District 9 (1 Viewer)

[Jill Hives]

When leaving the cinema the guy behind me said, "Their technology wasn't revolutionary... it just blew people up." I don't know why it made me laugh but that's my responce to the movie since I slept through the ending.

 

[cozy]

I would assume because of the comparison to apartheid?

My first thought was palestine actually after the first twenty minutes

 

[Unicron]

My first thought was palestine actually after the first twenty minutes

They'd probably like to be able to sell the movie the US, so less of that sort of talk.

 

[D0njo]

From the wiki page-

"Producer Peter Jackson planned to produce a film adaptation based on the Halo video game franchise"

It did remind me of Halo a bit.. and the pig thing was like the gravity gun in Half Life 2.. ..there were lots of aliens of course...

 

[classic seanc]

FFU-OOOHKING
PRAWNS
​

 

[josephk]

Yer man sounded like a geordie whenever he said fuck though, and man.

"I just don't know what to do, fuck you man waaheeeey cuppa beans"

 

[Decy]

I still can't decide if I liked it, I kinda enjoyed how ridiculous a lot of it was. Yer man's accent is hilarious when he says fuck alright, either he just sounds like that or it was some new form of censoring, where, rather than fully block out the naughty words, they overdub them with a geordie accent, to lessen the blow of hearing such foul language.

 

[cozy]

They'd probably like to be able to sell the movie the US, so less of that sort of talk.

thats one of the reasons i thought they shot it in South Africa actually. Just reminded me of the israel/lebanon war in 82 and how a bunch of palestinians were killed by trigger happy soldiers

 

[Ferox13]

I still can't decide if I liked it, I kinda enjoyed how ridiculous a lot of it was. Yer man's accent is hilarious when he says fuck alright, either he just sounds like that or it was some new form of censoring, where, rather than fully block out the naughty words, they overdub them with a geordie accent, to lessen the blow of hearing such foul language.

I think it was the Afrikaan version of Fuck (or the BST version of Frag LOL).

From IMDB:

Several Afrikaans curse words can be heard throughout the film, including 'doos' or 'poes' (both of which are slang terms for a vagina), fok/fokken (which means "f**k/f**king"), and 'bliksem' which has a variation of meanings. 'Bliksem' can mean to hit or strike, but is often used as an exclamation of wonder, amazement or surprise. It can also be used as a derogatory term when referring to a person or as a derogatory adjective when used to describe a person or object. "Daai bliksemse prawn" would roughly translate to "That damn prawn" Also at some point, a sniper says "Kom na pappa toe", which translates to "Come to daddy".

 

[sealed human]

Blomkamp released a doc in 2006 I think called 'Alive in Jo'burg' about gangs etc, and some of those findings influenced his script, so why not set it in the same place I suppose?

Poor Wikus...

 

[Cormcolash]

Dikkus