District 9 director wants to make First Person view movie

Here's a snippet of the indie gogo Hardcore movie of Neil Blomkamp. Do you think it's going to be a real thing?

The problem I see existing if repetition and overstaying your welcome. While it's cool to have snipped of gun fights in a 2 minute video; that extended to a 1+ hour movie could get boring fast. Using fast cuts and very wide FOV (as in the video) could be annoying and disorientating. The fake digitized gun fights with clearly computer puffs of smoke are off putting in most movies.

I always thought Halflife (the first one) would make a good disaster movie though. Shot entirely for a from person perspective.

I like the idea but I don't like the guy who made District 9. It was a huge disappointment.

To me district 9 was the anti-avatar and one of the best sci-fi/action movies in years.

Elysium on the other hand; didn't like.

We don't really know unless it's done well or after we've actually seen it though

maybe they can attach a barf bag to the popcorn bucket.

you would not believe how many of my friends can't watch "shaky cam" 1st person view or found footage type movies without getting motion sickness.

seriously, like half of them,

luckily i don't get motion sickness but there is a crazy amount of humans that do.

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Could be good but I disagree with their use of "first". Cloverfield and Frankenstein's Army did it before. Or do they mean it's the first one on Indiegogo? That seems like a pointless thing to boast about.

Also what makes you think it's by the guy who made District 9? This is being made by Ilya Naishuller who had nothing to do with District 9.

This is a parody between Call of Duty and Mirror's Edge, right? The horrible acting and the wilhelm scream confirm it...Also, nice job walking out blindly out of a corridor without bothering to look during a gunfight (and getting your hat shot in the process)

Interesting idea, and I enjoyed District 9 immensely. I say give it a go. Just keep it short, and don't make it too cheesy.

I think it could work. Quarantine movie did this first person view and I thought it was good in my books, that movie in first person view got me guessing, the movie was intense for a horror movie, and I think it did better for a first person view. Doom movie had a first person view/shooter but that was only 10 minute scene and that whole movie should've been first person view/shooter in the first place. I say go for it, just make the movie intense and interesting in first person view.

As far as action is concerned, this has to be one of the most exciting and thrilling action scenes I've ever seen. I've always liked this kind of scenes in FPS' like CoD and Battlefield when I used to game. That being said, I'm not particularly a fan of the action genre for the very same thing demonstrated in this clip. I understand its not supposed to be real or resembling reality but this is just absurd to the point that it makes you cringe. So the concept itself is exciting, the execution on the other hand could go either way. I don't know how the full movie will turn out, but whoever is making them needs to add some depth to it. The whole thing felt too much like a CoD cutscene, or like a tutorial when taking into account the other guy in the movie rofl

A first-person spy movie would guarantee awesomeness though.

Me like. Me want.

I'd rather play a FPS.

And this looks more like a short for a film school project than something from a major director.

And it'll suck just like the rest of his movies.

I know what you mean I can't watch anything with shaky cam or found footage, I can't do VR. I get really queasy, cold sweats and feeling like I'm going to faint, isn't that epilepsy?

Maniac is a first-person view movie starring Elijah Wood. Or at least I heard it is. So it's probably not the first. I think this director could do it, District 9 was great.

all that is classic motion sickness symptoms.

it's pretty debilitating in the short term but goes away pretty fast as soon as you stop doing whatever it is that is causing it.

Looks cool, but they need to handle some of those cuts better.

Any one seen doom the movie. That had a little FPS in it

Well they did a Philip Marlowe mystery back in 1947 in that fashion so...why not?

The simplicity of that was much better than all the shit happening above.

This just looks like something CorridorDigital could do.

As a result: No, this shouldn't be commercialized at all.

Guess he is getting ready for VR headsets, if only James Cameron could do the same as well.

That was pretty awesome. :D

Although I'd like to see more aiming down sights than hip firing. At least make the main character not look like a total amateur.

yeah, but that was like 2 minutes of a 90 minute movie

Interesting idea, hopefully it's better than Elysium.

So does the guy who made District 9 have anything to do with this film? I can't find any connection but thats a weird thing to make up.

Actually those guns were legitimately firing blanks. You can see the guns operating and the rounds properly ejecting as well as hear the audio. The blood was clearly CGI and the rounds hitting the walls were CGI, but the guns were firing blanks.

I was specifically looking for that when I watched it because it annoys me to no end when guns aren't actually being fired in movies.

Shotguns actually spark like that as the paper burns flying out of the bore. The gun sounds were spot on too. The PPSH sounded perfect so did the AK and shotguns. No reason to believe they didn't fire them. It would actually be easier to shoot such a film with blanks as the actors would have far better queues to go off of which would be extremely important in this kind of a movie.