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mad enough to leave all of his people behind? he's exactly like the main character, only worried about his own family and tail in the end.
great movie but I have one complaint about people saying "this movie is so intelligent"
...is it really? if you think it is, you've got some problems mang.
Does it give a nod to the apartheid? yes. Previous concentration camps in history? yes. your basic realization of humanity and its small scale on earth? yes. all of these have been done before.
Let's not forget these things are friggin aliens. They are refugees from another FREAKIN WORLD. obviously they are someone's trash, outcasts, or sicklings.
Our job as humans is to research what we know about. so tear and cut them up scientifically....I have no issues with doing experiments on these creatures.
mad enough to leave all of his people behind? he's exactly like the main character, only worried about his own family and tail in the end.
Curious how you know so much about this film if you walked out 45 minutes into it. How do you know the movie failed completely? I've seen a lot of movies that were horrible in the beginning and the ending made it great. And how do you know it left you hanging from beginning to end, if you didn't even make it halfway through? Sounds like a bunch of crap to me.
um....yeah...a mavericks fan for life....who understands the basics of "your" vs "you're"
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I was very entertained throughout the movie. I thought the soundtrack sucked though.
28 Weeks Later is one of the worst movie I've seen in some time. It makes District 9 look like Blade Runner.
Yep. Excited to see S9 this week.
I just didn't think the weapons were all that awesome and I saved myself $8 and the movie was clear on line. I don't need to see it on the bigscreen to get what the movie was about or to enjoy it.
I could really feel the guy's pain during his transformation.
This movie gave me motion sickness. If you're prone to that, I don't recommend it. Not as bad as Cloverfield. But right up there with Blair Witch. And I had lunch right before the movie and it made it worse!
I liked the grittiness of the movie and the story. I just wish I would've known about the hand held cameras.
Interesting how divided folks are in here over this movie. After reading all this I'll have to go see it to decide for myself. The previews didn't interest me a whole lot.
Chances are you'll like it. 95% of the people I know who saw it liked it, and I have yet to read a bad review. I may have just been in a bad mood when I saw it, who knows? I still enjoyed the experience for the most part, it just didn't reach the "Wow I want to see this in the theater again and buy it on DVD" level I expected after seeing the previews. But I don't regret seeing it by any means, and if you like action/sci-fi movies, it's worth the $10.
Last edited by Spurminator; 08-17-2009 at 12:48 PM.
My District 9 review:
For a movie with no big name actors, this ended up being a highly enjoyable movie. If you have seen the trailers for this, the story is not really brought into much detail, as it just seems like a generic alien invasion movie, which it definitely is not.
The movie's premise revolves around aliens coming to Earth and docking their ship in Johannesburg 20 years ago. The aliens are then taken from their ship and colonized in a section of the area known as District 9.
The movie's plot then switches gears to follow the actions of a government official tasked with relocating the alien colony (which is in the millions) to another district due to the human population in Johannesburg fed up with the alien/human violence.
From there, the government official, through a chemical accident, begins to change and finds himself being alot more sympathetic to the alien cause. Lots of action and chase scenes ensue as the official and rogue aliens work together to bring a resolution to their conflict.
I really liked the storyline to this movie, it had great character development and the ending is very emotional. Plus, lots of kick ass weapons and explosions to keep the viewer interested. As far as Sci-Fi movies go this year, it is right up there with Star Trek and probably a little better than Transformers 2. It was not a overly long movie (about 2 hours) and I never found myself looking at the time to see when it might end. Just a word of warning though, some of the beginning of the movie is filmed in do entary "Blair Witch" style, so be prepared for some shakey camera work. Bring your Dramamine if that kind of stuff bothers you. Thumbs up and worth theater price.
"Hand held cameras" includes a lot of steadicam use, which isn't shaky at all. Hence the name.
Comparing this to the camera work in Blair Witch Project or Cloverfield is just silly.
I said that where, exactly?
I can handle a little shake but the whole film made me want to puke. (And not because it was a bad movie.) The only still parts were the interviews.
Did anyone else think that the wife was hot?
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After the first 30min I thought I was going to regret paying for it but It turned out to be a really good movie.
And yes I thought the wife was pretty hot.
Once the government agent was infected with the fluid, I thought the shakiness stopped for the most part.
I enjoyed it. Probably the best movie I've seen this year. I didn't think it was outright amazing or groundbreaking, but I thought it was very good. I'm extremely suprised at Spurminator's reaction to how the people at the top of a weapons manufactuer would act and I disagree completely. I'm fairly certain weapons manufactures by trade put the all mighty dollar above all else and thats all I see here. Well, that and the fact that they don't see it as being evil because they view the aliens as subhuman.
To the comparison to Isreal and Palestians: Kinda, but if thats really what first caame to mind then you probably missed the whole reason for the location of the film to begin with.
People that get motion sickness during movies are pussies; I'm just saying.
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I saw this movie tonight and thoroughly enjoyed it. Yes, it could have had a little more depth, but it feels like The Godfather of action movies after watching Transformers 2. There is quite a bit of character development and moving moments in the movie. Several times you think you're figuring out who the person you want to root for is and they surprise you by giving into instinct and selfishness. Several characters are very ambiguous and you're trying to decide for yourself if they're someone to root for.
This movie was absolutely riveting from start to finish. As soon as they start the evictions, the tension ramps up and never lets go for a second.
Could you feel mine too?
I wanted desperately to walk out on this movie too. Had I not been with someone else, I would have.
My Take:
The movie wasn't The Cell or AI bad, but it was bad. I have no clue how anyone could be so spellbound as to want to see it again as there was hardly any depth or dimension behind it.
I'd give it a c-... barely.
Overall just a regular, bad movie. The positive aspect was it wasn't a predictable movie.
hmm, well id like to hear some movies you've seen lately that are worthy of not walking out. Just ing around with you but, 1. i thought the cell was pretty damn original-not bad at all for what it was 2. if d9 is a c- sci fi movie id like you to give me what a C, a B, an A, and an A+ sci fi movie is.
PS, the pussies are the ones who walk out of movies, not the ones who bare with it. I've never walked out of a movie nor will i ever, what else you going to do-go home early and talk about how bad it was? Get a life, sack up.
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