I’d trade the fast and furious series for a pack of cigarettes and a sixer.
And I don’t even smoke or drink
We can just throw the series away. No trade necessary.
I’d trade them for a swift slap on the ass
This person is the kind of person that would keep wishing on a monkey paw. The rest of Niell Blomkamp’s movies have been not great, and a sequel would probably be so bad to make the original worse.
What the FUCK did you just say about Chappie???
Chappie was bad, and I say that as a Die Antwoord enjoyer.
I hate Die Antwoord, but Chappie is a good boy and shouldn’t be lumped in with them!
It was nothing original, just Short Circuit with guns
There’s nothing wrong with that. Johnny 5 ALIVE
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He just needs a good writer by his side to keep him in check and reign him in.
Not great doesn’t mean bad. I had fun with Gran Turismo
Why? The first one was very experimental. They release a second one they are given two bad choices. They continue the original cinematic vision but being a sequel the plot suffers and it fails or they try something new and it falls flat.
Why ruin a perfectly, self contained, what I would consider masterpiece by trying to expand the universe.
I would be ok with exploring the world some more but maybe in more traditional heros tale type outline. Even then half the audience will think your getting, excuse the bad joke, “district 10.”
Most sequels are sub-par, agreed. But this story does seem half-finished at the end of the film, a sequel would practically write itself.
They said before making mortal combat annihilation
Touché
Not just experimental, but an afterthought made with leftovers of a partially made movie that production failed on.
The location, props, cgi, and even parts of the story were the scraps of the Halo movie that Peter Jackson started to make before abandoning it.
The result was an excellent movie, but the circumstances of slapping a new coat of paint onto a half produced film make for a very unique and hard to replicate product.
I would trade six monkey paws for Hollywood to stop being so risk averse
But that’s where all the rich people pour their money dude
WON’T SOMEONE THINK ABOUT THE RICH PEOPLE 😂
Privately owned studios should all be run at a loss as a point of pride among the wealthy. “Oh, you’re funding a popular film? For profit? How embarrassing for you.”
Folly Studios
I raise you the complete Marvel trash heap and several individual “sequels” made in the last 5 or so years. Neill Blomkamp has so many ideas, literally dozens of teasers are on YouTube. Most of them are seriously awesome. Do we really have to wait until all the geriatric Hollywood dinosaurs are dead? And with then their talentless and greedy “protégés”?
I’d really like them to make a sequel to “The Matrix”
Me too buddy, me too.
2&3 are good. they expanded the lore to be much more interesting, made agent smith a much more compelling character, threw away the stupid “chosen one” and “freedom fighter” cliches in favor of making the movies more about humanity’s ability to choose rather than compliance and accepting inevitability, and had amazing scenes. i honestly don’t know what people were expecting to see from those movies, but i bet every idea they would come up with instead would be stupid or redundant.
You’re not thinking this through. Bring the Krill into the F&F movies.
And they can all be a big happy FAMILY !!!
I was so excited for Elysium because I thought it would be the spiritual sequel.
Yeah and I feel its problem was on the writing and directing. The concept was there but you just didn’t care about characters. They should’ve made the first half a romance, and then the second half about vengeance/redemption.
And it was…pretty one-dimensional.
I feel like the “rich live in the sky, poor live on the wasted earth” was over the top. As opposed to S1 of Altered Carbon which was way better at addressing this trope. The meths were depraved, but you could kinda understand it — they’ve been alive for so long, but want to continue to “feel alive” through ever more extreme experiences.
Altered carbon had excellent source material to work from. As much as I liked the series, the book soars in comparison.
This movie was okay, but I don’t really consider it to be sci-fi. It’s more a political drama.
If your sci fi isn’t making some sort of social or political statement, its not sci fi - its just sparkling futurism.
… wow, “sparkling futurism” is the phrase I didn’t know t needed, thx.
It classifies so much stuff perfectly!Glad to be of service :D
Disagree.
That’s fair. What are some of your favourite sci fi pieces?
Inception, Interstellar, Star Trek movies, Star Wars (originals), probably some I’m forgetting.
Inception is kinda all about closure, which I’ll give you isn’t quite “social commentary” but its treading dangerously close to mental health commentary.
Interstellar is all about climate change, and the duty of humanity to fix their own mess, which are certainly social commentary points
Star Trek has social commentary and political commentary baked into its DNA, everything is an allegory for some real life issue they want to trick people into thinking about with an open mind, or from a new point of view
Star Wars, well, looking at when it came out the parallels to the Vietnam War are palpable but its dripping with anti-authoritarian messaging
Its funny, I was almost surprised to see Inception in your list. Not because I think its bad media, I think its pretty rad, but because it sort of feels more like a standard heist film with a science-y/fantasy-y gimmick. Certainly by my criteria it wouldn’t count as SciFi for the aforementioned lack of social/political commentary, but its an interesting edge case.
It’s not that I don’t understand there are political themes in sci-fi. It’s that it felt like I was being beat over the head with it in D9. Also, just not a big fan of being told something wild exists in a movie but it’s never exposed because the budget doesn’t allow for it.
Yeah, it’s not a-political like real sci fi like Star Trek
What was the allegory of the original Stargate movie, actually? Something about the working class overcoming monarchy, maybe? TBH it kind of played off as US Military intervention in the Middle East propaganda… Yeah that’s probably it.
Also: Starship Troopers is not just about killing bugs
It’s abut mating with them and creating a new race (ie space diplomacy).
Imagine a human capable of butt-to-orbit warfare.
It can be both.
counter point: cool robots
I … actually kinda agree with you.
I get that ‘if alien then sci-fi’ is the norm for designating sci-fi (like, if it contains science fiction then it’s sci-fi, regardless of the plots focus, the entire thing is classified by the setting).But my head-canon also focuses on what the story is about.
If I could take out the sci-fi elements & the story wouldn’t change (ie could be set in today’s Earth), then I only see it as -fi. But also the story could be set on today’s Earth but with one single smol sci-fi element (a piece of tech of sorts), and if the entire plot focuses on it, then I understand it as sci-fi.The most controversial example of this (just in my head) wound be Star Wars. Much later in the extended universe things changed, but the movies started out as pure westerns, like, the same story could have been told as a western and especially the screenplay parts wouldn’t have to change, just the backdrop (Im not being literal, but not far from it).
Space sci-fi in general has the tendency to use the dimensions in space like if everything was happening on Earth.
guess you’re not family.
They are making a district 10.
There’s been vague rumours for 15 years now. I’ll believe it when I see it.
So I saw a blurb about this recently and it seems unfounded. Only 1 place was reporting anything and nowhere else online would corroborate it.
The last known news before that was the project is currently on hold for an unknown length of time. It may or may not get made. It’s far from certain yet.
Like irl or a movie?
Part 2 is happening irl right now in occupied Palestine.
Let’s not dream about that. Lately, all the remakes and reenvisions have been nothing but a quick cash grab and extreme disappointment to all those who loved original works.
i did always want a sequel where the aliens came back and wrecked shit with their actual military so i can cheer them on
A sequel called District 10 has been written. About a year ago Neill Blomkamp said he’s unsure about making it now but believes it might be made in the future.
