District 9 Rises From the Ashes of Halo 207
JohnSmedley sent in a story about what might be the last SciFi film worth caring about this summer. He writes "Wired has an interesting piece up on the upcoming District 9 release. District 9 rose from the ashes of a failed Halo movie and expands on 'Alive in Jo'Burg' which is a South African short film by Blomkamp. Both the short and full feature films expand and explore a premise in which aliens in space are treated as badly as illegal immigrants and the underclass. The story begins as a damaged alien craft lands in Africa. The foreign race is quarantined in a remote area called District 9, and from there are subjected to xenophobia, and the desire of a multi-national conglomerate to steal their technology. The film is an exploration of what would happen in terms of segregation between an alien race and humans, subjecting the stranded visitors to the very human condition of greed, fear, and exploitation. District 9 will be in theatres on August 14'th, and you can view the trailers from the viewpoint of Multi-National United."
Re:Moon (Score:4, Funny)
Besides, how are we all supposed to read 1984 when Amazon.com deleted it from all our Kindles?
Why? (Score:1, Funny)
Yes, just what we need. More "I'm a more (illegal) immigrant/minority whining.
Why is Michael Jackson the "King of Pop"? Because he kept saying he was. Why are minorities/aliens(as in immigrants not from space) always victims? Because they always say they are too. Look at Mr. Gates claims of profiling which turned out not to be true. Isn't it possible that the people crying foul about 'isms are themselves the problem?
Either way, this is just another gay attempt at social engineering through popular media.
comment on website on 4th planet of canopus: (Score:5, Funny)
FWIW, it took evolution millions of years to come up with a wheel. this is a very efficient way of moving intelligent beings with use of biomagnetics (repulse + attract) around a solid water crust with a nitrogen atmosphere. I'm not so sure this is a "one in hundreds" of potentially useful evolutionary ideas, but rather one in very few. That it's trilaterally symmetric comes from cellular agglomeration, and there is so far little supporting evidence that alternative mechanisms can support a three meter tall intelligent organism well
Re:Moon (Score:3, Funny)
salad-tosser that is the writer's pen
Yeah, I think I meant Salad Shooter(tm) [saladshooter.com] there. We'll just ignore what salad-tossing pens might be a metaphor for....
Re:It's just the opening scenes of Alien Nation (Score:4, Funny)
You know it would work just as well how? Because you created your own virtual earth and ran genetic simulations on it for a million years?
Yes, I played Spore, and came up with a wide variety of different body plans that worked just as well. So there.
Re:As badly as illegal immigrants?!?! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Moon (Score:4, Funny)
This book is almost a thousand years old [nationalarchives.gov.uk]. Where's the thousand year old CD copy? Huh?
If you look through the world's museums and archives you won't find a single CD produced before 1979. Clearly these things cannot last more than thirty years. If anyone tries to tell you something different, insist that they show you a hundred year old CD. Sure, they'll probably come up with some lame story which explains why they can't produce one, but we all know the real truth.
That's why I have taken all of my most important data and carved it into the Nazca Plateau. You just can't beat that kind of reliability.