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I haven't seen them either but what do they have to do with Elysium?

 

Once the Neill Blomkamp show starts you cannot wait.

 

I never saw District 9 on a large screen, I don't want to make the same mistake with this one.

 

And if Elysium is a commercial-critical hit, then they all are in the same stripe.

Aplocalypse Now is the best mindf**k movie IMO. Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen :majesty:

 

Have you read the book on which the film is based or at-least thematically drawn from, Heart of Darkness?

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Some films that I would like to see on the list,

  • Pi -- Darren Aronofsky
  • Requiem for a Dream -- Darren Aronofsky
  • Apocalypse Now -- Francis Ford Coppola
  • A Clockwork Orange -- Stanley Kubrick
  • Dr. Strangelove... How I came to Love the Bomb -- Stanley Kubrick
  • Lord of War -- As straight a story can be, worth a watch just because of the opening sequence
  • No Man's Land -- Danis Tanović's debut masterpiece

     

Hope you enjoy, Cheerio!

 

 

I don't know if they belong to the list but some of them are gems.

 

Requiem for a dream is one sick puppy. Pi always eluded me, gonna watch it one of these days. Clockwork's good (a wee bit overrated?) Apocalypse now?..Check. Lord of war is cool. Strangelove and No man's land...yet to see. Friends recommended those two but I've delayed.

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Once the Neill Blomkamp show starts you cannot wait.

 

I never saw District 9 on a large screen, I don't want to make the same mistake with this one.

 

 

 

 

 

+9000

 

Hell yeah! Blomkamp is the man I'm most excited for this gen. Seen the short that District 9 is based on? Waiting for the sequel (District 10?). Hope Christopher brings back an armada with him this time.

 

Elysium also seems to be promising.

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I don't know if they belong to the list but some of them are gems.

Requiem for a dream is one sick puppy. Pi always eluded me, gonna watch it one of these days. Clockwork's good (a wee bit overrated?) Apocalypse now?..Check. Lord of war is cool. Strangelove and No man's land...yet to see. Friends recommended those two but I've delayed.

 

Do check out the clip I gave you, it is a short film and no dialogues but heavy stuff.

 

Pi is good if not better in some terms w.r.t. his more widely known follow ups, although he has not lost his craft, Pi is the project that kicked it all of.

 

Requiem is something I relate to a lot and the music is amazing. I refused to see The Orange for at-least three-four times before I finally sat through it, I don't know about over-rated but punchy stuff. It is a film that I cannot handle very well and don't keep on me.

 

Strangelove is one of the best films from Kubrick and solid gallows humour, it has a black streak but you never get bored or feel poignant (even after all the topics are deadly serious).

 

No Man's Land is in Bosnian if I am not wrong but another really good film with inflection of very cruel humour.

Hell yeah! Blomkamp is the man I'm most excited for this gen. Seen the short that District 9 is based on? Waiting for the sequel (District 10?). Hope Christopher brings back an armada with him this time.

 

I don't want any follow up to District 9, leave it ambiguous, otherwise no sting to the end. But I think the creator has the best pulse of his creation.

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Have you read the book on which the film is based or at-least thematically drawn from, Heart of Darkness?

 

Not yet :( Have heard a lot about the book, I know the movie is based on Heart of Darkness.

 

BTW Alpha, there are two versions of Apocalpse Now. The original and the Redux version (3 hours long). Have you seen both? Read somewhere that the ending in the Redux version is little different (better).

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BTW Alpha, there are two versions of Apocalpse Now. The original and the Redux version (3 hours long). Have you seen both? Read somewhere that the ending in the Redux version is little different (better).

 

I keep Redux on me and that is the ending I am more familiar with. Not so clued in on the original theatrical cut, sorry.

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Do check out the clip I gave you, it is a short film and no dialogues but heavy stuff.

 

 

I don't want any follow up to District 9, leave it ambiguous, otherwise no sting to the end. But I think the creator has the best pulse of his creation.

 

 

I will.

 

District 10 is a sequel I look forward to not to have closure or have questions answered but cuz I'm excited at the possibilities that D9 left us with. I'm excited at the prospect of the plot moving forward from here on now. It deserves a fitting end and D9 is not that end, as good as it was/is. I love open-ended films as much as the next guy but I do yearn for a D9 sequel. An Inception sequel, No. District 9?...Yes!

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I don't want any follow up to District 9, leave it ambiguous, otherwise no sting to the end.

+ 1

 

District 9 is one of my most favorite movies ever. And the love and appreciation was totally unexpected.

 

Make a sequel and the story loses all charm, making it yet another aliens vs marines clone.

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I don't know. In all probability I might end up hating the sequel ,if ever there were to be one, but I trust Blomkamp enough to hope for one. D9 was a diamond in the rough. D10 should be spectacular if done right. Sequel-anxiety is something all movie buffs face from time to time yet one can't help but not forget there were those that were better than their predecessors/originals right from Terminator to First Blood to Fast & Furious.

 

So, yeah I await a sequel quite eagerly.

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Make a sequel and the story loses all charm, making it yet another aliens vs marines clone.

 

IMO it's a great setup for an 'Aliens' like sequel to an 'Alien' like film.

 

Just needs a James Cameron.

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But alien/aliens was more about a crew's survival while district 9 is an individual's story.

 

Of course a good director can Do good things but other factors have to work, most notably him getting freedom from the studio.

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alam bhai,

buy it again, worth one time watch ..

 

i recently purchased 3D version, will watch it soon,

 

 

keep in line, will sell it soon

:fear:

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Yep. Aliens comes to mind too. The recent Prometheus rocked, albeit being only a spiritual successor to the aliens franchise. A lot of people don't agree ofc.

 

+1

 

Many people here liked Prometheus.

 

I had the Prometheus BluRay, sold it off without watching as I read a lot of negative stuff about it here.

 

Prometheus was awesome. You should have watched it. Worth watching twice!

 

Whiners gonna whine :P

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