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[Movie] District-9 (AKA D-9) - Page 8
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Leeto
United States1320 Posts
Just my opinion. | ||
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Alpine
United States86 Posts
Man I can't get this movie outa my head, that's a first in a very loong time. This movie alone restored my faith in the movie industry. | ||
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Sosha
United States749 Posts
On August 16 2009 02:20 Xeris wrote: They DID want to kill him... wouldn't you think saying "take his heart" would kill him? They had every intention of harvesting his body and not caring whether he lived or died in the process. well yes, the procedure of the harvest would have killed him - but when he escaped and they were hunting for him, they wanted him captured alive.. It was after they broke into MNU HQ and started killing peeps that they military agents wanted to switch to live-ammo... but the actual MNU/governemtn still wanted him captured alive.. seems to be more supportive of the information if the organs and tissue are at their most vibrant.. as opposed to rotting. gL | ||
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[-Bluewolf-]
United States609 Posts
The best scifi movie of this year, in our opinions, still remains as Moon (filmed with only a 5 million budget). | ||
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Leeto
United States1320 Posts
On August 16 2009 06:43 Alpine wrote: They set it up perfectly for a sequel...repeatedly, the words "I will return in 3 years"... and 2.5 million & growing... Christopher will rescue his kind... as I said earlier, I just hope they carry on the same production values if they do make a sequel...and if they dont make one, this movie was so fantastic I wouldn't even mind...better it die out then taint it with a T3 or T4 style sequel. Man I can't get this movie outa my head, that's a first in a very loong time. This movie alone restored my faith in the movie industry. Yeah, but how can you make a story out of the sequel? Christopher comes back with a fleet of alien megaships, load up all the prawns on earth to take home, and if anyone tries to stop them they zap them. The sequel either has to be really ingenious or else it will just ruin the reputation of the first. This movie was really good, and unless they can make something better they should just leave it at that. | ||
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Xeris
Iran17695 Posts
I mean, The Lord of the Rings movies got progressively better.. | ||
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Gnosis
Scotland912 Posts
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zgl
United States1055 Posts
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brian
United States9616 Posts
it dragged hard for the first hour and a half. there was no getting me back after that. i'll admit it got interesting, but it was far too late. i just wanted to get out. the rapidly developed relationship between christopher and wikus was the only saving grace of the movie, but again, far too late. | ||
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cosiant
Canada616 Posts
Transformers ain't got nothing on the mechsuit. Also, interspecies buttsex, lol. | ||
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Xeris
Iran17695 Posts
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iPF[Div]
Spain572 Posts
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Masamune
Canada3401 Posts
Edit: 9/10 | ||
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A3iL3r0n
United States2196 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + I thought it was sadly ironic, that for a movie about valuing the life of all living things, that the camera was unflinching in its exciting portrayal of gore and much of the violence to me seemed to be only for the sake of having violence. Everything in the movie was heavy-handed, the violence and the theme. I understood in the first 5 minutes of the movie that this was about human tendency to de-value and be afraid of things that are not like us, but I got another hour and some odd minutes of more of the same message. In the same hour and some odd minutes, every time an alien was on screen with MNU security forces, they had to kick punch or shoot an alien. Got a little bit repetitive, and they should have been using that time on other scenes to let us understand and care about the characters a bit more. The movie didn't make me care about any of the characters since they were all stock motivations. Badly written movie. The good stuff was the idea of first contact, where the humans become the oppressors. Also, the way the alien technology was designed to work with their DNA, and the fuel for the ship is their genetic essence, which is why it mutates the incorrigible bastard protagonist. In other words, the space ship could basically run on jizz? I wouldn't mind filling up my car if that were the case. 6/10 | ||
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sith
United States2474 Posts
Even if that process only took a few days, thats plenty of time for the aliens to hide it somehow, even if Christopher was just working alone. Edit: On August 16 2009 06:31 1337o wrote: I just saw this movie and I thought it was pretty good. However I don't think they're going to make a sequel considering how the movie ended. If they did though, I'd definitely go see it. Just my opinion. Are you serious? They set it up for a sequel so perfectly that they would have to be retarded not to make one. Movie is getting close to end.....CUE MYSTERIOUS MUSIC AND UNEXPLAINED FATE OF MAIN CHARACTERS....CUE EPILOGUE TEXT THAT CONTAINS THE NAME OF THE SEQUEL (D-10). I mean come on. And there are a LOT of directions you can take the sequel, if there is indeed going to be one. "Aliens come back and rape with advanced tech" is one, but seeing as this movie was unconventional in plot, I'm sure a supposed sequel would be too. | ||
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
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A3iL3r0n
United States2196 Posts
If you actually think about this movie, it doesn't really measure up. There's also very little art in this movie, the characters are kind of bland outside of their motivations. The performance of Wikus is pretty well done; the actor adds nuance and gets you to think about him, but the movie spends so little time developing character, it's all implied. The distancing use of the "documentary" style is blah. There's no need for it other than poor writing, it allows you to jump from person to person, in order to set-up the plot. Instead of including the information skillfully within the scheme of the overall plot. Granted, it is a lot of backstory to give, but its kind of boring to watch the first 20 minutes of the movie and its just talking heads. They were actually telling us, rather than showing us. Which is weird to say about the movie, but still applies. | ||
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wishterran
United States1045 Posts
On August 17 2009 03:22 A3iL3r0n wrote: Great premise, but shitty execution. + Show Spoiler + I thought it was sadly ironic, that for a movie about valuing the life of all living things, that the camera was unflinching in its exciting portrayal of gore and much of the violence to me seemed to be only for the sake of having violence. Everything in the movie was heavy-handed, the violence and the theme. I understood in the first 5 minutes of the movie that this was about human tendency to de-value and be afraid of things that are not like us, but I got another hour and some odd minutes of more of the same message. In the same hour and some odd minutes, every time an alien was on screen with MNU security forces, they had to kick punch or shoot an alien. Got a little bit repetitive, and they should have been using that time on other scenes to let us understand and care about the characters a bit more. The movie didn't make me care about any of the characters since they were all stock motivations. Badly written movie. The good stuff was the idea of first contact, where the humans become the oppressors. Also, the way the alien technology was designed to work with their DNA, and the fuel for the ship is their genetic essence, which is why it mutates the incorrigible bastard protagonist. In other words, the space ship could basically run on jizz? I wouldn't mind filling up my car if that were the case. 6/10 This is the first legitimate criticism I've seen in this thread, and I completely agree on the heavy-handed and repetitive points, as well as the lack of character depth. I really enjoyed the premise of the movie and thought it had a billion interesting parallels. But a lot of time seemed to be wasted as you said. This post pretty much reflected my feelings coming out of the movie. | ||
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holy_war
United States3590 Posts
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FXOTheoRy
United States519 Posts
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