Neil Blomkamp, director of “District 9,” is working on another sci-fi movie set in South Africa. This time rather than aliens there’s a self aware robot named Chappie. It looks fairly interesting, if perhaps a whole lot of “I’ve seen this before.” Everything from “Frankenstein” to “I, Robot” to “Short Circuit,” dealing with the first artificial intelligence, trying to figure out the world and how not to get blown up by the villagers with the pitchforks and the Molotov cocktails.
But the real mind blower? It appears that Die Antwoord have major roles in the movie…
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If you don’t recognize “Die Antwoord,” that’s a South African musical group that pretty much defies all rational attempts at description. I don’t know if it’s art, but it’s, uhhh… interesting.