District 9 :.: Who's seen it?
POSTED BY: cljohnston108
UPDATED: Thursday, February 18, 2010 01:44
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seemed to be a lot going on in the movie, one clear example would be the aliens re introducing the allegory of apartheid
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Originally posted by Mangolo:
In order:
In the Loop
Moon
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
Food, Inc.
Up
District 9
Transformers would be at the bottom of my list next to GI Joe
Decent list, even if I haven't gotten to see Moon, yet.
I can't think of a single film I've seen all year that wasn't far, far better than Transformers 2. God that movie sucked.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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this movie and its clever writing made Avatar seem very average
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Alien tech it might be, but there are certain laws of physics to be considered. I mean, I enjoyed the movie well enough, but I spent a good portion of it wondering how the ship could just hover there if it was broken. "Oh, the ship doesn't function, they can't fly back home or indeed anywhere, but despite not being capable of moving or opening for lack of some sort of transport pod, this huge ship is perfectly capable of hovering in the air over District Nine, impervious to gravity for twenty some-odd years."
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I'm sorry if that sounds a bit scornful, but it took me out of the movie a lot, even moreso when I found out that the whole problem was that the lander transport pod thing was missing. That's it? Really? Talk about poor design. Alien tech or no, I thought that didn't work very well on a science level.
Roger that. Not even a FF could do that on one pod. ShakyCam can't fix that.
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And all of that aside from the fairly main plot point that rocket fuel could somehow change the genetic structure of a human being. Rocket fuel. Rocket fuel not being injected, but with a bit splattered on the skin and quickly mopped up. This can turn a human into an alien. Successfully. Really? You think that science 'works,' because it's 'alien technology?' Alien technology, alien rocket fuel, which has presumably never encountered humans before, but can perfectly alter their genetic structure? I found that very hard to swallow. I know it's all secondary to the actual content and obvious commentary of the film, but no, the science didn't work. There's only so far my suspension of disbelief can get on simply, 'alien.'
Typical "dead zombie bites human, human immediately turns into dead zombie science".
Joss made millions on that suspension of disbelief.
Humans are the only animals that are foolish. Machines shall soon rule the Earth. Or cats.
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Originally posted by JaynezTown:
this movie and its clever writing made Avatar seem very average
Funny you should say that since there was very little writing. All the dialog was improved by the actors. And the plot is a pretty heavy lift from Alien Nation - which BTW James Cameron did the final (uncredited) draft of.
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Anybody check out the DVD commentary/extras?
Turns out Blomkamp did think through the worldbuilding on the aliens; after losing the ruling caste, the hive-mind started adapting and trying to reclaim what it lost --Christopher Johnson just happened to be the winner of whatever genetic lottery decides such things, which is why he was so much smarter than the rest. The implication being that a similar thing was happening to Wikus; his brain was becoming more and more alien as he mutated. We're not supposed to know if Prawn-Wikus is actually "Wikus" or just another directionless drone.
I'm curious for the sequel, if Christopher'll still be a leader of if he'll take a demotion back to worker drone.
And I don't think the lander was itself integral; I think Christopher programmed a bypass/interface into the lander (since he didn't have access to the ship itself, but did have access to the lander).
To put it in context, I'm sure someone like Kaylee could jerry-rig a system that'd let you fly Serenity from one of the shuttles, if you found yourself completely locked out of the cockpit (and assuming the rest of the ship was empty but functional --as the alien transport clearly was).
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Avatar was a high-tech Pocahontas; you can't compare it to District 9 as original SF, except that the message & politics were equally heavy-handed.
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