District 9

[bobaganuesh_2]

http://www.d-9.com/
looks like an intersting premise. anyone else planning on seeing it? I found out about this while surfing through spill.com

[Tunco]

Reminds me the movie District B-13 -you can watch to whole movie from youtube, and it's incredible.

You must watch it.

[Spawn of Yanni]

Reminds me the movie District B-13 -you can watch to whole movie from youtube, and it's incredible.

You must watch it.

The only thing I remember about that movie was that fantastically ridiculous cockney dubbing. It's probably better with French audio and English subtitles, but hearing "THIS AIN'T MONACO THIS IS BAGHDAD" in that accent really did it for me.

[unoriginal name]

Oh, my friends were talking about this movie a few days ago. It sounds interesting, I'll probably see it.

[Seneschal]

Another cool-looking sci-fi movie coming out this year...sounds good to me, although I think I'm more excited about Avatar than this one. Still, I would like to see this when it comes out.

[handofgod]

Rolling Stone mentioned something about this movie...It looks interesting

[sheganican]

saw the trailer, thought it was some lame war movie until i saw the spaceship. very cool. the part where they censor out the aliens face is clever and im astonished that nobody's thought of it before.

[Tanner]

I saw the trailer in theatres and it looked hell of lame. Diet Cloverfield, anyone?

[Lenny]

The trailer's been quite cleverly done, though the beginning possibly goes for a bit long. It looks like it could be an interesting movie to see, though.

[bobaganuesh_2]

Another cool-looking sci-fi movie coming out this year...sounds good to me, although I think I'm more excited about Avatar than this one. Still, I would like to see this when it comes out.

don't think it's sci-fi...filmed liked a documentary

[T3chno]

Another cool-looking sci-fi movie coming out this year...sounds good to me, although I think I'm more excited about Avatar than this one. Still, I would like to see this when it comes out.

don't think it's sci-fi...filmed liked a documentary

Cloverfield + March of the Penguins

[Aphex]

this looks quite promising :)

it looks as if they've put uite a bit of thought into the script, not just the effects.

gonna definatly see it :P

[bobaganuesh_2]

It came into theatres 9 hours ago! I have'n seen it yet; I plan to go with some friends, but one is on vacation and he doesn't want to be excluded to I'll have to put of the experience for his narrow ass. anyone seen it yet, without spoiling anything?

[Erik-Player]

I really wanna see this, but my parents only let me see specific R rated movies. :/

[SlappyMcGee]

Worst movie I have ever seen. I can't even fathom to you how awful this shit was.

[ToeFaceKiller]

Worst movie I have ever seen. I can't even fathom to you how awful this shit was.

How so? I really want to know because I was planning on seeing it tomorrow.

[Lenny]

Worst movie I have ever seen. I can't even fathom to you how awful this shit was.

I second the other response; how so? It looked like a good movie, so it would surprise me if it wasn't. The only way I could see it being bad is if there was too much conversation and not enough action.

[乳头的早餐谷物]

ohhh apartheid i get it

that's clever

[SkyPanda]

The only way I could see it being bad is if there was too much conversation and not enough action.

Yeah, there's that. Two action scenes, I think. But it's also bad for many other reasons.

edit: reviewed it in the review thread!

[SlappyMcGee]

You want to know what is so fucking horrible about this movie? Heavy fucking spoiler ahead, but don't worry about it, because this movie is like a rectal examination; you're much better off with a finger in your ass than cancer. (District 9 is Cancer.)

The writing. First of all, there was a point in the movie where the half-man half-alien who can use the alien guns built by the alien civilization from millions of miles away that breathes air and eats food and has similar technological implications as us and his alien friend, befriended after half-man half-alien who became like such because he got some jet fuel in his face got arrested for being half-man half-alien, experimented on by some horrible government corporation and then broke free to go and live with the aliens but then he found out that the only way to become human again was to befriend the only halfway intelligent alien because he could do something with the mothership to make him human but first they needed the jet fuel that was inside the evil government corporation so they go take guns from the black dudes and then they break into the government facility and steal back their jet-fuel. And during all of this, while having the theme, "HUMANS BAD ALIENS GOOD" thrown in our face so often it's a wonder that they somehow continue to find new ways to make the human condition seem like an actual condition, that motherfucking alien feels bad when he sees his brethren being experimented on. But he doesn't just feel bad. He feels six minutes of silence while being shot at bad. Lucky for him that nobody in movies can aim when you're having an emotional moment.

But golly, if the movie doesn't sure get better outside of those sequences. I love the tacked on relationships between characters who are too subdued and uninteresting to matter at all to the audience. (Re: main character and wife, wife and her father, main character and parents, main character and alien, alien and alien son, main character and army guy.) Even better than that, the main actor doesn't actually have a character. He seemed nice and devoted at the beginning of the movie, then it turned out he was actually into mistreating aliens and being a racist himself, then we find out he's into crafts, then he becomes an alien, and, subsequently, a badass who rides around in a mech and obliterates /whoever/ the fuck he wants. Oh, and then when he becomes an alien fullblown, he's back into crafts, folks! So it isn't like the alien side of him took over; the writers just decided it would be more interesting to throw any semblance of character out the window for cool action sequences.

Which brings me to my next topic. The incredible dickbag of direction that this piece of shit was.

The action sequences were actually kind of cool. Except that, hey, we can't keep our camera still at all because shakicam is faux-documentary and faux-documentary is sheik these days. Oh, and add that to the fact that they rely on the same "people explode because of lightning gun" effect over and over and over again, just a slice away from overusing it to the point of hilarity. If I have to give the movie anything, it has one nice action movie moment, but every blockbuster has tens of these. If Zak Snyder can make movies that are only those moments, then how fucking difficult could it be for you?

And furthermore, this faux-documentary style doesn't make any fucking sense. Half the time there is an actual camera man who is addressed by the characters, half the time there definitely is not; however, the style of shooting in both of these types of sequences are identical. That means that a camera which is not supposed to be an actual camera within the flawed logic of this God-damn film gets blood or water on it's lense. Not to mention the ridiculous fucking surveillance camera shots. And the action becomes so meaningless when it is broken up by this fucking awful dialogue. I know that this is a writing thing, but fuck you! It's fucking awful! Nothing resolves! The best part of this entire story was the fucking text at the end telling us what might happen in the future.

The main problem with this film stems from the idea that this is a script for a video game. If the skeleton of the plot wasn't already a massive ripoff of Halflife 2, that's where this could have sat. Instead, some miserable reject from his failed draft of Bloodrayne 3 decided that he would churn in something into the film industry instead. AND WE ARE ALL BETTER FOR IT?

What did I like about this movie? Fucking nothing. Design? Shitballs. The aliens look like a bag of dicks and their dialogue is clearly not even a real fully formed language. But that just continues with this movie failing hardcore at even obeying it's own fucking logic. Even the giant mech, which should save this movie by the end, since they red herring'd it at us at the beginning, and it finally started to do cool action stuff, looks like a pile of bricks compared to Transformers earlier this year. And by the time it arrived, it was all too late, because I was already fucking bored and fucking aggravated.

This movie ruins cinema. This movie ruins science fiction. This movie ruins a new director. This movie ruins Peter Jackson's relatively decent name. And most importantly, this movie ruins the modern critic. Those who are finding it's allegories fresh fail to see that the allegories are barely there. The closest you might consider to anything seen in the movie is Guantanamo, the place that is being closed down and was used to housed criminals. If this movie has some sort of liberal agenda, it fails remarkably because all it succeeds in doing is showing that humans don't know how to deal with things foreign to them. Sorry, but that isn't exactly the freshest theme to hit Hollywood. 89% on RottenTomatoes as of this writing. 89%. People are mentioned Apartheid, technical brilliance, a modern Star Wars. What the flying fuck? I don't remember Star Wars having to slip in "MAN FUCKS ALIEN" jokes to spruce up it's second act.

In closing, fuck this movie. Worst piece of shit ever. Goodbye, Other Boelyn Girl. Salut, Bangkok Dangerous. So bad it's bad.

0/10.

[Studebacher Hoch]

You want to know what is so fucking horrible about this movie? Heavy fucking spoiler ahead, but don't worry about it, because this movie is like a rectal examination; you're much better off with a finger in your ass than cancer. (District 9 is Cancer.)

The writing. First of all, there was a point in the movie where the half-man half-alien who can use the alien guns built by the alien civilization from millions of miles away that breathes air and eats food and has similar technological implications as us and his alien friend, befriended after half-man half-alien who became like such because he got some jet fuel in his face got arrested for being half-man half-alien, experimented on by some horrible government corporation and then broke free to go and live with the aliens but then he found out that the only way to become human again was to befriend the only halfway intelligent alien because he could do something with the mothership to make him human but first they needed the jet fuel that was inside the evil government corporation so they go take guns from the black dudes and then they break into the government facility and steal back their jet-fuel. And during all of this, while having the theme, "HUMANS BAD ALIENS GOOD" thrown in our face so often it's a wonder that they somehow continue to find new ways to make the human condition seem like an actual condition, that motherfucking alien feels bad when he sees his brethren being experimented on. But he doesn't just feel bad. He feels six minutes of silence while being shot at bad. Lucky for him that nobody in movies can aim when you're having an emotional moment.

But golly, if the movie doesn't sure get better outside of those sequences. I love the tacked on relationships between characters who are too subdued and uninteresting to matter at all to the audience. (Re: main character and wife, wife and her father, main character and parents, main character and alien, alien and alien son, main character and army guy.) Even better than that, the main actor doesn't actually have a character. He seemed nice and devoted at the beginning of the movie, then it turned out he was actually into mistreating aliens and being a racist himself, then we find out he's into crafts, then he becomes an alien, and, subsequently, a badass who rides around in a mech and obliterates /whoever/ the fuck he wants. Oh, and then when he becomes an alien fullblown, he's back into crafts, folks! So it isn't like the alien side of him took over; the writers just decided it would be more interesting to throw any semblance of character out the window for cool action sequences.

Which brings me to my next topic. The incredible dickbag of direction that this piece of shit was.

The action sequences were actually kind of cool. Except that, hey, we can't keep our camera still at all because shakicam is faux-documentary and faux-documentary is sheik these days. Oh, and add that to the fact that they rely on the same "people explode because of lightning gun" effect over and over and over again, just a slice away from overusing it to the point of hilarity. If I have to give the movie anything, it has one nice action movie moment, but every blockbuster has tens of these. If Zak Snyder can make movies that are only those moments, then how fucking difficult could it be for you?

And furthermore, this faux-documentary style doesn't make any fucking sense. Half the time there is an actual camera man who is addressed by the characters, half the time there definitely is not; however, the style of shooting in both of these types of sequences are identical. That means that a camera which is not supposed to be an actual camera within the flawed logic of this God-damn film gets blood or water on it's lense. Not to mention the ridiculous fucking surveillance camera shots. And the action becomes so meaningless when it is broken up by this fucking awful dialogue. I know that this is a writing thing, but fuck you! It's fucking awful! Nothing resolves! The best part of this entire story was the fucking text at the end telling us what might happen in the future.

The main problem with this film stems from the idea that this is a script for a video game. If the skeleton of the plot wasn't already a massive ripoff of Halflife 2, that's where this could have sat. Instead, some miserable reject from his failed draft of Bloodrayne 3 decided that he would churn in something into the film industry instead. AND WE ARE ALL BETTER FOR IT?

What did I like about this movie? Fucking nothing. Design? Shitballs. The aliens look like a bag of dicks and their dialogue is clearly not even a real fully formed language. But that just continues with this movie failing hardcore at even obeying it's own fucking logic. Even the giant mech, which should save this movie by the end, since they red herring'd it at us at the beginning, and it finally started to do cool action stuff, looks like a pile of bricks compared to Transformers earlier this year. And by the time it arrived, it was all too late, because I was already fucking bored and fucking aggravated.

This movie ruins cinema. This movie ruins science fiction. This movie ruins a new director. This movie ruins Peter Jackson's relatively decent name. And most importantly, this movie ruins the modern critic. Those who are finding it's allegories fresh fail to see that the allegories are barely there. The closest you might consider to anything seen in the movie is Guantanamo, the place that is being closed down and was used to housed criminals. If this movie has some sort of liberal agenda, it fails remarkably because all it succeeds in doing is showing that humans don't know how to deal with things foreign to them. Sorry, but that isn't exactly the freshest theme to hit Hollywood. 89% on RottenTomatoes as of this writing. 89%. People are mentioned Apartheid, technical brilliance, a modern Star Wars. What the flying fuck? I don't remember Star Wars having to slip in "MAN FUCKS ALIEN" jokes to spruce up it's second act.

In closing, fuck this movie. Worst piece of shit ever. Goodbye, Other Boelyn Girl. Salut, Bangkok Dangerous. So bad it's bad.

0/10.

So how was Ponyo?

[SlappyMcGee]

You want to know what is so fucking horrible about this movie? Heavy fucking spoiler ahead, but don't worry about it, because this movie is like a rectal examination; you're much better off with a finger in your ass than cancer. (District 9 is Cancer.)

The writing. First of all, there was a point in the movie where the half-man half-alien who can use the alien guns built by the alien civilization from millions of miles away that breathes air and eats food and has similar technological implications as us and his alien friend, befriended after half-man half-alien who became like such because he got some jet fuel in his face got arrested for being half-man half-alien, experimented on by some horrible government corporation and then broke free to go and live with the aliens but then he found out that the only way to become human again was to befriend the only halfway intelligent alien because he could do something with the mothership to make him human but first they needed the jet fuel that was inside the evil government corporation so they go take guns from the black dudes and then they break into the government facility and steal back their jet-fuel. And during all of this, while having the theme, "HUMANS BAD ALIENS GOOD" thrown in our face so often it's a wonder that they somehow continue to find new ways to make the human condition seem like an actual condition, that motherfucking alien feels bad when he sees his brethren being experimented on. But he doesn't just feel bad. He feels six minutes of silence while being shot at bad. Lucky for him that nobody in movies can aim when you're having an emotional moment.

But golly, if the movie doesn't sure get better outside of those sequences. I love the tacked on relationships between characters who are too subdued and uninteresting to matter at all to the audience. (Re: main character and wife, wife and her father, main character and parents, main character and alien, alien and alien son, main character and army guy.) Even better than that, the main actor doesn't actually have a character. He seemed nice and devoted at the beginning of the movie, then it turned out he was actually into mistreating aliens and being a racist himself, then we find out he's into crafts, then he becomes an alien, and, subsequently, a badass who rides around in a mech and obliterates /whoever/ the fuck he wants. Oh, and then when he becomes an alien fullblown, he's back into crafts, folks! So it isn't like the alien side of him took over; the writers just decided it would be more interesting to throw any semblance of character out the window for cool action sequences.

Which brings me to my next topic. The incredible dickbag of direction that this piece of shit was.

The action sequences were actually kind of cool. Except that, hey, we can't keep our camera still at all because shakicam is faux-documentary and faux-documentary is sheik these days. Oh, and add that to the fact that they rely on the same "people explode because of lightning gun" effect over and over and over again, just a slice away from overusing it to the point of hilarity. If I have to give the movie anything, it has one nice action movie moment, but every blockbuster has tens of these. If Zak Snyder can make movies that are only those moments, then how fucking difficult could it be for you?

And furthermore, this faux-documentary style doesn't make any fucking sense. Half the time there is an actual camera man who is addressed by the characters, half the time there definitely is not; however, the style of shooting in both of these types of sequences are identical. That means that a camera which is not supposed to be an actual camera within the flawed logic of this God-damn film gets blood or water on it's lense. Not to mention the ridiculous fucking surveillance camera shots. And the action becomes so meaningless when it is broken up by this fucking awful dialogue. I know that this is a writing thing, but fuck you! It's fucking awful! Nothing resolves! The best part of this entire story was the fucking text at the end telling us what might happen in the future.

The main problem with this film stems from the idea that this is a script for a video game. If the skeleton of the plot wasn't already a massive ripoff of Halflife 2, that's where this could have sat. Instead, some miserable reject from his failed draft of Bloodrayne 3 decided that he would churn in something into the film industry instead. AND WE ARE ALL BETTER FOR IT?

What did I like about this movie? Fucking nothing. Design? Shitballs. The aliens look like a bag of dicks and their dialogue is clearly not even a real fully formed language. But that just continues with this movie failing hardcore at even obeying it's own fucking logic. Even the giant mech, which should save this movie by the end, since they red herring'd it at us at the beginning, and it finally started to do cool action stuff, looks like a pile of bricks compared to Transformers earlier this year. And by the time it arrived, it was all too late, because I was already fucking bored and fucking aggravated.

This movie ruins cinema. This movie ruins science fiction. This movie ruins a new director. This movie ruins Peter Jackson's relatively decent name. And most importantly, this movie ruins the modern critic. Those who are finding it's allegories fresh fail to see that the allegories are barely there. The closest you might consider to anything seen in the movie is Guantanamo, the place that is being closed down and was used to housed criminals. If this movie has some sort of liberal agenda, it fails remarkably because all it succeeds in doing is showing that humans don't know how to deal with things foreign to them. Sorry, but that isn't exactly the freshest theme to hit Hollywood. 89% on RottenTomatoes as of this writing. 89%. People are mentioned Apartheid, technical brilliance, a modern Star Wars. What the flying fuck? I don't remember Star Wars having to slip in "MAN FUCKS ALIEN" jokes to spruce up it's second act.

In closing, fuck this movie. Worst piece of shit ever. Goodbye, Other Boelyn Girl. Salut, Bangkok Dangerous. So bad it's bad.

0/10.

So how was Ponyo?

Excellent. 10/10.

[Slayr]

I saw the new District-9 movie yesterday, it was the best movie i've seen this summer 09. What are your opinions?

[Slayr]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ ... District-9

[notsteve]

i didnt think it was terrible