District 9

[Necronopticous]

Go see it.

[Madame Adequate]

I desperately want to.

[Rye]

Me too. ;;

[Bunny]

I am going to try and see it tonight. It's one of the numerous movies being released in the next couple of weeks that I desperately want to see.

[Rostum]

Me three.

[Boney King]

Saw it a few hours ago. It drags on a little near the end, but I liked it a lot.

[Necronopticous]

It drags on a little near the end
I never wanted it to end.

[Boney King]

The non-stop action got a little too fatiguing to watch, for me. Maybe I was just tired today. I'm going to see it again anyway, so we'll see how I feel about it then.

[Shlup]

I felt like I watched the middle of a movie. It was good though. Very poignant.

[Moon Rabbits]

I desperately want to.

[Bunny]

Perhaps one of the best movies I have ever seen.

[Academic]

I wouldn't say it was the best thing since sliced bread. It was good, but not great or ground breaking in any way. I did appreciate the way it was filmed, the dialogue was very true and seemed believable, also delivered by some great actors. There were a few times when I was rolling my eyes and cracking jokes; however, I think that's just how I am with all movies.

The bottom line is that I was entertained.

[Timekeeper]

I saw the original on youtube sometime last year and thought it was pretty interesting then, I can't wait to see the movie of it :D

On a side note, the guy who made it also has some other interesting youtube videos, I suggest you check it out.

[McLovin']

Very entertaining. Not EXTRAORDINARY but not terrible or bad either. Not a movie you wouldn't recommend in my opinion. The dialogue was very believable I must say for the way it was filmed.

[TurkSlayer]

It drags on a little near the end
I never wanted it to end.

Agreed.

[SomethingBig]

I loved the movie. When the first teaser came out, I was extremely hyped up about seeing it. But when a real trailer was finally released, I had my doubts because after seeing the giant robot, I was afraid that it would just be a mindless action flick. I was totally proven wrong and I actually enjoyed the action in the movie.

[krissy]

ok good
cause that's how i felt when i saw the second plot based trailer

[Rye]

I might go see this today!

[Meow]

do not be fooled, ye cinema loving public, for the truth is borne astride a <a href="http://www.nypress.com/article-20206-from-mothership-to-bullship.html" title="This guy. This crazy guy." target=_blank>White horse</a>

[Bunny]

That guy also said The Dark Knight was absolutely terrible. His review style is completely ignorant and altogether baseless.

[Darkswordofchaos]

I think that dude was reading a lil much into the movie

[Meow]

That guy also said The Dark Knight was absolutely terrible. His review style is completely ignorant and altogether baseless.

not only that it was bad, but that <i>Transporter 3</i> was better

I almost enjoy the totally backwards troll world that Armond White inhabits. I mean in Armond's world the sun probably sets in the morning and you eat sticks of butter to lose weight

Shine on Armond White, you crazy diamond

[Madame Adequate]

That guy also said The Dark Knight was absolutely terrible. His review style is completely ignorant and altogether baseless.

His review also knocks Children of Men so yeah. Basically he's one of those idiots who believes 'critics' should only 'criticize'.

Edit: But no wait! There's more! Apparently his Top Ten for 2005 had War of the Worlds in the joint #1 spot, with Munich.

For the record, 2005 is the year Batman Begins came out.

[I Took the Red Pill]

This movie was pretty awesome, it was definitely nailed the "right" way to do an alien movie, something I've been waiting for for a while now. I just felt like the ending got kind of sloppy and fairly cliché, but other than that I was very impressed with it.

[sir helix]

D9 was the second best movie that seen friday

[Bunny]

I just felt like the ending got kind of sloppy and fairly cliché, but other than that I was very impressed with it.

Yeah, the ending felt pretty out of place so far as the mood for the rest of the movie goes. It was still a very well done fight regardless and pretty impressive.

[krissy]

it was greeeaaaaattt
thumbs up up up

[blackmage_nuke]

Good action, great splatter scenes, plot was rather predictable didnt like the camera work. The whole "shaky camera" thing was ok when it was relevant ie. when they were filming the documentary, but otherwise it just gave me headaches. Overall I liked it.

[Nice]

Loved it!

[Elly]

this movie was awesome, i just got back from seeing it and if you need convincing of it's awesomeness, i have only 2 words... pig launcher...

[JKTrix]

i have only 2 words... pig launcher...

Blink and you'll miss it.

I saw this and Ponyo on the same day. Two pretty good movies, though I wasn't blown away by either of them.

I was really digging the South African accents though, reminded me of an old friend I had.

[Del Murder]

I thought it was just ok. Not worth the hype I've been seeing. One thing that bugged me was that I didn't like the main character. He was a douche but not in the way that he's also cool sometimes. The main alien and his kid were probably the only characters I liked.

I did like the documentary feel to it. It was different, a different take on alien visitors, which was nice to see. But that resulted in it not having a true resolution to the plot, which I like to have in my movies.

It's not something I would recommend everyone go see but it was a good watch.

[Miriel]

I thought it was fantastic. Loved the documentary feel of the film and I loved how the film guided you through this process where at first you feel some repulsion toward the aliens (they really do look like prawns) and then slowly but surely you feel more and more for the aliens until the very end when you sorta hope that they come back and just slaughter humanity.

I thought it was brave of them to attempt to make such disgusting looking creatures sympathetic. These weren't cute cuddly aliens, and they weren't ferocious "BOW DOWN TO US" aliens either. They were simply different in strange and unappealing ways.

I also thought the actor who played Wikus was tremendous. Wow. He pulled off both geeky bureaucrat and desperate madman incredibly well. And seeing the transition between the two personas was probably my favorite thing about the film. I felt so gutted for him. And I hated him. Pitied him. Rooted him on. Wanted to kick him in the balls. Just a really fascinating portrayal.

I like that the ending was resolved but unresolved. I think it would have been too much for the film to have gone on any longer than it did. It wasn't the kind of film where I felt an epilogue was appropriate.

[Elly]

it's also a good idea to understand that this movie is clearly a message on racisim and discrimination, where we the humans force the aliens to live in camps while we try to steal their technology... anyway i thaught the alien with a son was the main character moreso than the human that got infected, though the human was a good plot device to nail the point home...

[Shlup]

it's also a good idea to understand that this movie is clearly a message on racisim and discrimination


It's what?! That's crazy.

[BG-57]

It was good. I liked the fact that the action was character driven, although the symbolism was pretty heavy-handed at times.

[Miriel]

I don't think it was symbolism so much as an accurate depiction of how humanity really would react if the situation in the film happened in real life. There were lots of parts of the film that reminded me of various racial conflicts throughout history (the exploitation, the segregation, the careless slaughtering, etc) but that makes perfect sense. It's happened before, why shouldn't it happen again with aliens?

[Bunny]

It's happened before, why shouldn't it happen again with aliens?

Because aliens are awesome.

[BG-57]

The the choice of city was as subtle as a sledgehammer.

And no doubt that there are people really this vile, but there are no important human characters completely on the aliens' side. Humans can cause cruelty and misery but also are capable of acts of great compassion and caring. It's the paradoxical nature that both are 'human nature'.

I missed that sense that humans have redeeming qualities. Even when the protagonist acts heroically it's because he was driven by desperation more than altruism. Yes, he grows beyond some of his prejudices, but he acts mainly in self-interest, until the end at least.

[sdm42393]

One thing I have to say about the second half of the film: Bloodsplosion.

[Bunny]

The the choice of city was as subtle as a sledgehammer.

And no doubt that there are people really this vile, but there are no important human characters completely on the aliens' side. Humans can cause cruelty and misery but also are capable of acts of great compassion and caring. It's the paradoxical nature that both are 'human nature'.

I missed that sense that humans have redeeming qualities. Even when the protagonist acts heroically it's because he was driven by desperation more than altruism. Yes, he grows beyond some of his prejudices, but he acts mainly in self-interest, until the end at least.

I believe there were a couple minor mentions about groups of people that were "on the alien's side" but giving them a larger part in the movie would've lessened what the movie was actually about.

[krissy]

Also, when you see those shots of South Africans complaining about the aliens, where they were all
just saying,"I wish they would leave." and "I don't care where they go as long as it's not here."
The director actually posed as a documentary crew and was asking them what they thought about refugees and immigrants from the neighboring country of Zimbabwe.
Some of the local South Africans were actually torching some of the Zimbabweans homes during filming.
unverified quote but probably likely



IMDB Trivia
Star Sharlto Copley had not acted before and had no intention of pursuing an acting career. He stumbled into the leading role as Neill Blomkamp placed him on-camera during the short film.

[Araciel]

I felt pretty sick at the part when they test him using the weapons and that hardly ever happens, so that alone makes this movie a success to me.

[Burtsplurt]

I kind of have mixed feelings about D9. On one hand, I felt it was fairly entertaining (although I wouldn't say I was gripped); on the other, I thought it was disappointing based on the potential it had.

I guess it had a lot to do with the characterisation, or lack thereof. Van de Merwe was pretty much unlikeable until the end, but by that point the film had descended into cliche and I was no longer that interested in the ending. The other characters were very poorly drawn - usually they amounted to lip-snarling bad guys with no other dimension. After just seeing The Hurt Locker, with its array of flawed heroes, it seemed amateurish.

I wasn't too keen on the faux-documentary style either. I think to go down that route, it either has to be all documentary or all properly filmed. A mixture doesn't really work.

Finally, and probably my biggest disappointment, was the allegory. The best Sci-Fi is usually allegorical, but this didn't seem fully realised in the film. I thought it had a lot of potential to use its sci-fi trappings to say something about the human condition; instead it had a guy in a robot suit shooting things.

There are a lot of positives - I'd never say it was a bad film - but I thought I'd focus on the problems I have with it. Overall: decent, but definitely over-rated.

[Shauna]

I just saw this. I dunno how I feel about it all. I didn't enjoy watching it at all. Not that it was a bad movie, because it was decent; I just really did not enjoy the experience of watching it. It's a weird opinion I have here, and I don't really know how to accurately put it into words. xD

[sephireland]

it's also a good idea to understand that this movie is clearly a message on racisim and discrimination


It's what?! That's crazy.

How is that crazy? Half the film was clearly ramming down our throats what a despicable shower of racists we are. Don't get me wrong, I found this annoying too but it was clearly there. Mercifully it let up and the action was hilariously effective.

[krissy]

no way this movie was about the fast food industry causing damage to the health care system COME ON GUYS

[Rye]

I've never had such a strong reaction to a movie before. I was physically ill at some parts, literally shaking and close to vomiting.

It has to be one of the best movies I've ever seen.

The documentary feel was very good, just right. Wilkus' actor was jaw-dropping, like Miriel said he pulled everything off just right.

I really liked the ending. It was a deft mix of satisfaction for audience, realistic ending to a movie, and unresolved storyline.

Another thing to point out is that the alien design was fantastic. When you first see them, they just look like horrible unappealing things, but then later, you notice how expressive and beautiful their eyes are as they become more and more sentient to you. I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but I did admire it.

[Madame Adequate]

Smurfing hell. I was expecting this to be good. This wasn't good, this was sublime in the utmost.

[Captain Maxx Power]

I just saw it myself and to be honest I didn't really get why people were lauding this as highly as they were. Maybe it's because this summer has been so lousy for films anything that comes along that's decent is by comparison a masterpiece.

A lot of people have been saying the symbolism is heavy-handed, but only insofar as the general attitude towards the aliens goes. Apart from that for me the story has little parallels with real-world events. Granted it's meant to be a science fiction story but still, there's not a direct link that I could see beyond the idea "humans are bastards to each other".

I'm also 99% sure the apartheid in South Africa didn't revolve around getting the native people's highly advanced super weapons. Another thing that bugged me was the depiction of Nigeria's as a bunch of borderline crazy, violent sociopaths with a tendency to lean towards voodoo ritual. That to me just seemed like blatant stereotyping of a nation of people and didn't serve any purpose other than another thread within the movie.

Overall I thought it was entertaining, but it isn't the cinematic masterpiece people are claiming it is.

[malkyah]

The film didn't really hold my interest. It was just conglomerated in stereotypical gibberish that just stirs bigotry.

[Mirage]

This was a rather cool movie.

[PeneloRatsbane]

Christopher Johnson is the best name for an alien...ever.

[Bolivar]

I enjoyed it a lot. The characters were great, the (what i guess you could call) black comedy was pulled off perfectly, especially in the beginning. Strange that the action could be so great as well. I really enjoy things like the documentary and news program aesthetic in movies, and overall I just liked the way certain things looked.

Interesting story, adequate acting, and a pretty great ending actually, I'd recommend it.