DISQUS

PaulSileo · 3 months ago

Seeing this at midnight and absolutely can't wait.

LeeAnna · 3 months ago

Please let him do Fall of Reach! Please! I beg you Hollywood.

Frank · 3 months ago

I've been in 75% since before Comic Con, and 110% since they showed the footage at Comic Con.

howardTO · 3 months ago

The Blog at http://cbt20.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/district-9/ discusses the film from a biotechnological perspective. Join Us.

ERoBB · 3 months ago

Give him Halo. Give him whatever he wants. People were unsure before this movie, well it seems he's proven his merit. Now give him a massive budgeted franchise with sequels, and he'd have creative and financial freedom on all his later projects.

todd0289 · 3 months ago

ive wanted to see this movie since i first heard of it a few months back but your reasons make me want to see it that much more

Tantamount · 3 months ago

I love that photo for #1- under the title: "The Birth of a Major Talent" - wish I could get a cut-out/prop like that for halloween. Push for an ET - human contacts under the guise of halloween - LOL :)

facebook-1307340981 · 3 months ago

Looks good.

Hymie · 3 months ago

Apparently you're a grammar-school reject as well. It's "lies beyond its borders," not "lays ..."

amberbrown · 3 months ago

whatever jackass

amberbrown · 3 months ago

whatever jackass , no one is perfect

amberbrown · 3 months ago

whatever, no one is perfect

PaulSileo · 3 months ago

I hear Cole's Ph.D. is in "Makin' Babies," not grammar.

Rohith · 3 months ago

Did he ask you to mark him and give him a grade. When something is written perfectly, hardly anyone appreciates the writer but if he/she makes one small mistake (which is ignorable) you ppl start complaining.

Cole_Abaius · 3 months ago

Naw - it's fine. The English language is not to be trifled with! And I always like being shown where I fall short.

MFB · 3 months ago

The only reason this movie is getting so much attention is because every action film this summer was incredibly stupid. Yes, this movie is a bit more intelligent and provocative than the others but it is still a mess. Lots of pacing issues, tons of plot holes, and ends up being quite guilty of the exact kind of racism it purports to examine. A fun ride, but nothing more. I believe all the hype is just because there is literally no other intelligent sci-fi out there to get excited about.

Cole_Abaius · 3 months ago

I completely disagree. Mostly because I'm not an idiot. I know intelligent filmmaking when I see it, and this is it. I realize that there have been some dumbass movies this summer, but it's also a summer that gave us The Hurt Locker. Plus, a dearth in intelligent filmmaking doesn't make me wet my pants when something simply passable comes along.

But, I'm interested in what you thought the pacing issues were. I can see an argument that it's slow in the first act and continues ramping up faster and faster up through the third.

And we can be careful of spoilers...but I have to know what you thought the plot holes were.

As for purporting to examine racism...the filmmakers have never claimed to. In fact, they've given interviews claiming that they didn't make a film to parallel apartheid. The press and critics seem to think they have, but they've said repeatedly that it wasn't their intention, that people are projecting that into the film.

Reynaldo Stephens · 3 months ago

I saw D-9 at the world premier @ ComicCom 09'...it's great & I highly recommend seeing it.

ScaryMagus · 3 months ago

I went to see this movie last night. The shakey-camera work made me so dizzy I litterally fainted - so I only saw the first third. From what I saw, the apartheid analogy was a poor one - the aliens behaved in a way that basically required them to cordoned off. At one point they refer to the fact that the aliens seem unable to understand why trains shouldn't be derailed - how am I supposed to relate that to apartheid South Africa? Were people just dertailing shit for the hell of it? Were they eating tires, while they were still attached to cars?

the_boo · 3 months ago

By far the best movie I've seen in a long time. It currently resides as my all time number 1. I don't think it could slip lower than 3 after the glow fades and I see every wide release film each year.

Rohith · 3 months ago

No matter how good the movie is, I don't think this could be any where close to being an all time number 1 in my list and I don't have to watch the movie to say that. Although I will watch it in exactly 10 hours from now.

Rohith · 3 months ago

Planning to watch it today. Hope it's as good as you described it.

Thanks for the info.

me · 3 months ago

you're a dork.

Krite · 3 months ago

You just wanna sniff my super fat (350 pound) cousin's "under the belly cheese" and sniff his crack oil suck on his fat cheesy toes and sniff his smelly socks all night long!

sharonedreyer · 3 months ago

This article is right on target! Seems that there are will always be discrimination as long as humans exist. You'd think we humans would learn after all these centuries. I hope to see District 9 soon. Check out my first and recently released novel, Long Journey to Rneadal. This exciting story is a romantic action adventure in space.

GS · 3 months ago

The image under #1 is classic. The human in the harmony-statue has "voetsek" written on his leg. That is Afrikaans for "fuck off".

ItsJustJake · 3 months ago

Ok, ok .. I'll see it.

/I was going to anyway.

Stizz · 3 months ago

Seen it last night and it is all its cracked up to be. The type of movie you buy when it comes out on Blu-Ray .. Gp see it now im so glad i went too see this instead of lame gi joe.
you will be impressed only thing that sucked is that it ended.

tsever · 3 months ago

I saw this in a prescreening and I was blown away. this is one of the freshest, greatest scifi movies ever. birth of a franchise? I dunno. Birth of a talent? Your darn tooten. this is the stuff dreams are made of, and sadly I know the academy awards wont even give it a nod, but if there was justice in the universe, it would win best picture.

euge98 · 3 months ago

There's already word for a sequel. Source at http://www.district9film.com

moviegirl · 3 months ago

This movie is one of the best movies I've ever seen. It is so well done and the acting was superb. It is a great commentary on humanity, the negative and the positive. It shows how humanity can depict any picture they want to. As I recall, I believe in the beginning the movie it states that the aliens seemed to be in a haze or had a virus. That could of had something to do with some of their bad behavior or the restrictions that were put on them. I also don't understand why some people are saying it is a racist film. This film shows that behavior and treatment but it definately doesn't condone it. I thought it was so unique with its anti-hero and the subtle way in which it showed more of our similarities and not our differences. All I can say is that it was unlike any film I've ever seen. If you walked away from D-9 feeling offended then I just think you missed the whole point of the film. This was a brilliant film and was perfectly done.

zw1 · 3 months ago

I think there are un-PC elements in stereotyping Nigerians as scam artists and cannibals. I think that's what the previous commenter was referring to. However, I did read an interview with the director who said that he was merely drawing from real-life experiences from contemporary South Africa that may not be pleasant for people (in countries where such stereotyping is un-PC) to see. During the film, I kept thinking, maybe he could have changed it to a mythical cultural group, but I guess, to the director, it would have not been his reality. Still thought it was an amazing, fantastic film!

fotch · 3 months ago

Saw it last night. Loved it. Better than amazing. Nuff said.

shesh · 3 months ago

Saw the film today and I definitely agree with the article. I like that it has message although a bitter message to deal with and wrapped up in a package that be at least enjoyed my different people. The message was universal.

shesh · 3 months ago

Saw the film today and I definitely agree with the article. I like that it has message although a bitter message to deal with and wrapped up in a package that be at least enjoyed my different people. The message was universal.

anon · 3 months ago

hate speech