District 9 review...it's looking good... **SPOILERS**

mrk said:
I actually preferred this suit's UI and graphics over other films that have dne similar (Ironman) it just felt way more real!
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Agreed, the CGI in this film was amazingly integrated and looked flawless in my opinion, probably the best we've seen yet.
 
DampCat said:
In fairness the viral campaign was huge. You're obviously just not geeky enough ;) There were "No Non-Human Loitering" posters up in cities all over the world (LA, SF, NY, London), and fake blogs from MNU employees linked from loads of geek-esque sites that you could read the entries of, even an alien had a blog where he complained about the MNU. They had "human only" toilets at conventions and stuff too. The MNU website had working phonenumbers that when called would spiel off loads of stuff about Alien behaviour and you could leave messages and shizz. Was pretty well thought out, actually.
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I saw a fair few of the trailers and adverts popping up on websites, but none of this viral stuff. I also work in central London and never saw any of these posters. You got any links to them?
 
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Is one, although obviously not in London. Try using Google, it's pretty good at finding things!
 
2nd best film of year, almost on par with startrek... but mainly as ST was more glossy, I think D9 had me more glued to story
 
Watched it last night and thought it was awesome. The story was very good, if a little basic, and the CGI and sound were both amazing. Could've happily sat through another 45 minutes to an hour because the time seemed to fly by. Looking forward to getting the Blu-ray :cool:
 
Big Kev said:
I thought it was an ok film, but no more than that and not up to all of the hype that I'd read, probably a 6/10 for me, a bit different, but I also found it a bit flat as well.
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I agree. I left the cinema pleased that I saw it, but by no means blown away.

One thing that annoyed me was the mech-suit scene. It had a nifty shield when it was automated but when he got inside it somehow turned off.

Handy that :o
 
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I'm going to see this tonight :)

Quite looking forward to it, I try not to buy into the "hype" that surrounds films.

I did however, watch the trailer several times :p
 
EVH said:
I agree.

One thing that annoyed me was the mech-suit scene. It had a nifty shield when it was automated but when he got inside it somehow turned off. Handy that :o
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It was a seperate 'weapon' and it seemed only one could be used at once as he was alternating between them.
 
Going to see this tonight, haven't read anything about it - dont even know what its about - apart from aliens??

Hope its good :D
 
Thought it was a pretty decent film, although the accent of the main character when swearing was laughable to say the least.
 
Big Kev said:
I thought it was an ok film, but no more than that and not up to all of the hype that I'd read, probably a 6/10 for me, a bit different, but I also found it a bit flat as well.
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Same really, i thought the idea was good but the plot, everything that happened to the guy felt like it had been seen before. THe mech suit fight was one of those irritating fights, theres only 15 guys shooting him, he can kill them in the first 5 seconds but runs around taking damage not really trying to hurt them. Then the alien has a piece of metal 1/6th the size of his body but doesn't get hurt because he hides behind it, despite being shot at from all angles?

Everything up to the guy getting sick was, rather boring tbh, then it was fairly standard affair with some very nicely done CGI for the first time in ages I wasn't angered by CGI making a film look stupid and cheap.


Could have been so much more, so much better.

One thing it might bring is, better technology and better CGI to other films.

I think the main weak point was the film lacked a great plot and lacked something, a reason to get behind someone in the film. The main character is a little weasly git really, who I couldnt' care less if he died or not. There was no real sympathy built into the alien characters, and really nothing making me think, the Aliens have to get back home to save their planet, or take the spaceship out of the atmosphere before it runs out of power and explodes destroying the planet. It was just, they wanna go somewhere, I don't really care, they don't seem to care, no one really seems to care if they get there, they've got their cat food, they seem happy.#

The overly easy way he bumped into the right alien while on the run, and he happens to be behind the virus and says he can cure him(which turns out to not be true for no apparent reason later), has the missing ship(which seems hard they missed for 20 years of searches), they must get into a heavily fortified military outfits base to retrieve one item, which they did far to quickly with ease, knew all the codes for the most top secret vaults(does it seem like he'd have those codes? not even close he wasn't aware of any of the testing going on, or anything else in the building), boom in, boom out, done.

What they needed was for the protaganist to have sympathy for the aliens, really be shown to move from being neutral to wanting to help them, sneaking food, fudging regulations, helping them out, but that was missing. he was a little weasly idiot, got ill, and only wanted to help himself, he was never trying to help the aliens escape their hell(which for most didn't seem bad enough), he just wanted to help himself-- fair enough, but I didn't care if he was going to die, it meant nothing. Aliens getting to leave or not, are they bad people, who knows, do I want them to get away, don't care.
 
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Saw it tonight and loved it! Absolutely cracking movie, and the CGI was eye-poppingly real! :eek:

I liked the fact that the aliens don't immediately invoke feelings of sympathy, and I thought it was brilliant that the main character is an anti-hero that you can't actually feel sorry for until he's practically dead on his feet.

The characterisation was so much more believable than the typical Hollywood stereotype formula of "lovable aliens + handsome, unstoppable hero with impeccable morals." It gave the movie a core of realism that just you can't get with the usual tired old "Bruce Willis Saves the World... Again" nonsense.

Will the aliens come back? Why did they leave the others behind? Will Wik the Dick get rescued? Hell, it doesn't really matter, because the plot has been left open for a sequel, and if they never make one we can - wait for it - use our imagination to guess what might happen next. Which is what we used to do before movies decided that every single plot must include 100% closure within the last 5 minutes, no matter how stupid and unrealistic the devices necessary to achieve this. :rolleyes:

Sure, there was some silly stuff (inconsistencies in the gunfight at the end, for example: that alien caught a huge number of bullets on his trusty slab of indestructible metal!) but I was able to forgive these because the story was so compelling.

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I cant believe some of you are saying The mech suit fight, he could have killed them in 5 seconds ect, you expect to him jump in and be able to use it perfectly ? im sorry but if that happend it would have been even worse, the idea is he doesnt really have a clue how to work it,

it wouldnt of been believable to the story line if he jumped in did a couple of backflips in it and popped everyone in the head witha single shot. :rolleyes:

it proves how good it is because some of you are being so Precise on what things you didnt like :D

i think it was a perfect film, not to much action and drama, not too little, Exactly what they planned to do, to give a sense of reality.
 
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Sounds like some people would have been more comfortable with a copy/pasted muscle man hero type main character, preferably American? :D

It's not like we don't have enough of those already.
 
Makunouchi said:
Sounds like some people would have been more comfortable with a copy/pasted muscle man hero type main character, preferably American? :D

It's not like we don't have enough of those already.
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+1

Reading this thread, it's not hard to spot the number of people who have been effectively conditioned to reject anything that doesn't roll off the Hollywood mass-production conveyor belt. This was a $30 million movie starring a virtual unknown, which punches well above its weight and hits like a truck. What's not to like?

OK, I admit that it does contain Afrikaaners, but they were presented tastefully, and primarily employed as a subtext device, which IMHO is sufficient justification for showing them on camera.
 
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It's quite amusing to see some people in this very thread try to pick at the film/question something that was clearly explained in the film.

It really does show you how little attention/intelligence many people have.
To publically show that stupidity multiple times in one thread is entertaining, at least for me.

It just makes it more understandable to me if they didn't like a film for valid/logical reasons and not the retarded questionings of an assumed narcoleptic moron.

(Forgive any spelling errors, writing on a laptop with a horrid keyboard.)
 
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