[Closed] District 9

Sh*t Hot.

I want to adopt a wobbly gobbed alium.

****in prawns

Loved it, saw it alongside Moon.

After the travesties of recent Terminators etc. it was good to see decent Sci-Fi with plot as well as effects.

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yeah, good film, really enjoyed it (and so did the wife who usually hates that stuff).

pig chucking good

Brilliant film.

[url= http://screenrant.com/when-is-the-district-9-sequel-coming-rob-56400/ ]Sequel[/url]

Wossat gonna be called then? 😛

I watched this last Friday night, wasnt sure about it at the start....but I thought it turned out to be a great film!

Yeah great started thinking hmmm not sure but as the story unfolds it's a belter.

****in prawns

+1

Not seen 1-8 yet

Brilliant film !

Absolute quality!! We're having it as the main feature on our weekly fillum night this Friday. I think it'll stand up to repeated viewings 🙂

Pretty good although I struggled to get past the fact the prawns didn't just use their weapons and annihilate mankind...

good to set it in SA as well

Got it from Tesco for £5. GF wandered off after 20 mins. I really liked it.

I thought it was really good

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Fancy setting a SA made film in SA. Doesn't the fact that it wasn't a Hollywood film hint that it is going to take a slewed view of the sci-fi/action film. 9/10 IMHO.

Pretty good although I struggled to get past the fact the prawns didn't just use their weapons and annihilate mankind...

Because they weren't active. 🙄

Got in Tesco's for fiver too. Loved it, strangely enough so did my wife - she is usually a little cool towards sci fi. Non Hollywood background helped though.

Sequel.... yes, bring it on, as long as it doesn't deteriorate into a franchise like Aliens, Terminator, Predator etc

great film....

as above MOON is very good aswell, messed with my head!

I missed it and really wanted to see it. Is it out in Blockbusters - or do I need to spend a fiver in Tescos ?

(Ive got loads of those points things so dont pay in Blockbusters)

It's sky at the moment if you have it.

I got it from blockbusters a few months back. I'd expect them to have it.

We watched District 9 a couple of months ago and thought it was great.

Mrs B ordered [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_13 ]District 12[/url] from lovefilm prior to that and we couldn't work out what all the fuss was about. 12 was ok but 9 was much, much better.

What a mistaker to maker.

Just ordered Moon on the strength of this thread... 😀

district 9 is great. moon is fantastic - typically stunning work from clint mansell on the soundtrack, too.

Oh yeh, Moon is fantastic.

What a mistaker to maker.

Yeah your right linking to District 13.

Awesome film - those 'prawns'....

District 9 is a great film

...also saw District 13 recently 😀 . Pretty good film...the free running sections were good to watch.

Thanks for the heads up on Moon...now added to LoveFilm list

I'm obviously the odd one out & missing something. My son gave me it & didn't want it back. I turned it off after about 45 minutes! It's now in the car boot sale pile.

Total crap film gave this to a friend and told him if you dont like bin it

I'm obviously the odd one out & missing something. My son gave me it & didn't want it back. I turned it off after about 45 minutes! It's now in the car boot sale pile.

Normal dvd? Mind posting it?

yup loved it
scifi can be done on a budget and still be excellent
same with moon

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I want at least 50p for it!

That much huh? I'll have a dig around in my piggy bank then.

[i]That much huh? I'll have a dig around in my piggy bank then[/i]
You from Yorkshire?

How did you guess? 😀

What's your email?

I enjoyed it.

Cracking film and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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What's your email?[/i]

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Cool Billybob but it's surely Independence Panic Day.

In profile.

You sure about that? I can't see it.

fekking prawns, they have no aspirations (this is the only thing i can say in a SA accent)

I'm not sure, it got better towards the end though (but I dislike SF anyway).

I am frankly amazed how many people thought moon was a good film. I honestly can't remember being so disappointed when leaving the cinema. Very poor.

District 9: enjoyed it - very good (but not great)

Moon: didn't finish it

Based on reviews and what I like/don't like I thought it was going to be the other way round.

moon was excellent, if scifi ain't your thing i'm not surprised you couldn't appreciate it

Liked Moon too. Tho it was fairly obvious...

I tried the previous (Polish?) version of Solaris but just could not get into it. Whereas I immediately got into the George Clooney version - it's a bit faster paced probably. But folks tell me previous version is best - heyho.

+1 Higgo

thanks rocketdog, i wondered why i didnt rate it. Now I know 🙄

YW Vader *kisses*

Thought it was a good film, a bit different to the usual. Watched it on my way to Johannesburg, very dissapointed I have yet to see a single ****in prawn!

I'm not surprised Vader didn't like Moon, he couldn't blow up planets with it.
Seriously, with that username, it's fairly obvious that a film that has so little going as Moon has it's not going to hold the attention of someone who appears to prefer action sf. I, on the other hand, really like both sorts, 2001 and Star Wars, quiet, reflective films and films where lots of people blow sh1t the **** up. Kind of fits my musical tastes, The Carpenters and Sisters Of Mercy, Kate Rusby and Soundgarden, Eddi Reader and Jane's Addiction. S'all good.
Really enjoyed District 9, it'll be interesting to see just what they'll be able to do with the increased budget the success of District 9 will allow. Thoroughly enjoyed Predators too, as an example of lots of stuff having the absolute crap blown out of it, by way of contrast.

Moon was one of my favourite films recently. Certainly best British film in a long time for me.

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Sorry, you can now. (I think)

Loved it too. any of you remember his film from the 80s, Bad Taste? Very low budget but probably one of My favourite films back then.

Fantastic film, will be watching again soon for sure. Thanks for the reminder!

It was on the wrong side of average for me. A fairly interesting plot, but I think it was a the prawns' ridiculous cat food fetish which blew it for me.

Isn't District 9 an analogy for the days of apartheid in SA?

Yes.

It's not exactly a subtle analogy really is it?
I am reliably informed that Faceman's saffer accent is not very good.

I thought district 9 was amazing, The only downside was that it showed how awesome Halo would have been if they had completed it 🙁

Because they weren't active

It's not exactly a subtle analogy really is it?
I am reliably informed that Faceman's saffer accent is not very good.

Sharlto Copley, the guy who played Wikus in District 9 and [i]Murdock [/i]in the A-Team? He is actually South African...

I am reliably informed that Faceman's saffer accent is not very good.

Brilliant.

My English accent's rubbish too. Must be true - someone told me so...

I'd assumed that most of the weapons were confiscated when the Humans "rescued" the starving prawns from the mothership/hulk.

I'm also assuming that the reason the mothership got stranded was because of insufficient fuel, which is why the red prawn (let's call him "Pilot") spent 20 years accumulating little amounts - is that right?

I'm also assuming that the reason the mothership got stranded was because of insufficient fuel, which is why the red prawn (let's call him "Pilot") spent 20 years accumulating little amounts - is that right?

I'd assume so Buzz.

The film also has another layer of brilliantness if you grew up in the region; the characters are great!

Moon - Fantastic. It's one of those films that I couldn't stop thinking about for a week afterwards

Meet the Feebles was much better tho....

I lived in Joburg for a few years growing up, and this brought back some childhood horrors about the Parktown Prawns that I assume these ones were named after:
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parktown_prawn ]Parktown Prawn[/url]
We used to trap them under big saucepans when they got in the house during storms, and listen to them clinking together as they tried to escape.

Love the movie though.

Dan

The funniest bit from District 9 has got to be where he comes home and his house is in darkness - he walks in and says to his wife:

"I need to get to the toilet quickly, why are the lights off? Is the power off again? Listen baby I think I might have crapped in my pants" then the lights come on and 20 people shout "surprise!!"

Aside from that, for me as a south african the film is actually very disturbing. There is no doubt at all that the plot is based on how non whites were treated here for many years - there are too many similaraties to list.

And it's not all from the apartheid past either. Where the film talks about "Muti Killings" - Nigerians eating body-parts from Prawns as a cure for various sicknesses - that happenes even today. Bodies are often found - (usually down in Kwazulu-Natal and usually childrens bodies) with bits missing, where witch doctors have told people with various illnesses that they need to eat body-parts from healthy bodies in order to get better.

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muti ]Wiki[/url]

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I'm also assuming that the reason the mothership got stranded was because of insufficient fuel, which is why the red prawn (let's call him "Pilot") spent 20 years accumulating little amounts - is that right?
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I'd assume so Buzz.

Nahh that not how I understood it.. the 'intelligent' class of prawn have nearly all died during the trip hense all the thick's one are left with no idea how to control the ship, there that thick they couldn't even get out of the ship when it arrived on earth (humans broke in). The prawn Christopher Johnson (intelligent) has spent 20 years collect fuel from scrap for the command module, so it can return to the mothership & escape. No one else think this?

Or its the "B ship" as in Hitchhikers Guide ? (see the other thread)

I enjoyed it a lot.

Pretty heavy-handed analogy for apartheid yes, but seemed to have a lot more to say than that.

And I wonder what I'd think of the film if I was Nigerian.