“District 9” Director Neil Blomkamp Is Bringing Short Films to Steam

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It was reported last week that Neil Blomkamp would be using Steam to showcase his directing talents with a series of short films, and our first taste of that has already arrived in the form of a teaser trailer. There does not seem to be an official synopsis yet, but I assume this is about, uh, an alien lizard invasion. I actually think Blomkamp is a fluke (his only truly great film is District 9), but it is interesting to see big names utilizing Steam for purposes beyond gaming.

The first teaser trailer for District 9 and Elysium director Neill Blomkamp's first "experimental short film" has arrived. There is a lot going on in this trailer "Volume 1," as the action bounces around between a number of different scenes containing aliens, shootouts in the jungle, and what looks like the Eiffel Tower after nature has reclaimed it. "The new world altered everyone," a voice says. "Adapt or die; it was as simple as that." Sigourney Weaver is in the movie, alongside Dakota Fanning.
 
I didn't mind Elysium, kinda Battle Angel Alita themed and James Cameron is now doing a live action of that...although he will apparently need to cast an entire Japanese cast that doesn't speak english to avoid any criticism from the SJWs and PC Hippies that beat down Ghost in the Shell for no reason.

Better example of a fluke is Denis Villeneuve, directed one of the most boring films ever and got praise for it, then the rights to potentially destroy Blade Runner.
 
yeah a while back it was interesting to see steam highlighting movies to me when going through their things you might like queue.

renting a movie isnt my thing anymore since netflix, but it was interesting. Wonder what next they will be offering
 
Pringle said:
Oh hey, it's that terrible director who everyone seems to want to love for some reason.
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Please enlighten me on a Sci-Fi flick in the last 4 years with half the story telling that District 9 did. Im not being sarcastic, Im honestly interested because I cant seem to locate any. Moon was good but that was more psych thriller to me.
It cant be animated either.
 
Peter Jackson was involved in District 9. So his over site may have had a hand it make it great? The other movies were just bad.
 
The problem with District 9 was he made it as a one and done without thinking about a sequel.
The movie begs for a sequel but it has almost been too many years since the original was released to make one.
 
rehab said:
Please enlighten me on a Sci-Fi flick in the last 4 years with half the story telling that District 9 did. Im not being sarcastic, Im honestly interested because I cant seem to locate any. Moon was good but that was more psych thriller to me.
It cant be animated either.
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Sunshine?

I mean, I'm definitely not saying District 9 was terrible. I'm saying he, Neil Bloomkamp, is the most over-rated director in the last 10 years. District 9 bought him far too much goodwill. And the gag-worthy Alien 4 sequel he was "so close to making"? Bullet dodged (although Ridley Scott keeps shitting out sequels, so it couldn't possibly get any worse there).
 
shad0w4life said:
I didn't mind Elysium, kinda Battle Angel Alita themed and James Cameron is now doing a live action of that...although he will apparently need to cast an entire Japanese cast that doesn't speak english to avoid any criticism from the SJWs and PC Hippies that beat down Ghost in the Shell for no reason.

Better example of a fluke is Denis Villeneuve, directed one of the most boring films ever and got praise for it, then the rights to potentially destroy Blade Runner.
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I am far from a sjw, but there were not many Japanese people in Japan in ghost in the Shell.
 
Pringle said:
Sunshine?
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Sunshine was very underrated, great work by Danny Boyle. Interstellar was another amazing film that came out somewhat recently as well. I really enjoyed District 9, Elysium was good, Chappie on the other hand....yikes. Even Die Antwoord couldn't save that train wreck.
 
This is actually interesting news. Blomkamp's short movies before District 9 were all very interesting. It's when they people threw money at him to let him turn short movies into full length movies that the trouble started.
 
DAMMIT NEIL, STOP WASTING TIME AND MONEY AND JUST MAKE DISTRICT 10, SHARLTO SAID HE WAS ONBOARD. :D
 
Jim Kim said:
The problem with District 9 was he made it as a one and done without thinking about a sequel.
The movie begs for a sequel but it has almost been too many years since the original was released to make one.
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I look at this as a good thing. He told a story that wasnt built to set up a franchise system of endless sequels by hollywood. It was an honest story that he completed from start to finish. I hate movies obviously designed for the next 10 years worth of sequels.

I'm not sure why Neil struggles to keep his footing in Hollywood, despite what you might think of Elysium and we can all agree Chappie was awful, he certainly has a good directorial eye; great cinematography, great action sequences etc. He knows how to set the stage.
 
Pringle said:
Sunshine?
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I kinda liked that movie, had no idea who made it but for some reason I went in thinking it would be a lower budget indie flick... pleasantly surprised, some unique imagery and concepts there (well, compared to many other popular "hollywood" scifi)
 
Basically, like the Wachowskis (every single film of theirs is brought to you by the directors of The Matrix), Neill Blomkamp is in the same room. Every film brought to you by the director of District 9.

I also make the case that M Night Shyamalan has a better starting track record than those directors. At least he followed up with 1 or 2 decent films (though he has fared much worse at his lowest). I could not say the same of Elysium or the equally laughable V for Vendetta, which have astoundingly shallow themes, compared to what they tried (and failed) to portray.
 
Youn said:
I kinda liked that movie, had no idea who made it but for some reason I went in thinking it would be a lower budget indie flick... pleasantly surprised, some unique imagery and concepts there (well, compared to many other popular "hollywood" scifi)
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Danny Boyle. 'Trainspotting', 'Slumdog Millionaire', '28 Days Later'. He's fantastic with imagery and suspense while building characters you actually give a shit about. (y)(y)(y)
 
jeremyshaw said:
Basically, like the Wachowskis (every single film of theirs is brought to you by the directors of The Matrix), Neill Blomkamp is in the same room. Every film brought to you by the director of District 9.

I also make the case that M Night Shyamalan has a better starting track record than those directors. At least he followed up with 1 or 2 decent films (though he has fared much worse at his lowest). I could not say the same of Elysium or the equally laughable V for Vendetta, which have astoundingly shallow themes, compared to what they tried (and failed) to portray.
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Yeah, M Night had some stinkers then he made Split. McAvoy acted his ass off in that movie.
 
nysmo said:
I look at this as a good thing. He told a story that wasnt built to set up a franchise system of endless sequels by hollywood.
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About that...

MARTY O’DONNELL: The plug was pulled on everything. Neill Blomkamp was still working with all these props, and he ended up making those Landfall short movies that led up to Halo 3. What he did was great. Fast-forward to District 9 and you actually see some of the props that were made for the Halo movie repainted white. The battle rifle, for example, is a Halo rifle, except it’s white. And then there’s the alien arm, and everything. To Joe, it was like, wow. I love District 9, I think it’s great. But Joe had trouble seeing that movie, let me just say that.
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He kinda took a story that was built for that and turned it into a one-off.
 
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