What was so awesome about District 9?

[braincore02]

It made an attempt to be original and have some societal commentary, as obvious as it was. Granted all stories have been told before, but I thought it came in as somewhat original. The special effects and the giblets didn't hurt either. Overall, a solid movie, and that puts it above average in my book.

 

[DuplicateValue]

Nothing really.
The main character was annoying as fuck, the CGI was nothing special, and it was otherwise unimpressive.

 

[DarkDain]

The reason I keep giggling to myself is because I have not once tried to explain the weapon "problem"; that was all about using the ship. Once again, you're critizing figments of your own imagination like Yahtzee on a hypothetical vacation to Silent Hill. For that matter, I find it adorable that you're accusing me of "not making any counter points", because that's exactly was "uhh..." is, right? Speaking of which: you've given up on trashing the Gravity Gun, good for you! What exactly was your problem with it, anyway? As I already stated (but you're too stupid to read it, appearently) you were contradicting yourself about it. Do you think it's not Scientificly possible or something? God forbid a Science-fiction portray feats that real Science has yet to accomplish!

All i said about the ship was, that it seemed to be forgotten about pretty quickly, instead of being completely filled with research teams. Thats just logical. I've already explained the entire problem with the gravity gun. Its almost useless against the weapons of its own creators, and if it weren't for half a dozen people loading 100 bullets into the guns gullet while standing a couple meters away, then it would only act like a really inaccurate shot gun once fired, so its more like, god forbid science fiction for making extremely advanced yet completely impractical and limited weapons, which is a common science fiction sin, infact thats about as dumb as trying to snipe said robot suit from 10 meters away. Saying a weapon is useful against one thing and useless against another isnt a contradiction, i didnt think i'd actually have to point that out but i guess i do. I see you've given up on the 'why did the humans let the aliens keep all their guns even though they wanted them' thing, so i'll just bring up my other little tease, why did alien fuel turn the guy into an alien? I dont care about the science fiction bit, just the fact that it was alien fuel that did this and not something better. i'll be mature about this, just give me a few more uses the gravity gun would have besides catching human bullets and throwing them back, especially VS prawn energy weapons. I have seen the half-life 2 GG of course and while its an awesome gun its probably not what you'd really want to use in most fights, so just make it sound better and i'll recant my doubts about its efficiency.

 

[superbleeder12]

I enjoyed it because of the story, the effects, the meaning, the characters. But The main reason I loved the film is what Wikus went through.

Throughout the film he experienced almost the entirety of human emotion, fear, pain, love, despair, hope, happiness, loss, guilt, etc. He was an extremely dynamic character and easily empathize-able.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

Although it's not some sent-from-heaven-perfect movie, I thought it was really good. It had a sense of realism (well as real aliens with energy weapons can get) that made me feel like this could happen. The characters also came off as real people thrust into a situation beyond their control. Throughout the movie I kept rooting enthusiastically for Wikus and Christopher, was horrified by the casual cruelty of the weapons company people, and I was so happy when Mr. Badass Merc Leader got torn apart by a bunch of Prawn. I understand it doesn't appeal to everyone's taste but I still thought I was a great sci-fi movie that really made the viewer think.