District 9

SgtSpiderMan · 08-07-2009, 10:00 PM

I haven't seen the first 8 District movies. Will I be able to follow it?

Drixxx · 08-07-2009, 10:11 PM

SgtSpiderMan · 08-07-2009, 10:13 PM

It does look pretty good.

Bert Notorius · 08-07-2009, 10:50 PM

I'm a gonna go see it.

Drixxx · 08-07-2009, 10:52 PM

Could go either way.

SgtSpiderMan · 08-07-2009, 10:55 PM

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Could go either way.

It could, but I'm intrigued. I'm willing to throw down $$ to see it.

Karen Kraft · 08-07-2009, 10:57 PM

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It does look pretty good.

I only saw the ad on a bus bench outside the movie theater today.

Is it supposed to be really good?

Drixxx · 08-07-2009, 10:59 PM

Interesting concept. Aliens have always been depicted as either invaders or saviours. Here it looks like they are depicted as annoying homeless people.

Or just a lame ripoff of Alien Nation.

SgtSpiderMan · 08-07-2009, 11:03 PM

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Interesting concept. Aliens have always been depicted as either invaders or saviours. Here it looks like they are depicted as annoying homeless people.

Or just a lame ripoff of Alien Nation.

I doubt they'll have sour milk.

emap · 08-07-2009, 11:36 PM

It's looking better than Alien Nation, though in part because they have way better effects now than they did then.

Besides, it's the same basic idea, aliens arrive on earth and stay. Except in District 9 they are quarantined, no humans are allowed into the alien zone and no aliens are allowed out. If you pay attention to the commercials in a couple an alien says we just wanna go home. Which means either the world is turned into an alien prison yard and people are the guards, or for some odd reason the government is not letting them leave. Have to wait for the release to figure it out, or go through the website maybe.

SgtSpiderMan · 08-07-2009, 11:44 PM

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It's looking better than Alien Nation, though in part because they have way better effects now than they did then.

Besides, it's the same basic idea, aliens arrive on earth and stay. Except in District 9 they are quarantined, no humans are allowed into the alien zone and no aliens are allowed out. If you pay attention to the commercials in a couple an alien says we just wanna go home. Which means either the world is turned into an alien prison yard and people are the guards, or for some odd reason the government is not letting them leave. Have to wait for the release to figure it out, or go through the website maybe.

When I first saw the trailer I thought the aliens were here and controlling us. I thought the film would be a commentary on the US in Iraq.

Than I saw that we were keeping the aliens here. I'm not sure how since all their tech looks superior to ours. In the trailer I saw it seems that when the humans are interrogating the alien they ask about their weapons.

It seems like a big point of the movie is that the government is keeping secrets.

Karen Kraft · 08-08-2009, 12:05 AM

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Interesting concept. Aliens have always been depicted as either invaders or saviours. Here it looks like they are depicted as annoying homeless people.

Or just a lame ripoff of Alien Nation.

Let me guess -- The evil U.S. military are the bad guys, right?

Spider Rand · 08-08-2009, 01:14 AM

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Let me guess -- The evil U.S. military are the bad guys, right?

Nope.

In the movie, aliens made first contact with Earth twenty-eight years prior to the beginning of the film, after which humanity waited for either a hostile attack or for giant advances in technology, though neither came. Instead, the aliens that arrived were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them. Patience over the alien situation ran out and control over them was contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare. MNU stands to receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' advanced weaponry work.

MNU, thus far, has failed in making the alien weaponry work, for activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA. Tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an MNU field operative, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), through playing around with an alien device, contracts a mysterious virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable, for he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Van der Merwe becomes ostracized and friendless and comes to hide in District 9.

KRCummings · 08-08-2009, 01:22 AM

I liked Alien Nation. It's one of my guilty pleasure movies and this one has the potential to be not only better but an actual good movie. I'm sort of excited to see it.

never_event · 08-08-2009, 01:23 AM

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I liked Alien Nation. It's one of my guilty pleasure movies and this one has the potential to be not only better but an actual good movie. I'm sort of excited to see it.

It was a fine tv show as well. Quirky.

KRCummings · 08-08-2009, 01:24 AM

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It was a fine tv show as well. Quirky.

I never was able to quite get into the show but the few episodes I saw were decent enough. Just never grabbed me for some reason.