District 9

MightyBobo

Awesome flick. My favorite of the year is still Star Trek merely because Im a big fan of some of the series', but this is one of the most original movies Ive seen in a long time...

Very gritty, very badass.

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I can't wait to see the movie. The girlfriend & I were going to go last night, but the last few movies we saw on opening night ended up being ruined by other losers with no respect for other people.

I'm hoping to see the film some time during the week.

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StLRedrider

Seen it last night, i thought it was good.

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zman1910

Awesome movie......very unique!! bout damn time

StLRedrider

i thought the guys exploding was cool as hell, everybody in the place was laughing there ***'s off, everytime

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Zerafian

Saw it last night, it was a great movie...The CG characters were flawlessly integrated into the movie. There were also so very unique sequences about the movie. Go see it and enjoy it.

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MC

i really liked it the use of weapons was amazing, it had every weapon from a FPS that you always wanted to see in a movie

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Spikuh

Saw this movie a couple days ago and thought it was really well done in a refreshing way that has been lacking in main-stream movies for a few years now. I can't think of any real complaints I have with the movie which is a rare occurence these days and I'm not even that well educated in the art of movie making.

There were a few things I found REALLY well done in the movie.

-The transition from the documentary style movie to a real time style and then back in the end was really cool and helps to give the movie fullness and take care of a lot of questions that would have arrisen. I thought this was a genious move of their part.

-The development of the main character was well done in my opinion. It was fun to watch him go from some stupid, self-serving a-hole (I just wanted him to die for the first hour or so) to a more less-stupid, compassionate and selfless hero you expect him to be from the start.

-The pacing of the movie was well done and kept me engaged without having to use over-the-top action sequences to achieve this goal.

-The action sequences just felt right for the movie. They weren't to long, to short, or retardedly over-the-top with the hero taking center stage.

Along with Star-Trek, these two movies are easily the best of the summer in my opinion. Well... Pixar's UP was really good also so I guess its a 3 way tie for me really.

This director was the one who was supposed to direct the Halo movie, and when the studios basically told him no because he didn't have major credits, Peter Jackson gave him this movie to do instead. And considering Blomkamp helped write the story and that Jackson is supposedly a Halo fan, it is not suprising to me that some of this stuff has a Halo feel to it, especially the weapons.

Not disagreeing with you on this at all, but this can also be seen as tackling the racism issue as we see the main character go from considering the aliens as inferior beings to seeing them as equals by the end of the movie.

I greatly enjoyed the first Starship Troopers just like I enjoyed this movie. It was a ton of fun in my opinion. I can't really compare the 2 movies past that point because it has been to long since I watched Starship Troopers. I also agree the action sequences were crafted much better than Transformers 2. You can actually SEE whats going on and not just this mass of CGI rolling all over the place. Really to be honest, the recent Transformers movie was a bit of a let down... Nothing new really happened in the movie and we don't see ANY new autobots or decpiticons get introduced that were of any merit. The whole movie felt like a Optimus Prime fanboy flick with some Bumblebee fluff added in for good meassure.

On the point of how would humans interact with aliens, I would fully expect us to behave this way. Especially if it happened in this sort of manner, but at the same time, how would "should" we react?

Thinking about it some, if say... tomorrow some massive alien ship just descended to surface but didn't land and then shut down, I would be pretty afraid myself because they obviously have better technology than us AND they are parked in our backyard. Chances are we wouldn't be able to communicate with them and we would have no idea if their intentions were hostile or not. I couldn't blame the governments of the world if they all decided to just shoot first and ask questions later. However, if they were peaceful, there are still huge obsticals to overcome between the species since we would not even know if humanity is capable of co-existing with them.

Anyway, I think the movie did a pretty good job in portraying how I think humanity would react if we encountered an alien species under these circumstances.

ZKindaGuy

The first parallel I thought the director was trying to lead the audience to is a parallel with the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp. I think the director was hanging his premise on two things....the detaining of alien innocents and the torture of the camp detainees.

If the director was trying to lead the audience into making this parallel in order to make an implicit political statement about the United States and Guantánamo then I think he stretched the parallel too far as I see the District 9 camp as a "far distant" parallel as the root cause for Guantánamo is a polar opposite.

Lone Wolf 75

I liked Starship Troopers too, the campy "would you like to know more?" sequences were no doubt intentionally supposed to make you think of 1950's scifi since that is when the story was originally written. I agree, two different movies and good in their own way.

I agree totally with you on Transformers 2, it was a letdown. The introduction of Jetfire was cool, but I was really disappointed with the Destructicons. They should have been at least all the same color - I understand if they all couldn't be Caterpillar equipment, but it would have been a lot cooler if they were.

Well, I guess I am somewhat optimistic. The way the aliens were treated reminded me a lot of the way the Jews were treated in WWII, which is likely the intended response as well. I'd like to think that we'd figure out some way of communicating with them and learning thier technology, maybe developing some mutually beneficial relationship between species. But who am I kidding? We'd probably treat them even worse and either kill them all in the name of science or because they were considered an undefined threat.

ohioZ

i liked it, but didnt anyone think the writing was a bit cheesy?

(yay first post )

MC

i know what you mean...i thought the first half of the movie had a few moments like that but the 2nd half really was amazing

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ZKindaGuy

a little campy as it followed a rather "old" storyline formula. I expect however the "District 10" sequel to be a bit more in-depth and serious. I also suspect that the human-alien hybrid guy is not going to get back to being human but rather the alien friend is going to transform the human-alien's wife into an alien form. The reason I say this is becasue the movie made it a point to demonstrate man's in-humanity to man through the lying, politics and ruthless interrogation....while juxtpositioning that against the alien character's seeming compassion, kindness and desire to preserve his alien race and come back and rescue the captive aliens.

The sequel I think will prove to be rather interesting in either making or breaking District 9 as an "alien" classic in the future....

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District 9 Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes

87% percent. Not bad.

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