District 9 Movie Review by Confused Matthew and Stand in Stan pt1

[superhuman295]

In my opinion science fiction is not what it should be anymore, district 9 showed what science fiction should be.

[E115woods14]

The only dissapointing thing was that Wikus' family didn't give a shit about him at the end :(

[theloveshineatheist]

screw avatar, this deserves far more praise.

[Triperiokstas]

Waste of semen.

[Kashmiran100]

A brilliant film. Watch and learn.

[LukaRaPtoR]

If you watch district 9 again, you'll find that at the begining where the mothership becomes disabled above johanesberg you'll notice that the news reports keep talking about how something had fallen from the craft and that the fallen peice has yet to be found. The fallen peice is actually the mini ship that is used towards the end of the movie in an attempt to reach up to the mothership and make it operational again.

[Se7enBeatleofDoom]

I find District 9 to be a better written and better looking film then AVATAR. And i like Avatar to.

[arthereld]

Guys, have you thought that possibly this is another approach to a certain genre type? I mean, it seems you were hoping this movie would be a certain genre and were let down when it turned into something else. When it's a good chance that this was SUPPOSED to be a scifi/action movie but a different approach to THAT genre. In fact I'm sure of it. This same movie team was going to do a Halo film. They dropped that and did this instead. I'm not resentful, I love D9.

[thefunnythingis]

Confused Matthew, I always love your reviews but I have to disagree on this one. District 9 wasn't an attack on different classes, this was a movie referencing Apartheid. This movie is more racial than anything. The Setting of this movie was in Johannesburg in South Africa, (Why it had to be set there, of all places, I still don't know!). I thought in many ways, this movie was offensive. It's like "great, you're going to make a movie based upon Apartheid and use Aliens?!"

[IGNsucks]

fuck the oscars and fuck Hurt Locker, this movie deserved best picture

[Silquik]

@IGNsucks are you insane? district 9 is good but no where as good as hurt locker!

[IGNsucks]

@Silquik Hurt Locker is one the most disgraceful movies Ive ever seen. Disrespectful of the military and fucking pointless, some scenes had no purpose, the moral of the story of Hurt Locker had been done a million times over. Terrible movie, but its about war so itll win an oscar. fucking 50 year olds give no respect to sci fi. fuck the critics.

[Silquik]

@IGNsucks whats wrong with you? the hurt locker did not disrespect or disgrace anyone accept you. the point of the money was to show the effects of war on soldiers and how it affects their pysche. all scenes had purpose from either realiving personality and emotions to action scenes to advance the plot or build relationship. its very easy to fuck up a war movie and be ridiculed but the hurt locker did not do that. come to speak of it district 9 was pretty pointless also. just a made up story

[IGNsucks]

@Silquik yeah buddy I have a cousin who fought in the military and he told me that half the shit you saw in that movie would never have been done by anyone in the military. and did you say District 9 was pointless cause it was made up????..........right caue Im sure the events in hurt locker were based on real people. And that shit has been done before, how war effects people, nothing new. the only thing hurt locker had was a crazy bomb diffuser (GREAT CAUSE THATS EXACTLY WHATS NEEDED)

[IGNsucks]

@Silquik District 9 actually did something different and got you to care about a bunch of aliens who look liked something you would through out in the garbage, what did hurt locker do, get you to care about REAL PEOPLE, cause thats so fucking hard. District 9 had a huge social statement but it wasnt being slapped constantly in your face, like hurt locker did. secondly what the fuck was the point of the whole sniper scene in hurt locker, there wasnt any.

[IGNsucks]

@Silquik hurt locker is somewhat made up, it did the same old shit, IT DIDNT EVEN MAKE ANY SENSE, MILITARY SENSE, LIKE WHEN HE FUCKING GOES OUT OF THE MILITARY BASE TO GO WATCH THE KID AND COMES BACK, IF YOU WOULD PULL THAT SHIT IN THE MILITARY YOU WOULD GET IN A LOAD OF SHIT. but what happenned to him oh nothing. 

[fillep]

I loved this movie in a way I didn't know possible. I want to fornicate with this film. I want to make sweet sweet love to this film because its just so.. Unique! I've never seen anything like it. I love this movie, it's simply the most original film I've ever seen. Everything about it is good. It's realistic, it's compelling and you actually care about the characters. I'm a huge fan of your reviews, confusedmatthew. Watched every single one of them. You're great, keep it up man.

[3055DOG]

Re: The idea of the main character as always a sympathetic "good guy" - consider the scene where they pull apart the prawn eggs. The line "a souvenier from your first abortion" indicates a callous disregard for alien (or any) life - as well as the general disregard for human life when the nameless soldier is kicked to death during the eviction.

The main character is very much the selfish bureaucrat who doesn't care and only has a job to do - though he evolves beyond it.

[legorocks3]

Amazing movie!

[ShaneBeacham]

I'd tie this with Avatar for best of the year.

[legorocks3]

Agreed

[kevinrocks2323]

I completely agree with them about how from mid-movie to the end, it was kind of a generic, sci-fi action movie.

And to people saying $30 million is a lot, thats actually not a very large budget for a movie of this magnitude.

[Creaturelover18]

The funny thing about this movie is that it was going to be the Halo-movie during production, but because of the budget, Peter Jackson had to improvise.

oh btw, matthew, sorry for what i said in the rotf-review.

[Transformers217]

The Halo movie didn't fall through. So Jackson decided to give Blonkomp 30 million dollars, and allow him to do what he wanted to do.

[RaizingArizona]

Good review Matt and Stan. I thought District 9 was fantastic!!

[CaptainRoyMustang170]

Man i haven't seen it i'm getting this when it comes out

[alwaysremains]

please do shooter

[ARFCguy]

I didn't like it. I'm just stating my opinion. I just didn't think it was that great.

[DrCowboyFace]

For once, yes. Mathew, my man! I agree. For the one time, other than your Titanic review, though, but this film, man, top cheese. I agree.

[adc2000974]

i do like listening to confused matthew, but dude buy a better mic the quality is awful

[LeMarquisDivin]

"Practically no money?" District 9 had a budget of $30 million.

Still, when TriStar picked it up and it played in North American theaters, it eventually earned $162 million. Certainly nothing to sneeze at.

[thechazzzz]

compared to most movies, its basically no money

[lilbrothaaa]

Best CGI I've ever seen. Up to this point I thought movie monsters would be far more effective when created by means of high quality animatronics, masking and even stop-motion. CGI monsters always looked to me like something that wasn't really there. This movie changed it all. That is ... as long as it really is CGI, maybe they just bred a new kind of animal for the movie ... xD

The racism analogy was nothing special but conducted well enough to outclass any uninspired Michael Bay premise.

[QuartuvLarry]

You two really need to do this professionally! Like on a TV show, or something

[scionlightning]

Completely agree but SHIT! Come on, an actual MECHA!!!!!

[Se7enBeatleofDoom]

@bloamv2 Go and watch Transformers 2!

[sneakybasturd]

District 9 was a good film. I didnt fully like it and maybe it is because I didnt get it. It is a alternative film which goes against mainstream values. It shows the opposites of a typical sci-fi film and shows aliens as victims. I think this is why people really like the film. As for the action, I felt that they had to have some mainstream values in the film. It is after all sci-fi and so they had to appeal to those who like big guns and aliens and action violence. I got the issues, themes.

[koalawithagun]

The magic fluid issue could have been easily solved by having both the magic fluid and the "turns you into a prawn" virus found and seized at exactly the same location.

Nothing is lost in story terms by having them as two separate objects.

[james48890743]

This comment is for Stann Ft. Robert Barron does a video review of this movie I think he might like.

[UltimateSpidergirl]

I agree with your opinion, ConfusedMatthew, on how the aspects that you mentioned could have been improved upon. But overall, it was a fairly enjoyable film with little flaws and many interesting concepts and immense story-lines.

Great review! I'll keep checking your channel time and again for more! ^_^

[bull068]

The premise for this movie was good. The story was good. The effects were good. The acting was good. But still, I didn't like it.

My chief complaint with this movie was the characters. I didn't like any of them. I couldn't identify with any of them.

Also, I will be shocked if CM doesn't complain about the retarded gimmick with the magic fluid.

[confusedmatthew]

I did take issue with the "magic fluid", but in light of everything good about the film, it wasn't enough to turn me off to the film.

As for the characters, I connected with the main character, but I will say this:

If we were able to identify with the aliens as people rather than creatures, the writers might have been more successful in their efforts.

That effort still paid off for me, but it might have been handled just a bit better than it was.

[E115woods14]

@confusedmatthew Theres always room for improvement

[daftrok]

It needed action because actions speak louder than words. How can you talk about how harsh and violent this environment is and the desperation of the corporation to stop them from leaving without showing some ACTION!!!! The movie had a perfect balance: it showed the situation in a thorough way and moved us by showing the sheer brutality of the situation.

[confusedmatthew]

You may be right, but you can still do action without being routine. My problem - what little I had - was not that their was action in the film, only that it seemed to be a little too aimless and a lot too familiar.

[Buttersbot2]

I just saw it as a part of Wickus' character development, showing how he changed from a complete bastard at the beginning to a hero we can root for at the end.

But I understand your points.

[arthereld]

@confusedmatthew But possibly it's a different take on a familiar action genre film. For better or worse really. "Cloverfield" was a different take on a genre (or subgenre, a creature/disaster film), of course whether the film failed or not is another matter. You may have heard the rumors of what film they (Jackson/Blomkamp) were trying to do before they decided on this film. It's a common belief that they simply shifted their recources from adapting Halo to film, to a more original project.

[gofindyourownawesome]

I think the final part of District 9 was some great action scenes that felt natural at that point in the story. I don't think it was thrown in to get better box office.

[chuckb11]

There were some plot holes in the movie, I saw it once, and felt that way, and I saw it a second time and found my questions still remained... But I won't comment here, I'll wait until the third portion and see if my questions are answered by you two.

[bull068]

I gave you a thumbs-up because you said space niggers. That's awesome.

[micronoid]

The idea that millions of aliens land in South Africa, have their huge ship parked in the sky while living on the earth bellow for a few decades and theres no international presence is just stupid. Thered be war before any single country would be allowed have sole authority over all that. Theres no way the world would allow things to get that bad for the aliens, in that regard the movie has no legs to stand on with the basic premise. An event that big can't be so insular, its not believable.

[wildone106]

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU OMG I brought this point up to many other people and they didn't 'get it' also that they would just leave Alien weapons laying around for anyone to pick up..huh.

There's so many other holes in the premise I really couldn't get over them.

[EvanTurkFilms]

Well, it's not like they could use the weapons anyway..

[wildone106]

Even so, no normal person can use a nuclear warhead either but they don't leave em lyin around.

The gimmick that they needed him to operate the weapon was stupid too (because he had an alien arm) if the shrimps are so dumb why not just train/breed them to be soldiers who can use the weapons anyway..why all the fuss over Wikkus (other than to hype up the story) doesnt make an ounce of sense.

[zhen1234]

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....shshshshs­hshshshshhhhhhh

[SaucisseMerguez]

Stand in Matthew is right this film had terrible language problems so has the script in the ending scene where the aliens come full circle and grab a cheeseburger to leave in the sunset, brilliant point there Confused Stan.

[lestube001]

what do use record your audio ?

[Blacksheep2134]

To each their own I suppose. I won't rant your face off if you didn't like a movie.

[wildone106]

The main character was a DOUCHE, who are we supposed to relate to in this movie? He happily lets them destroy/abort the alien eggs and makes jokes about it..Im supposed to CARE for this dude?? Gimme a break

[EvanTurkFilms]

He's just doing his job! He didn't know they were killing aliens for no reaon, and he was on camera the whole time, so he really couldn't say anything about it without being threatened or killed.

[JerryThecatface]

District 9 was awesome!!

All dumb teenagers and idiotic popcorn movie lovers can go fuck themselves.

[BrokenFWD]

I heard this movie was done because the director wasn't big enough even with Jackson's backing to make a movie of Halo. so they took this short film he made and expanded it to make this movie similar to the movie 9.

[tecpaocelotl]

If you thought the arm was creepy. Do a search on albinos in Africa. I think they got the idea from it on what some people do to them.

[Bustersword910]

I saw this film during the summer and I loved it. It's definitely a favorite. And I heard the main guy hasn't acted before this, but he deserves an Oscar for his performance as Wickes.

[admiralamadras]

Sharlto Copley was the actors name.

[Vameon]

Great movie, It was nice to see storytelling and a budget used well.