District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009)

[viva la gore]

Check out the trailer:

Apple.com: District 9

Looks good.

[donkeygoat]

I see the ads for this on bustops all over the city. Looks pretty sweet!

[viva la gore]

It's getting great reviews from everywhere.

imdb: District 9

Shame we have to wait until Sept 4.

[MarcMorris]

Not long to go now.. The featurette is worth a watch.

[viva la gore]

WOW! This thread is really popular. Just got back from seeing this and ****ing loved it. Gotta go taxis here.

[WillHay]

This was great fun - took a while to get into, but I enjoyed it once I got a feel for the characters.

[Mark Y]

I see the ads for this on bustops all over the city. Looks pretty sweet!

We have some posted in the phone boxes here. Big eye-catching ads that fill up the doors. A great piece of old-fashioned publicity ballyhoo and a real attention-grabber.

[MarcMorris]

Nigeria's government is asking cinemas to stop showing a science fiction film, District Nine, that it says denigrates the country's image.

BBC News: Nigeria 'offended' by sci-fi film

[WillHay]

It's not a country with much of an image to denigrate, though, is it?

British people have been used to the Americans using us as villains for years.

[Dave Jay]

Saw D9 on pay-per-view over the weekend and couldn't believe how deeply stupid so much of it was, despite the odd engaging scene. Is this really what passes for intelligent sci-fi these days? Can't believe so many people have been ballyhoo-ing this one. Am I alone here? Hmmmm?

[MarcMorris]

It's currently no. 117 in the imdb's top 250 films, with a rating of 8.3/10 via 125,849 votes.

imdb User Reviews: loved it | hated it

[Dave Jay]

Ahhh, IMDb users - aren't they the same people who rated FORREST GUMP the 37th best film of all time? Gotta love 'em... ;

It's also telling that 15 out of the Top 30 films according to IMDb users are no more than 20 years old...

[MarcMorris]

Take your pick from these then: District 9 reviews

[Dave Jay]

Yep, I know that D9 got great reviews and was nominated for Oscar-type stuff. I just can't for the life of me see why.

[Kel E]

I thought it was a once or twice amusing comedy film until I found out it was intended to be a serious sci fi thriller. I don't understand the popularity--but then I am old enough to remember Enemy Mine and Alien Nation and Outer Limits-and Rod Serling, and since it came out the same summer as Transformers 2, perhaps benefited from "any port in the storm."
But how it got a best adapted screenplay nomination for what was clearly a not well thought out improvised script....

I can see why Nigeria would be upset given that it implied Nigerians were not only eating the aliens but having sexual relations with them.

[Kel E]

Yes supposedly, but not until after an unrelated movie Elysium comes out.


I hope they find the cash for a screenwriter and a tripod this time around.

[Kel E]

The only one I have seen is a weird viral ad about the benefits of having a career working for some corporation on a far off space colony. It doesnt reveal anything about the story at all. It came out a few months ago. There's a bit more information on its wikipedia page.

[TheRoadWarrior]

Yep, I know that D9 got great reviews and was nominated for Oscar-type stuff. I just can't for the life of me see why.

I followed the hype and when I saw it was disappointed.

I like unusual SF, even a low budget SF is fine, but this just didn't resonate with me.

There's a quite a lot of hype now, coming from quarters such as indie films, that previously you could rely on to be a flag for something less mainstream, or interesting, but I find you can't trust any hype from any direction nowadays. The movie frequently disappoints.

[drterror666]

I've got it on DVD but I haven't got around to watching it yet. I've heard various things about the film and it sounds like a Marmite one.

[TheRoadWarrior]

You know Terror, it may have been a solid film -- it has been a while since I saw it - but hype put me off, or because I thought it was going to be along the lines of a Battlefield L.A. type story-- which I haven't seen yet, but look forward to watching, unless the 'hype' has suckered me in once again.