Neill Blomkamp's new zombie AI 'film' is just slop warmed over

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I'm going to be controversial here and say that I think he is a one hit wonder. District 9 was decent (although unsubtle... "fokkin prawns!"). Elysium was a very crude political commentary on healthcare and inequality (and I can't remember much else about the film except people running around going "fok" all the time and shooting things.)

I get that. I for one really liked District 9 and thought it was more than decent [IMDB 7.9 and 90% Rotten tomatoes] but always thought everything after was meh

District 9 was a decent action film, and felt like something different. Like Idiocracy, District 9's actual political commentary was very on the nose, but that didn't detract from it. It was very reminiscent of "Alien Nation" in some ways.

This is just 2026. Give it a few years and it will become much better. CGI also started embarrassingly bad, peaked, and then went back to bad as studios realised people just don't care that much

CGI had some very big wins early on. Jurassic Park was made in 1993, and still looks really good today.

Terminator 2 was two years earlier than that. It didn't try to be photorealistic, but it used the available tech in a way that was visually interesting.

Maybe we're waiting for a filmmaker to find the right use for it. Apparently this isn't it.

The first uses of GCI in movies are from the 70s and the 80s [1] way before than Jurassic Park. AI in videos is what? 3? There will slop and failures along the way but we are still very early on

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-generated_imagery

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