District 9 was one of my favorite movies of the summer! Highly original, fascinating, realistic (within its parameters), well-acted, scary, kind of poignant
So I guess you just never know!
Really? We didn't think it original at all
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERSStar Trek has done 'aliens as allegorical ghetto-ized people' in many of their episodes. There was even a movie and TV series based on a similar theme (James Caan was in the movie, I don't remember the name). The
GI Joe versus Cobra knockoff of
Aliens with the powersuit at the end was ridiculously fanboyish. The PC-correct it's OK to boo hiss pro-apartheid white people so it was set in South Africa, was a move so heavy handed it was laughable, along with the bad conscienceless mercs - Blackwater anyone? - the pro-life
Matrix-like scene with the lead pulling the plug on babies and the horrible racist scenes - aren't all Nigerians thugs and whores and witchdoctors who voodoo and eat their victims? Gag.
Then of course the lack of continuity scenes - he grew a full-fledged alien hand in 30 minutes but the rest of him takes more than three days? He says they're trapped and it's a dead end, but actually no, if you follow Christopher there's an exit just there. Since when does fuel change someone genetically? How did he come up with pocket money to buy food much less weapons? The questions that don't get asked are legion. Why was one alien and his
son smarter than all the other aliens? Why did they come? Were they running? Did they get lost? Why didn't they ask for help to leave? Why aren't scientists and the military tearing apart the ship to see how it works? None of these questions are asked or answered. He says he'll be back in 3 years? Just the perfect amount of time to make a movie sequel. What was his son and he going to eat for those years? They were starving when they arrived. It was just terrible.