District 9

"Overhyped"? District 9 wasn't hyped at all. :confused:

Avatar, on the other hand... well, you've seen the photos of Neil Fawcett and his friends under the tree with the toilet paper on it. That's all I'm going to say.
 
I only heard of Avatar through friends, it was advertised while I was watching District 9as well :)

I thought as I've said District 9 is fantastic :)

Avatar recieved a lot of attention because of the 3D gimmick and the effects.
 
I thought the whole story was crap, the fact a lot of it was recorded on a hand held cam put me off too.


The only decent part was the action scene at the end.
 
Got the blue -ray although not viewed 'that' version as yet. I'm not a keen one for the 'documentry' type films (cloverleaf, Lionel Blair witch project etc etc), but have to admit, i LOVED this film.

Orignal in that the Aliens ALREADY landed so none of this " oh no, they are coming !" crap, it inspired me the first time i watched it, and thought it bestowed a sense of originality amongst all those 'we are not alone out there' films.

It's a keeper imo, well worth the watch again and again
 
LiamC said:
Not watched avatar yet, but if its worse than Discrict 9 then it must be REALLY crap.
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I went to watch avatar ready to hate it, as I knew the plot/storyline was going to be insipid and cliched. And it was, but the visuals were so brilliant I didn't notice that at all. One to watch in cinema in 3d goodness, but doubt I will ever watch it on dvd.
 
i watched it when i was stoned out my head
i can only remember some wierd talking guy and a space ship under the floor lolol
might have to give this another go sober. :D
 
I know I'm late to the party with D9 but I thought I'd add my 2p.

I agree with Tefal, it was nothing special. I didn't hate it but I didn't love it either.

The story is half-cocked, the acting is reasonable but I found it hard to relate to any of the characters, the special effects were good but you could still tell the aliens were CGI and despite the whole 'it wasn't a Hollywood ending' it was still a predictable ending.

It certainly wasn't the best film of 2009.

Evangelion said:
District 9 is the thinking man's Avatar. It's the movie James Cameron could have made if he'd been more focused on substance than style.
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I was underwhelmed by both films - Avatar is prettier than D9, D9 is grittier, they are both fairly average films and neither were particularly cerebral despite their blatant moral messages.

bledd. said:
Fair enough, thanks for the reply :)

Out of interest, what did you think of Moon, Avatar, Cloverfield..?

All these films seem to have a marmite reaction
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(Just for context)

Moon I thought was a very enjoyable film (albeit predictable).
Avatar was style over substance, nothing more.
Cloverfield I enjoyed watching at the cinema but having watched again since I really went off it.

Out of all of those mentioned (including D9) The only one I would consider buying would be Moon.

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I tried to enjoy Moon. I really did. Unfortunately it was so pretentious and so poorly done that I just couldn't find anything redeemable in it. The premise was sound, but the execution was poor and the ending was a complete anticlimax. There was no sense of tension or drama.

Oh, and the "HAL" rip-off was simply embarrassing. Shockingly bad characterisation; it never felt real, unlike Kubrick's brilliant machine.
 
I've watched D9 a heap of times now, I don't seem to get bored watching it.

In one of the mini interviews in the film, when they are talking about a possible command module having dropped off, a guy says something along the lines of "there were pieces dropping off the ship for months".

So I assumed this was bits and pieces of alien technology dropping off (or being thrown off - maybe there were some aliens left hiding on the ship who were never evacuated) which the aliens on the ground then collected/scavenged and then used or sold.
 
Evangelion said:
I tried to enjoy Moon. I really did. Unfortunately it was so pretentious and so poorly done that I just couldn't find anything redeemable in it. The premise was sound, but the execution was poor and the ending was a complete anticlimax. There was no sense of tension or drama.
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I thought it was excellent, the acting from Sam Rockwell really brought two different clones together and pulled it off very well. It asked lots of questions.

Evangelion said:
Oh, and the "HAL" rip-off was simply embarrassing. Shockingly bad characterisation; it never felt real, unlike Kubrick's brilliant machine.
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I don't think it was a "rip-off", GERTY was wanting to help the clones and was in fact a nice robot, it's just after seeing 2001 you half expect all science fiction robots to be evil.

This isn't the Moon thread, I put Moon up there with 2001.

Back on topic.
 
I'm referring to the idea of a robot with its own ID and consciousness. GERTY never managed to convey personality, unlike HAL.
 
Evangelion said:
I'm referring to the idea of a robot with its own ID and consciousness. GERTY never managed to convey personality, unlike HAL.
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Don't think it was supposed to do that. This was a normal robot just following its programming which was to help the clones - no AI going of the rails. It just had a flaw in that the programmers did not foresee the clones becoming aware - the robot had called in help to deal with situation so it was back to its duties of helping out. Infact I thought it was a deliberate attempt to show how a robot could fall short in a unplanned for situation and will just follows its original programming.

As for district 9... I liked the acting from Sharlto and thought the scene where they go hut to hut is one of the highlights. Plus don't see why people compare this with Avatar - it had good effects but could have been done without them as this film was centred around Wikus.
 
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