I think most readers of Hacker News would enjoy District 9 (I did: 9.5/10)

Re:I think most readers of Hacker News would enjoy District ... by anigbrowl on Saturday August 22, 2009 @12:11AM (#778985)

Don't be rude. Most people don't know where to go looking that kind of stuff, and I think a lot of hackers are interested in sci-fi to start with, he meant well.

Anyway, here's some stuff to satisfy your geekier urges:

    http://vfxworld.com/?atype=articles&id=4032 < business
    http://www.studiodaily.com/main/topstory/Making-Alien-Blood-in-District9_11199.html < compositing
    http://www.red.com/cameras/technology/ < the camera
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_moving < the main technology used for compositing handheld shots
    http://www.digilab.uni-hannover.de/docs/manual.html < u can haz free toolz
    http://mos.futurenet.com/resources/3dworld/TDW94.s_farm.pdf < this kind of thing is quite computationally intensive
    http://structuresynth.sourceforge.net/ < procedural modelling is increasing important in CG

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Re:I think most readers of Hacker News would enjoy District ... by asdlfj2sd33 on Saturday August 22, 2009 @12:32AM (#779013)

I don't think he was being rude. I think it's a legitimate point, this is a major motion picture, for which I've seen adds on national TV god only knows how many times. Not that any geek needs adds to know this movie is theaters now. How could anyone here not know?

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Re:I think most readers of Hacker News would enjoy District ... by smokey_the_bear on Saturday August 22, 2009 @02:04AM (#779082)

I hadn't heard of it. I pretty much only hear about new movies if the actor comes on the Daily Show or something. I'm thinking about going to see it now, and appreciated the post.

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Re:I think most readers of Hacker News would enjoy District ... by MikeCapone on Saturday August 22, 2009 @01:26AM (#779054)

The original post was not to make HN readers aware that the film exist, but rather to recommend it as something that this very specific demographic would probably enjoy.

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Re:I think most readers of Hacker News would enjoy District ... by Zev on Saturday August 22, 2009 @12:54AM (#779030)

He had a legitimate point: this may not be appropriate for HN. (note: I'm not saying its not appropriate, thats not for me to decide). I, personally, just don't think the OP worded his post as well as it could have been.

And FWIW, I haven't seen any ads on TV for this. I don't watch much TV though.

//edited for clarification. The irony clarifying a post saying that someone else may not have been clear isn't lost on me.

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Re:I think most readers of Hacker News would enjoy District ... by anigbrowl on Saturday August 22, 2009 @12:51AM (#779027)

I'm just trolling (in the benign sense) for other HN members that might be film/video oriented. I don't get on that well with art-school types but it would be nice to know more creatively-inclined HNers in the Bay Area.

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Re:I think most readers of Hacker News would enjoy District ... by travisjeffery on Saturday August 22, 2009 @12:27AM (#779006)

This is some good stuff, thanks.

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Re:I think most readers of Hacker News would enjoy District ... by MikeCapone on Saturday August 22, 2009 @12:25AM (#779005)

Thanks! I've only read the first two links, but so far it's very interesting stuff.

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