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Offline eRe4s3r

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District 9
« on: September 05, 2009, 03:17:56 pm »
Just watched District 9 - And what to say... best sci-fi ever? Most unique sci-fi ever? I am still totally flabbergasted.. it was truly as good and intense as the critics said..

Oppinions?  ;D
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Re: District 9
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2009, 03:05:38 am »
Best movie of the summer for sure. It left me pumped, and talking about it for quite some time after.
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Re: District 9
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2009, 01:22:41 pm »
Yeah, but not much to talk really, just.. the complexity of the situation is truly stunning - It draws so many witty connections to the Apartheid and more issues alike...

I mean, of all the Alien Sci-Fi plots i ever saw or read, this one is the one i would call "realistic". Humans fear what they do not know. So while government decided to "rescue" the aliens from their ship (heh, in many ways thats rather funny because at first it indeed seemed to be a rescue) the situation grew worse every year - Children grow up to hate what they do not know and the "incompatibility" of the aliens with humans (and their ideological concepts) only made the situation worse.

How else would humans respond? Of course they would create a "slum" or holding area and when it outgrows they have to move them. How do you explain that to a species that does not understand the concept of ownership that someone owns that land and wants it free of aliens?

Well i hope District 10 will come, because this story needs to be concluded
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Re: District 9
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2009, 06:04:34 pm »
Quote from: eRe4s3r on September 06, 2009, 01:22:41 pm
Well i hope District 10 will come, because this story needs to be concluded

I'm sure it will, and I really hope they do. I absolutely loved the movie, and they set it up so perfectly for a sequel.
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Re: District 9
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2009, 10:27:07 pm »
Meh.

It was exactly what I expected. I already knew humans would react the way shown in the movie (or something very similar). Nothing surprised me (well except the complete lack of aliens trying to kill humanity). It was very, "meh", to me. This is way below movies like Serenity and Fight Club for me. Those 2 were just stunning. District 9 was not.
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Offline eRe4s3r

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Re: District 9
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2009, 04:51:38 am »
::) Well to each his own ;)
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Re: District 9
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2010, 08:44:39 am »
It's starting to get REEEEEEEALLY old with all these "Hey, humans are evil and everyone else is nice" kind of stories. It's obviously a stab at apartheid, but seriously now...as a movie, it pretty much blows. Virtually no excitement, shaky camera and very bland lead character. The movie even ends in a giant "okay...now what?". It feels terribly incomplete.

I, for one, did _not_ like it.

(fear the necromancer)
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Re: District 9
« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2010, 12:19:49 pm »
;D Grave digging is a federal offense punishable by 50 years in OFF-Topic   ;D
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Re: District 9
« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2010, 12:31:29 pm »
If you liked District 9, make sure you see the short movie on which it was based: Alive in Joburg (by the same director).

Done that? No? Well, click the link then!

Watched it now? Good.

Now would probably be a good time, then, to tell you that every piece of dialogue in the interview segments which don't explicitly mention aliens were taken from real interviews with South Africans in the 1990s, when asked to comment on the influx of Zimbabwean refugees.

How's that for powerful film making?
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Re: District 9
« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2010, 07:54:06 pm »
I loved D9.  I thought it was the smartest sci-fi I've seen in a long ol' time. 
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