Jackson didn't direct it.
Ahh..my mistake. He was a producer. I just assumed he did with his name all over it in the marketing.
It was directed and written by Neill Blomkamp. Upon doing a little research I found out that this is actually his directorial debut. Pretty damn good for his first time out. It kinda sucks for him though...because this will be a hard act to follow.
The first 1/2 was pretty boring - way too much filler and overuse of filters/shaky cam. Only after the movie crawled out from it's own ass did it become awesome. The alien weaponry was fun to watch. For my money, Blomkamp's movie looks much better than something like Transformers, and that's at a fraction of their budget. If he'd of stayed on to finish the Halo movie, it would have been amazing, although you can sort of see some elements from the game that made it to the movie (the 50 cal sniper, battle rifles, elite-shaped aliens, energy weapons etc).
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Way much better than TF's for sure. The weapons were the best part of the movie. ing Badass! I been hearing Steven Speilberg as the director for the upcoming Halo movie. I don't know about him? As long he goes back to the "Rated R 1998 Saving private Ryan" type of directing, I'm all for it as having him as the director. But I hear Microsoft wants to keep it pg13 which was one of the main reasons Guillermo Del Toro dropped out of the Halo project because he wouldn't have complete control. That mofo would of made a 2 and half hour bloodbath that would of had star wars geeks ting in their pants. But that would Hollywood execs worst nightmare. A mainstream rated R that would cut into their profits. That's why we keep seeing made nowadays...Terminator Salvation, Die Hard.
It is sci-fi, but it is far from fantasy. It was very much intended to feel realistic. It had a do entary feel and it was much more dramatic than your typical sci-fi Star Trek shoot 'em up. That's why I said it was more like a docu-drama film.
Yes...I thought it would be more of a Peter Jackson style movie when I went in, but after it was over I was glad it wasn't. If you didn't like it, that's fine. No movie is for everyone. Personally, I feel it was a very refreshing twist on what could have been just another alien movie.
Ya the movie is so bad that its currently rated a 9 out of 10 on IMDB jackass by 3000+ people who have voted. You are very much in the minority sir. The acting was great. Except for the main Nigerian bad guy.
Yeah, it's just like all of those other movies with a similar plot line, effects, and theme.
We get it dude. You're at that stage in your life where you go against the crowd. You know, aside from being a Laker fan of course.
I caught it today and was pretty blown away. It wasn't a huge let down liek Cloverfield was. The effects were great and whoever said the acting was solid, aside from the Nigerian bad guy was pretty spot on. I knew it was going to be a good movie with a great ending, I just didn't expect this.
And as a huge zombie flick fan, I ing loved the gore factor.
Yeah but this was an extremely graphic version of that with blood and guts and with people splattering everywhere...with explosions y todo...
so you missed the part with the weapons then? And you missed the huge firefight with the robot at the end, well done
seriously i don't blame you for ing, that's like walking out of star wars when luke is still on tattoiine
This movie was Starship Troopers but not as good.
C'mon that scene with the .50 cal was great and the flying death pig
so you didn't walk out on it?
I mean it was cool to see people blowed up real good and all but I expected better.
Every human was pretty much pure evil. There was very little real human behavior. People were just bad, just because.
I mean if you have a dude that can control all of this previously-untouchable alien weaponry, why would you treat him like an asshole? Kiss his ass, make him work for you.
Too many instances when you say "No one would ever do that." That ruins a movie for me. IE you have a big gun pointed at the crazy Nigerian boss. You've just killed his henchmen. Why don't you blow his ass away too? Stupid.
The concept of this movie was awesome. SO much potential. But they blew it. Just like Cloverfield.
First off the doctor says that they needed all of his important parts to study "we'll start with the heart" why he was able to fuse with the alien DNA so there is no way he would have agreed to that. They didn't want one guy running around with the alien tech they wanted an army
Hi character only ever killed for self defense, (remember he told christopher not to kill the humans), and crazy nigerian boss didn't have a gun
I'd like to see a movie where people commit inhumane acts with good intentions, instead of being conveniently amoral. It started off that way, sort of, but the last hour lost me.
SPOILER
Does anything get the feeling that christopher is not coming back?
he was pretty mad when he saw the experiments
Just finished watching online and it was a good movie.
I didn't think the weapons were all awesome as I remember seeing the same type of weapon in The Eraser.
But I give up a thumbs up.
A Sequel looks like a sure thing.
And Yes, he'll be back because he promised.
C'mon...really...the Eraser...that was one weapon...there were multiple badass ing weapons in D-9...and you certainly did yourself a disservice by watching online and not in a theater...
How in the did you get your money back? That is the oddest thing I have heard in a long time.What kind of bag goes to a theater,pays for a movie,doesn't like it and says "give me my 7 bucks back" WTF??????????
Dude....That is ing strange...BIG TIME....Hopefully you are exagerating the point you don't like the movie. That is one major character flaw if you asked for your money back for a movie. Unless you really cried like a ing baby or put up a major scene I doubt they gave you money back. I call bull on this whole story.
if you have to leave before a movie ends most theaters will give you at least a free pass. I question how if he walked out on the movie, he was able to about the ending.How in the did you get your money back? That is the oddest thing I have heard in a long time.
Dude....That is ing strange...BIG TIME....Hopefully you are exagerating the point you don't like the movie. That is one major character flaw if you asked for your money back for a movie. Unless you really cried like a ing baby or put up a major scene I doubt they gave you money back. I call bull on this whole story.
This movie was ing amazing. It delved into the psycholoygy of how humans tend to treat others.
Wow. You sir, were probably not paying attention or much of this went over your head.
1. Every human was pure evil? Just because? Seriously? Do people not robe, kill, murder, and generally act unethical for the almighty dollar?
2. HOW WAS THERE NO HUMAN BEHAVIOUR? That was the whole point of this film. We tend to fear/hate what we don't understand. Did you not see the damn human only signs? The "I don't care where they go, they must leave now".
3. Kiss his ass? Why? He's becoming one of them, he's seen what we do to them. WE ING EXPERIMENT ON THEM. You think they'd keep him alive to tell the whole ing world what is going on?
4. Lol this is the funniest one. Yeah tell me this. Hypothically speaking, you go into the white house, surrounded by the secret service, and you have a gun. what would you do, shoot the president or tell him to call off the secret service. Think about it, if he had killed the boss guy, what would stop the other 10 people from shoting him. Sure you have a bigger gun but you can't shot them all at once. YOUR OUTNUMBERED.
I bet you woke up when the shooting began. I swear some people just want to be spoon feed everything.Sorry to be a but damn man.
I got ROBED once. I loved it!
On the contrary, the main reason District 9 disappointed me was that it was too much spoon-feeding and not enough challenging social commentary. I can buy humans testing on the aliens to try to figure out how to use their weaponry. What I don't buy is that the people in charge of that testing would approach the task with such a "MWAHAHA I love being evil!!" at ude.Wow. You sir, were probably not paying attention or much of this went over your head.
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I bet you woke up when the shooting began. I swear some people just want to be spoon feed everything.
When the antagonists are so one-dimensional and obvious, there's nothing thought provoking about it. You know what they're doing is wrong because the people doing it are all but wearing black cowboy hats.
I went into the film expecting something more like the first Dawn of the Dead, or 28 Weeks Later... even the movie I mentioned before, Starship Troopers... the kind of movies that entertain while also serving as an allegory for what's happening in the real world, or what might happen if humanity was faced with addressing something like a worldwide zombie/alien encounter. Starship Troopers did much better job (as I recall, but I haven't seen it in over ten years) of portraying relatable characters and actions in an unrelatable scenario. See Battlestar Gallactica for another example of what I'm talking about.
For about 30 minutes, this movie seemed to be heading in that direction. Then it became another popcorn blow- -up flick with obvious good guys and bad guys, and dialogue like "I won't leave you behind!" "No, go, save yourself!" "I'll come back for you, I promise!"
Now, on the scale of action movies, it's among the better ones that have been made in a while. I'd see it again. I'd see the sequel. I just wanted it to be better, because it showed a lot of promise in the first half hour. There was a better movie that could have been made with this concept.
They were a weapons manufacturerOn the contrary, the main reason District 9 disappointed me was that it was too much spoon-feeding and not enough challenging social commentary. I can buy humans testing on the aliens to try to figure out how to use their weaponry. What I don't buy is that the people in charge of that testing would approach the task with such a "MWAHAHA I love being evil!!" at ude.
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