Alive in Joburg

Origine Distric9 !!!!!!!!! Very good movie !!!

Really interesting to see the progression from this to District 9. Always nice to see a bit of Sharlto Copley too. lol

Just saw District 9, brilliant movie. I hope Blomkamp makes more films like this in the future, one of the really promising directors in our time!

at 2:55 is that the big black guy that calls wikus "boss"? I hope so, he should have a spin off movie, no, TELEVISION SERIES!

THANKS MAN I DIDN'T KNOW THIS

It's really sad how a person can watch a movie like District 9 and get out of the theater with a poor comment like this.

Do some research on the apartheid, xenophobia, racism and try to relate those themes to District 9.

Then you remember that that is a sci-fi movie. And the creators had the brilliant idea of exploiting those themes in a movie that shows human-alien interaction.

District 9 is a very intelligent movie, yet, extremely entertaining.

No need to go all mighty on me; you obviously didnt get what I'm trying to say.

I'm fully aware of the underlying themes - apartheid, racial conflicts - thats pretty much the reason why I *like* Joburg.

It is just that D9 didnt ADD anything to it. They took the (very good) premise of Joburg, altered it a bit, then added some seriously plot-holed paint-by-numbers hollywood action BS and named it D9.

D9 is not a bad movie - it just didnt live up to what "Joburg" had offered. Wasted potential.

Well, I can't argue about your likes and dislikes.

But I do not personally think D9 went to the wrong direction.

Besides that, in Joburg, you cannot actually grasp the whole idea of social alienation, segregation, racism (specicism) as you can in D9. It was not 60 minutes added for nothing, after all. Those themes were better developed in D9 throughout the movie.

Indeed, they were better developed. But they account for only the first third of the movie.

You can pretty much pin it down to the scene were the "alien device" (which is the major deviance from Joburg setting, and also its major plot hole) is found. Before that, it was all awesome, perfect social commentary. After that, it drifts into a really flawed, mindless action/ interracial buddy movie/ Jacksonesque splatter flick.

I really wanted to love D9, but because of that, I couldnt.

Sharlto Copley produced Alive in Joburg and starred District 9 as Wikus.

I agree with you, District 9 is a great movie. It's so interesting to see how corrupt humans can be, whether dealing with other humans or aliens. A very intelligent movie, it discusses xenophobia, racism, and the apartheid.