Comments on: Unreal Movie Review: District 9

By: Asogan

Asogan — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:53:11 +0000

As a South African dude living in Johannesburg, I thought the movie was pretty cool. I was also starting to get sick of the US being the first point of contact with aliens!

So this was quite refreshing.

That being said, the apartheid references was still pretty heavy handed – especially as a South African. And was i the only one laughing at the way Wikus was portrayed? That’s really almost a caricature of an Afrikaaner here in SA. I liked the Afrikaans cuss words though. ‘Fok!’, ‘Bliksem!’, etc

By: Madison

Madison — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:11:56 +0000

@ Geno

No, I comprehend just fine. You just missed out on a great sci-fi movie.

By: Geno

Geno — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:55:36 +0000

Madison- apparently you have problems with comprehension. The aliens were ugly and nonsensical, the dialogue was a joke, and the acting was robotic and amateurish. Whether or not YOU take my “critique seriously”, I couldn’t care less. Had I read any of the bad reviews it DID receive beforehand, I’d still have the $20, but I didn’t and shame on me. I’m sorry if MY critique and opinion doesn’t exactly jive with yours, apparently, but as I said, I couldn’t care less. If I stop one other person from wasting their money on this garbage, then I’ve served my purpose.

By: Madison

Madison — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:32:07 +0000

@ Geno

So, you watched 40 minutes of it and thought the aliens were ugly? How can anyone be expected to take your critique seriously?

By: Geno

Geno — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:34:09 +0000

My daughter and I walked out of this horrible movie forty minutes into it. Now, I take $20 seriously in this economy, and I haven’t walked out of a movie since Mel Brooks’ “Twelve Chairs” back in the 70′s, but this was THE worst movie I had ever seen (and I love sci-fi). The “shaky” cam got my daughter physically ill, and she’s seen Blair and Clover a bunch of times. The aliens were ugly and nonsensical, the dialogue was a joke, and the acting was robotic and amateurish. I thought, with PJ attached to the film, that it would be a nice two hour escape. It was a forty minute torture. IMO…

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:56:12 +0000

A lot of the “plot holes” aren’t really plot holes at all. For instance the reason the aliens give away the guns is that most of the aliens are just drones. The equivalent of us loading all the retards onto a spaceship and setting them down on a planet. They dont know what to do unless told, and catfood is basically cocain to them.

Also a lot of the science behind how things occur (ill leave out due to spoilers) is intentionally left unexplained for 2 reasons. First it means they dont have to come up with some lame Transformers 2 type sci-fi answer. And second because the film is laid out so that you only know as much as the average person on the street. Pretty much no one knew how some of the technology worked, and so you dont either.

By: Dr. Hotensecksy

Dr. Hotensecksy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:55:42 +0000

Honestly the fact that it is set in Johannesburg is a plus in my eyes. do you know how sick I am of watching LA, New York City, or Washington getting blown up for the 700th fucking times in movies, I like seeing Africa in a movie outside of a straight up action flick or some touching story of struggle like Blood Diamond, but as an actual real movie setting.

By: Madison

Madison — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:19:50 +0000

@ Josh

I loved Moon, and I thought it was refreshing and original, but I think you overrate it a bit. It was a great sci-fi film, though, and sci-fi at its very core, something that seems to have been lost.

By: Bdougs

Bdougs — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:47:08 +0000

It was still very original and like I said, I give it a solid recomendation. But when talking about the film I feel its important to point out that he repackaged a previous project of his. The short film is good too. So check it out.

http://vimeo.com/1431107

I agree about the apartheid references. It was too much like Crash in that aspect. Subtle is better.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:24:27 +0000

Also, I believe that Moon was just as good of a Sci-Fi film as District 9 was. When push comes to serve, Moon will be on of the top three films of the year vying for the Best Picture Oscar. District 9 will be nominated (thanks to the new 10 nomination rule) but it won’t be in contention, I don’t think.