District 9 on Rotten Tomatoes

[cirrrocco]

Great movie , I loved it.

9/10

 

[nerdress]

I just saw it, and I have to admit it was FUCKING AWESOME.

My .02.

 

[EGGO]

Great movie. I promise you the commercials show maybe 10% of the story.

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: EGGO
Great movie. I promise you the commercials show maybe 10% of the story.

What I got from the commercials:

Aliens junker broke down and they stay at the nearest fleabag hotel we call earth.

They set up a campsite and the humans proceed to try to steal their technology and end up infecting one of us and we try to get him for a bit of late night dissection and the aliens fight back against those people.

What else we got?

 

[zoiks]

It was okay. Not spectacular. I couldn't get into it for some reason.

 

[chuckywang]

*SPOILER*




The scene where the alien father tells his son that they can't go back to their planet and then points to a brochure of their new tent and tells him that they must stay there forever is such a gut-wrenching scene. With all the CGI, with all the action, that scene is the one that sticks out the most when I think back on it.

 

[Tea Bag]

Bought into the hype since I had a few friends that wanted to see it and ended up going last night.

The 'shaky cam' didn't bother me as much as the transition between narrative-style documentary and traditional style all the time. It just seemed like the mock-umentary was force-feeding you the plot and didn't let you interpret it based on the events, especially in the beginning.

But yea, grasping at straws here - it was great. I'm not a frequent movie-goer and my last few movies in the theater were chick flicks, so I was due. We went with another couple and my only-chick-flick-loving gf not only didn't ask me about the plot constantly during the movie (I guess the mockumentary did its job), she talked about it the whole way home. It's not gonna win an Oscar - sans special effects, but it's a solid 8/10.

 

[Triumph]

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda

Originally posted by: Triumph
Sorry, but I couldn't wait for this movie to be over. Didn't care for any characters, either human or praun (although the kid was kinda cool). Didn't understand why the praun cared about the human, considering the human repeatedly dicked him over and used him to get his way. And there's no excuse for the extensive use of shaky cam. WTF people? Why is this necessary? It's disorienting, and detracts from my enjoyment of the film.

Didn't really care about the social commentary. Couldn't really care about much of anything, too distracted by a serious case of nausea from the shaky cam.

It`s obvious that you have issues that had nothing to do with shaky cam or anything else....you possibly don`t think very much....or need to be the life of the party...lol

Uhhh....right. Now we're psychologically profiling people based on their movie reviews? Riiiiiight. :roll:

 

[irishScott]

Saw it yesterday and was disappointed.

1. The main character/hero was a moron. Maybe that was the point, but seriously... there are unlikely heroes and then there are morons. Bad medical shit starts happening to him and he goes ape-shit when he hears the only available treatment. I'd take the 3 years thank you. He also just struck me as disingenuous/fake, and at times it seemed like he was making stupid decisions to make the movie longer. Just not a believable character IMO. Sure he had his heroic moments but there were so many times where I wanted him to get shot and the smart prawn to take center stage.

2. They have all these aliens and do nothing with them. No story of where they came from, no explanation of why they're here, no reason why "they can't go home", and no reason as to why they do nothing about their living conditions. They have all these weapons and are 2.5 million strong yet they do nothing with either of the above. Also, why do they just stand there and let the morons point weapons at them? Early in the movie they show one kicking a security guard about 20 ft, ripping off limbs in the process. Yet when one guy has one prawn at gunpoint within arms length they do nothing. Hell I could've disarmed the colonel with my training (which is fairly minimal) no super-strength required. The one exception to this is in the climax. About 20 seconds of it.

Lack of realism notwithstanding, the aliens could have been made fascinating with a little creativity. I was expecting some explanation or involvement in their culture, such as it was. Even on the simple stuff. Why does the one intelligent prawn in the whole movie call them "his people". Is he the ship's captain? The President? King? Just a good guy trying to do the right thing? How are the other prawns organized? Are they even organized at all? There was so much potential there that was simply wasted.

3. The social commentary was obvious and pointless. Sure you can link up specifics and dive in deep to no end, but what it all boils down to is "racism is bad kids." Pretty sure PBS started teaching me that about 2 decades ago.

SPOILER ALERT
4. For all its plot faults, the action sequences were damn good. With one exception. WTF is with that mothership? The little alien kid fires up the mothership and a sonic wave smashes every window in Johannesburg. At this point I'm thinking "Heheh, it's on bitches." I was expecting turrets to pop out or something very destructive and very cool. Hell I'd have taken something simple like a force-field generator or something, but nope. Nothing. It just sits there and hums. Seriously? These aliens put McGuyver to shame in terms of patching together weapons, yet the huge-ass mothership is completely impotent?

 

[MattCo]

Irish,
I thought the movie was great, but I agree with your comments somewhat. Here are some random thoughts:
on #2, there are many repressed peoples on Earth that are physically stronger than their captors, and some are armed, but do not break out because they have been beaten down enough.
on #4, maybe it was a cruise ship or a personnel transport of sorts. The QE II produces a shit-ton of horsepower and is very large, but wouldn't be much of a continent-attacker.

 

[Bryf50]

Originally posted by: irishScott
Saw it yesterday and was disappointed.

1. The main character/hero was a moron. Maybe that was the point, but seriously... there are unlikely heroes and then there are morons. Bad medical shit starts happening to him and he goes ape-shit when he hears the only available treatment. I'd take the 3 years thank you. He also just struck me as disingenuous/fake, and at times it seemed like he was making stupid decisions to make the movie longer. Just not a believable character IMO. Sure he had his heroic moments but there were so many times where I wanted him to get shot and the smart prawn to take center stage.

2. They have all these aliens and do nothing with them. No story of where they came from, no explanation of why they're here, no reason why "they can't go home", and no reason as to why they do nothing about their living conditions. They have all these weapons and are 2.5 million strong yet they do nothing with either of the above. Also, why do they just stand there and let the morons point weapons at them? Early in the movie they show one kicking a security guard about 20 ft, ripping off limbs in the process. Yet when one guy has one prawn at gunpoint within arms length they do nothing. Hell I could've disarmed the colonel with my training (which is fairly minimal) no super-strength required. The one exception to this is in the climax. About 20 seconds of it.

Lack of realism notwithstanding, the aliens could have been made fascinating with a little creativity. I was expecting some explanation or involvement in their culture, such as it was. Even on the simple stuff. Why does the one intelligent prawn in the whole movie call them "his people". Is he the ship's captain? The President? King? Just a good guy trying to do the right thing? How are the other prawns organized? Are they even organized at all? There was so much potential there that was simply wasted.

3. The social commentary was obvious and pointless. Sure you can link up specifics and dive in deep to no end, but what it all boils down to is "racism is bad kids." Pretty sure PBS started teaching me that about 2 decades ago.

SPOILER ALERT
4. For all its plot faults, the action sequences were damn good. With one exception. WTF is with that mothership? The little alien kid fires up the mothership and a sonic wave smashes every window in Johannesburg. At this point I'm thinking "Heheh, it's on bitches." I was expecting turrets to pop out or something very destructive and very cool. Hell I'd have taken something simple like a force-field generator or something, but nope. Nothing. It just sits there and hums. Seriously? These aliens put McGuyver to shame in terms of patching together weapons, yet the huge-ass mothership is completely impotent?

The way I interpreted it and how they explained it a bit in the beginning was that the aliens were basically the workers and through some event their leaders were separated from them. It's likely they wouldn't know any better and wouldn't be organized enough to take on the humans.

The only thing that bothered me was why wasn't the alien mothership swarming with humans studying it and trying to figure out their engine technology at least. It doesn't make much sense that there wouldn't be a bunch of humans on it even 20 years later.

 

[Dangerer]

Originally posted by: irishScott
Saw it yesterday and was disappointed.

1. The main character/hero was a moron. Maybe that was the point, but seriously... there are unlikely heroes and then there are morons. Bad medical shit starts happening to him and he goes ape-shit when he hears the only available treatment. I'd take the 3 years thank you. He also just struck me as disingenuous/fake, and at times it seemed like he was making stupid decisions to make the movie longer. Just not a believable character IMO. Sure he had his heroic moments but there were so many times where I wanted him to get shot and the smart prawn to take center stage.

2. They have all these aliens and do nothing with them. No story of where they came from, no explanation of why they're here, no reason why "they can't go home", and no reason as to why they do nothing about their living conditions. They have all these weapons and are 2.5 million strong yet they do nothing with either of the above. Also, why do they just stand there and let the morons point weapons at them? Early in the movie they show one kicking a security guard about 20 ft, ripping off limbs in the process. Yet when one guy has one prawn at gunpoint within arms length they do nothing. Hell I could've disarmed the colonel with my training (which is fairly minimal) no super-strength required. The one exception to this is in the climax. About 20 seconds of it.

Lack of realism notwithstanding, the aliens could have been made fascinating with a little creativity. I was expecting some explanation or involvement in their culture, such as it was. Even on the simple stuff. Why does the one intelligent prawn in the whole movie call them "his people". Is he the ship's captain? The President? King? Just a good guy trying to do the right thing? How are the other prawns organized? Are they even organized at all? There was so much potential there that was simply wasted.

3. The social commentary was obvious and pointless. Sure you can link up specifics and dive in deep to no end, but what it all boils down to is "racism is bad kids." Pretty sure PBS started teaching me that about 2 decades ago.

SPOILER ALERT
4. For all its plot faults, the action sequences were damn good. With one exception. WTF is with that mothership? The little alien kid fires up the mothership and a sonic wave smashes every window in Johannesburg. At this point I'm thinking "Heheh, it's on bitches." I was expecting turrets to pop out or something very destructive and very cool. Hell I'd have taken something simple like a force-field generator or something, but nope. Nothing. It just sits there and hums. Seriously? These aliens put McGuyver to shame in terms of patching together weapons, yet the huge-ass mothership is completely impotent?

SPOILERS
1. I actually like his character a lot. I saw the movie with my gf and she flips out when characters do moronic things, but I think it's all part of the complex emotions of humans causing us to make rash decisions in desperate times. The guy probably didn't think he'd survive a week let alone 3 years with the ENTIRE global weapons industries after his DNA. It was definitely an incredibly stupid decisions to knock out Chris and fly the shuttle to the mothership all by himself.

2. I think they purposely kept this up in the air, but they did explain that the aliens were without a leader and if you could imagine ants without a queen it might make more sense.

3. Regarding the social commentary. I know quite a few people who are intelligent, but when it comes to movies they need to have the entire plot spoon fed to them or else they'd be utterly confused.

4. The huge blast we heard was probably just the mothership starting up. With the limited amount of fuel they possessed (not even enough to fix wikus) they had to conserve it as much as possible by not firing any weapon if they were to make it home.

 

[Xcobra]

Originally posted by: Triumph
Sorry, but I couldn't wait for this movie to be over. Didn't care for any characters, either human or praun (although the kid was kinda cool). Didn't understand why the praun cared about the human, considering the human repeatedly dicked him over and used him to get his way. And there's no excuse for the extensive use of shaky cam. WTF people? Why is this necessary? It's disorienting, and detracts from my enjoyment of the film.

Didn't really care about the social commentary. Couldn't really care about much of anything, too distracted by a serious case of nausea from the shaky cam.

You need to stfu... and get out more... excellent movie, out of anything I've seen this year.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Xcobra

Originally posted by: Triumph
Sorry, but I couldn't wait for this movie to be over. Didn't care for any characters, either human or praun (although the kid was kinda cool). Didn't understand why the praun cared about the human, considering the human repeatedly dicked him over and used him to get his way. And there's no excuse for the extensive use of shaky cam. WTF people? Why is this necessary? It's disorienting, and detracts from my enjoyment of the film.

Didn't really care about the social commentary. Couldn't really care about much of anything, too distracted by a serious case of nausea from the shaky cam.

You need to stfu... and get out more... excellent movie, out of anything I've seen this year.

no you GTFO Shakey Cam is fucking horrid

 

[Playmaker]

I echo all the comments on it being a great movie, but there are definitely a few shaky-cam scenes. If you're one of the few that can't handle that, wait for DVD.

 

[Hacp]

I didn't notice any shaky cam scenes at all. Usually, I hate those scenes, especially if its made to make an action scene look "cooler"(hint-it doesn't fucking work!). However, I didn't notice anything of that sort in this movie.

 

[Hacp]

Originally posted by: Playmaker
I echo all the comments on it being a great movie, but there are definitely a few shaky-cam scenes. If you're one of the few that can't handle that, wait for DVD.

Which scenes?

 

[StageLeft]

Going to see it tonight, first in a very long time, which says a lot. I have to get a sitter and all that.

Fvck I hate shaky cam scenes. HATE. I hope it's not heavy on them. I will pull the fire alarm if there is and make everyone run out of the theater. I'm kidding. Maybe.

 

[stag3]

i didn't really notice the shaky cam scenes either for some reason
movie was bad ass, kinda started off slow but when the first soldier blew up
from that lightning gun thing, it was non stop from that point LMAO

 

[jonks]

just got back.

Go see this film.

out.

 

[LifesABeta]

All I have to say is section 10!!!

 

[rpanic]

Just got back it was great. I think I would rather have district 9 as neighbors then section 8.

 

[Triumph]

Originally posted by: Xcobra

Originally posted by: Triumph
Sorry, but I couldn't wait for this movie to be over. Didn't care for any characters, either human or praun (although the kid was kinda cool). Didn't understand why the praun cared about the human, considering the human repeatedly dicked him over and used him to get his way. And there's no excuse for the extensive use of shaky cam. WTF people? Why is this necessary? It's disorienting, and detracts from my enjoyment of the film.

Didn't really care about the social commentary. Couldn't really care about much of anything, too distracted by a serious case of nausea from the shaky cam.

You need to stfu... and get out more... excellent movie, out of anything I've seen this year.

I love seeing idiots like you get all irate because someone doesn't share your opinion. It speaks to the lack of validity of YOUR opinion.

 

[LifesABeta]

Originally posted by: rpanic
Just got back it was great. I think I would rather have district 9 as neighbors then section 8.

I wouldn't mind having a prawn friend myself. Afterall they've got the coolest weapons that only they can use. Definately good to have especially of you live near a section 8

 

[Cable God]

I thought it was fairly good, but then again, I was drunk along with the rest of my co-workers. I think it wasn't quite as good as I had hoped it would be, but again, I thought it was fairly good.