What was so awesome about District 9?

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DarkDain

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I sort of didnt like the massive 'wth' thoughts i had. Like, they ship down every alien from the entire ship, but somehow the aliens manage to smuggle thousands of weapons and a friggen robot suit with them ? And they never EVER seem to search the ship after they bring the aliens down, they just forget about it the entire movie. Then the robot at the end was really lame, a magnetic bullet catching gun? uh >_>
 

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I thought it was great. I found it incredibly compelling and I really enjoyed the protagonist's performance throughout. I like the mockumentary style, I liked the story, I liked just about everything about it.
 

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Soylent Bacon said:
I felt the same way about District 9. It was okay, but not great. MovieBob mentioned the gore being great, but it just made every human being seem like a bunch of water balloons filled with red dye.
actually when, for example, someone is shot directly with an RPG, or stands on a bomb, you dont go flying across the room, maybe loosing an arm or leg like in most films, people usually kind of evaporate into a red mist and small bits and pieces, so really the explosions in D9 were pretty accurate and realistic.
 

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In my opinion it took the "member of the (white) oppressor class sides with the oppressed class and then leads them to freedom" genre of story and pleasantly subverted it in many different ways.

In fact, I might've actually cut Avatar abit more slack for being a by the numbers movie in this genre if District 9 didn't do such a good job upturning that table.
 

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I didn't mind it.

I just thought the protagonist was a fucking wuss. Seriously you're arm turns alien and you fuck up your life. Get over it! Instead of crying over it actually do something.
 

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Short answer: Everything.

Long answer: the cinematography, the acting, the effects, the story, the characters, the music, the drama, the humor, the originality, the sound design, the overall visual style, and everything else.

It was one of the best sci-fi movies to come along in a long time. Watch MovieBob's review: maybe that'll answer some questions.
 

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Wait, you liked Taken more than District 9??

Now, I'm not normally one to say someone's opinion is wrong but Taken was just awful in every single way.
 

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It was like an ordinary movie mixed with a documentary style of movie making, and it worked out great. The whole movie was kind of in past tense, since all the people commentating about the protagonist were describing from their point of view how this whole thing came about. And from what I read almost the entire script as far as words was improvised, if i can remember. The ending was in some way touching, and it definitely sets up a sequel as well which is obvious and since there needs to be a sequel with what happens. It was full of great drama, action, and maybe a slight sprinkle of humor all rapped into a ball of movie goodness. it's one of the few movies where I really felt for the main character.
 

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VinnyKings said:
I didn't mind it.

I just thought the protagonist was a fucking wuss. Seriously you're arm turns alien and you fuck up your life. Get over it! Instead of crying over it actually do something.
Asking someone to get over it when you literally "fuck up your entire life" is not a smart thing to say. If you fucked up your entire life I'm pretty sure you'd be emotionally broken, if not close to being. and if you aren't at all then you probably never had a life worth living, sry just had to say something about what you said.
 

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The film work and effects are amazing. Do you know how hard it is to do green screen work and do the handy cam effect with it, that would have taken so much work, and on that budget. It's pretty impressive.
 

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Burningsok said:
Asking someone to get over it when you literally "fuck up your entire life" is not a smart thing to say. If you fucked up your entire life I'm pretty sure you'd be emotionally broken, if not close to being. and if you aren't at all then you probably never had a life worth living, sry just had to say something about what you said.
Everything in life is material one way or another. You can't cry over spilt milk just get on with what needs to be done. Of course you'd be a little shitted but what good will it do if u just spazz out. Though he does accept what happens to him he takes his time to do it.
 

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Horny Ico said:
DarkDain said:
I sort of didnt like the massive 'wth' thoughts i had. Like, they ship down every alien from the entire ship, but somehow the aliens manage to smuggle thousands of weapons and a friggen robot suit with them ? And they never EVER seem to search the ship after they bring the aliens down, they just forget about it the entire movie. Then the robot at the end was really lame, a magnetic bullet catching gun? uh >_>
Pigs aren't magnetic; it's called a Gravity Gun and you'd know that and how fun it is if you played Half-Life 2.

Did you miss the part where some soldiers took a few Prawns back into the ship and tried to get some answers on how the machines work all they got was that the machines only react to Prawn DNA? What's the point of hi-jacking a vehicle you can't use?
really. a gravity gun. that catches... 'anything' and it just shoots them right back... why would it have any other weapon? no, it was a hunk of 'ooh thats cool however impractical in every way' robot. They're race seems to use mostly energy weapons. I bet that weapon would be useless against other alien weapons aka the only enemy they've had. That'd be like humans making a weapon that catches water balloons, just incase we ever get in a war with water shooting fire elementals.

And your right, im sure its way better that instead of confiscating alien weapons because they dont know how to use them (yet) they let the aliens (maybe hostile) keep them all.
 

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Christemo said:
it made an ultra-violent action movie with a great plot and excellent acting on a budget of 25 million $
not to mention most of the acting was semi-improvised in order to give it more realism. Oh yeah, and it didn't go all shaky-cam all the time. And that's why Michael Bay sucks balls... sorry, back on topic now

I loved how it showed how easy it was for people to turn a blind eye to the obvious cruelty. They LICENSED reproduction ffs. I can't think of anything more shocking. Oh wait, the blowing them up for shits and giggles in science labs... But seriously, the idea of it was just... spectacular, and that's what counts most in sci-fi, but then it followed it up with great acting, effects and narrative. DEFINITELY my favourite film of last year.
 

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Great plot, amazing special effects, and I really enjoyed the documentary style of the movie throughout most of it.
 

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District 9 was a solid movie, with a great message, interesting characters and a well developed plot. It was probably the second best movie of 2009 (in my opinion), and I am only not putting it at first because I am a huge Quentin Tarantino fanboy and give that title to Inglorious Basterds.

Other than what I've said so far, I don't really have any more explanation of why I like it. Different people like different things.
 

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Horny Ico said:
DarkDain said:
Horny Ico said:
DarkDain said:
Pigs aren't magnetic; it's called a Gravity Gun and you'd know that and how fun it is if you played Half-Life 2.

Did you miss the part where some soldiers took a few Prawns back into the ship and tried to get some answers on how the machines work all they got was that the machines only react to Prawn DNA? What's the point of hi-jacking a vehicle you can't use?
really. a gravity gun. that catches... 'anything' and it just shoots them right back... why would it have any other weapon? no, it was a hunk of 'ooh thats cool however impractical in every way' robot. They're race seems to use mostly energy weapons. I bet that weapon would be useless against other alien weapons aka the only enemy they've had. That'd be like humans making a weapon that catches water balloons, just incase we ever get in a war with water shooting fire elementals.

And your right, im sure its way better that instead of confiscating alien weapons because they dont know how to use them (yet) they let the aliens (maybe hostile) keep them all.
First, you say the Gravity Gun deminishes the need of everythingthing else, then you say it's completely useless? I knew as soon as you forgot about the pigs that your reasoning would be pathetic at best, but congratulations on sounding so stupid that I'm not sure what to say.

And then you compare "not hi-jacking a vehicle nobody can neither use nor move" to "taking weapons that you can move, not use, but others can use". At first, I thought you were creating flaws from your imagination, but now I realize that you're trying to sabotouge your reputation so that nobody will ever take you seriously ever again.
Wow great reasoning, too bad you didnt actually make any counter points whatsoever and are just relying on childish insults instead, i mean really, because i forgot or did not see a scene involving the pigs, i logically must have poor reasoning? I'm having a hard time trying to understand what you imagined i said, its like your TRYING to not understand or not read what i said so you can insult me? Let me dumb it down for you. If you have a weapon that makes almost all enemy weapons useless AND can kill them, then yes what else do you need? UNLESS your fighting Prawns with energy weapons, then its probably going to be an anchor for your death. Isnt it fun to reason? They transported all of the aliens from the mother ship to the ground, they could easily of taken every single weapon for study in the process, but you seem to be saying its BETTER if they let the aliens keep all their weapons ? Simply because humans cant use them? The humans were apeshit about getting their hands on all of the alien weapons, your reasoning is even worse than the movies. I cant think of an analogy that would be as stupid as what you said, and if i did, all you would do is focus on calling it a stupid analogy anyways. Your clearly a raging fanboy whos mistaken me for someone who didnt like the movie, when all i was doing was pointing out the plot holes that do exist and scenes that were just cheesy, and so far all you can do is whine at me and call me stupid? Why dont you just give up and hope that no one ever reads the crap your trying to pass off as an argument/insult.