District 9 (2009)
Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.
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Very Cool!!!
Sorry, this movie sucks
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
With watching his movies after brilliant work District 9, the main question is what happened to Blomkamp??? Why his movies becoming crap time by time? Why he lost his great talent? This is so sad that director of District 9, making movies like Elysium and Chappie. I wish District 9 was his first and final movies forever.
I think the only reason I watched this the first time is because I was in high school and it was popular. I just turned it off 30 mins in because Sharlto Copley's character did something way too dumb to forgive.The entire first act is A) unbearable to watch due to the camera action (and I enjoyed Cloverfield) and B) unbearable to watch due to Sharlto's awful South African accent. If you make it past there, you get into a story trying to make you like someone who is taking joy in evicting residents who are unwillingly stuck in a country, city, planet that doesn't want them there. I had to turn it off this time because our "hero" finds an unknown device of alien origin with alien markings filled with an alien goo and inexplicably opens it and it sprays him in the face, catalyzing act 3. From here, what I remember is fuzzy but I know it makes no sense that fuel would morph another species into your species. It's literally like if we poured gasoline on a shrimp and it sprouted arms, legs, etc. And, yes, I know that this is a metaphor for apartheid. I want to like this movie because interspecies politics can be entertaining and eye-opening, but this is very poorly written.
There are an inordinate number of glowing reviews on here, that just don't match the actual quality in the movie...did Blomkamp hire every South African to run right over and provide these reviews??? I don't know, but there can't be that many degenerates in the IMDb world, to account for those glowing ones, heh heh...to be honest, there are some good CGI moments sprinkled throughout District 9, but the story itself is entirely Apartheid...but this time it isn't Blacks who are the underdogs, it is a spaceship full of insects, who spend most of their time vomiting or stealing, or just trying to be annoyingly gross...Sorry folks, but this was a rude, crude, under the top movie direct from South Africa...And it should have stayed there...
i was surprised after watching this movie. It drives through all my expectation. i loved those screenplay and story line.Hands off to the Neill Blomkamp who has created one of the best science fiction movie.Sharlto Copley did good job and unique film he made.Expecting sequence of this film all the way with same crew