happy with their new jobs because remember they are a hive minded and useless without leadership and humans had figured out how to replicate that role so the humans won't give up their work force without a fight. could have showed the alien home world and their social hierarchy, cool new weapons, cool new alien designs. its such a missed opportunity
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King
Honestly I would LOVE a sequel to this, even if its just the aliens coming back to Earth and taking out their anger for being on such a racist planet. (Like one of the parts of the egg burning and how happy they were makes me still shiver a little bit)
I would love to see it honestly. I know we are probably not going to get it but I would love to see it. Those aliens or prawns (excuse me for lack of better word) were treated so horribly. I felt bad for them.
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Honestly I would LOVE a sequel to this, even if its just the aliens coming back to Earth and taking out their anger for being on such a racist planet. (Like one of the parts of the egg burning and how happy they were makes me still shiver a little bit)
I would love to see it honestly. I know we are probably not going to get it but I would love to see it. Those aliens or prawns (excuse me for lack of better word) were treated so horribly. I felt bad for them.
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Michael
I guess I was the only one who thought it was the holocaust for another species. I feel D9 made people think about the world in a way they should have been already. Its sad to me when people say this was amazing the way we treat them all I kept thinking was slavery, the holocaust, and Japanese concentration camps. The coolest part was adapting the alien technology. Also maybe growing up devouring Japanese anime, these ideas are not original.
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I guess I was the only one who thought it was the holocaust for another species. I feel D9 made people think about the world in a way they should have been already. Its sad to me when people say this was amazing the way we treat them all I kept thinking was slavery, the holocaust, and Japanese concentration camps. The coolest part was adapting the alien technology. Also maybe growing up devouring Japanese anime, these ideas are not original.
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Devin
The sequel should consist of the prawns coming back to earth and obliterating everyone. Though it may not seem appealing to most, it would certainly be unexpected and prove a point. In District 9 the people acted exactly how they would if that situation were to happen today. Disgusting. I'd kill all of mankind if I were an alien. We're awful selfish, greedy, & pompous creatures.
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The sequel should consist of the prawns coming back to earth and obliterating everyone. Though it may not seem appealing to most, it would certainly be unexpected and prove a point. In District 9 the people acted exactly how they would if that situation were to happen today. Disgusting. I'd kill all of mankind if I were an alien. We're awful selfish, greedy, & pompous creatures.
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diana
i think the aliens should come back pick up their people and give vikkus the choice to come with them or be restored, i feel in the end he should choose to go with them to the alien's homeworld and live as one of them, thus moving the whole focus of the film onto the alien's cuture and planet as seen through the eyes of vikkus in his new body. :D
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i think the aliens should come back pick up their people and give vikkus the choice to come with them or be restored, i feel in the end he should choose to go with them to the alien's homeworld and live as one of them, thus moving the whole focus of the film onto the alien's cuture and planet as seen through the eyes of vikkus in his new body. :D
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AngelEater
I liked the cliff hanger ending better. There's all the mid credits scenes where his wife gets these metal flowers in the mail every week or so, and in the end it shows a prawn, which is supposedly the main guy transformed, making the flowers out of scrap. I don't want that to be thrown away. That's too good of an ending to make a sequel.
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I liked the cliff hanger ending better. There's all the mid credits scenes where his wife gets these metal flowers in the mail every week or so, and in the end it shows a prawn, which is supposedly the main guy transformed, making the flowers out of scrap. I don't want that to be thrown away. That's too good of an ending to make a sequel.
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Max
You seem to think District 9 was a sci fi movie. Neill Blomkamp made a social commentary movie. He made his point and making a sequel would do nothing to further that pursuit. Elysium, same thing. Had me made an Alien movie, the aliens would probably have been portrayed as protecting their unique and valuable culture from colonialist invaders.
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You seem to think District 9 was a sci fi movie. Neill Blomkamp made a social commentary movie. He made his point and making a sequel would do nothing to further that pursuit. Elysium, same thing. Had me made an Alien movie, the aliens would probably have been portrayed as protecting their unique and valuable culture from colonialist invaders.
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afunny
great film. i remember showing it to a friend but that upload it didnt have subtitles for the aliens talking. i was suprised how much impact that had on the film, seeing what they were saying added a huge amount to the social commentary you mention, whereas in a lot of films alien language is just indistinguishable noise.
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great film. i remember showing it to a friend but that upload it didnt have subtitles for the aliens talking. i was suprised how much impact that had on the film, seeing what they were saying added a huge amount to the social commentary you mention, whereas in a lot of films alien language is just indistinguishable noise.
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