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What mechs do you think humans have made?

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@@jb76489 Never played Mechwarrior? Or seen exosuits in the alien films? How about Metal Gear that stresses making the giant robots more human? Here's the thing about humans. They're often egotistic and want things to be in their own image. I'm sure there would also be more animal looking like mechs as well. If they actually become a thing. Here's the catch though. One good EMP blast and what use is a mech?

They are different species with different brain structure(and different thinking patterns), I don’t even know how this would work

Those tentacles are sensors. One for temperature and another one is barometer.

Cheike fooken plllawn!

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Ah yes, cat meal

Wikus evolved to scottish then

I wonder if there was a time dilation thing he didn't account for. Like, 3 years for the prawn, but way more time passing on Earth.

Hehe… funny you should say that…

​@@willy_b_coyote why

@@mikethespike056 district 9 sequel confirmed

its called battle los angeles i suppose

@ can't find a single article on this

Indeed 👍🏻 it’s when it “sucked” all the bullets in, fired them back! Awesome 👌🏻

It's not over the top, it's actually the opposite, with clear limitations and vulnerable.

Imagine what nightmare a dozen, mutually supporting pilots would be.

@@TheStephaneAdam That does somewhat raise the question: How are these things typically deployed? Do they support a squad of troops solo, or do they go in in their own squads?

@@rayanderson5797 No way to know really, what we see of the Prawns is a small, dysfunctional slice of their society. Basically blue-collar workers who make this equipment in their garages with too few foremen to help steer things. I love that aspect of the movie by the way. It hints at the vastness of that universe, and how alien it can be. But it makes speculation difficult.

Playing Titanfall 2 gives you a good idea of how things could be

​@@TheStephaneAdam most of the intelligent crew members had died. the remainder were essentially uneducated drones..thats why they would just sell them for pig meat when you should reasonably be able to buy an island for a single one.

FACTS.

100 %

Masterpiece indeed.

Indeed

Crazy to think that initially we were suppose to get a Halo movie but things went wrong and they decided to go for this

Because the movie tackles so many different social problems effecting the world such as immigration... apartheid...refugees.. the military industrial complex

I dont know how "real" it is but the physics of the car crashes etc. are very believable and the FX are so good you think these weapons could really exist

It's about District 6

@@johnnydoe9169^^^^

Well the prawns are just basic servants/workers. The creators and the 'owners' are never seen or mentioned.

@@DutchGuyMike Is that a theory or actually part of the story though? It seems every weaponry shown in the film is specifically built for prawns

@@ebincd2362 Its theorized (I think even in the film) that the prawns have a intellectual hierarchy. Somehow the "thinking" prawns that run things died prior to the film, which is why when the humans cracked open the ship all they found were aliens who didn't seem capable of running the advanced machines. Presumably Christopher and his son belong to the higher classes of prawn.

@@ebincd2362 it's pretty heavily hinted at especially when they open the ship and the reports stated none of them fought back plus they were starving and half dead, you'd think if they were capable of using this devastating technology they'd have gone out and raided the surrounding area even just out of desperation at some point.

The Kardashev scale is a mf.

Yea Wikus snatching the missile at the last second is the single most badass thing in the movie

They should've shot the RPG at the mech when its back was turned. Or like, shot more RPGs at the mech. Why are movie badguys always so dumb.

@@StephenDelRosario777 I assume limited ammunition (for whatever reason, maybe the vehicle carrying it was totalled and that one shot was all that was salvageable) and that the ship was the priority, given that whether or not the prawns come back en masse depends on if the red prawn (forgot his name it's been ages since I've seen this) makes it to the craft above.

@@s-o-u-p6095 they knew what they were doing was immoral and that that prawn tech is super advanced and if a true invasion happened they would all die so they didn’t want them to leave

Underestimating threats I guess. They assume it is not necessary.

It was an absolutely beautiful machine

I think the movement was how the machine read wickus's mind. Remember it was built by a more insectoid species, in the beginning you see a short clip of them being piloted by prawns and they moved differently.

It's like an Eva

Yeah it’s such an amazing design, really feels alien yet familiar, I hope the 3D models for it are online somewhere

@@gareth0412 youre right, you can even see it at the begining when the machine drilled something onto wikus head and he started groaning in pain

Sequels almost always suck. It's better to have a stand alone gem.

@@HansKlopek not always. Far not

if anything the fact that there is no sequel further drives home the ending

It would literally be the end of the human race, though humans as they are in this movie wouldn't be mourned much.

A sequel can be done, correctly,let us continue to be patient and see what the future brings! Truly it was a gem.

Agree 100%, this movie was just incredible on so many levels.

Sharlto Copley also wrote the movie, whichiis even more of a feat

5 mins of bravery can make all the difference.

You could argue that Christopher is the true protagonist. But yeah, I liked what you said about Wikus, he's a really interesting main character

What an amazing movie, very dramatic, loved it. Can,t wait for District 10

Anything related to Halo is good

Was hoping for part 2.

@Roy Cairns. There will be no District 9 2... because Peter Jackson made one "mistake" with this movie which doomed any chances for the sequel... and I mean... he shows WHO WE REALLY ARE... and how real "peaceful" First Contact would really end.... 😶

@@prithvim7 This isn't Halo related movie... 🤦‍♂️

@@asheer9114 Neill Blomkamp is already writing District 10

District 10 is still being made.

@@solairesunpraiser I hadn't heard that. The last I heard from NB was that he said there was "no need" for a sequel.

@@leemzgoogle917 Apparently he started writing it in February last year. I looked into it and he does talk about how he never felt a need for a sequel but he seemed to have come up with an idea for one. Haven't seen anything recent, but it seems its likely still in the works

@@ethanacevedo2576 should have been a sequel 3 years after this making lol

@@leemzgoogle917 I'm honestly not that excited about a sequel. I think District 9 stands better on its own. The story arc was completed. Adding a bunch of extraneous details about where the aliens came from and why would inevitably be unsatisfying, the mystery and the questions left open is part of the film's appeal.

And this was pieced together from the remnants of a scrapped Halo movie attempt...

@@cnlbenmc what

@@evagineer9165 look up halo landfall that was the scrapped idea that became district 9

@@HelghastStalker yeah but it was meant to be a movie, which would have been awesome but at least we still got district 9

@@cnlbenmc that's cool, the halo landfall trailer was sick so I think they would've done a good job unlike the modern attempt at a halo series

Exactly , the ship was a mining vessel and the mech is just a mining vehicle with some weapons strapped to it , makes you wonder how scary their war mechs are consider the amount of damage a mecha piloted by a bad Pilot (due to bad compatibility) did

Wait, isn't that the movie theory behind Battleship ?

Keep in mind this mech was built from scraps. Imagine someone taking a rusty pickup truck that was intended for landscaping work, slapping some armor plates on it, and mounting a MG on the back. The lightning rifles they use are also improvised industrial equipment. That's the equivalent of turning a nail gun into an actual firearm. I don't want to imagine what their actual military equipment is like if scrap like this is this deadly efficient.

To be fair, I don't think this is really something that they're trained for. Handling impoverished aliens is one thing, but fighting this is basically like walking into a giant meat grinder.

You can't really blame the mercs for getting shredded by a battlesuit constructed by a species that has mastered interstellar travel.

The Mercs: Why do I hear boss music?

Literally they could’ve just ran away and waited for the guy with the anti-material rifle

I mean if the mercs actually used real tactics instead of just standing around waiting to get shot the scene would have gone a lot differently.

Unless it hits it's target and crushes the igniter pin in the front.

i really appreciate the effort into how realistic weapons are

Very good comment.

Does the rocket fuel not keep burning? The thrust cuts off almost as soon as he grabs it, shouldnt the rocket motor keep going or is it just enough fuel to propel it out of the barrel and send it on its way?

It truly is

Very good movie for sure

I did it, I made them their own world, our ancestors, the x-men who abused creation 👽👹

It isn't underrated. It was incredibly successful upon release and was critically acclaimed. It received FOUR Oscar nominations, one of which being Best Motion Picture, there is no higher honour than that. A film isn't underrated just because you like it.

Congratulations. You're 3,628,497th person on RU-vid to rate a film as "underrated".

He was so completely unhinged as Kruger it was actually scary. Especially after watching his transformation in D9. Blomkamp is just a phenomenally good director.

And the loveable psychopath Murdock in the A-team...

Don't forget the lovely Chappie !

He is in the recently release second season of Russian Doll and I did not even recognize him for episodes. Great actor

He becomes maniac pilot in A-Team and innocent robot in Chappie

Enemy Mine

Same here... I remember watching the movie, but I don't remember him gravity-gunning a pig. Hilarious touch in the middle of a dead-serious action scene. :)

I've watched this movie several times over the years. I cant believe I never noticed the pig!

Half life 2 gravity gun kill :) with a piggie :)

Don't forget the washing machine kill as well :)

The pig really was one of the most unexpected and amazing moments I’ve ever seen in film. I’ve seldom been so happy. It was absurd.

imagine a prawn full scale battle group, not this refugee ships

@@sukmablack Basically, I think it's best to surrender if you see that coming towards you

They should never be engaged at the pig farms!

@@welkingunther5417 hah prawn lasers go brrrrrrrrr

Yeah! I love the implication of all the technology.

Agreed...we did get Elysium and Chappie! (same universe and timeline).

Agreed!

Even avatar 2 doesn't have Mech suits this good

Idk, the pig launch was kinda silly

@@astro6009 That was a little detail, but the Prawns, the ship and the exosuit are just perfect.

You certainly can become enGROSSED with all the gore lol

@@astro6009 I liked the pig launching lol it's something hard to forget.

well that also happened in Avatar, but D9 wins at the script and perhaps also at the plot. ok avatar has an over the top plot and a hell of direction yet way too many cliches. D9 is at the top 10 of the genre. of course at the very top there's always aliens and t2, also cameron's. then come, perhaps, starship troopers, perhaps the abyss (also cameron's) what else...? there must be a few others... (no lucas, spielberg or bay movies that i can think of can reach that level of sophistication) I'd say 5th element but no, there's plenty of comedy there, to me a different genre. final fantasy? (terrible script) edit: please don't say elysium, that was just terrible!!! of the really bad.

Yes I noticed that and agree

"greatest CGI I have ever seen" you haven't seen many great CGI movies have you? Small time studios could do this today and even at that time, you didn't need to be a giant studio to make these effects. CGI is good, especially for the small budget they had, but the CGI is small time. The style is more grounded and less fantastic and that's why most people appreciate the CGI more, technically it's nothing out of this world.

@@flybeep1661 considering the time and the budget the movie was made yes it is one of the greatest CGI! Especially when you compare it with todays marvel crap ...

@@flybeep1661 That must be why the academy nominated it for an Oscar in VFX, JS 😋😋!!..

@Ronald Mutebo I got to think for its time that should go to Star Ship Troopers. The bugs hold up even today. But D9 certainly was uncanny in its CGI but more to the interaction of the CGI with real world. I think thats where this film really shines. They meshed it almost perfectly.

@Ronald Mutebo Several of the pre infinity war movies CGI was horrible. Like I cant sit through Black Panther the CGI is so bad.

yep, the alien fluid read his DNA as wrong and "repaired" it with Prawn DNA, thats why the arm that broke was the arm that became alien, the more the body repairs itself the more its "repaired" as a prawn

I don't think so, his legs are still in one piece 9:08

I love how confident people are sometimes when sharing a theory that isn't true.

the suit needed to connect to the user's spinal cord to operate.

Just like the exosuits in elysium need to plug into the back of your skull, proving again that elysium is a sequel set 150 years after D9, most of the tech is reverse engineered from prawn tech, ​and kruger is wikus who lost his mind @@Paronak

I'm glad I came across your comment. One of the few things my mom likes to do is watch movies. So Im starting a 4k movie collection. I'm going to rip all of them and build a home theatre too. I know my mom will really enjoy watching some films with me. I will have those memories to cherish like you when my mom is no longer here. I'm sorry for your loss, life is so damn short. I wish you the best in life =)

​@@zerocal76 ... Good luck with your home theater. I spent about $400 usd for the whole thing. Oh & the reason I said only 5 years was because we finally got our first big lcd flatscreen TV after that, so it kinda made my projector a little bit less relevant. The projector was still used but not as much as it was in those 5 years, which was 1-3 movies nearly every weekend for ~5 years. Have fun & remember the memories you & your mom will get from it. I would recommend you take some photos and/or home videos of you guys watching, including what's on the screen. That was something I never got to do, so it's now all just hazy memories from my brain.

i also set up one of these back then! helped me appreciate this movie in full.

absolutely. Masterful editing and pacing of that fight scene with *tremendous* stakes.

That's because they live on a different planet with much more gravity than earth, just like interstellar, so 3 year to them is like 300, 000 year's for us? My Grand Grand Grand plus son might be able to see that day.

@@mikel4755 asians sure are a funny people... like making up those numbers, and inventing the notion that the aliens' planet has "much more gravity" LOL

Time moves differently in space

@@michaelcohen9363 ok mr smart guy. Here’s a 🍪

@@michaelcohen9363 it's about relativity in space. Interstellar probably discusses this the best, and in the most realistic fashion. The alien planet (for all we know) could be light years away in a different galaxy. That planets time could flow at a much slower speed. So when you are on that planet, maybe a few minutes go by here and there- nothing new. But if you instantly teleported to Earth after those said minutes; months, years, could of flyed by on Earth. People don't think about these kind of things, because people don't care about space.. :(

Right --- the CGI/tech is used to *aid* the storytelling, it isn't the storytelling itself.

Don't forget Interstellar, I couldn't understand all the hate Elysiun got it was insanely underrated to me. I absolutely love this director.

@@tvtvtv9485 (previous comment was a rehash of my OP...)... Interstellar... hmm... I've not yet sat down and watched it... I feel like I should probably watch the Astronaut Farmer and Interstellar back to back... seems like they might tie in together.. ::shruggs::

This and Children of Men both do gritty sci-fi and action with thoughtful storylines very well. Very "lived in" worlds. I've caught myself a few times thinking, "oh yeah I forgot about Children of Men/ District 9, that was a good movie." Like a pleasant little surprise.

Edge of tomorrow I own on RU-vid and to this day can never get tired of watching, as much hate as Tom cruise gets I find it to be one of his best films

If it ever happens. What is Neil Blomkamp even doing anymore?

@@stephenking5852 yes

I’ve heard it’s in the works, current status though? Not even sure. I would perf it being under the dark though until it’s finished. [edit] It’s better nowadays that projects such as these are kept hidden so we won’t be so hyped up and upset when it wasn’t what we hoped for. It’s fine for them to tease us but for many big films, or ones which are on good pace [like District 9] with its audience often fail right after their predecessors. This goes for games as well and as I’m aware- a lot of these projects are super rushed now because they want to make money the very next year. When a series takes a long gap to breathe and develop, that’s a sign of successful pacing in my book and we shouldn’t pressure them into making a sequel right away. [this could be debatable obviously, as we haven’t gotten a sequel to this brilliant movie in a long time. But if it’s still a work in progress then let it be until they get it done right.]

@@stephenking5852 q1111111110

Simply. An Invasion

Haha

Is this Angry Birds? 😳

Or a high velocity oven🤣

I know this comment is from 2 years ago but it made me laugh out loud 🤣🤣🤣

oh that’s rich!

Yep, theyve lived together for 20 years the aliens and humans have learnt to understand each others' languages but they cant speak it due to biological(?) Inability, v cool detail

That's more like a convenience for the actors and writers ;)

​@Puschit1 I disagree, I think it's entirely realistic that an alien species with such vastly different mouthparts(?) and vocal chords would make physically speaking the language impossible. The best we could possibly do is probably alien TTS

@@chuckleshelicopterwigwamjo6305 Yes, and I say that was done on purpose to spare the actors the hassle.

There was a website that did that? That must have been so sick. Too bad I was only 10 at that time and didn't know how to use the internet like you did.

Chappie was pretty garbage compared to District 9.

@@Skrenja Very true, alas.

​@@Skrenja i remember the ending being weird asf

Similar to titanfall

Im cases like this, a comic or animated sequel would do just fine. To me, it's the best way to expand or give some resolution to movies like this that may never have any follow up on the big screen.

This, right here, is exactly why the concept of "BattleTech" would be a MASSIVE boost in nearly every aspect of combat, for the military.

This mech would wreak a whole tank division by itself in urban combat

@@thanhvinhnguyento7069 i agree i think this one is just a light mech compare to human tech this is the alien armored car but with more fire power

@@timothymccormick5208 Still the issue would be the insane cost/benefit radio. Each suit would be extraordinary expensive and if someone can build a bypedal mech, be assured that soon there would be personal anti mech weaponry to counter it same as it happened with our tanks. Basicaly against no geared foes will stomp same as a tank but will struggle against enemies that are using anti-mech weaponry and remember the more armor you have the less nimble you are, not counting that armor on articulations and head must be weaker to allow movement, compared to its torso's. The reason why so many died is that they were atacking what it was literally armor wise a bypedal APC with asault rifles mostly and expecting to deal any damage when they should have retreated and get anti-tank weaponry

I place this in my own personal category with movies like Sunshine, Moon, and Dark City... Great dang movies that it shocks me if someone says they haven't heard of them...

How is it underrated? It was nominated for several awards and received critical acclaim, the audiences loved it as well and it did great at the box office.

When you love what you do you never work a day in your life!

@@SpicyTake 😆

Send a ham to their widows.

@@SpicyTake No no, he's got a point.

Humans are quite something aren't they

You got your wish granted. A few months ago Neil confirmed he's working on the sequel.🤙

oh man.

Yes, more blood!

This movie supposed to be halo

@@mrgoody69 LOL 🤣

State Capture and corruption, would make a reviting sequel. The aliens can be blamed for the potholes.

@@jamesarendse9739 LOL 🤣

Its already been confirmed we're not getting one. MrH covered it on his channel not to long ago. Fekin sucks.

Well Elysium and Chappie take place in the same universe and timeline.

Agreed it’s my old time favorite

It's not just the studios, Ridley Scott wouldn't let him touch his precious films/franchises. He got Neil pretty much banned from Hollywood.😔 Edit: I said James Cameron when it was actually Ridley Scott.

That looks very symbolic