District 9
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Chester Copperpot
Triple stones
Hmm,
I did look but I couldn't see a thread on it.
Anyway my inlaws are coming down on Friday so I may have to wait until Sunday to see it now.
Starts fantastically but peters out to your standard affair block buster ending with sequal potential.
Still worth a watch though its pretty good! Worth the cinema ticket though? mmmm well all I saw was sketchy download but even then it looked alright I imagined its improved considerably on the big screen, so worth the trip. Certainly not much else about at the moment unless you plan to see inglorious basterds for the 3 good scenes.
Still worth a watch though its pretty good! Worth the cinema ticket though? mmmm well all I saw was sketchy download but even then it looked alright I imagined its improved considerably on the big screen, so worth the trip. Certainly not much else about at the moment unless you plan to see inglorious basterds for the 3 good scenes.
al
window licker
just had a look and it's really good stuff - tempbot is a ridiculously good short film, he's got a very 'natural' feel with CG...
Karac
Mae Hen Wlad Fy Mamau
Saw this a couple of nights ago-on a dodgy torrent-could be worth a trip to a big screen tho
Its a pretty obvious allegory of apartheid and does sort of lose it towards the end but its engrossing for the most part and the aliens are pretty cool fighting over tyres,getting bombed on catfood and pissing on the streets!
Its a pretty obvious allegory of apartheid and does sort of lose it towards the end but its engrossing for the most part and the aliens are pretty cool fighting over tyres,getting bombed on catfood and pissing on the streets!
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
At least two independent people in the US have said "GO SEE THIS" to me.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Very dissapointing. Really bad acting, story simplistic and depthless. Effects like something from the 80s - don't understand the fuss.
Jonti
what the dormouse said
Hey lighten up, they're only one earth species. Many of the others are every bit as bad.
People expect too much of self-awareness and sentience. Those abilities evolved just because they helped a certain social, language-using predatory ape survive. Not to help those lower down the food chain to argue the injustice of our plans.
funky_sessions
not to be used as pants.
I just got back from seeing this, I thought it totally rocked! well worth seeing 
some of the big action set pieces were awesome, the cgi was well done and the human characters had some real depth to them. it looked awesome on the big screen too.
ok it may not be to everyones movie going taste, but it was worth seeing especially on the big screen.
the general opinion of people coming out of the theater was that it was better than a lot of what's come out over the summer.
although, after getting treated so poorly by the humans, I did wonder why the aliens didn't just kick off with their vastly superior weaponry....
some of the big action set pieces were awesome, the cgi was well done and the human characters had some real depth to them. it looked awesome on the big screen too.
ok it may not be to everyones movie going taste, but it was worth seeing especially on the big screen.
the general opinion of people coming out of the theater was that it was better than a lot of what's come out over the summer.
although, after getting treated so poorly by the humans, I did wonder why the aliens didn't just kick off with their vastly superior weaponry....
janeb
WW Tyrion do?
me too, and also
why Christopher didn't just tell the humans he had a way to get back to the ship and I assume get everyone off and away - I think if he had the humans would have just been glad to see them go,
Enjoyed it very much however, thought the first hour or so was amazingly good
Karac
Mae Hen Wlad Fy Mamau
Because their leadership fucked off in some command pod-and just left "Worker" aliens who couldnt access the weaponry
keeping them there for the technology and the weaponry I believe, I'm sure that was breifly alluded to at the very beginning. Plus they didn't kick off because the majority of the aliens where workers and useless without their leaders.
janeb
WW Tyrion do?
That's what my husband thought, I thought
the disadvantages outweighed the possible benefits, given they couldn't use the technology after 20 years of trying, and Christopher had the potential to be the leader of the aliens if he had wanted to, esp if he was able to persuade them they could leave
Still, wouldn't been much of a film if that had happened
blairsh
pale knuckle grip on this steering wheel
Saw it this evening at cinema and really rather enjoyed it. Could have been much better and the story was atad patchy in places and i wasn't too keen on the guy who played Vickers (strangest/changeable South African accent i've ever heard)
Anyway i'll give it a thumbs up!
Anyway i'll give it a thumbs up!
D
Well-Known Member
I thought the guy who played Wikus was good and found nothing odd about his accent.
I don't know how to do a 'spoiler' thing on here...but let's talk for a moment about the representations of Nigerians in the film.
Amazingly, NO ONE with whom I've discussed this film has commented on this aspect.
In SA, where I lived for a brief period of time, Africans from the rest of the continent (and when I was there, specifically Nigerians and Mozambicans) are often presumed uneducated, unlawful, "savage", and responsible for much - if not all - the organized crime in Jo'burg. There's a lot of negative sentiment towards Nigerians in South Africa. In the film those sentiments are justified by the fact that the criminal overlords are cannibalistic, machine-gun wielding, manipulative, hoarding maniacs willing to go to any length to accumulate power and weaponry (despite the fact that they can't USE alien weaponry) who happen to be Nigerian (and that's repeated throughout the film).
themonkeyman
WHOOO HOOOO !!!
That's a quality sitefor an iPhone gonna watch it now, thanks.
miniGMgoit
OverWeightUnderAchiever
I watched it today.
I really liked it.
Very original.
I really liked it.
Very original.
elevendayempire
Registered Loofah
Bob_the_lost
Elsewhere
I wasn't liking the baby alien, a bit to JarJar for me. Interesting film, I didn't enjoy it as much as I might the first time through because I couldn't work out if I was supposed to like, despise, pity or sneer at the main character. It seems I am too spoilt by simplistic characterisation these days...
Idris2002
Stay Alive in '25
Thing is, Nigeria's a big place, and it sends out a lot of things to the outside world, and one of the things it exports is criminal gangs. Which is not to say that all Nigerians, etc., etc.
Given the situation depicted in the film, it was entirely plausible that you'd have some Nigerian mafia interest.
As for the film itself, I thought it was excellent - the best Sci-fi film I've seen in a long while, and the most original I've seen in a while as well. I'm not even convinced about butcher's point about the acting: a) it's Sci-fi, so you're not going to get RADA unless you hire Capt. Picard, and b) I didn't think the acting was that bad, anyway.
My mate who is often cynical about films just texted me saying this is the film of the year and if I have to see one film at the cinema this year make it this one
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
I saw it yesterday and wouldn't go that far. It was very good, quite original and pretty dark in places. I wouldn't have liked to have watched it late at night (but I'm a wuss
).However, if you only see one film at the cinema this year it should be Moon.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I think the acting was terrible - truly awful, not helped by the overkill on the this is documentary signifiers in the first section there's nothing worse than people trying to studiously act like they're acting spontaneous (IYSWIM).
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