21 Responses for "District 9"

1. Rob Y May 1st, 2009 at 11:52 am 1

   I love the pixelation of the alien’s face at the end

2. Noah May 1st, 2009 at 3:47 pm 2

   Children of Men with aliens? Looks interesting.

3. Ryan B May 1st, 2009 at 4:00 pm 3

   I think stuff like this is so much scarier than what’s usually sold to us as horror.

4. Magaly Solier May 1st, 2009 at 4:23 pm 4

   Exactly, I so prefer cerebral sci-fi films such as Contact (I’m sure I just opened a can of worms) to explosion heavy, mind-numbing movies a la ‘Chronicles of Riddick’. This looks fascinating and unsettling, count me in.

5. Magically Delicious May 1st, 2009 at 7:47 pm 5

   So why are they interviewing one of the Geonosians from Star Wars: Attack of the Clones?

6. JK May 1st, 2009 at 8:00 pm 6

   I’m totally in for this film, hope it lives to its promise….

7. parker May 2nd, 2009 at 7:18 am 7

   it’s got a truly great website as well

8. bambi May 2nd, 2009 at 10:38 am 8

   Looked good until alien showed up. It just took me out of the momentum completely. Looks like a Cloverfield knock off (which was BWP knock off), except that aliens are victims here or something. And that doesn`t excite me because I trully hate alien design here. Too bad because the spaceship looked stellar.

9. Watermelons May 2nd, 2009 at 2:43 pm 9

   I agree with BAMBI- this is shot to have a documentary feel, which makes it seem like nothing more than a big CLoverfield knock off! And what was cloverfield but just a nearly shot for shot ripoff of the blair witch project?

   Neil Blomkamp? I think Neil BOMBkamp might be a more appropriate name! Because his movie will BOMB.

10. Proman May 2nd, 2009 at 7:49 pm 10

    It looks like it could go either way. On one hand I found the documentary part to be underwhelming (it all looked very obvious). On the other hand, it seems like this could have an interesting plot (although one that’s not all that original – we’ll see).

    Peter Jackson seems to believe in this Neill kid, so I’m interested in seeing what he’s made of.

    Right now, I’m more excited about ‘Moon’.

    P.S. I think ‘Cloverfield’ was a very effective film.

11. S.T. Stevens May 2nd, 2009 at 9:02 pm 11

    To say it looks like a Cloverfield/Blair Witch knock off just because it uses a pseudo-documentary style is gross oversimplification and purely asinine. You’re basically saying an entire subgenre of film is a rip-off.

12. Ryan B May 3rd, 2009 at 2:23 am 12

    “Shot for shot” is a pretty specific insult. I’m not sure it applies to Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project.

13. bambi May 3rd, 2009 at 9:04 am 13

    I like it that the movie is set in Africa instead of New York/any landmark US city yet again. I get the allusion to apartheid since that`s what awaits poor aliens (segregation camps or something). So that`s all cool. But the alien design is just too goofy, How Your Averige Joe Super 8 Envisions Aliens. Just doesn`t work for me as of now. So I hope that it all comes together much better in actual movie and that the drector isn`t a hack like Eli Roth whose Cabin Fever (total piece of poo) Peter Jackson hyped up the wazoo. After that, I don`t trust his endorsments at all (and King Kong mess doesnt restore faith in his good judgement on anything anymore either).

14. Jesus Alonso May 3rd, 2009 at 9:31 am 14

    Come on, Cloverfield, Rec / Quarantine, Blair Witch are “found tape” subgenre. This seems to be mockumentary, as “Forgotten Silver” or “This is Spinal Tap”…

    Plus, I like the film being set in South Africa.

15. Tom May 3rd, 2009 at 5:04 pm 15

    This could be interesting. I’m hoping this is more cerebral than action. Other than Up and a few others, this is one of the few movies I am looking forward to before the fall season starts.

16. Afrika May 3rd, 2009 at 5:29 pm 16

    WTF at the alien scene? is he/she/it an alien foetus abandoned on earth by the alien ship in the aliens vs. predator movie?

    I’m skpetical about it. Hollywood movies based in Africa usually have some hidden Euro-centric agenda. We’ll see.

17. Tero Heikkinen May 3rd, 2009 at 5:41 pm 17

    Nine
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    9.99
    District 9

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    2009 is so confusing.

18. Friedl May 9th, 2009 at 10:39 am 18

    Tero,

    aha ha ha

19. Friedl May 9th, 2009 at 10:41 am 19

    So even our Sci-Fi films are somehow about Apartheid…
    Can’t get away from it, but this is pretty ambitious for an SA film (well, for a film set in SA, with an SA cast).

    Very interested to see it.

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21. Tim June 25th, 2009 at 2:50 pm 21

    This movie looks really cool. I’ll enjoy it even though a lot of people don’t seem to get it. And its not a ripoff of Cloverfield. It uses some of the same kinds of elements, but it’s not really like Cloverfield at all. People are too quick to talk and don’t think before they type.