07.09.09 I THINK THE ALIENS ARE ARABS
A lot of people are predicting Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 to be the sleeper hit of the summer, and now we’ve got a full-length trailer. (Trailer also available in HD at Yahoo)
Thirty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in Johannesburg, South Africa’s District 9 as the world’s nations argued over what to do with them. [Yahoo]
The film was shot documentary-style, and as you can see from the trailer, robots also seem to factor into the plot somehow. Anyway, the humans fear the aliens, so they marginalize them from society and control their movements, and the aliens’ frustrations eventually makes them violent, which only proves to the humans they were right to stick them in ghettoes all along. Anyone else smell a parable for Palestinians, or some other ethnic minority group? Then again, the director’s South African, so it might just be an allegory for how much he hates black people. They can get away with that in South Africa. Why? Diplomatic immunity.
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I THINK THE ALIENS ARE ARABS
Diplomatic Immunity? Hasn’t that just been revoked?
You can tell the director’s a South African white guy because all the aliens speak in clicks.
I first saw the trailer for this late last night. I was all excited until I noticed a hole in my footy pajamas, and spent the next half hour patching them.
I ain’t gonna play Sun City because I’m terrified of rock-squid-faced spacemen and their murderous robot underlings.
These aliens are so much of a financial inconvenience to the South African people, Nelson Mandela was even overheard saying.
“Oh no. Not dees uglee muddafukahs”
Michael Bay: Aliens!? Robots!?! Explosions!?!?! Racial Stereotypes!?!?!?! Jimmy!!!!!
Jimmy(Michael’s Lawyer): I’m suing. I’m suing.
The Mighty Feklahr cannot see the video, but is sure it is about a small group of Klingons in South Africa revolting because they cannot get flats of cardboard to hold their “BREAKdance-off To Save The WRECK Center”!
You guys will have to bear with Him today. He drank PBR last night to be cool like Walt Kowalski, and now is paying for it.
Always bet on black.
Unless you’re in South Africa.
When Aliens revolt, they steal all the Proctologist equipment.
Skynet was an alien race. That explains the Terminator series completely. It all makes sense now.
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