District 9

[Leon]

I have mixed feelings. I liked most of the movie and the topic was interesting, but the part with the mech-robot felt unnessesary, they could have used that time for taking it a bit slower in the documentary-like first part. I guess I just liked that part better than the action packed scenes later on. Especially when Wikus felt the pain when his mech-robot got hit + the "you go ahead, you'll make it" emotional scene were a bit unbelievable to me. Did I miss the bonding between the two? For me it all happened a bit too fast.

[mmm skyscraper]

Another short film from 2006:

Adicolor Yellow

[stimpee]

"Neill Blomkamp was slated to become the director for the Halo movie... However, plans changed and now he's the director for District 9. This was the last thing he directed before being hired on as the director for the movie.

adidas creates a film series celebrating color, customization and personal expression. Each director was given a blank canvas to create a short film based on their emotional and creative response to a given color - Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Pink, Black or White.

This film 'Yellow' by Neill Blomkamp illustrates what happens when a thinking machine integrates with society."

btw, loved the movie. Went in knowing nothing about it. Its great. Leaves the door open to District 10. Also I can see why they put it in South Africa. After all the authorities didnt come out of it looking good. So the USA is out And SA already has a bad rep with Apartheid and high murder rates...

[jose m]

bloody great.
best sci fi i've seen in ages.
great setting in j'burg.
the prawn/human bonding at the end was pretty rushed but all in all i haven't seen a better film this year.

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Yeah, it was o.k.

For some reason I kept singing "Diamond Life/Numb" replacing "she" with "they".