District 9 is significantly better than whatever movie you just watched

[Orrex]

And if you say "meh" then you really mean that you want to make sweet, sweet love with Bill O'Reilly.

[VioletLake]

1. It was pretty neat, and gory.

I would watch a sequel.

[City of Mills]

2. Loved that movie

I love how Wickus is just this woosy slimeball who by the end of the movie turns into a total unleashed badass...great actor. Interesting movie!

[Dr. Strange]

3. I'm watching The Big Bang Theory.

How does that rub your falafel?

[Orrex]

4. Heh heh. You said "bang."

[petronius]

5. Aside from football, the things I've watched recently are Wallander and a few

episodes of Farscape. District 9 was good, but "significantly better"? Meh...

Alright, fine, but I'm on top.

And it won't be sweet.

[Orrex]

7. Farscape?!? Isn't that like the fourth reel from "Muppets from Space?"

I scoff at you, sir!

[petronius]

9. You can not make me ashamed of my love of muppets

I have my love for Claudia Black to sustain me...

[Orrex]

10. All Muppets post-Henson is simply sock-based ancestor worship

You know it in your soul.

[Mojambo]

6. I really thought it stunk, personally

Particularly the second half.

Great concept. Major fail in the execution.

IMHO.

[Orrex]

11. You shouldn't take it personally

Just sit back and enjoy this excellent film.

[Forkboy]

16. The first half was awesome, the second fairly standard.

A better than average movie, but I was bummed to see it devolve into what was basically a standard action movie by the end.

[fishwax]

8. yeah, I'd have to agree -- but then again the movie I just watched was MacGruber

:puke:

[Posteritatis]

21. My condolences

Though I suppose that one at least wins the "no doubt whatsoever that the antagonist lost" award...

[REP]

12. I just watched District 9

I'm in an Escher post.

[old mark]

13. One of my all time favorites...

Fuck Bill O'Reilly.


mark

[csziggy]

14. I don't know - I watched "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" this evening

And I think it is significantly better than District 9.

[Orrex]

15. Well, I guess a case can be made for that one

But the special effects don't compare worth a darn, I'll tell you that much.

[csziggy]

39. OK, I'll give you the special effects

But I'll take plot over flash and bang anytime!

[Forkboy]

17. I just rewatched The Good, The Bad, The Weird last night.

And while District 9 was a nice slice of sci-fi, this movie had me smiling throughout. It's a total blast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzNnCK5cd8Q

[jobycom]

18. You mean "Avatar With a Shaky Cam and More Gore?"

Yeah, I loved it. Mixes the techniques of "The Blair Witch Project" with the mocumentary style of Christopher Guest and the "Humans are jackasses" message of, well, every recent sci-fi film I can remember, to come up with a less pretty version of Pocahontas. What more could you want?

[Orrex]

20. Glad you showed up--I needed to set my watch

[jobycom]

23. I have to read the instructions to you again?

[Orrex]

37. Oh yeah? Well the jerk store called; they're running out of YOU!

ZING!

[name not needed]

40. Yeah? Well I had sex with YOUR WIFE!

[jobycom]

41. So obviously they called you.

Kapow!

[alphafemale]

19. Liked it

The aliens being South African Ghettoed was an interesting touch.

[Orsino]

22. It was pretty good, yes...

...but O'Reilly is still stone cold sexy.

[bikebloke]

24. I just watched Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky.

Apples and oranges.

But since it was my Saturday double feature night, I also watched Cemetery Junction. District 9 beat it, even if one was a true doco and the other a light comedy.

[NewJeffCT]

25. The last movie I watched was the original "Clash of the Titans"

That has Judi Bowker, District 9 does not.

[siligut]

31. She is in The Picture Of Dorian Gray too.

A real beauty. You can see more of her in the 1976 remake of Dorian Gray, it also stars Sir John Gielgud.

[Orrex]

36. It not only has Judi Bowker--it has Judi Bowker's butt

Or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof.

Incidentally, I watched Clash of the Titans earlier this week as well. They should remake it some day, because they sure as hell haven't remade it yet.

[NewJeffCT]

43. I was going to post that pic

but, then I remembered the rules. She made quite an impression on me at 14 1/2.

I still need to watch the Sam Worthington-Liam Neeson remake of the movie, even if it sucks.

[Orrex]

46. There's an early scene with a topless Danae, too.

She holds a special place as the owning first breast I saw on the big screen. Quite a zinger at my young age, too. Yowza!

[siligut]

52. I debated telling you this, I really did...

I was torn, but realized that it shouldn't make any difference. That was a body double, not Judi. If you see the film again, look at Judi's arms, and then compare them to the naked butt persons arms, they are not the same. Is this what your "reasonable facsimile" comment meant to address?

[Orrex]

53. Sadly, yes.

I've known for years, probably since the first time that my (then) young mind realized that you don't see her face in that shot, not even in profile.

Well, it's a movie chock full of special effects, so why not? If I can believe that those scorpions were real, then I can believe that Judi Bowker's butt was real.

[siligut]

54. Exactly, and it is a lovely butt. nt

[CBR]

26. I loved it. nt

[DerekG]

27. I was severely disappointed

A fairly provocative story that devolves into just another SF-actioner.

There's nothing worse than a movie that lacks the courage of its convictions.

[HipChick]

28. I was extremely disappointed

and I am a huge sci-fi fan..if I had paid money to see it, I'd be looking for a refund

[Liberal Veteran]

29. I was exceptionally disappointed.

Not really, but I didn't want to disrupt the flow of the bottom of the thread.

I actually loved it.

[Odin2005]

30. That was an awesome movie. I like Avatar better, though.

Oh, and Vikus really deserved what happened to him.

[doc03]

32. It sucked n/t

[alphafemale]

33. I liked it better than most of the other movies nommed for best pic

[alphafemale]

34. delete dupe

[Flaxbee]

35. I just watched "The Hangover" for the first time, and

I thought it was pretty funny, but I was in dire need of some humor and mindless entertainment. The mood I'm in, District 9 wouldn't do it for me - I can't handle sad, dark or depressing right now. And please, no gory violent scenes.

[Common Sense Party]

38. I just watched 'Amazing Grace' about the abolition of the slave trade

in England. I haven't seen District 9, but I'm guessing the flick I saw had fewer explosions.

[proteus_lives]

42. The fight scene at the end was ok.

But the rest of was indeed "meh".

Wait, you say the movie was about racism? Why, I never would guessed, it's so subtle.

[RandomThoughts]

44. That movie is not about Racism in my view.

It is about spiritual influences around people.

And it uses the alien metaphor for that comment.



However some people think that spiritual is about someones race or household line.

There is a delusion that each race is a spiritual faction. Also many other concepts try to say that who you have sex with defines spirituality of a child. There are some people that thinks some body function like reproduction defines the spiritual aspects of life.


I understand honoring ancestors, but a person can be far more, or far less then any action or thought an ancestor had, and much of that is choice of learning and belief.


Although if you can get people to think in racial terms on things like that, they can fight over nothing, and if someone fights over nothing later they can get a worse guilt trip thrown at them when they see that.


Also, if you believe that spiritual is by blood lines or race, then the most successful person is based on how many children they can have, and that would be the only criteria for successful spiritual existence. It is ridiculous, but a delusion that many believe.

Do you really think the spiritual world exist with the only goal of reaching a generation able to get pregnant many times, or to get many people pregnant? That is a bit silly. And does not match any evidence over history based on sizes of families.


Or is Octamom and the Duggers the pinnacle of civilization and spiritual existence? Is that what some are saying?

[Orrex]

50. Why in the world would it need to be subtle? Is racism always subtle?

And given the setting, it isn't simply a metaphor for racism; it's clearly a metaphor for Apartheid. Was Apartheid subtle?

Beyond that, the film is more directly about Wikus' ironic redemption, in essence becoming a better human being by becoming thoroughly nonhuman.


The idea that every story must be a brand new thing is a bourgeoisie notion derived from hyperactive Campbell-worship. Is Forbidden Planet crap because it simply recycles The Tempest? Is West Side Story garbage because it's a rehash of Romeo and Juliet? Is A Thousand Acres lame because it's a retelling of King Lear? Of course not. And why not?

Because it is more important that a story be told in an interesting fashion than that it be a new tale. This is what District 9 has done; it has told a broadly familiar tale in a novel and engaging manner, moreso than have other films that deal with the same concept.

[joeybee12]

45. A movie that started out really, really well, then got dumb...

people need to realize you need to write a script for the entire movie!

[Orrex]

47. Yeah, it would have been much better to have a long, cerebral dialogue between the prawns and MNU

[GreenPartyVoter]

55. Agreed. Started out fairly unique, but got lost along the way.

[AsahinaKimi]

48. I haven't seen it yet but want to... is

There any place on line, (Besides Netflix) I can see it for free?

[kimi]

49. Personally, I liked it a lot

Touched me. I ain't no film critic, but I thought it was a good flick. And granted, I don't go to many movies in the the-A-ter, but I enjoyed this one.

[Skip Intro]

51. I didn't like it. It was kinda lame. Not my idea of sci-fi.

And no, I don't want to make anything with billo.

[realisticphish]

56. Awesome film

really surprising. and they did a great job of creating immense sympathy with objectively hideous aliens. They didn't need to "cuten" them like with ET