District 9

[G-force]

Saw it today(Saturday)---it's the f*cken sh*t. It's great when a movie comes out and you see the trailer on commercial and go "Oh, here we go again" another Independence Day/Day The Earth Stood Still-remake/ Sci-fi bull and then hear it's good, and then you go see it and think, "Damn, they're right---this was awesome!"
Think "Sci-fi Slumdog Millionaire" and you're good to go! A great movie with great cinemtography, great screenplay, great plot, great special effects---without the typical banking Hollywood cast, and Hollywood backlot---but, instead, shot on location in another country. RT gives it 89%, but I give it a 90, IMHO.

GO SEE THIS!!!!!!!!!

HEY, AND WOULDNT' YOU KNOW IT? I GUEES I'M NOT ALONE !

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[beats me]

Wow, what a turd. I guess everybody is just mesmerized by the somewhat original concept, but then they had to pack it thick with a bunch of over the top BS cliches and plot holes. I'm going to rent it when it comes out just to make the complete list.

That movie either should have a been a half hour short with the BS removed or about 2 hours longer to make things make sense or at least try to make us give a shit about anybody in the movie.

[PLacidBasilisk]

Finally, someone talking some sense. The consensus behind this is totally inexplicable, I'm dumbfounded.

If this was directed by Michael Bay and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer I'm certain everyone would be taking stabs at it for being an over the top, cliche-riddled, popcorn mover with a paper thin plot, close to no character development, and some of the cheesiest moments of any summer movie. Seriously, did everybody conveniently forget the cringe-worthily schmaltzy crap at the end when Wikus was in the alien armour suit, imploring Christopher to go on without him?

Besides the premise, the battle scenes were the only good thing about this movie.

[scientist]

...some of the cheesiest moments of any summer movie. Seriously, did everybody conveniently forget the cringe-worthily schmaltzy crap at the end when Wikus was in the alien armour suit, imploring Christopher to go on without him?

"i won't make it...go without me!"
"brrzklkiltkfrggjnanantk!"
"no, leave...me!"
"klurtkfilktilktbrrzhkt!"
"you must go!...think...of...your...son!"
"grkgrktiktikbzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt!"
"i love you too, brah."

the rest of it i liked, but that was some bulllllshsktftflrkt.

[beats me]

...some of the cheesiest moments of any summer movie. Seriously, did everybody conveniently forget the cringe-worthily schmaltzy crap at the end when Wikus was in the alien armour suit, imploring Christopher to go on without him?

"i won't make it...go without me!"
"brrzklkiltkfrggjnanantk!"
"no, leave...me!"
"klurtkfilktilktbrrzhkt!"
"you must go!...think...of...your...son!"
"grkgrktiktikbzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt!"
"i love you too, brah."

the rest of it i liked, but that was some bulllllshsktftflrkt.

Let's not forget that touching moment happened about 20 minutes after he knocked the prawn the fuck out so he could fly the ship himself and ......and do what exactly? It was like a 10-year-old who found out he wasn't getting an xbox for Christmas.

But my favorite WTF moment was when the prawn was standing in the medical experiment room all weepy over his dismembered buddies and the commandos come in and proceed to shoot the place up and while he was standing still in the center of the room not one shot hit him. FFS at least write in some kind of biological force field to explain that one, but no, let's use the cliche elite military force that couldn't hit a barn door if it was bolted to the tip of their gun.

[LOFA]

Looooooooved this movie.

[PLacidBasilisk]

But my favorite WTF moment was when the prawn was standing in the medical experiment room all weepy over his dismembered buddies and the commandos come in and proceed to shoot the place up and while he was standing still in the center of the room not one shot hit him. FFS at least write in some kind of biological force field to explain that one, but no, let's use the cliche elite military force that couldn't hit a barn door if it was bolted to the tip of their gun.

And suddenly their bad ass alien super-weapons which moments before blasted their way into a top-secret government bunker with ease were useless against three humans with machine guns.

[arctic ranger]

I thought it was quite well done. There was alot of plot holes but the whole movie was pretty intense.
With all the crap coming out(that new megan fox movie...wtf?) it was refreshing to watch something thats
different.

[beats me]

But my favorite WTF moment was when the prawn was standing in the medical experiment room all weepy over his dismembered buddies and the commandos come in and proceed to shoot the place up and while he was standing still in the center of the room not one shot hit him. FFS at least write in some kind of biological force field to explain that one, but no, let's use the cliche elite military force that couldn't hit a barn door if it was bolted to the tip of their gun.

And suddenly their bad ass alien super-weapons which moments before blasted their way into a top-secret government bunker with ease were useless against three humans with machine guns.

And despite the aliens getting abused, neglected, and generally shit on they either don't have those weapons or can't use them....until half breed boy comes along and then there's no shortage of alien weapons being found and fired off, but only by him. Then he manages to blast a bunch of fully equipped and functional thugs out of a shack but doesn't have the foresight to shoot the leader right next to him in a wheelchair.

And despite having a ship the size of a city hovering over the earth for 20 years, the best accomodations the aliens can come up with is on par with a Palestinian refugee camp.

These things could all have answers but both the writers and the people heaping praise on this movie just said "Eh, fuck it."

[LOFA]

These things could all have answers but both the writers and the people heaping praise on this movie just said "Eh, fuck it."

Exactly.

[adhmzaiusz]

I really never understood how alien jet fuel could turn humans into prawns... so many things just pissed me off about this movie mainly how they took too long to do anything so the 'suspense' had some sort of impact i guess

why would aliens travel millions of light years to live in some segregated slum area of earth anyways???

overall it was an entertaining story but I could help but pick it apart.

[WaveRider]

yeah great movie in the genre.... great form and message.

The way I saw it, it's really a metaphor about refugee camps under NATO or UN authority. The aliens live like Palestinians or when it happened in Bosnia or in Sudan right now. That is like life is under those conditions.

ultimately it's about total bureaucratic control of your life by NATO or UN. Where do you live, fines for everything, forced birth control, deprived of any way to earn decent wage, etc.. some humans live under that regime today. But it's alien to us, especially because lack of reporting by the corporate media.

The film they even show how rotten the system is inside the MNU (the main character is under qualified but promoted because he is the son-in-law of the big boss) much like real world scandals in the UN... a class of bureaucrats live off the unfortunate they are supposed to help (ex petrol-for-food program in Irak)

...the fact that it is set in South Africa is even more striking. They lived under apartheid, pretty much like in the movie.

[LOFA]

yeah great movie in the genre.... great form and message.

The way I saw it, it's really a metaphor about refugee camps under NATO or UN authority. The aliens live like Palestinians or when it happened in Bosnia or in Sudan right now. That is like life is under those conditions.

ultimately it's about total bureaucratic control of your life by NATO or UN. Where do you live, fines for everything, forced birth control, deprived of any way to earn decent wage, etc.. some humans live under that regime today. But it's alien to us, especially because lack of reporting by the corporate media.

The film they even show how rotten the system is inside the MNU (the main character is under qualified but promoted because he is the son-in-law of the big boss) much like real world scandals in the UN... a class of bureaucrats live off the unfortunate they are supposed to help (ex petrol-for-food program in Irak)

...the fact that it is set in South Africa is even more striking. They lived under apartheid, pretty much like in the movie.

Right. Exactly. Well-put my friend

Not to over-simplify it, but to me they created a module where they used aliens to show how inhuman we are. They touch on so many things without pointing fingers. Geez o man I can spew cliches!

The reason I found some of the suspension-of-belief moments not deterring was because they were secondary.

My favorite part was when they opened the mother ship and the aliens were malnourished. This not only made everything more plausible, but it seemed crucial to their central analogy.

[beats me]

I still say whatever social commentary or metaphors people are reading into were poorly executed and they didn't manage to make you give a shit about anybody, prawn or human. Watching the main human kept making me think I was watching the Pink Panther with the ineptitude but without the laughs.

It's like saying Jessica Simpson is the thinking man's Britney Spears. Shit is shit.

[scientist]

for a sci-fi flick with well crafted social commentary, imo planet of the apes is a million times better. still the one to beat.