{"id":594,"date":"2009-08-17T17:15:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T15:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=594"},"modified":"2009-08-17T17:15:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T15:15:24","slug":"district-9-is-the-hype-warranted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/district-9-is-the-hype-warranted\/","title":{"rendered":"District 9 &#8212; is the hype warranted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>District 9 opened this weekend in the States and it is of interest to South Africa .. if I have read correctly it <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/District_9\">takes place on our shores<\/a>. From what I have read, it was a real low budget movie in terms of what movies cost.&nbsp; It costed around $30million to make and took around $36million during the first weekend &#8230; not bad going.<\/p>\n<p>I quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/08\/17\/139249\/District-9-Best-Sci-fi-Movie-of-09?from=rss\">Slashdot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Slashdot covered &#8220;District 9&#8221; back in July. I was originally excited to see this movie for its exhibition of exoskeleton robot &#8220;mechs&#8221; (see images and video at Hizook.com ). After watching the film this opening weekend, I can honestly say that it was an amazing science fiction movie! Everything was spot-on: the plot, the human elements, the alien elements, the technology, and the seamless blend of special effects with real camera capture. This film should vault Neill Blomkamp into sci-fi stardom, on par with George Lucas and the Wachowski Brothers (of Matrix fame). This is certainly a must-see movie \u00e2\u20ac\u201d easily the best movie of the year.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is saying a lot and if it true then it is sure one movie not to be missed.&nbsp; Cannot wait for the 28th to go and watch it.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/district%209\" rel=\"tag\">district 9<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/south%20africa\" rel=\"tag\">south africa<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/sci-fi\" rel=\"tag\">sci-fi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>District 9 opened this weekend in the States and it is of interest to South Africa .. if I have read correctly it takes place on our shores. From what I have read, it was a real low budget movie <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/district-9-is-the-hype-warranted\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  District 9 &#8212; is the hype warranted?<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[460,461,549],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-south-africa","tag-district-9","tag-sci-fi","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}