I want the game! You need to grow up and have some patience, whining and yelling at them is not going to make them update the store. Who are we? I under the concept of time zones, however, both the west and east coast stores are updated universally whereas the European store is updated WAY before the NA store. It should not be difficult to update the store at an earlier time in NA if the content is already processed and ready to go in other regions.
If i were to beat the E3 demo that came with GOW collection, will i still get the making of featurette??? LOL I will stop now, but I know a lot of people want the store to up-date before we get news we already knew about months ago….. We use cookies to personalise your experience and ads on this website and other websites.
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Comments are closed. Newer comments. Kchow23 December 22, at pm PST. Korbei83 December 22, at pm PST. Shameless promotion but I like it.
Personally I think God of War Collection is the better value. Korbei recommends. He wanted the species to be insect-like but also bipedal. The director wanted the audience to relate to the aliens and said of the restriction on the creature design, "Unfortunately, they had to be human-esque because our psychology doesn't allow us to really empathize with something unless it has a face and an anthropomorphic shape.
Like if you see something that's four-legged, you think it's a dog; that's just how we're wired If you make a film about an alien force, which is the oppressor or aggressor, and you don't want to empathize with them, you can go to town. So creatively that's what I wanted to do but story-wise, I just couldn't. The director then decided to choose a Vancouver-based effects company because he anticipated to make films there in the future and because British Columbia offered a tax credit.
Blomkamp met with Image Engine and considered them "a bit of a gamble" since the company had not pursued a project as large as a feature film.
Weta Digital designed the mothership and the drop ship, while the exo-suit and the little pets were designed by The Embassy Visual Effects. Zoic Studios performed overflow 2D work. Like Alive in Joburg , the short film on which the feature film is based, the setting of District 9 is inspired by historical events that took place in South Africa during the apartheid era, with the film's title particularly referencing District Six. District Six, an inner-city residential area in Cape Town , was declared a "whites only" area by the government in , with 60, people forcibly removed and relocated to Cape Flats , 25 km 15 mi away.
The film makes a statement about inhumanity in the irony of Wikus becoming more humane as he becomes less human. Chris Mikesell from Ka Leo notes that inhumanity is a deep-rooted theme throughout. He writes: "Substitute 'black,' 'Asian,' 'Mexican,' 'illegal,' 'Jew,' or any number of different labels for the word 'prawn' in this film and you will hear the hidden truth behind the dialogue".
Alien eggs are destroyed before birth and described as popcorn. He feels that District 9 shows the corruption humans are capable of. Themes of racism and xenophobia are put forward by the movie in the form of speciesism applied to the aliens. The use of the word "prawn" to describe the aliens is a reference to the Parktown prawn , a king cricket species considered a pest in South Africa.
Duane Dudek from the Journal Sentinel wrote that "The result is an action film about xenophobia, in which all races of humans are united in their dislike and mistrust of an insect-like species". An underlying theme in District 9 is state reliance on multinational corporations as a government funded enforcement arm.
As MNU represents the type of corporation which partners with governments, the negative portrayal of MNU in the film can be seen as a statement about the dangers of governments, particularly in their outsourcing of militaries and bureaucracies to private contractors. The music for District 9 was scored by Canadian composer Clinton Shorter, who spent three weeks preparing for the film.
Director Neill Blomkamp wanted a "raw and dark" score, but one that maintained its African roots. This was a challenge for Shorter, who found much of the African music he worked with to be optimistic and joyful. Unable to get the African drums to sound dark and heavy, Shorter used a combination of taiko drums and synthesized instruments for the desired effects, with the core African elements of the score conveyed in the vocals and smaller percussion. Sony Pictures launched a "Humans Only" marketing campaign to promote District 9.
Sony's marketing team designed its promotional material to emulate the segregational billboards that appear throughout the film. The website had a local alert system for Johannesburg the film's setting , news feeds, behavior recommendations, and rules and regulations. Other viral websites for the film were also launched, including an MNU website with a countdown timer for the film's release, [33] an anti-MNU blog run by fictional alien character Christopher Johnson, [34] and an MNU-sponsored educational website.
Humans are MNU agents on patrol trying to arrest or kill aliens. Aliens try to avoid capture from MNU agents whilst searching for alien canisters. Among comparable science fiction films in the past, its opening attendance was slightly less than the film Cloverfield and the film Starship Troopers. The audience demographic for District 9 was 64 percent male and 57 percent people 25 years or older. The website wrote of the consensus, "Technically brilliant and emotionally wrenching, District 9 has action, imagination, and all the elements of a thoroughly entertaining science-fiction classic.
The next thing that stood out about the film was the performance of Sharlto Copley "Chappie" which, essentially, launched his international career. One of the most difficult tasks that a writer, director, or actor faces is to make relatable that which is unrelatable.
Taking a character like Wikus, who is blind to his prejudice, complicit activities, and general willful ignorance and turn him into someone for whom we have genuine empathy is the essential role of an artist. To not hide from the way that Wikus allows himself to be stupidly used in the beginning of the film and give him a journey which confronts him with the horrific results of his apathy in a way that leaves us hoping for better for him is the essence of good acting and I say Bravura to Copley for his performance.
The reason that I highlight these two aspects of the film is because they are what I find to be essentially brilliant about the film, yet also what was lost on me about it ten years ago. With the way the film tells its story in two ways: through high level news; stories, documentary footage, and interviews with family and friends of Wikus; as well as on the ground personal interactions; between Wikus and his coworkers, the company, his family, and the Prawns; we end up getting the story from two perspectives.
As a young man, I wasn't asking myself the questions I now ask myself so I only saw the interesting story, the horror of realizing something alien is happening to you, and the thrill of some impressive action sequences especially considering the budget.
As an older man I realize that while the film is about these things on the surface, it is also about the difference between what we receive through screens, second hand accounts, and media outlets, as opposed to that which we experience personally. The film is about perception, propaganda, prejudice, and personal connection. It is about what is real and what is not. Questions like this continue to be begged more and more as our world becomes more saturated, debate if you will for good or ill, with screens, vlogs, stories, commercials, news stories, reality shows, and everything in between.
We must remember that the tactile person to person contact which is the enemy of prejudice requires us to seek specifically for the individual and to see them for who they are as an individual and not just what group they belong to. The Prawn in this film is a stand in for all of the things we fear at a knee's jerk whether it is the immigrant, refugee, Muslim, Jew, Christian, Communist, Fascist, Snowflake, or Boomer.
May we all seek to understand each other more despite the efforts of the powerful to shape our understanding through media. FAQ 8. What is 'District 9' about? Is "District 9" based on a book? How did so many aliens come to be on earth? Details Edit. Release date August 14, United States. Official site. District Nine. Johannesburg, South Africa. This is a really cool idea.
District 9 was easily my favourite movie of the past few years, and this just sweetens the deal! Awesome but kinda odd. Aliens and Kratos seem a bit apart but this is still cool. GoW collection is soooo close hurry up october and end already!!! Such irony. What a great promo. You guys are just brillant!!!
In the immortal words of billy Idol. I want more, more, more!!! Especially future game-to-film adaptations :. Are they ever going to release the Demo on the PSN? Possibly after the game is released? But eventually I think Demos need to be in the hands of folks who are on the fence about purchasing the product, and would like to try it out for free.
Why must we download it as a pre-order bonus? Pre-Order is not required. Pretty cool, I was thinking on getting the movie anyway, since I loved it. We use cookies to personalise your experience and ads on this website and other websites. For more information, visit our Cookie information opens in a new window page.
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