Neill Blomkamp Shorts

dreamers75

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Jaysis i want more........

Slydice

Warning: Gore

Also: What the actual ****?! :eek:

Slydice

second episode..

doesn't feel directly linked to the previous stuff except some of the scenes in the trailers

Much blood, much gore.. Also: Vietnam (kinda.. I don't think it was filmed on location)

Cunning Alias

While they aren't perfect, im loving the fact that these even exist. Netflix really need to pick up Neill and let him go mad.

Rakka is what Falling Skies should have been

pixelburp

Cunning Alias wrote: »

While they aren't perfect, im loving the fact that these even exist. Netflix really need to pick up Neill and let him go mad.

Rakka is what Falling Skies should have been

I dunno, I'd lean towards the opposite: Blomkamp definitely has a grungy, tangible style and is clearly a very talented production designer, but he's a terrible, terrible writer & his directing a bit scattershot. Even his best work, District 9, wasn't perfect and increasingly feels like it was a bit of a fluke.

Only watched portions of those two shorts, and seems like typical Blomkamp: fantastic VFX & world-building, slight over-reliance on splattery gore, trash script.

Ideally, it'd be great to see him direct someone else's story for a change (without his direct input that is)

youngblood

He has a style which Im not sure I like and sometimes
confuse his work for being......all the same....

Like District 9, Chappie etc all seem like the same thing.....the exact same thing

Slydice

You know.. if anything I'd say he's showing he might be able to give the same feel as the early robocop films and terminator 1. That kinda in your face blood and guts style.

pixelburp

Slydice wrote: »

You know.. if anything I'd say he's showing he might be able to give the same feel as the early robocop films and terminator 1. That kinda in your face blood and guts style.

Robocop's gooeyness matched the overall grotesque, satirical tone that was turned up to 11 though - Verhoeven effectively repeating the same trick in Starship Troopers. The stories worked & felt thought through: both films were big, boisterous comicbooks that revelled in their violence, and asked us to go along with it.

Blomkamp's films though - including these shorts - don't seem to possess any tone or register as such, with the exception of District 9 perhaps. They're all lost in the mechanics & industry of a world than any story happening in it - and it's such a narrow, specific style too you'd argue his films all take place in the same universe. You end up with this Industrial Design porn(*), interspersed with people getting splattered into a red mist for no reason.

(*) Which I don't mind, but I have my limits. Elysium was a beautiful film to look at from a design point of view, but the actual story was beyond dreadful.

youngblood

The latest God one, seems like an after thought, almost as if he wasnt interested to flesh out a story but had to try and make something that wasnt about South African/Alien/Corporate/Exploding/Gorefest

NIMAN

youngblood wrote: »

He has a style which Im not sure I like and sometimes
confuse his work for being......all the same....

Like District 9, Chappie etc all seem like the same thing.....the exact same thing

Rakka for me just looked like District 9 with different creatures.

Slydice

This (latest episode, Zygote) was cool!

Stars Dakota Fanning!

Felt like a good attempt at hard sci fi

The monster was just about enough to not be over the top.. it kinda worked

also the setting and idea about synthetics being developed was cool

Slydice

Short explainer has been uploaded:

dreamers75

Thats pretty good tbh

Slydice

Computer Generated. Almost looks like a computer game engine rendering..

Anyway.. messed up as usual..