District 9
 

Anyone else fascinated by Disctrict 9, coming out soon? I'm glad Peter Jackson is making movies again (what's it been, four years?) and the story concept seems interesting.

If someone has a good computer, I suggest they snap some shots from an HD trailer, there looks to be a few guns in the movie.

Damn, kudos to Markit, he uploaded screencaps like 10 minutes after I started this thread. :eek:

Neil Bloomkamp, this may be interesting.

I hope to see a lot of gun battles in this movie with lots of guns.

I saw an image from this with the doctor character carrying some kind of rifle/saw thing that reminded me of the guns from Alien 4.

I have a hunch this isn't going to be a movie with a lot of gun fire. I think they'd of put more of it in the trailers if it was.

I took a look at a recent trailer (I'm so going to see this on opening) and caught these.

The PSC in the background has an M4 (or other similar AR carbine) with a rail system, PEQ-2, and M203.
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...strict9_M4.jpg

Another shot I got of the above M4/M203. It's quite blurry (and a hard one to get), so exact ID isn't possible yet. But the profile is definitely M4/M203.
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...trict9_M42.jpg

Beretta 92F or 92FS
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...t9_Beretta.jpg

Edit: Took a look back at one of the older trailers and got this shot.
The PSC on the right has an M4/M203 and the one on the left has what appears to be a Minimi mocked up as an M249. On the Minimi, I'm guessing mock-up by the really fake look of the heat shield and what looks like a synthetic butt stock.
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...ict9_Squad.jpg

In one of the trailers, it looked like an MNU soldier had some type of shotgun.

This does look like an intense movie. It has the sci fi theme with the aliens, but it feels very real

It is my opinion that everything Peter Jackson makes is solid gold. The man is above criticism.

I just saw the movie and it was interesting. Saw a lot of guns, including assorted AKs a couple 1911s, a Beretta M92F a minigun.

I just saw it yesterday, very good movie.

Good film, enjoyed seeing the Neopup at the end too.

I never got a chance to see it because all my friends are too lame to invite me anywhere, so I just read the plot description on IMDb. Not nearly as in depth as seeing the actual movie I'm sure, but it works.

If this movie were a woman, it would be a very hot one, and I would have sex with it, several times.

Seriously though, I think it's one of the best films I've seen in a while. Very original, very convincing, deep story with just enough action. Very rarely do I feel that I got my money's worth at the theater (and it was a matinee so the ticket was two and a half dollars cheaper).

For the record, the Compact model seen briefly was a 92SB Compact, and the Beretta held by the MNU Security leader either changes between an FS and SB, or is an SB the entire time. In a lot of shots it has the shiny blue finish and a round trigger guard.

Jackson didn't have much to do with the film beyond producing. He didn't write it or direct it.

I've heard this movie is good, but it sounds like it's a bit of leftist propaganda about immigration.

Actually it's more of a comparison to an event in South Africa. I forgot what it's called, but one of my favorite online critics did a video about it. Watch it for his explanations.

http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/2009...view/#comments

Apartheid. The director lived in Africa during Apartheid and based the movie on his experiance. He just replaced Nazis with Aliens.

heh, wait.....what?

Apartheid was when Germans in Africa oppressed Brits during WWII. That is, if school taught me something right.

Then again, it would be more like the Aliens are the Brits, and now the Brits are the Nazis. Weird transition. :confused:

..........No.

Apartheid was Africa's term for legal segregation of blacks and whites, which inculded many other incredibly racist laws and statutes. Blacks and minorities weren't given rights as citizens and some even set up in shantytowns as seen in District 9. They would get raided by the local law enforcement agencies all the time, too. It was a lot like America's post-Civil War reconstruction, only a shitload worse because the nation of Africa was and has been in worse shape than us, generally speaking.

Normally I can see how confusion comes up between two words or ideas but I don't know how the fuck you made a jump from Nazis and Brits in WWII to a post WWII civil rights oppression. I mean you must have heard of Nelson Mandela? Unless you're thinking of the Afrika Korps or the Battle of El Alamein, you're just plain not thinking straight.

Anyhow, the aliens would obviously be the blacks/minorities, and MNU would be the white, oppressive government organization, like the police or something, which is also backed by the general population because these aliens (blacks) are "scary and dangerous". That is the correlation between the movie and the director's experiences. How you guys can misconstrue it as something else or not know anything about it at all is crazy. It's on par with not knowing about the Civil Rights Movement, or the Holocaust even. But, that's public schoolin' for ya.

I was taught in English class (a great place to learn history :P) from the movie "The Power of One", which my teacher said was about apartheid.

She was waaaaay off.

lol what are they teaching you in scool GM45.

Holy fuck, are you guys being serious?

Damn! Public schools must really be screwed these days. Of course, I went to a public school where stuff like the Civil Rights movement and the apartheid era in South Africa were a big part of the curriculum (both in History and in English), but still...I don't know how they get confused with the Nazis and WWII. Big WTF here.

I thought it was a deconstruction of the usual "alien invasion" movie. The disintegration rays turned people into blood and guts, the aliens were vagrants and addicts, and the humans were assholes.

Nope, it was basically a change in perspective view of South Africa under apartheid, except replace blacks and other minorities with Aliens.

The alien guns were cool, but that's trying to hide the fact of what this movie was REALLY about.