District 9

[drenrin2120]

I had to reply to this.

Saw the movie, definitely worth seeing, but it let me down in a few parts. I agree with gems, the allusions to apartheid kind of muddled the story a bit and could've gotten the idea across just as well with more subtlety. The beginning was a good idea, it simply dragged out too long and kinda killed replay value. There were a few holes in the story that irked me a bit, too. Such as, why couldn't charley (i think that was his name) take the british guy (forget his name) with him while he went to go get whatever he needed to save his fellow aliens? I mean, that makes sense right? That ship was huge and you're telling him to stay there, turn into an alien and live like that for 3 years until he returns? Kind of a bum deal.

But seriously, when people started blowing up, those were some of the greatest death scenes I've seen in a while, if not, ever.

Good movie nonetheless. Very entertaining, enthralling, gripping, what ever you want to call it.

And I'm out.

[Red Giant]

so much of an Scifi/Borat.

Okay, NOW I'm curious.

[Darkfox]

<Lame joke>If this is District 9, then what happened to movies 1-8?</lame joke>

In honesty, I'll try to watch this before judging.

[Rahl]

Okay, NOW I'm curious.

Im serious, it reminded me of it alot. They just went around trying to be funny from camera man point of view. I really almost left the theatre, but then it moved away from the camera man lets show funny stupid things to an actual plot with some drama. There was no good transition at all. Its like taking the beginning of the borat movie and the just completely jumping into a serious movie like "The Day the Earth Stood Still'(no I could not think of a better example). Personally I like it alot with the exception of the beginning.

[Dragonium]

Im serious, it reminded me of it alot. They just went around trying to be funny from camera man point of view. I really almost left the theatre, but then it moved away from the camera man lets show funny stupid things to an actual plot with some drama. There was no good transition at all. Its like taking the beginning of the borat movie and the just completely jumping into a serious movie like "The Day the Earth Stood Still'(no I could not think of a better example). Personally I like it alot with the exception of the beginning.

Have you ever heard of a mockumentary?

[SaiKar]

Im serious, it reminded me of it alot. They just went around trying to be funny from camera man point of view. I really almost left the theatre, but then it moved away from the camera man lets show funny stupid things to an actual plot with some drama. There was no good transition at all. Its like taking the beginning of the borat movie and the just completely jumping into a serious movie like "The Day the Earth Stood Still'(no I could not think of a better example). Personally I like it alot with the exception of the beginning.

(Probably some spoilers if you haven't seen the movie. Don't read if you want to keep knowing nothing about the plot.)

Did we see the same movie? Cuz I saw a movie where the cameraman was following people into what was one incident away from a war zone. Some of the scenes were humorous, but it was sort of a dark kind of humor where it wouldn't be all that funny if it wasn't happening to silly-looking aliens and was happening to fellow humans. That was the whole point, of course; that humanity was looking down at the aliens for being second-class citizens. It didn't seem at ALL like a "mockumentary." It was really human, which is an odd thing to say in a movie with aliens, but it works. Very human, very gritty and down-to-earth.

Take the beginning out of District 9 and the things that happen later on seem shallow and pointless. The main character's attitude toward the aliens builds his character for the problems he encounters later on. District 9 had plenty of action and shooting sequences, but it went a lot deeper than that. To cut out all the parts that weren't as fast paced guts the entire movie. There's lots of throw-away summer action movies, none of them memorable. District 9 tried to go a bit above par with the quality of the storytelling in an action movie, and I believe they succeded.

[Valiere]

I liked the movie a lot, but the second act felt more like a video game than a film. I mean, a former government drone kicking *** in a giant mech?

[Red Giant]

Crap. I've been looking forward to this movie for some time but I'm like hella busy and you guys talking about it makes me jealous.