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

We Review District 9

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[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.

[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.

[JerryThecatface]

District 9 was awesome!!

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

[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! ^_^

[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 :(

[E115woods14]

@confusedmatthew Theres always room for improvement

[theloveshineatheist]

screw avatar, this deserves far more praise.

[Triperiokstas]

Waste of semen.

[Kashmiran100]

 A brilliant film. Watch and learn.

[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.

[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.

[Se7enBeatleofDoom]

@bloamv2 Go and watch Transformers 2!