[cressydrift]

Produced by Peter Jackson. Has not been a good alien movie since Aliens.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNr5qdQN5q4


mmmmmmmm

[shenmecar]

not really that interesting realy. i saw the trailer at the movies yesterday.

and this is in the wrong section

[murd0c]

that does look pretty good, there has been good alien movies since Alien they just havn't been dark like this one.

[Berzerker]

haha on the commercial on TV there is a number you can call to report non humans in the human area. The number is.... 866-666-6001 I called and left a report that I had killed a non human outside my house and to send someone over right away :D

Berz out.

[cressydrift]

not really that interesting realy. i saw the trailer at the movies yesterday.

and this is in the wrong section


I forgot off topic stuff really goes in really offtopic... really? Quit being a nerd.

[Berzerker]

^^^ Technically it should be in the movies section on the VLS side.

Berz out.

[cressydrift]

that does look pretty good, there has been good alien movies since Alien they just havn't been dark like this one.

Not being douchy or anything but which one? Independence Day was good, but childish somewhat. Day after Tomorrow with Tom Cruise was meh... I forgot about Mars Attacks, that was good.

[murd0c]

Not being douchy or anything but which one? Independence Day was good, but childish somewhat. Day after Tomorrow with Tom Cruise was meh... I forgot about Mars Attacks, that was good.

I really enjoyed Sphere it wasn't as good as the book but was still a execellent movie that made you think. Same with contact which I really enjoyed.

Fire in the sky is a classic was way better in the 90's before we got obsessed with special effects and is a tru story from BC/Wash.

[The_AK]

Not being douchy or anything but which one? Independence Day was good, but childish somewhat. Day after Tomorrow with Tom Cruise was meh... I forgot about Mars Attacks, that was good.

Day After Tomorrow was a movie about the weather changing,
the Tom Cruise movie was War of the Worlds :thumbsup:

This movie looks kinda cool, sounds like it can evolve into an interesting plot

[!oHenry]

reminds me of independence day

[asian_speedster]

Been following this movie for a while now and i'm pretty excited.
The concept is a bit different that most alien movies, Hopefully it will turn out and not be horrible!

[Alby]

looks pretty interesting. some of the alien robots reminds of the game mech warrior.

[rslater]

Is the director or someone aligned with the film from vancouver.

[thumper]

does anyone have a non-youtube version of this? can't see it at work :cry:

[RayBot]

No good alien films since Alien??

You mean Mars Attacks, Signs, The Day the Earth Stood Still, War of the Worlds, Evolution, Knowing, Galaxy Quest, AVP, AVP Requiem, the Astronaut's Wife, Battlefield Earth, Coneheads, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Men in Black, Men in Black 2, Species, Species 2, Species 3, etc, The Invasion aren't good??

C'mon!!!

BTW.....STARSHIP TROOPERS ROCKS!!!

[mako]

i'd watch it

[mr_piggy]

wow this looks amazing! thanks! :D

[The_AK]

anyone else see "Humans Only" bus stops around Vancouver? good promo for the movie

[thumper]

Battlefield Earth

i can't believe u said that....

[K-Dub]

i can't believe u said that....
I've seen a couple yea, and the banners on the busses themself.

There's a bus stop in Richmond, ummm No 5 & Cambie that has it.
Everytime I've seen them though I never had a camera :(

[avinayyar]

I've seen a couple yea, and the banners on the busses themself.

There's a bus stop in Richmond, ummm No 5 & Cambie that has it.
Everytime I've seen them though I never had a camera :(


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2471/3733804107_f5f17d45a2_o.jpg

[ienhz]

No good alien films since Alien??

You mean Mars Attacks, Signs, The Day the Earth Stood Still, War of the Worlds, Evolution, Knowing, Galaxy Quest, AVP, AVP Requiem, the Astronaut's Wife, Battlefield Earth, Coneheads, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Men in Black, Men in Black 2, Species, Species 2, Species 3, etc, The Invasion aren't good??

C'mon!!!

BTW.....STARSHIP TROOPERS ROCKS!!!

half those movies were garbage.
battlefield earth? come on. john travolta should be ashamed of himself for that movie.

[K-Dub]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2471/3733804107_f5f17d45a2_o.jpg
:D I'm seeing more and more.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3631/3741711757_0a527b50c0_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kwu/3741711757/)

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

No good alien films since Alien??

You mean Mars Attacks, Signs, The Day the Earth Stood Still, War of the Worlds, Evolution, Knowing, Galaxy Quest, AVP, AVP Requiem, the Astronaut's Wife, Battlefield Earth, Coneheads, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Men in Black, Men in Black 2, Species, Species 2, Species 3, etc, The Invasion aren't good??

C'mon!!!

BTW.....STARSHIP TROOPERS ROCKS!!!

dude over half the movies you listed suck ass.

i can't believe u said that....

yeah, battlefield earth was the worst movie to ever be made.

[hotjoint]

saw the commercial last night, looks interesting

[thumper]

just visited the movie website... set in south africa?

[jnesss]

this looks pretty interesting. from just the trailer, it doesn't appear to your typical alien invasion & vice versa type movie.

[winson604]

No good alien films since Alien??

You mean Mars Attacks, Signs, The Day the Earth Stood Still, War of the Worlds, Evolution, Knowing, Galaxy Quest, AVP, AVP Requiem, the Astronaut's Wife, Battlefield Earth, Coneheads, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Men in Black, Men in Black 2, Species, Species 2, Species 3, etc, The Invasion aren't good??

C'mon!!!

BTW.....STARSHIP TROOPERS ROCKS!!!

your kidding right?

You mean Mars Attacks - sort of fun watch but crappy movie
Signs - horrible
The Day the Earth Stood Still - horrible
War of the Worlds - horrible
Evolution - havn't watched
Knowing - horrible
Galaxy Quest - havn't watched
AVP - horrible
AVP Requiem - horrible
the Astronaut's Wife - havn't watched
Battlefield Earth - beyond horrible
Coneheads - meh
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - avg at best
Men in Black 1 and 2 - alright
Species 1-3 - not bad

and yes Starship Troopers does ROCK!! rico!!!!!!!

[RayBot]

Wow.....do i REALLY have to type [/sarcasm] to get the point across??


You know what the big screen needs? A new GOOD werewolf movie. Haven't seen a good werewolf movie since the 80s.

[winson604]

Wow.....do i REALLY have to type [/sarcasm] to get the point across??


You know what the big screen needs? A new GOOD werewolf movie. Haven't seen a good werewolf movie since the 80s.

Yea don't even remember the last one. You know what else we need a hockey movie haha

[Noir]

Yea don't even remember the last one. You know what else we need a hockey movie haha

That and a new Fighter Pilot movie. There's been no good one since Top Gun.

The Iron Eagle series sucked ass. And so did Stealth. Flyboys was alright.

[RayBot]

Yea don't even remember the last one. You know what else we need a hockey movie haha


Last good one i remember was Silver Bullet and the Howling...as i said...good 80s thrillers; awesome for its time. But since then, there was this really stupid one with Christina Ricci, Van Helsing,...and the last one before that i recall was Wolf with Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer.

If you're looking for a new hockey movie, word is they are making a movie that will tally alongside Disney's inspring stroy of Team USA's juniour championship, "Miracle." Apparently, its the Team Canada version of the whole thing. Its title is going to be called "Obvious."

[Quickshifter]

Interesting story line, but the trailer doens't look too tempting

[Sid Vicious]

this movie just looks like a shitty analogy of apartheid, but instead of black people we have aliens.

and to make it even more obvious, its set in south africa

[Quicktrade]

I have a bad feeling about this movie...i'll probably just wait for DVD....

[mako]

im gonna watch GI Joe instead

[mr_piggy]

this movie just looks like a shitty analogy of apartheid, but instead of black people we have aliens.

and to make it even more obvious, its set in south africa

What's wrong with South Africa? I think its a rather cool place to shoot a film.. its one of the wealthiest (and simultaneously poorest) places in the world and the natural beauty is breathtaking. Its also cool because its different as in its not like every other movie thats shot in NY or LA.

[hal0g0dv2]

looks kinda cool

[Sid Vicious]

What's wrong with South Africa? I think its a rather cool place to shoot a film.. its one of the wealthiest (and simultaneously poorest) places in the world and the natural beauty is breathtaking. Its also cool because its different as in its not like every other movie thats shot in NY or LA.

south africa institued racial segregation (apartheid) from 1948 and 1994

theirfore, the act of segregating humans from aliens is pretty much an analogy of what they did to the blacks and non whites

[rslater]

Currently getting great reviews. Has 100% on rotten tomato's. Only 6 reviews..but looks promising.

[El Bastardo]

Here is why the movie works set in an apartheid environment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNReejO7Zu8


This is the precursor to the movie

[El Bastardo]

BTW.....STARSHIP TROOPERS ROCKS!!!



Scientologist spotted


Edit: I'm a retard. I thought you meant Battlefield Earth

[DanHibiki]

Just came back form the midnight showing.

BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR. BEST THING I'VE SEEN SINCE THE DARK KNIGHT.


Hurt Locker can be considered up there too.

[thumper]

the vancouver sun movie review gave it 4 stars out of 5 :thumbsup:

[hotjoint]

Just came back form the midnight showing.

BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR. BEST THING I'VE SEEN SINCE THE DARK KNIGHT.


Hurt Locker can be considered up there too.

wow is it really that good?

[DanHibiki]

wow is it really that good?

It's been awhile where I've seen a movie with a really engaging character, wher you actually feel and care for him.

[Renxo]

Saw this last night...huge ass line up, sold out shows in Metro town and Coquitlam theaters...

AWESOME MOVIE!!!! Has it's funny moments. The main character is actually likable and well played even tho he does some really despicable things lol. To top it off it's one of his first roles on screen. His accent can be annoying at times. Has a slight Cloverfield start to the movie (yea might not be a good thing). CGI is top notch for a 30mil budget 9/10 !!

[dachinesedude]

Other than the shaky cloverfield-like shots in the first 15-20 mins that made me want to barf, this was an awsome movie! very original story, i loved it, not gonna go in detail, just go watch it

[quasi]

Watched this tonight, way better then I expected and worth watching for sure.

[turbomelon]

just came back from watching it. 9:50 show was sold out even when I showed up an hour and a half before. Had to wait for the 10:45 show but it was worth the wait for me, since I've been let down by all the other supposedly big summer blockbusters.

Finally a good summer movie.

[Lowered_Klass]

Saw this movie last night, and boy was I surprized (in a good way).

I love the different approach and storyline. Definately worth seeing :thumbsup:

Plus, you just know there is going to be a second one...

[murd0c]

I'm going to the 4pm showing at strawbery hill cant wait!!

[ScizzMoney]

I didn't really like it, I can see why people do though. Just wasn't for me.

[albert116]

just came back from the movie...

wow, was blown away.

10/10

[murd0c]

I was highly impressed about it and happy one has been finally made in that style. I could actually see that happening as well.

[CRS]

so... what's happening 3 years later...?

[CivicS]

this movie is EPIC WIN!

[Armind]

I didn't really like it, I can see why people do though. Just wasn't for me.

+1

[Bonjour43MA]

so... what's happening 3 years later...?

we'll have to wait for the sequel to find out, I guess.


great movie, definitely not your typical summer sci-fi flick. Really enjoyed it.

[The_AK]

Pretty cool movie, i really enjoyed it. If you blew your money on GI Joe and have lost faith in movies yet wish to regain that faith, watch this movie. There was a good development of the character and it really made you want to watch what would happen to him.

[Supafly]

Just a disclaimer....if you get motion sickness easy, i suggest taking half a pill of gravel before watching the first half of the movie.

[hal0g0dv2]

w0w so good saw it last night
9/10

[triplexcel]

it was something definitely different from the rest of the movies that came out this year or recently.

[Fafine]

hopefully ill be catching this tonight was gonna go on sat but it was sold out

[winson604]

Is the movie like camera style like Blair Witch and Quarentine?

[Matsuda]

Just a disclaimer....if you get motion sickness easy, i suggest taking half a pill of gravel before watching the first half of the movie.

I had to leave halfway through the movie cause of motion sickness =(

[cressydrift]

^ So tempting to laugh at, must... hold.... back... urge.

I was very satisfied with this movie, even though i built it up for myself. I hate when they have to make sequels though... Just take my back account number and go nuts for F sakes.

[turbomelon]

I had to leave halfway through the movie cause of motion sickness =(

I get motion sickness easily, and never felt dizzy once the whole movie. Were you sitting in the front row or something? This was nowhere near as bad as cloverfield and had quasi shakey cam esque mock documentary style for maybe 20-25 mins tops.

The other 3/4 of the film isnt in shakey cam style well not in my opinion at least.

[Supafly]

I had to leave halfway through the movie cause of motion sickness =(

I almost left too....the guy sitting next to me had on WAY to much aftershave..it made me almost gag...had to control my breathing to keep off the gut rot feeling...the first half of the movie didnt help my situation either..

[R8]

Fuck, I just watched it at metro silvercity 7:25 screening.Fuck man, I went in at like 7:15 and no seats were left... I had to sit on the stairs... :( Anyways,it was alright, I would give it 7-8 / 10. Some shit just didn't make sense but 100% there will be a sequel and it will be like...district 9 vs humans lol

[thumper]

I had to leave halfway through the movie cause of motion sickness =(

so... barf bags and gravol recommended before the movie? :)

[K-Dub]

Fuck, I just watched it at metro silvercity 7:25 screening.Fuck man, I went in at like 7:15 and no seats were left... I had to sit on the stairs... :( Anyways,it was alright, I would give it 7-8 / 10. Some shit just didn't make sense but 100% there will be a sequel and it will be like...district 9 vs humans lol
Ban this mofo for no spoilars!!!!~

....:P

[CRS]

Ban this mofo for no spoilars!!!!~

....:P

Oh yeah... I forgot to ban him for his no show on the SFU thread....

[silk]

how long did u guys waited ?
im thinking attending 7:40 movie at metro today... i was thinking to go down there at 5 ?
my friends said im nuts because it wont be like transformer line up

[penner2k]

Fuck, I just watched it at metro silvercity 7:25 screening.Fuck man, I went in at like 7:15 and no seats were left... I had to sit on the stairs... :( Anyways,it was alright, I would give it 7-8 / 10. Some shit just didn't make sense but 100% there will be a sequel and it will be like...district 9 vs humans lol

Yah I was there too.. Ended up sitting the second row from the front.. I had to close my eyes every 15-20 minutes to stop myself from getting a headache.. lol

[Noir]

how long did u guys waited ?
im thinking attending 7:40 movie at metro today... i was thinking to go down there at 5 ?
my friends said im nuts because it wont be like transformer line up

You don't have to go early and it's no comparison to Star Wars type of line ups. But it could be the difference between watching in really comfortable seats, or watching from the extreme sides, extreme bottom seats or even the stairs.

Although, since the 1st weekend has passed, this may not be as true anymore but that's your gamble.

[silk]

You don't have to go early and it's no comparison to Star Wars type of line ups. But it could be the difference between watching in really comfortable seats, or watching from the extreme sides, extreme bottom seats or even the stairs.

Although, since the 1st weekend has passed, this may not be as true anymore but that's your gamble.

cool... because lots of people were telling me line up was like transformer...
and i remebered the crowd did not died down after 2 weeks or so ...
i guess i will just hit up the theather 1 hour prior the show starts

[dna82]

good movie the first time around but when you chew on it a bit with your head it starts to not make much logical sense. 8/10 first impression 6/10 after taste.

[!SG]

GOOD MOVIE!!! hated it though, the damn shakey camera made me sick! i watched 1/3 of the movie with my eyes closed!

What ruined the movie for me was some fat fuck in the upper row had the WORSE B.O. EVER!!! It was like worked out with a parka on, then rubbed his body with the buttered popcorn from concession! OMG, i had to turn to my right side just to breathe! it was sooo nasty, and the damn a/c was blowing from that direction too!

[turbomelon]

good movie the first time around but when you chew on it a bit with your head it starts to not make much logical sense. 8/10 first impression 6/10 after taste.

What doesn't make logical sense in this movie as this has been a topic that has been discussed extensively on various internet forums. Make sure to use spoiler tags btw :p

[DanHibiki]

What doesn't make logical sense in this movie as this has been a topic that has been discussed extensively on various internet forums. Make sure to use spoiler tags btw :p

care to link me to these threads?

[turbomelon]

mm there's threads that pop up from time to time about d9 on /tv/ at 4chan.org.

io9.com has a few blog posts with some discussions, and imdb.com and to a lesser extent rottentomatoes.com.


an example of some threads:


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/board/nest/145339059
http://zip.4chan.org/tv/res/4479802.html might vanish eventually


I personally feel that what people identify as 'plotholes' in this movie either weren't listening when people were talking or didn't read between the lines using the other information provided by the movie.

[dna82]

some things that didn't make sense.
well....
the plot holes i saw were
1) you have 1million aliens on a huge floating spaceship that serves as the perfect place to hold them because they can't get off, and no humans without consent from the government can reach them. but nooo.. you stick them in the middle of a populated city seperated by... chain fences?

2) you take the aliens off the ship, but let them smuggle out huge mechs and 1meter long guns?

3) you have this supposedly multi billion dollar corporation managing this shantytown, and you let some crippled Nigerian stockpile huge caches of alien technology?

4) small arms technology is more important then interstellar space travel technology? wtf aren't there teams of researchers on the ship tearing it to pieces.

5) so, humans can understand prawn, and prawns can understand human and read. but none of them have asked each other. 'so.. where ya from? how's it going?' who flies your ship?

[silk]

nice movie overall... like it

the camera in Cloverfield was shit. in D9, this camera moves with the environment and movement. it makes it seem like you are really there. Cloverfield swung the camera around and made people dizzy.

[turbomelon]

some things that didn't make sense.
well....
the plot holes i saw were
1) you have 1million aliens on a huge floating spaceship that serves as the perfect place to hold them because they can't get off, and no humans without consent from the government can reach them. but nooo.. you stick them in the middle of a populated city seperated by... chain fences?

2) you take the aliens off the ship, but let them smuggle out huge mechs and 1meter long guns?

3) you have this supposedly multi billion dollar corporation managing this shantytown, and you let some crippled Nigerian stockpile huge caches of alien technology?

4) small arms technology is more important then interstellar space travel technology? wtf aren't there teams of researchers on the ship tearing it to pieces.

5) so, humans can understand prawn, and prawns can understand human and read. but none of them have asked each other. 'so.. where ya from? how's it going?' who flies your ship?

Addressing your plotholes


1) The ship was floating above the city for 3 months before anyone decided to do anything. While it may have seemed illogical for them to take them off the ship, ultimately the people in charge ultimately decided to. Part of their rationale to do this was due to the fact that we didn't know what they were doing or planning up there and the movie touches on humanity's intrinsic curiosity. This could be exemplified by people who received mysterious envelopes and opened them up only to receive an anthrax surprise a few years back.

Also perhaps the people in charge figured there would be some advantage to getting inside the mothership. Some would say instating the HST by Gordon Campbell is a bad decision but that doesn't change the fact that the decision was made by his govt. Likewise the decision to take them off the ship was motivated by a series of factors.

2) It was said in the movie that portions of the ship were falling off constantly throughout the 20 year timespan starting with the command ship. Its entirely possible that the armory section or some other cargo bay fell off the ship.

3) Like most slums and sketchy places around the world, when organized crime takes a footing usually the governing body gives them a wide berth. Just because a govt. has lots of money doesn't mean they know how to keep things under control effectively. The same slums exist in africa and while the warlords and organized crime there do not stock pile alien energy weapons, they definitely have access to many forms of weaponry currently available.

4) Its assumed that within the 20 years at some point the researchers were on the ship to attempt to obtain some of the technological secrets held by the aliens. However since all their tech was genetically encoded and it was believed that most of the "prawns" were of a worker class and not completely intelligent, all their research would have amounted to them realizing they cant do anything with whats on that ship or the weapons. Further still, since the aliens arrived decades earlier it would be assumed that most researching bodies have lost interest in the larger more complex issues, and were primarily focused on how to get the alien tech to work with humans. Namely genetic/bio research hence the vivisection/unit23-esque MNU labs.

5) The humans attempted communication with prawns hence how they learned their language, but over time the humans determined that the prawns were unintelligent and like mentioned before the worker caste of their species. Also in the newscasts and documentary sections the people who were interacting with the prawns believed that the leaders of their race or the primary controllers had somehow died off or abandoned the 1.7 million prawns. The alien christopher johnson was probably not a leader but was more intelligent and obviously chose to hide this fact for the most part from the humans.

[rslater]

some things that didn't make sense.
well....
the plot holes i saw were
1) you have 1million aliens on a huge floating spaceship that serves as the perfect place to hold them because they can't get off, and no humans without consent from the government can reach them. but nooo.. you stick them in the middle of a populated city seperated by... chain fences?

2) you take the aliens off the ship, but let them smuggle out huge mechs and 1meter long guns?

3) you have this supposedly multi billion dollar corporation managing this shantytown, and you let some crippled Nigerian stockpile huge caches of alien technology?

4) small arms technology is more important then interstellar space travel technology? wtf aren't there teams of researchers on the ship tearing it to pieces.

5) so, humans can understand prawn, and prawns can understand human and read. but none of them have asked each other. 'so.. where ya from? how's it going?' who flies your ship?


I see you didn't pay enough attention in the movie.

1) Their were 1 million aliens 20 years later since their arrival. Based on the fact that have up to 50 babies at a time, we can predict their numbers were closer to 40,000 odd thousand on the ship. NOT 1 million to start.

2) We have no clue how they were evicted from the ship. They drilled into the ship, but we can predispose humans were not ready for initial hand to hand contact. They aliens may have used a beam to beam themselves down into district 9. This question though is unknown. Remember this is were the alien shipped landed. MNU might have felt it was easier to allow them to drop themselves out of the ship to the location underneath them, District 9. I believe humans had no idea of how to transport 40,000 Aliens as they were so foreign to them. Think of humans initial caution of contacting diseases etc etc. The chain fences were a simple way of alienating (no pun intended) them from humans.

3) Could it be that MNU did NOT want to provide food/money/resources to these aliens. They believed that because they knew weapons would not work without the aliens, it would be suitable for a black market economy to exist in which the aliens were fed food, in exchange for weapons unusable to the Nigerians. If at one point MNU found a way to use them, they could easily usurp the Nigerians with their billion dollar backing and soldiers and take control of their cache.

4) I do believe at the beginiing of the movie MNU decided they wanted to go into the ship to see what was in their. They found aliens, but we are not sure if they haven't as well tried to take technology from the ship. Were also not sure because of the health of the aliens, if MNU decided not to go farther into the ship, but rather leave a hole open for the Aliens to get out.

5) If you have seen Alive in Joburg or one of the trailers you would realize that the aliens were interrogated once they came into District 9. Their is a direct conversation in which an Aliens says all they want to do is go back home. We can predict that yes they had discussed home, who flies your ship, what is wrong with your ship etc. Remember the news reported that they theorized that a piece of the ship had come off causing it to not be able to fly. They must have studied the ship extensively and tried to gather as much info the Aliens would be willing to give up.

[dna82]

Addressing your spoilers


1) The ship was floating above the city for 3 months before anyone decided to do anything. While it may have seemed illogical for them to take them off the ship, ultimately the people in charge ultimately decided to. Part of their rationale to do this was due to the fact that we didn't know what they were doing or planning up there and the movie touches on humanity's intrinsic curiosity. This could be exemplified by people who received mysterious envelopes and opened them up only to receive an anthrax surprise a few years back.

Also perhaps the people in charge figured there would be some advantage to getting inside the mothership. Some would say instating the HST by Gordon Campbell is a bad decision but that doesn't change the fact that the decision was made by his govt. Likewise the decision to take them off the ship was motivated by a series of factors.

2) It was said in the movie that portions of the ship were falling off constantly throughout the 20 year timespan starting with the command ship. Its entirely possible that the armory section or some other cargo bay fell off the ship.

3) Like most slums and sketchy places around the world, when organized crime takes a footing usually the governing body gives them a wide berth. Just because a govt. has lots of money doesn't mean they know how to keep things under control effectively. The same slums exist in africa and while the warlords and organized crime there do not stock pile alien energy weapons, they definitely have access to many forms of weaponry currently available.

4) Its assumed that within the 20 years at some point the researchers were on the ship to attempt to obtain some of the technological secrets held by the aliens. However since all their tech was genetically encoded and it was believed that most of the "prawns" were of a worker class and not completely intelligent, all their research would have amounted to them realizing they cant do anything with whats on that ship or the weapons. Further still, since the aliens arrived decades earlier it would be assumed that most researching bodies have lost interest in the larger more complex issues, and were primarily focused on how to get the alien tech to work with humans. Namely genetic/bio research hence the vivisection/unit23-esque MNU labs.

5) The humans attempted communication with prawns hence how they learned their language, but over time the humans determined that the prawns were unintelligent and like mentioned before the worker caste of their species. Also in the newscasts and documentary sections the people who were interacting with the prawns believed that the leaders of their race or the primary controllers had somehow died off or abandoned the 1.7 million prawns. The alien christopher johnson was probably not a leader but was more intelligent and obviously chose to hide this fact for the most part from the humans.



hrm
1) yeah you don't know what they were doing up there, but once they boarded the ship and realized ' oh shit there are things in here dying ' why would the 2nd reaction be ' hey guy's let's take them to the surface and have them mingle with the general population '. makes no rationale sense. introducing the prawns onto the surface would create so many more problems then simply sending them food and medical supplies. again, this leads up to the weakness of the plot.

2) and the humans with gps and helicopters, cannot beat a bunch of prawns on legs to the lewt?

3)okay, that's for humans though, humans have no intrinsic value to modern society, aliens with advanced technology do. why the hell would you allow stupid thugs to potentially gain a devastating weapon when you could *easily* just kill them. a simple wall, or maybe a 'authorized entry only' sign would help? I mean, the whole world probably give the South African government funding to contain and research the prawns. and i mean come on, prawns are strong enough to rip a human to pieces in seconds, yet the only thing seperating them from humans is.. a chain fence? most slums and sketchy parts of the world, do not have access to the worlds most advanced military technology, but a cripple from nigeria did.

4)so after only 20 years of attempting to study an object, all the reasearchers just packed it in and gave up? you got a huge ship that carries over 1 million inhabitants and the researchers run out of things to do?

5) so, the prawns are not capable of having memories? they cannot tell of their experiences leading UP to being stranded on earth? could they atleast say they were mining, or colonizing or wtf? poke and prod at they pysche?


the plot seems to rest on a series of convienant mistakes.

[dna82]

I see you didn't pay enough attention in the movie.

1) Their were 1 million aliens 20 years later since their arrival. Based on the fact that have up to 50 babies at a time, we can predict their numbers were closer to 40,000 odd thousand on the ship. NOT 1 million to start.

2) We have no clue how they were evicted from the ship. They drilled into the ship, but we can predispose humans were not ready for initial hand to hand contact. They aliens may have used a beam to beam themselves down into district 9. This question though is unknown. Remember this is were the alien shipped landed. MNU might have felt it was easier to allow them to drop themselves out of the ship to the location underneath them, District 9. I believe humans had no idea of how to transport 40,000 Aliens as they were so foreign to them. Think of humans initial caution of contacting diseases etc etc. The chain fences were a simple way of alienating (no pun intended) them from humans.

3) Could it be that MNU did NOT want to provide food/money/resources to these aliens. They believed that because they knew weapons would not work without the aliens, it would be suitable for a black market economy to exist in which the aliens were fed food, in exchange for weapons unusable to the Nigerians. If at one point MNU found a way to use them, they could easily usurp the Nigerians with their billion dollar backing and soldiers and take control of their cache.

4) I do believe at the beginiing of the movie MNU decided they wanted to go into the ship to see what was in their. They found aliens, but we are not sure if they haven't as well tried to take technology from the ship. Were also not sure because of the health of the aliens, if MNU decided not to go farther into the ship, but rather leave a hole open for the Aliens to get out.

5) If you have seen Alive in Joburg or one of the trailers you would realize that the aliens were interrogated once they came into District 9. Their is a direct conversation in which an Aliens says all they want to do is go back home. We can predict that yes they had discussed home, who flies your ship, what is wrong with your ship etc. Remember the news reported that they theorized that a piece of the ship had come off causing it to not be able to fly. They must have studied the ship extensively and tried to gather as much info the Aliens would be willing to give up.


1) i'm pretty sure at the begining they said the ship itself housed over a million prawns to start. irregardless of the number of prawns originally there. so, going by your guess, 40 odd thousand to start. the government couldn't even keep under control 40,000 prawns? on a space ship, kilometers above the ground. instead, choose to bring them to the surface, use a chain fence to contain them, and allowed them to breed into over 1 million prawns in 20 years? wow, that seems like really really piss poor containment skills and population management.

2) pretty sure in the narration, they said the decison was made to remove the aliens from the ship onto the surface and create an enclosed area to house them.
3)why wouldn't the MNU want to feed them? would it not be easier to control their breeding habits and behavour if MNU fed them, instead of scummy gangsters that kill and eat prawns?? again, this rests on the idea that the prawns somehow smuggled out the weapons.
4) uh your number 4 answer doesn't answer my question on this question. why would MNU be more interested in small arms technology when interstellar space travel and other more lucrative and beneficial technology could be expropiated from the mothership.
5)oh, so trailers are considered part of the movies now? -_- yes, a large space ship drops from the sky, falls to the surface, and with GPS technology and topography, and the fact that it could probably hold very advanced technologies, humans simply can't find it. it was buried. in a shack, convientantly under district 9, BEFORE it was built.

[turbomelon]

hrm
1) yeah you don't know what they were doing up there, but once they boarded the ship and realized ' oh shit there are things in here dying ' why would the 2nd reaction be ' hey guy's let's take them to the surface and have them mingle with the general population '. makes no rationale sense. introducing the prawns onto the surface would create so many more problems then simply sending them food and medical supplies. again, this leads up to the weakness of the plot. Also to address your piss poor population control.. this is a parallel to the situation going on in africa right now. Millions of africans reproducing having uprotected sex contracting various diseases and giving birth to children without the means to take care of them.

2) and the humans with gps and helicopters, cannot beat a bunch of prawns on legs to the lewt?

3)okay, that's for humans though, humans have no intrinsic value to modern society, aliens with advanced technology do. why the hell would you allow stupid thugs to potentially gain a devastating weapon when you could *easily* just kill them. a simple wall, or maybe a 'authorized entry only' sign would help? I mean, the whole world probably give the South African government funding to contain and research the prawns. and i mean come on, prawns are strong enough to rip a human to pieces in seconds, yet the only thing seperating them from humans is.. a chain fence? most slums and sketchy parts of the world, do not have access to the worlds most advanced military technology, but a cripple from nigeria did.

4)so after only 20 years of attempting to study an object, all the reasearchers just packed it in and gave up? you got a huge ship that carries over 1 million inhabitants and the researchers run out of things to do?

5) so, the prawns are not capable of having memories? they cannot tell of their experiences leading UP to being stranded on earth? could they atleast say they were mining, or colonizing or wtf? poke and prod at they pysche?


the plot seems to rest on a series of convienant mistakes.




1) Them taking the aliens off the ship was as a result of the govt's initial humanitarian effort. While it was implied that the contractors and corporation was mostly evil, there was obviously a lot of people who cared about the well being of the prawns even if they were alien. I'm sure once they found out they were starving on the ship, it could have been inferred that there was something causing them to die on the ship. Also simply shipping food up there would've probably been more difficult.

Touching on the evil corps, they obviously wanted the aliens out of there so they could do research and take the alien tech. But when it was determined after much studying that they couldn't do much with it most interest in the immediate technology waned.

2) They may have gps and helicopters, but obviously the alien tech doesnt have a beacon attached to it. In an area like the slums where everything is such a mess, it would be pretty easy to hide some alien tech. Afterall the command module ship was pretty big when it initially fell, but they couldn't find it all those years. It was implied in the movie that they looked for it a lot but couldn't find a thing. Of course one could say oh that's just what the movie is telling you, but get deep enough one could do that to any premise from any movie.

3) As mentioned in rslaters post, the alien weaponry was mostly useless since the researchers couldn't make and ends up or down about it as the tech was bioengineered to work only with the aliens. Hence, this would explain why the govt didn't swoop down and take all that stuff when it was mostly inoperable garbage. Also since most of the alien prawns were of a lower societal caste as in the worker class, they were evidenced to be much more compliant and gullible, albiet at times highly aggressive when their dwelling places were threatened. This was highlighted when the cripple african tricked on alien into staying behind to get chopped.

On the advanced weapons issue, even the warlords in north africa have fully automatic weaponry rocket propelled grenades and what not, it wouldnt be much of a stretch for them to obtain a bunch of weapons which are pretty much useless to human beings.

4) They didn't so much run out of things to do but instead refocused their efforts on genetics as that was what was preventing them from utilizing the advanced alien tech as I mentioned earlier.

5) The prawns have memories, but as evidenced in the movie, they aren't exactly on the best terms with humans. Why would you want to disclose your information to someone you view in a poor light. Just the same would a tribesman be inclined to tell some new authority about all his previous actions? Also with regards to your command ship issue, the ship probably had chris johnson in it, so when it dropped out, he couldve taken quick steps to make sure its hidden, then afterward built his shack on top of it. With the advanced alien tech, heck even a decent sized explosion wouldve made a quick enough hole for the ship to be buried.

[Obsideon]

I was starting to feel a little nauseas and had to close my eyes for 30 seconds every 5minutes... but then I get seasick very easily as well ... so I guess this movie really wasn't for me. The movie is pretty interesting and I would have enjoyed it more if it had less camera shaking ... it didn't help that the theatre was really stuffy too like no A/C or something ...

FYI the sequel is already out on DVD!

It's called Independance Day :haha:
- Aliens come back, invade the earth with advanced technology and blow shit up!

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

it was a good movie, a really good movie.

some of you guys don't really get it, you guys are focusing on such minute plot "holes" and whatever. the movie isn't about aliens and alien technology. it's about humans.

[jeff19]

man im hearing so many mixed reviews about this movie =/..... so i guess its a hit or miss kinda movie?

[gnat.]

just watched it. personally i don't think it was that great, the intro was too long. but overall it was ok. the story line was pretty good.
something new though! so that was refreshing.

[Tim Budong]

I really enjoyed it! It was a deep meaningful movie. I loved how it progressed and i loved the message it delivered. Government Intervention is never great!

[unidentified]

I was pretty disappointed because I had heard a lot of great things about this movie. Well I just watched it and I thought that it sucked balls. I get that there are underlying themes and a message but just as a movie, I found it really boring for the most part.

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

I really enjoyed it! It was a deep meaningful movie. I loved how it progressed and i loved the message it delivered. Government Intervention is never great!

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[!SG]

its a good movie because just looking back at our own history, and how we actually treat races that are "in our way" or "on our land".

if u were expecting startrek, or even starwars, then this movie isnt for you. movie reflects pretty well with current events.

[silk]

I was starting to feel a little nauseas and had to close my eyes for 30 seconds every 5minutes... but then I get seasick very easily as well ... so I guess this movie really wasn't for me. The movie is pretty interesting and I would have enjoyed it more if it had less camera shaking ... it didn't help that the theatre was really stuffy too like no A/C or something ...

FYI the sequel is already out on DVD!

It's called Independance Day :haha:
- Aliens come back, invade the earth with advanced technology and blow shit up!

thats exactaly what i watched when i got home last night

[Noir]

man im hearing so many mixed reviews about this movie =/..... so i guess its a hit or miss kinda movie?

No no. It's a good movie. Just because some people don't get it doesn't mean it's a terrible movie.

Plus, to a small margin, it's just not their preference. I personally like the dirty grimy feel of the movie. From the moc-documentary intro to the character traits, to the Johannesberg slum setting. Nothing was sugarcoated for audience.

Last time I felt this beautifully queasy was Black Hawk Down.

[staysupreme]

south africa institued racial segregation (apartheid) from 1948 and 1994

theirfore, the act of segregating humans from aliens is pretty much an analogy of what they did to the blacks and non whites
never thought of it like that, sounds interesting.

Will see it for sure, my buddies tell me it's worth watching

[!SG]

i saw the story line exactly like that.

non whites and blacks segregated, now they feel there is something or someone even below and beneath them and thus all that they suffered, they can now return to the aliens.

[mrclean604]

just came back from the theater where i was expecting something like terminator, but i'm glad it didn't turn out that way because this is a great movie with a lot of important themes.

you should watch it if you haven't already.

[avinayyar]

just came back from the theater where i was expecting something like terminator, but i'm glad it didn't turn out that way because this is a great movie with a lot of important themes.

you should watch it if you haven't already.

Me too, Just arrived home. Did you goto Oakridge?

10/10 movie :thumbsup:

[SiRV]

so... what's happening 3 years later...?

just sort of occured to me that 3 years later = 2012 .. maybe they really DO invade and kick our asses

[Vansterdam]

so... what's happening 3 years later...?

2012 meng LOL

[Vansterdam]

i enjoyed it although i thought it was a bit TOO long started to get tired near the end

[monkeywrench]

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[EndLeSS8]

it was a good movie, a really good movie.

some of you guys don't really get it, you guys are focusing on such minute plot "holes" and whatever. the movie isn't about aliens and alien technology. it's about humans.

+1 for truth


I just got back from the movie
Best movie of the summer
9/10

I like social commentary. I like sci-fi. I like action

[Vansterdam]

aliens or the cgi was partialy made in vancouver :)

edit*
The alien creature visual effects were created by Image Engine in Vancouver, Canada.

[Ch28]

it was a good movie, a really good movie.

some of you guys don't really get it, you guys are focusing on such minute plot "holes" and whatever. the movie isn't about aliens and alien technology. it's about humans.

Isn't the message about the segregation of blacks and whites? At least that's what I got from the movie.

Went to Riverport @ 9pm last night and had to settle for the 10:45 showing. Whole theatre was packed for both D9 and Inglorious Basterds.

They had lines forming outside the entrance to Silvercity for both movies but we were near the front of the line so it didn't matter to us since we got great seats.

There were these 3 fucking idiots that decided to bypass the entire line outside and decided to wait outside the theatre. We were let in from the side entrance so those 3 guys got fucked hahaha :bowrofl:

[Hoorider]

I thought the first half progressed slowly but the last half was quite exciting.
I give it 9/10 for a movie thats a little more unconventional.
This movie definitely wasn't the conventional good humans vs the evil aliens. Its gives us insight into the real morals and values of humanity. Can we treat "different" living beings with dignity and respect? There ends up being no room for diplomacy with the "prawns" as hate, paranoia and $$$$$ take precedent.

[RayBot]

Just saw it...
Nothing to add really because its all been said.

But the style that this movie was filmed and such (documentary/mockumentary format) .....a GREAT way to tell a VERY long story in a short period of time.

[!Yaminashi]

Saw this last night with a buddy. Awesome movie. At first I thought it was gonna suck, but once things got going the movie REALLY had my attention.

The robot definitely reminded me of Mechwarrior

[LsquareD]

Sold out on me when I went yesterday. FUCK

[shenmecar]

Saw this last night with a buddy. Awesome movie. At first I thought it was gonna suck, but once things got going the movie REALLY had my attention.

The robot definitely reminded me of Mechwarrior

My thoughts exactly,

movie had my attention from the point Wickus/Vickus blasted himself with that fluid

[jtanner_]

I still have yet to see d9 but after reading a lot of the "plotholes" and spoilers above i'm rather interested... maybe i'll check it out this week

[!Yaminashi]

I still have yet to see d9 but after reading a lot of the "plotholes" and spoilers above i'm rather interested... maybe i'll check it out this week

Its definitely worth seeing

[Noir]

I can't believe I actually find the baby alien quite cute.

[iEatClams]

Am I the only one that kinda enjoyed the camera thing at the beginning? I don't get motion sickness, but tt really wasn't that bad, compared to blairwitch, cloverfield etc.

It really gave it that documentary feel and I think that added to the movie.

Thought it was the best movie I saw this year and I've seen at least 15 in theatres.

[rsx]

Great movie! I highly recommend. The movie has depth.

[Noir]

Am I the only one that kinda enjoyed the camera thing at the beginning? I don't get motion sickness, but tt really wasn't that bad, compared to blairwitch, cloverfield etc.

It really gave it that documentary feel and I think that added to the movie.

Thought it was the best movie I saw this year and I've seen at least 15 in theatres.

Actually, what I didn't enjoy from that portion of the movie is not the documentary feel, but the lack of action.

Considering the $#!t you see on the previews, I just couldn't wait for that to get started already. But I blame that on my own impatience. It was still well paced. The previews just got me all revved for the action.

[supercivic]

i watched this with 2 freinds and they asked me if it was based on a true story lol they didnt like it needless 2 say lol. i loved it, if you got an imagination and love sci-fi u will love this movie not your typical alien flick.

[van-city]

I had mixed feelings on this one. I love the fact that it's finally a pretty original sci-fi movie. Also it gets points for being a non American movie. Also points the subtle references to point out the ugliness of discrimination. But the documentary style camera work seemed off to me and the ending was weak.

[Kamui712]

the movie was alright... the main character was annoying as hell.

[Gt-R R34]

I enjoyed it, but once you think about it some things are WTF.

[Kamui712]

such as?

[hotjoint]

pretty interesting

[quasi]

such as?

The biggest one is why didn't Chris take the fuel with him near the beginning of the movie instead of hiding it in the shack? Movie would have been over before it started. :)

[turbomelon]

The biggest one is why didn't Chris take the fuel with him near the beginning of the movie instead of hiding it in the shack? Movie would have been over before it started. :)

Response:



Sure he could have taken it with him, but Chris' rationale, as the character said, in the movie was that the entire slum was swarming with MNU guys and he would be invariably searched. Hence he told his friend to hide it at his place so they could take it later in the night. I'm sure the Aliens wanted to sneak off the planet not have a firefight in broad daylight.

[Expresso]

Response:



Sure he could have taken it with him, but Chris' rationale, as the character said, in the movie was that the entire slum was swarming with MNU guys and he would be invariably searched. Hence he told his friend to hide it at his place so they could take it later in the night. I'm sure the Aliens wanted to sneak off the planet not have a firefight in broad daylight.



Technically speaking he did make it back to his place, he could have stashed it in the ship. I don't think you can really avoid a firefight since the re-location was going to be an on-going process. MNU would've been around. At this point we are splitting hairs though, let's just say that would have been a really short movie if Chris made it out w/ the fuel lol!

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

fucking hate it


first half made me dizzy and the way they start i was like wtf is happening, nearly put me to sleep

2nd half was good


so first half was horrible, 2nd part was good

makes this movie a 5/10

[bossxx]

loved it. btw movie is leaked online. umm

give it a pretty good score. good pace. good acting. im not a huge sci fi guy but i liked this. the guy was kinda funny and he did a really good job i thought. umm some stuff ya was like wtf but it was pretty good. i felt like i was the character at times. is that a good thing who knows but ya i liked it . i would recommend to others.

[Alphamale]

I thought this movie was average hollywood stuff.

And dont say I didn't understand the issues behind it because I did and I think it's delivery was very hollywood-esque. This movie, imo, did not excel in any particular area of action, acting, or whatever the hell else there is. I must admit I am not a huge sci-fi guy but I like good movies and this movie didn't really seem to provide much substance or engagement.

[welfare]

I thought this movie was average hollywood stuff.

And dont say I didn't understand the issues behind it because I did and I think it's delivery was very hollywood-esque. This movie, imo, did not excel in any particular area of action, acting, or whatever the hell else there is. I must admit I am not a huge sci-fi guy but I like good movies and this movie didn't really seem to provide much substance or engagement.

there were issues? and here i just thought it was a crappy movie.
and what's with those aliens? you'd think terrestrial beings capable of that sort of travel would look like something other than a life sized dung beetle; and maybe have a higher intelligence rating than that of a common roof shingle

[trd2343]

My friend and I watched it, and we thought it was one of the worst movie we saw this summer.

I'm usually OK with gory stuff, but because the camera was shaking so much in the beginning, I literally felt like puking throughout the whole movie.

We are wondering why did everyone like it so much? Was it the action? Or was there a message in between we missed out?

To us, the movie was a man who got infected with some alien virus, and he has to go around to find a solution for it. In the end, he failed and the end. Add lots of body explosions and we get District 9.

So what are my friend and I missing out?

[LanEvoMR]

So what are my friend and I missing out?

intelligence

[trd2343]

intelligence

Fair enough, then at least can you tell me what is the movie trying to get at?

If this is just any action movie, like GI Joe, Transformers etc., then I have to say I didn't like it at all.

[mako]

District 9 is not an action movie

there's action in it but no way in hell was it GIJOE or Transformers

you were misled by the trailers/previews

[Kamui712]

So what are my friend and I missing out?

You were not looking for the deeper message. It might be an age thing, I wouldn't feel too badly about it but I wouldn't be running around saying it's a bad movie because it's just action. That would be like saying a SLR camera sucks because it takes pictures like any other camera or that a Neurosurgeon isn't anything special because they're just another doctor.


Look at the way humans in the movie treat the aliens and do some reflecting about human nature.

[Alphamale]

there were issues? and here i just thought it was a crappy movie.
and what's with those aliens? you'd think terrestrial beings capable of that sort of travel would look like something other than a life sized dung beetle; and maybe have a higher intelligence rating than that of a common roof shingle


Well, everyone is going to say "oh, but look at the parallels between the movie and humans today/historically!11!!". That's the issue and it's an obvious one, if you can't see that right off the bat, you're probably retarded.

Anyways, I agree, this movie was crappy because people hyped it up to much. But if I was to remain as objective as possible, it's an average Hollywood movie = boring.

I found the depiction of the alien bodies quite interesting and found that the employment of a similar caste system by the aliens (be it genetic or whatever) to be intriguing as well. Essentially, I found why certain things were done they way they were more interesting than the movie and the message behind the movie itself.

[welfare]

oh that message. thought there was supposed to be something "deeper".
yeah, naa. didn't like it.
-the thing
-alien
those were good. screw the "messages"

[ra1nn]

some parts of the movie was pretty boring but some parts is quite good haha
7/10~

[SlySi]

Great movie. Great characters.
Wikis is hilarious.
10 years from now....This will be a cult classic....

[RayBot]

Great movie. Great characters.
Wikis is hilarious.
10 years from now....This will be a cult classic....

Don't think its gonna be considered a 'cult classic' if it has this much of a liking or following...

But might have a chance of being a sci-fi classic in the near future.

[6793026]

i thought it was nicely done. The fact it started off likea documentary and then seeing it being in the slums was quite cool. Then seeing how humans can interact with alien was also interesting.

The story really started to pick up when the guy got in shit and I was just so glued to the monitor. For a budget of 30 million dollars, this was an epic success. It just show how a good script and diff styles of filming can get thigns done.

The battle scenes and are guns and the action was pretty decent. I really really liked it.

will there be a district 10? no idea, but if they do have a great script, i wouldn't mind.

[chwks13]

Judging by the way that film ended, I have a feeling there will be a sequel

[welfare]

alright. i'm not gonna lie. i only watched the first half and fell asleep. i had no right to pass judgment just yet. i'll redact until then

[MINImaniac]

Ok movie, but didn't like the camera work - that shaky camera effect made me feel nauseous. (Or maybe it was just the dinner I had that night :P)