Nicole Powers: Neill Blomkamp: District 9

Awesome
As a gamer I was very disappointed with the fact that Halo got canned, but to see a South African like Neill Blomkamp making a big budget movie like this, gives me great hope for our growing film industry. We certainly have come a long way in such a short time...
I can't wait to see this movie!

Still cannot wait to see this.

PS: It's Jozi, Jo'burg or Johannesburg, but never has it been used as Joberg. Sorry just being particular

Its gonna be soooo awesome.

Seen a bunch of trailers and looks like its gonna be the bomb. Plus having the josi accent all over the big screen is bound to be a laugh.

wat wee gonna do wif dese aliens boet?

Great interview, very informative. I love that there was interest in a Halo movie and that Blomkamp would have gotten it made, pity about working with Microsoft and it not getting finished.

Great questions too! It leads on to Blomkamps mindset in his future works. Can't wait to see this movie, but really I want to see him tackle something much more mainstream and get a giant budget to do it properly, to show some other studios how it's done. Get them out of there little boxes and show us something new.

i just saw this, i snuck into an advance screening.

i really enjoyed, and i was suprised about how it progressed.

i was really taken by suprise.

I just got home from seeing this movie, and like the interviewer, I left drooling for the sequel.
I find movies that provide the foundations for philosophical/philanthropic discussion after viewing. Great job goes to Neill Blomkamp!

Halo being canned was the best thing that happened.
It brought District 9 to life.

Amazing movie.
Hope there will be a sequal.

That was my original though exactly

The film is absolutely fantastic. Hands-down the best sci-fi probably ever made. I fucking loved it!!! And I think the most amazing part is Blomkamps very humble and honest feelings about the film. This is mos.def. on its way to being an established classic, on par or even more so than Alien and the Fly.

I really liked the way the world felt real and lived-in. The one thing I wish they would have changed would be to make the corporation a little less over-the-top evil. (Though thankfully there were no Snidely Wiplash 'staches!)

Best part: The name "Christopher Johnson."

What, no comment on the endless stormtrooper effect? The bad guys couldn't hit with a single shot out of thousands versus an unarmored target, or one carrying a partial body shield that wasn't covering his head.

For all that, I had no problem putting those complaints on hold and enjoying the effects ride.

I took it to be both.

As for it being "selectively stupid," it was an 11-minute piece transformed into a full-length movie, and despite it not being the HALO movie, it was still very much a "video game movie." It was two-dimensional, it was heavy-handed, and I very much liked it.

Bob raises some good points, but there are easy narrative explanations for most of them. The only reason to feel insulted by this film is if the viewer limited themselves by expecting too much from this movie. I was neither disappointed nor surprised by anything I saw in this project. This is because I full realized going in that it was by the guy who was supposed to direct HALO but then Peter Jackson said "hey, since HALO fell through, why don't you make that short film you made into a full-length?"

Great movie. Totally different. I'd much rather have seen this than a Halo adaptation.

I think one of the best things about it was the South African accents. That and the awesome weapon effects.