District 9 has a lot of explosions... crazy effects... and unbelievable gore... combined with a dark and powerful look at South African slum/shantytowns populated with nothing but alien "prawns".
It was pretty awesome and interesting, and I'm glad I saw it. If you are squeamish at all though, the movie might be tough to stomach.
It's hard to talk about District 9 without giving too much away (beyond what's revealed in the first 3 minutes of the film). But there was a big question that I couldn't answer after watching the movie: why would an entire civilization of over a million aliens allow themselves to be repressed, even though they have access to all sorts of weaponry? I googled to find out the answer, and found it in a
director's interview on io9.com:
The hive mind [concept] is the most important thing to me, because I love the idea of a civilization that can build all of that technology and then, at the same time, just have a massive population that was just drones that needed direction, and were absolutely incapable of building that stuff on their own. I found that to be a really interesting concept. Also, it sort of explains why they don't turn on the humans. Individually, they may be feeling oppressed, but they don't have it together enough to form a resistance and back one another.
I watched the whole damn movie and never realized that the aliens were drones in a hive army... I feel like a whole new layer has been added to the movie. Now I'm trying to figure out what it all means. Anyway I do this all the time now: I watch a movie or a TV show, and then I google the shiz out of it and read up on all the message boards and wikis and what not. Then if I get the chance I'll watch it all again, and appreciate it on a whole new level.
My girlfriend thinks I'm crazy for geeking out like this, so I thought I'd ask: does anyone else follow up on Google after watching something like District 9 at the movies?
ps Definitely check out the movie if you get the chance. It's much better on the big screen then it will be on TV... it benefits from a big screen and a huge sound system.
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I saw it last night and it was the best alien movie ever !!! nothing really tops aliens, though. ;)
I LOVE District 9, I want to go see it again, if not several more times in theatres before it leaves. So so so good
District 9 really was fucking awesome.
And I loved how the aliens had human like names. Christopher Johnson? Really?
Oh Pshaw there was barely any gore at all in this movie. And I think the fact that you really only mention the effects and explosions cheapens the movie.
The movie was really good. I felt continually sad for the aliens. However as good as it was I think it was a one-time-watch-only movie. The movie was awesome but I dont think I could sit through it twice. I dont understand why I feel this way though.
I think I'll wait until it comes out on DVD to watch it. "Alive in Joburg" says a lot.
Me and my boyfriend went to see this last night! I don't want to watch it again, but it was pretty good. My bf loved it, though. lol
i have this obsession of going to imdb.com every time i finish watching a movie (old and new) so i definitely did this with district 9. agreed, amazingly awesome. i wish they explained where they came from though because of what happens at the end..it seems like it happened to all of them =x
I don't google anything unless its that interesting , or I want to find out more about it , will be going to see this one for sure though
I "Wikipedia" a movie after watching it. I haven't seen District 9, but now I might consider it.
it was intense, i walked out speechless till I peed.
I've done that with a few things but it's usually while after watching a DVD. Last week I re-watched all of the X-men movies and wiki-ed some of that stuff.
i really want to see it.
I loved the movie. It's a great commentary on apartheid.
thanks, gonna see it for my bday.
yes its a great movie.
I read a news article about D9 and Neill Blomkamp, the director, earlier today when I got off work and apparently the movie is based on a short that he made which is based on real events. Neill actually lived in Johannesburg.
Here's the link if you'd like to read it. http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090816/ENT01/308169979
AND here's the link to the Alive in Joberg short that's mentioned in the article. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNReejO7Zu8
Enjoy! :)
i do it all the time.
ummm no offense but..ya needs a life...take the girlfriend to a remote cabin and dirty commune fer a bit ..do some fishing..kill a cow ..ya know .. something at least ..hell take her bungee jumping scare da hell out of her ...at least then she might be more inclined to do yer movies with ya... but a real life ya know?
That film captured so many things, it had a awesome story line that was completely different from the typical "alien film" as well as how this story is very dark ! Not to forget about the actors in this movie ...this movie felt like it was real with how they make a documentary with in the film.. It kick so much ass that i'm willing to say its a perfect movie and it makes Transformers 2 look like a piece of shit.
looks like a movie to watch hearing or reading (rather) some comments here huh! :)
thanks for sharing! :)
i just watched it yesterday. It was... different. A lot of the people sitting around me were pretty disappointed though, but it's still definitely worth watching.
whoaooaoo... that interview is so interesting! i had the same question as you but thought maybe the prawns were so ravenously hungry for cat food that they were sort of forced to trade weaponry for it. the prawns being drones makes way more sense... such a cool idea.Â
here's another thing that i wanted to know: why could they understand each others' languages? i mean... it's only supposed to have been 20 years since they landed, right? how can they all understand each other...?
that movie was legitt.
and no usually i dont look up stuff on google after or before movie. But theres nothing wrong with it.
Haven't seen the movie yet, but plan to.
Yeah, I search imdb.com for extra info about movies (meanings, little known facts,...). Usually, I search movies that I REALLY liked or the ones I just didn't understand.
I loved it.