District 9

TrooperFarva · #1 08-15-2009, 09:54 AM

Anyone else see this movie?

I saw it last night with a bunch of friends. I thought it was great. I thought it was a great story, the weapons were awesome, and the ending was really good.

progrmr · #2 08-15-2009, 10:20 AM

Sitting in the theatre watching the 20 minutes of ads before the movie actually starts. I'm pumped up for it tho!!

Dr. Cheese · #3 08-15-2009, 10:45 AM

I plan to see it if I can get away from the wife and kids for a while today.

I have spent a fair amount of time in South Africa, and a SciFi movie based there is a good idea. BTW, for those who know South African history, I think that the name District 9 is a play on the famous Colored area in Cape Town known as District Six.

Mark Latimour · #4 08-15-2009, 10:51 AM

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I think that the name District 9 is a play on the famous Colored area in Cape Town known as District Six.

Is that like the coloured section in the Wizard of Oz?

Dr. Cheese · #5 08-15-2009, 10:57 AM

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Is that like the coloured section in the Wizard of Oz?

It kind was an Oz back before Apartheid. It was famous for all kinds of jazz and entertainment. Mark, you are such a traveler, I am pretty sure you have been to Cape Town. There is a nice District Six museum, but all that remains of the neighborhood now is a set of stairs going up the side of a mountain. The old National Party wiped out the neighborhood before Queen Elizabeth visited sometime during the 1950s.

vbasscustom · #6 08-15-2009, 11:00 AM

im probably going to see it this weekend! i really want to. looks awsome

IconBasser · #7 08-15-2009, 12:04 PM

it certainly looks good. It's on my to-see list.

kcamsdog1387 · #8 08-15-2009, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese

I think that the name District 9 is a play on the famous Colored area in Cape Town known as District Six.

That's pretty much the metaphor they went with. A lot of that almost genocidal feel. I knew going in it was going to be shot like a documentary. I thought photograph wise it similar to Southland Tales. Tons of "Live news clips" similar to what would be going on if today's media craze started showing anarchy in alien shantytowns.

Some people I know thought it was just OK. I'll admit people disintegrating into goo got slightly overdone by the end. They could of used a ton of more weapons, but it didnt take away from the movie IMHO. I felt two hours wasn't enough time to tell the story, it felt a bit rushed, unless that was the feel Jackson was going for. If there is a Director's Cut I'm definitely getting it.

K-Funk · #9 08-15-2009, 03:39 PM

I thought it was fantastic; I saw the midnight showing yesterday morning. I loved the alternate idea of aliens showing up as refugees as opposed to a super-high-tech War of the Worlds storyline, which is massively overdone. Great film, can't wait to buy the DVD.

iamlowsound · #10 08-15-2009, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by kcamsdog1387

That's pretty much the metaphor they went with. A lot of that almost genocidal feel. I knew going in it was going to be shot like a documentary. I thought photograph wise it similar to Southland Tales. Tons of "Live news clips" similar to what would be going on if today's media craze started showing anarchy in alien shantytowns.

Some people I know thought it was just OK. I'll admit people disintegrating into goo got slightly overdone by the end. They could of used a ton of more weapons, but it didnt take away from the movie IMHO. I felt two hours wasn't enough time to tell the story, it felt a bit rushed, unless that was the feel Jackson was going for. If there is a Director's Cut I'm definitely getting it.

Has Jackson ever done a movie without a director's cut? With that being said, I really want to see this movie.

lowsound

progrmr · #11 08-15-2009, 05:57 PM

I can officially report that District 9 is 100% off the charts freakin awesome!

Brad Barker · #12 08-15-2009, 06:59 PM

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Has Jackson ever done a movie without a director's cut? With that being said, I really want to see this movie.

lowsound

jackson wasn't the director.

i really liked the movie, but there's still a lot of story left. maybe there'll be a district 10?

Dr. Cheese · #13 08-15-2009, 07:33 PM

I saw it today, and I really enjoyed it. The movie is very much a white South African movie. The main character is an Afrikaner bureaucrat who very much fits the Apartheid era stereotype. I found it interesting that black South Africans were portrayed positively, but were pretty minor characters in the movie. The bad Africans were the Nigerians (that is a stereotype that South Africans of all ethinicities currently subscribe to.)

I won't say much more, but since I am teaching a South Africa history class this semester, I may assign watching the movie to students.

Rusty Chainsaw · #14 08-15-2009, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by iamlowsound

Has Jackson ever done a movie without a director's cut? With that being said, I really want to see this movie.

lowsound

Not sure about all his films, if there's extended cuts of Braindead, Bad Taste and Meet The Feebles (Jackson's early horror/gore films), I want to see them... utter low-budget genius.

Brad Barker · #15 08-15-2009, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese

I saw it today, and I really enjoyed it. The movie is very much a white South African movie. The main character is an Afrikaner bureaucrat who very much fits the Apartheid era stereotype. I found it interesting that black South Africans were portrayed positively, but were pretty minor characters in the movie. The bad Africans were the Nigerians (that is a stereotype that South Africans of all ethinicities currently subscribe to.)

I won't say much more, but since I am teaching a South Africa history class this semester, I may assign watching the movie to students.

director neill blomkamp is a white south african, so i guess that that's to be expected.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=57629

Dr. Cheese · #16 08-15-2009, 10:42 PM

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director neill blomkamp is a white south african, so i guess that that's to be expected.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=57629

Not necessarily, Tsotsi, the movie that won the Oscar for best Foreign Language Film back in 2005 or 2006, was based on a story by a white playright, Athol Fugard, and was also produced by a white South African, and it was very. very black oriented.

Brad Barker · #17 08-15-2009, 10:54 PM

here's an interview where blomkamp spills the beans on some of the alien backstory: http://io9.com/5331799/district-9s-d...ien-back-story

one of my favorite movies is aliens 2, so i'm hoping that the possible sequel is similarly action-oriented, with awesome alien war technology. (speaking of which, that weapon-suit reminded me of something....) that, to me, seems to be where the story is headed.

Brad Barker · #18 08-15-2009, 10:55 PM

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Not necessarily, Tsotsi, the movie that won the Oscar for best Foreign Language Film back in 2005 or 2006, was based on a story by a white playright, Athol Fugard, and was also produced by a white South African, and it was very. very black oriented.

i stand corrected. i neither saw tsotsi OR wolverine. *dodges shoes*

Sartori · #19 08-16-2009, 12:41 AM

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I thought it was fantastic; I saw the midnight showing yesterday morning. I loved the alternate idea of aliens showing up as refugees as opposed to a super-high-tech War of the Worlds storyline, which is massively overdone. Great film, can't wait to buy the DVD.

I agree, I thought that was a great, previously unexplored take on first contact that hadn't really been thought about. Most aliens movies have them either as horrible warmongers bent on conquering the world/destroying it and/or us, or as explorer types or something. The fact that the aliens were refugees and showed up in South Africa instead of the US or somewhere similar I thought was taking it in a very interesting new direction.

Saw it at midnight on Friday, and it was incredible.

Combat Chuck · #20 08-16-2009, 01:05 AM

Just got back from seeing it a few hours ago, it was pretty good. The "new take" on aliens was nice, and the weapons were pretty cool, but it looked like they just recycled the animation when people got killed by some of the weapons without even the smallest changes, which got pretty boring after the first five or so.