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RobbieOC:
So. This movie was pretty awesome!

It's kind of amazing to me, especially in the day and age where the Wolverine movie gets ruined months before it comes out, that a movie like this could almost come out of nowhere like it did. (Did it? Or was I just oblivious to it?) This is the kind of movie that really makes me not as sad that books are slowly fading away as movies are slowly becoming more and more important... When I think that the ___ Movie line is more popular that pretty much anything written by Michael Chabon, for example, it makes me sad, but District 9 helps me feel a little better about things.

Can I get a little metaphor-y? I love the mothership that just hovers in the background for the whole movie. Like, the hate the humans feel towards the prawns the whole movie is just there, ugly and right in front of them, but they're so used to it now that they don't even notice it as being weird or out of place or even (dare I say?) wrong. Having that ship hovering over Johannesburg the whole time (especially the scale of it, and how it was so realistic looking) was a cool thing, indeed. This movie was good.

Johnny C:
The only real criticisms I have against this movie are that the documentary motif is dropped way too quickly and the underlying themes of the film are really unsubtle. The former is way worse than the latter - the shift away from documentary is jarring and then they shift back and it doesn't make a ton of sense to do it that way. Stylistically it also seems like a weird choice, mostly because they knocked the documentary scenes out of the park.

It was still a really good movie for a lot of reasons. Part of its excellence came from the fact that there was genuine suspense! I haven't seen a movie this legitimately tense in a while. The climax is especially riveting.

variable_star:
I suppose they dropped the doc format mid-way because those people had no idea what happened to Wikus, or indeed what really happened in District 9. Their commentary would've been much as it is at the end - mere conjecture.

AanAllein:
I liked this movie, but describe it as "flawless" is pretty amusing. The way it shifted into Hollywood-style action/chase film was fine, as I think the tension was ratcheted up so high in the first third that it was an effective release. And it certainly did a good job of maintaining a level of tension throughout most of the film, which is difficult to achieve without slipping into a film that's just uncomfortable to watch.

But while the major players - Wikus, Christopher - were well-developed, there was rarely a sense that the supporting players were real individuals for most of the film. I can excuse the aliens, as they were supposed to be "worker drones," but Wikus's father-in-law and the colonel were both caricatures of "bad guys," and Wikus's wife never really seemed like anything more than a plot element to me. I can understand that they didn't have time to develop full characters of them, but they could have certainly done a better job. Aside from all that, there seems to be a significant plot hole in that the motivation for most of the humans in the film was to gain access to the apparently ridiculously powerful alien weaponry - and yet we never once see the aliens attempt to use this technology against humans, nor is there any implication that they've done so in the past. Forgivable, certainly, but hardly a flawless film.

All that said, I enjoyed it. Hopefully it's successful enough that modern sci-fi/action filmmakers learn some lessons from what it does right.

nobo:
I just came back from this movie. Out of my group of 5 I was the only one who liked it.

That said, I really enjoyed the movie. I thought the premise was really neat The only problem I had was the last half of the mechwarrior scene. It just seemed contrived.

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