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Post by kingkoopa on Jan 24, 2018 22:46:50 GMT
I love sci-fi and how it examines metaphors and the dangers of the future. "District 9" seems to get lampooned once in a while, but I don't know why. The metaphor is not totally something I can relate with (I'm an American, though I've probably spent at least six weeks in Johannesburg over the last decade), but while it isn't totally subtle, it is an apt and appropriate read on apartheid.
The effects are great, the premise is sound, the execution has a few missteps, but this is all and all a great film for me...and one that accurately reads a situation we all (myself included) totally understand. It's one of the most compelling and well-made contemporary sci-fi movies I can think of.
I get the feeling this film was disappointing to a lot of the people who watched it. Just watched it again (I'm in New Zealand at the moment, and Peter Jackson productions we don't get in US regions are ripe for the picking on Netflix here). It was a fantastic film IMHO. Not without its problems, but imaginative enough to be forgiven for them.
Am I alone (alien invasion pun)? Wasn't this a pretty good flick?
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jan 24, 2018 22:55:53 GMT
I think most people love it.
I hated it. I couldn't understand how anyone even saw a message in it and it had some of the worst villains I have ever seen in a film. Cardboard would have been a better bad guy.
It looked good and it had a good lead in a story that was worthless.
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Post by kingkoopa on Jan 24, 2018 23:03:02 GMT
I think most people love it. I hated it. I couldn't understand how anyone even saw a message in it and it had some of the worst villains I have ever seen in a film. Cardboard would have been a better bad guy. It looked good and it had a good lead in a story that was worthless. Fair point, the villains were the same old pointlessly greedy and bloodthirsty military/evil-corporate guys. Same problem happened in "Chappie" for me (they weren't military, but may has well been paper doll villain archetypes). Blommkamp (spelling errors likely) wrote his heroes well, but the villains just seemed like purposeless assholes in both aforementioned movies. Bald xenophobic dude with a giant gun...led around by an unemotional silver fox in a million dollar suit...I feel like he just re-adapted the villains from "Robocop" |
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Post by salomonj on Jan 24, 2018 23:31:16 GMT
I love it. Blomkamp really gets a bit preachy with his messages which is why I have reservations with him doh for a Alien film but I really enjoyed District 9 nonetheless. Different, yet interesting, style, great action, characters, story etc.. it’s a very exciting film.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 23:32:55 GMT
I didn't finish it, but it didn't seem bad.
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Post by salomonj on Jan 24, 2018 23:33:09 GMT
For the record, I thoroughly enjoy Elysium as well which seems to be a unpopular opinion. I hate Chappie though.
All of Blomkamp’s Oats Studio shorts this far have been great and really makes me excited for his future as a filmmaker
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Post by Eλευθερί on Jan 24, 2018 23:35:08 GMT
I really disliked it.
Not necessarily because it was a bad film or unsatisfying story, but because of the way it had been advertised.
I was expecting something entirely different based on the advertising than what it actually involved.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 24, 2018 23:40:32 GMT
I saw it only once but really liked it. Showed me how much bloat there is in Hollywood given that a $30M movie from South Africa turned out better than a lot of costly blockbusters that year.
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Post by maxwellperfect on Jan 24, 2018 23:46:53 GMT
I liked it better when it was called 'Alien Nation.'
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jan 24, 2018 23:50:16 GMT
For the record, I thoroughly enjoy Elysium as well which seems to be a unpopular opinion. I hate Chappie though. All of Blomkamp’s Oats Studio shorts this far have been great and really makes me excited for his future as a filmmaker Elysium is not great cinema but it is far better than District 9 which muddles it's symbolisms. He's just not a good director beyond visual spectacle which is why I have no idea why people would be excited to see him helming Alien. I hear he makes good shorts though. |
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jan 25, 2018 0:50:47 GMT
3 films in, I don't think Blomkamp's for me.
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Post by jakesully on Jan 25, 2018 1:03:03 GMT
Fucking loved it. And I can't believe the budget was only like 30 something million dollars. It literally looked like a $150 million film . 9/10
Say what you want about his other films (that are a bit heavy handed) but D9 delivered and was a very edge of your seat action/sci fi film .
I'm glad I own it!
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jan 25, 2018 2:44:49 GMT
6/10 Good but no masterpiece.
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Post by poelzig on Jan 25, 2018 2:58:38 GMT
I liked it. Sadly it seems to be the only decent movie Blomkamp has in him.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jan 25, 2018 2:59:19 GMT
I've ONLY seen it once, but I seem to recall liking it, NOT loving it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2018 4:06:10 GMT
I gotta say I was less than impressed with District 9. I didn't like the story or the characters, the aliens were entirely unconvincing to me. It's a mystifying critical success.
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Post by mslo79 on Jan 25, 2018 10:23:36 GMT
It's very overrated at it's current 8.0/10 average on IMDb. that movie should not be more than 6.x/10 range MAX.
in fact, it nearly stopped watching it due to boredom but about 38min or a bit past it just barely got watchable enough to finish. so for me overall it's below average (at best). basically I think it was not long after the main character went on the run that it started to become watchable.
3-4/10 (currently it sits on a 4/10, but I am probably a little generous with that score).
p.s. a MUCH better Sci-Fi movie from that same year... Moon (2009) (8/10)
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Post by Marv on Jan 25, 2018 10:54:56 GMT
I liked it a lot.
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