I saw District 9 last night and it was absolutely breathtaking. Not a single person I've talked to disliked the movie.

It was like watching angels make love on a movie screen.

VERY GOOD

it was amazing. one of the best sc fi movies ever

I wish to experience the beauty that has been described. Alas, all great works have a toll on the wallet, and mine is empty.

I was going to see it if GI Joe was sold out.

Unfortunately it wasn't.

I heard it was great, but I don't have the time.

I really liked District 9. It was a really cool sci-fi film that was told in an interesting manner and had a whole lot of development. It grew more and more interesting and I grew more and more involved as it progressed. It wasn't ridiculously complex or original, but it still did an awesome job.

I definitely can't say the same. Most of the people in my area seemed not to like it.

Damn Sony won't release it in Europe for about two months.

Gonna download a decent copy/recording of it as soon as possible.

I really wanna see this.

Loved it. Awesome sci-fi movie.

I heard that its second half wasn't nearly as good as the first half, being disjointed and losing the original thread of the awesome beginning. But then, I didn't see it, so this isn't my opinion, just what I've heard.

Hope you guys are right about it being awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18jJSVLB0V8...yer_profilepage


I definitely want to go and see it though.

Hmm, I thought it really picked up in the second half. It totally made me grow attached to the characters, and I didn't lose interest at all once it reached the halfway mark (not that I lost interest in the first half, I was just much more on the edge of my seat in the second half).

It depends on your preferences though. It began in more of a documentary style and gradually evolved into a movie in the more traditional sense. Overall, I thought it was done very well, although not everyone will like the story telling experimentation. I highly recommend it regardless.

I saw it on opening day. My breath was taken. For such a low budget movie the graphics were amazing and a completely original story refreshes the soul.

Possibly the best new movie I've seen all year. Excellent.

Hmmm. After seeing comments from many people who's opinion I regard highly, I think I shall go and see this film.

I hear GI Joe sucks. Does that explain the ?

Curse these R-Rated films >.>

Yeah, G.I joe was so terrible my eyes bled the first 15 minutes

I wanna watch District 9, and dude just go with an adult >_>

It's R-rated, but only because Wikus van de Merwe blurts out an accented F-bomb fairly often and there's a lot of violence, and a little bit of gore. If your parents are okay with a little bit of blood and some F-bombs, you could get them to buy you a ticket.

Without a doubt a favorite movie of mine of all time. Amazing, the plot was great, action was amazing and things I haven't seen before. Beautiful film.

Sucks for you. They took a classic comic books series and turned it into a bad movie. Why the hell was one of the Wayans brothers cast as Rip Cord? He's a horrible actor and didn't fit the role at all.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Some more of my friends saw D9. I have to see this movie.

I saw District 9 and GI Joe. Obviously District 9 was miles ahead of GI Joe. I thought District 9 would be more of a documentary style overview of the whole situation in South Africa, but it was a pleasant surprise that it focused on a few primary characters. Fohkin great movie!

One thing to learn from this topic. If Gillis likes a movie, it more or less means I'll enjoy it. From looking in Empire magazine at some reviews and such, I should go see it.

Now.

I just got back from it and I loved it. The action scenes were fudging epic (that big blaster thing that explodes guys was great!) and it really made you feel for the characters. That's something I don't really see a lot in action movies. I also loved the camera work. It does seem a little gimicky, but it worked out. Oh, and it had some funny scenes in it too that were actually quite good.

Overall, it was probably the best movie I saw this year. (With Slum Dog Millionaire being #2)

District 9 should get a handful of awards this year.

Yes, if anything it deserves best special effects. Not just for the awesome weapons, but also for the way they make you care about a digital image. (The aliens. Most specifically Christopher and his son.)

I could also see it getting best lead actor.

Glad I was able to read this thread without it getting spoiled for me... I'll probably seethis movie soon, if not with my family then by myself.

I just want to know why it went from the Halo movie, then that got cancelled and it became District 9. It's R rated, which means I can't get in.

Baaahhh, it's not out here until September 4th.



Petey Jackson saw Alive In Joburg (the short film on which District 9 is based) and was like "I want this Neill guy to do a film! He can do the Halo movie!"
But then there were some arguments involving Universal, Fox and Microsoft which meant the movie ended up being scrapped.
But Peteypoo thought Neill deserved a film after all the backing he'd given him, so he decided to help make a feature length version of Alive In Joburg which is what District 9 is.

I really want to see this movie and it sucks that it coming out on the 4th where i live and Im back in school

If you've seen Inglourious Basterds you'd understand why the "Jew hunter" character will get it.

Ok... But I atleast think this guy will get nominated.

Edit: But I'm pretty sure that guy wouldn't be considered a lead actor, were as Wikis would.

True true, Wilkis was indeed good.

I disliked this movie. Horrible, horrible movie.

To start off, the script was horrible. At some points in the movie I wondered what the I.Q. of the writers were, did they higher a five year old child to write the script?

Also, the blood and gore was simply over the top, I have watched truely great movies where Gore was used (and in some places was pretty gory, people blowing themselves up with 'nades to the head tend to have that effect). However, those films had (a) thick, deep, plots, and (b) used it as the historical context dictated. In my opinion, most of the gore could have been removed from the film (after the 19th time of seeing someone be unreally blown up in a horrifc bloody gory mass, it gets a little old. We get that you can edit in huge ammounts of unneeded blood and gore, we saw it the last 20 times you killed someone, we really do not need to keep seeing it. We get it, you lack plot, and script). Which brings us back to the script. It was horrible. In most places it would have been a better script to have the guy shut up rather then say the same word over and over and over again, as thou we forgot that he had an I.Q. lower then the average small child (by he I mean the people who wrote the script for the guy). We get that the writers lacked the I.Q. for an engaging script, got drunk, and used ctrl+c, then ctrl+v to many times to fill the holes in the script (which basically means the entire script). After the first 10-20 minutes I started watching the film only to see how much stupider and worse it could get. It did a good job in that reguard, it kept getting worse, and stupider as the plot continued.

The plot was terrible, at the start, it was good. Then about ten minutes into it, it all fell apart... and kept falling... and kept falling... hit the end of the line... and sunk lower then that (I could go on, but I think I proved my point). The characters, paper-cut at best. The acting was horrible. The best characters in the movie were the ones that were entirely animated and never spoke a single word in English.

Horrible movie, and if I had the power to go back intime, I would never have gone to see it.

Why exactly do people like this film?



I dislike it.



Do not go, it is not worth the time.



Save yourself, it is not worth the time, or the money.

~John

Can you give any reasons to back your claims? When did the character say the same word over and over again? He said the f-word like ten times in a row once, but that was because he just found out his wife hated him. (or something like that.) Also, how was the gore unneeded? That's what the alien weapons do. Did you expect them to stop using the guns? I thought the movie did a great job on not relying on the special effects. They were there, but it wasn't like "HEY GUYS! LOOK AT ME!"

What was so wrong with the acting? Wikis (and all the other characters) seemed very real to me. Maybe you didn't like the dialogue because a lot of it was improved? Or was it the accents. Can you explain why?

He said the same word over and over and over again (not necessarily in the order of the events of the movie), when his wife left him, when he was in the alien battle droid, when he was black-mailing the alien and trying to catch his son to use as ransom, when they were making him test the weapon, and probably others that I have forgotten.

How is it needed? It is alien weaponry, it could have burned the DNA at the most basic level turning them (the humans) into ash, or dust, or nothing at all (it is all fake after all). Who is to say the weaponry had to be like that? It could have been human type weaponry, or weaponry that targeted the electronic impluses between the cells (shutting the human body down, and causeing it to jump from person to person). But that probably required some thought. Now, if it was a human weapon, I could understand some blood or gore (but if it was a human weapon, they would have had to think of a better reason to keep putting high levels of blood and gore into the movie, or make it look worse then it is).

Almost the entire movie was special effects. And it, the special effects, was very stupidly done. It made you wonder (or made me wonder) if they thought: "Oh look, we can add gore here, and here, and here, and here, and oh look let us blow these guys up, better make it as gory as possible, just because we can show that, unlike the last 20 deathes, this time we can splatter their brains on the camera! And now we patch the holes with cussing, or better yet, blend the holes with cussing and gore, and we have our movie!" .

I found the acting cut and dry, the definition of cardboard characters (the humans anyhow). "Cuss here, cuss some more, the writers cannot think of something for you to say, so please, cuss some more. Oh, and add some more cussing as filler because we cannot think of something for the script, here, here, and/ or here." The only things with any "character" at all were the ones that were made entirely out of special effects, and the only reason they had any "character" to them is because all they did was click, run, and fight.

First ten minutes or so was well done, okay script, okay plot. Then, as I said before, it went down hill and kept going. Suddenly it started to look like the script writers were replaced by drunks who lacked the I.Q. to write more words then one for the half-done script they had been handed, (and) so filled all the blanks with one word, and then added it a few more times, because they felt like it.

My definition of "improved" is not to slap a cuss word because the people who wrote the script lacked the I.Q. to write a real script.

Accents, I cannot say with any prior experience. Having never heard the accent the man had, I cannot say how good his was. That said, the accents did nothing to make me hate, or like, the movie. Now if I knew what the accents were supposed to sound like, then I could say if the accents were good or not.

~John

This movie was pretty bad, imo. I hate movies which use lots of blood/other fluids.

The storyline wasn't that bad, but it could be greatly improved. Everything was very predictable.

People cuss a lot in real life. Either deal with it or go see a Disney movie. Also, it's kind of hard to take you seriously when you write a couple paragraphs riddled with incorrect spelling and grammar on the low level of the writers' IQ.

Yeah, especially when their life's in danger, as Wikis' was the whole movie. Oh, and you know what is gory, real life. Just google search 'land mine victim.'

Never mind. I saved you the trouble. Captain obvious wants to tell you that this is very gory, by the way.
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First off, there were three spelling errors in the above quoted.

Secondly, I do not live in a perfect neighborhood, I hear plenty of cussing on the streets. However, cussing is the mark of an idiot.

Third, excess cussing in a script, shows stupidity. As a smart person would be able to place more than one word to "fill in the blanks (or holes)".

~John

Ok. But answer this. Real people curse a lot. You said it yourself. Now District 9 was meant to be a fairly realistic movie (or at least a science fiction move set in a realistic world). Wouldn't the writers want to make the script and character lines as real sounding as possible? Besides, apart from one instance, is there any part where the character just says "F F F F F F F F F F F!" No. How does saying "Get into the fing space ship!" make the writers lazy? What else could he have said besides "Get into the space ship!" It's not like that makes the movie any smarter.

Plus I loved hearing that guy say the F word with his accent. It's great.

Somehow, atleast in more-or-less civilized circles most people do not go around saying "F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F".

I am not talking about the use of the word once or twice a sentence (or even a paragraph). "Get into the fking space ship" is understandable to a point (it highlights the persns stupidity and lack of a mental inteligence to find a better word). However, you cannot really say that "F F F F F F F F F F F" three-to-four times in a movie (the length) is really adding anything to it, can you?

As I said before, the Alien Battle Droid, (Fer F Fer F F F Fer F Fer F) when he was trying to get weapons from the Nigerians, and he finally got his hands (or rather hand) on one of the weapons, the wife scene, when he was black-mailing the alien (F every other word) and trying to catch his son to use as ransom, when they were making him test the weapon, and probably others I have forgotten.

~John

But my point is that people, probably most people in fact, would speak like that if they were that upset or had that much testosterone flowing through their bodies. In many of the scenes where Wikis swears so much he is really pissed off. I know I swear the most when I'm pissed off. Only I'm pissed off over my computer crashing, not being forced to murder someone.

The movie was about a grown man in South Africa being hunted for something he couldn't control and didn't want to be. A lack of cussing would have been unrealistic.

Also, Wikus's excessive swearing was actually a good method of characterization. In the beginning, Wikus seems like a friendly white collar who couldn't hurt a fly. But as soon as he receives violent hostilities from the prawns, he snaps and turns into a raging lunatic. Wikus is already one of my favorite film characters of all time.

John, for your claims of being in an area where there is a lot of cussing (I hate that word >:( ) you don't seem to grasp just how more realistic it is than not.

I haven't seen the movie yet, so I can't give any examples, but if my life was in danger I would be swearing a hell of a lot, too. I wouldn't say "Oh, I'm in quite the stressful predicament!" I'd say "HOLY fudge! shizzle shizzle fudge!" I mean, if I were being realistic.

Yeah. He was kinda a dork at the beginning. It's also cool how the set the movie in South Africa. That accent is just great. I know I've already said that, but it's just so cool sounding I have to say it again. I love it when he calls people man.

The cussing made the movie much much more realistic... aside from the aliens.

I saw it, and I'm not gonna lie, it was pretty good. The special effects and cinematography were amazing, but the plot was iffy. Overall, great movie, but not the best as some people in this thread have made it out to be.

My advice: Don't go in expecting THE BEST MOVIE EVAR. Instead, enjoy it. It really is a great movie.

I thought it was great. A tad slow at the beginning maybe, but it was consistently unfolding in a steady manner, yet still with bursts of energy. There was no point in that movie where I thought "Imma go to the toilet, this is boring."

Even some great movies have boring bits. this didnt.

The swearing didnt bother me. Also, I enjoyed the funny bits, and the real world allegories. My favourite part? IT WASNT SET IN AMERICA! FINALLY!!!