• Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org
    76·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Sagrotan@lemmy.world
    32·
    2 years ago

    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”?

    • pyre@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
        4·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • BluesF@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          Altered carbon had excellent source material to work from. As much as I liked the series, the book soars in comparison.

  • blarth@thelemmy.club
    13·
    2 years ago

    This movie was okay, but I don’t really consider it to be sci-fi. It’s more a political drama.

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
        4·
        2 years ago

        … wow, “sparkling futurism” is the phrase I didn’t know t needed, thx.
        It classifies so much stuff perfectly!

          • blarth@thelemmy.club
            1·
            2 years ago

            Inception, Interstellar, Star Trek movies, Star Wars (originals), probably some I’m forgetting.

            • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
              5·
              2 years ago

              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.

              • blarth@thelemmy.club
                1·
                2 years ago

                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.

          • blarth@thelemmy.club
            1·
            2 years ago

            Good God there are so many assumptions about my character based on this post. Thought I was escaping the Reddit hive mind mentality coming here, but seems like it’s the same shit in another place.

            The message is fine. A refugee story. The plight of the impoverished. Fine. It might have landed better for me if there were more sci-fi aspects involved.

    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • DogWater@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Rambomst@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 years ago

    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.