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Old 08-16-2009, 06:58 PM   #1
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Today we went and saw District 9, a movie I have been long anticipating seeing since I saw the first preview before summer. The funny thing about going to see this movie is that I got carded when buying tickets. I’ve been carded a trillion times for beer, but for a movie ticket? Come on!!

District 9 takes place in Johannesburg South Africa where an Alien ship stops and Aliens are all over the city until they can be placed in ghettos much like Jews during Nazi Germany. Multi National United (MNU) is a corporation which is present in the city and controls the slums which the Aliens live in. The story revolves around M.N.U. serving eviction notices to the Aliens in order to move them 200 km away from Johannesburg in District 10. Their is quite a bit more to the story, but I don’t believe in spoilers.

The beginning of the movie was shot documentary style, complete with shaky camera work. I usually don’t like that style of cinematography, but because it was not the entire movie — I endured it. The acting was decent in this movie, but their were not well known actors in the movie, at least not that I could see. The story was strong and it was really interesting to see how it was a very racial movie in the sense that both black and white folks were working against Aliens. The action was good in this movie, but it was not a total action movie – it was well balanced between drama and action. The movie took about 20 mins for me to get into, once it started though, I really got into it.

Overall this was a good Sci Fi movie. It’s not the best movie in the world, but it was a cool change of pace/perspective of the whole Alien and Human movies. I’d recommend you guys check this out, I don’t think you will be disappointed.
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Old 08-16-2009, 07:00 PM   #2
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saw it also, and have to agree it was a different type of alien/sci-fi movie, mainly in the fact that it was shot documentary style...i enjoyed it
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Old 08-16-2009, 07:39 PM   #3
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This is now on my to see list...Mean D you have added many movies to my list, thanks!
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Old 08-16-2009, 10:13 PM   #4
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Thanks for the review... Baby Face!!!

I haven't been carded for a movie since I was 12!!!
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Old 08-16-2009, 10:15 PM   #5
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I haven't been carded for a movie since I was 12!!!
They had movies that long ago?
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I loved it!! Very Diffrent and a welcome change from the main stream big budget crap we get served every summer
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We called it the "moving picture show"!!! Sometime later in got changed to "movie", and then sound was addedd!!!
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We called it the "moving picture show"!!! Sometime later in got changed to "movie", and then sound was addedd!!!
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We had to use our imaginations!!!

I always imagined Chaplin as a tall blonde woman!!!
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This movie wasn't even on my radar until I heard great things about it. It'll be the next movie I see.
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I fell asleep... I think I od on the butter popcorn
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Today we went and saw District 9, a movie I have been long anticipating seeing since I saw the first preview before summer. The funny thing about going to see this movie is that I got carded when buying tickets. I’ve been carded a trillion times for beer, but for a movie ticket? Come on!!

District 9 takes place in Johannesburg South Africa where an Alien ship stops and Aliens are all over the city until they can be placed in ghettos much like Jews during Nazi Germany. Multi National United (MNU) is a corporation which is present in the city and controls the slums which the Aliens live in. The story revolves around M.N.U. serving eviction notices to the Aliens in order to move them 200 km away from Johannesburg in District 10. Their is quite a bit more to the story, but I don’t believe in spoilers.

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Overall this was a good Sci Fi movie. It’s not the best movie in the world, but it was a cool change of pace/perspective of the whole Alien and Human movies. I’d recommend you guys check this out, I don’t think you will be disappointed.

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I saw it tonight and thought it was a solid film. It definitely took a while to get into it, but it was worth the coin to see it. Very refreshing to see something different.
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saw tonight, it sucked.
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Old 08-23-2009, 11:34 AM   #15
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My brother saw it. He said that he liked it except for that shaky camera thing.
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Finally got around to seeing this. I was a little disappointed on how everything wrapped up. Other than that, I thought the movie could have been longer and gone into more detail on things. I read a review about the movie online before seeing it and it touched on the same issues. Most people must have had high expectations for this sci fi movie. Overall maybe a C on my scale. Im a big sci fi fan, but I left the movie theater wanting more and the cheesy set up for a sequel was lame.
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Liked it and loved the accents!
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Finally got around to seeing this. I was a little disappointed on how everything wrapped up. Other than that, I thought the movie could have been longer and gone into more detail on things. I read a review about the movie online before seeing it and it touched on the same issues. Most people must have had high expectations for this sci fi movie. Overall maybe a C on my scale. Im a big sci fi fan, but I left the movie theater wanting more and the cheesy set up for a sequel was lame.
but I left my couch wanting more
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