District 9
Peter Jackson presents Disctrict 9. That means he produced it not directed it people.
Ok so District 9 takes place in modern day South Africa and its all about some aliens that land on earth in 1982. Fast Forward 28 years later and we get thrown into a MNU (Multi National United) conspiracy. MNU is a private defense company that is after the alien technology. The problem is that, like in Judge Dredd, the guns only work with the corrrect DNA. In this case :alien DNA. We follow an MNU agent that is in charge of the new movement situation. The south africans are getting pist that the aliens are living amongst them and after pressuring the government , MNU is set to relocate them into District 10 which is 200 km outside of Johannesburg.
The movie is shot mainly handheld like a field news crew and the other part is shot like a documentary that recaps the live situations. The CG is GREAT like OMG GREAT. I say this bc all of the aliens were in CG and just about every wide shot has the mother ship in the background floating over the city. I tip my hat to the CG artists bc the movie was shaky and thats what made the CG so great. It was all motion blured so it wasnt so crisp and clear that it looked fake. The alien weapons were CG too as they blew the shit out of everything and the entire second half of the movie is one long ass action sequence.
I’ll admit that the first half was kinda boring as it was just the MNU agent going hut to hut trying to evict the aliens to move them to D-10 but once the shit hit the fan it was all action from there. The movie has some jokes here and there and is rather cruel and bloody with the treatment of the aliens by the south african gangs and the other humans but it was really just an apartide.
Now the bad was that there was no launch to this movie. Its not explained as to why these guys are here in the first place. Its explained that they land here but not why and that just bothered me. Or maybe they did say why and I missed it….anyone???
So in the sake of SCi Fi and how bad ass the CG is and how the success of this movie intales the launch of the HALO movie i say GO WATCH THIS NOW. Plus its very political in its obviously subtle ways. (Oxymoron…i know….)…..(also its not stupid like “The Happening”)
So go see this and THEN go buy it on blu-ray….best Sci Fi movie since ……Blade Runner???
Reviewed by
-Albert
Albert, your a good guy. If you said this movie sucked I would never speak to you again. You didn’t though and that’s awesome.
1. I don’t think the Aliens wanted to divulge much information with the humans on why they where there and why the ship really broke down. In the beginning of the film it say’s something about an important part falling off the ship that was never found a.k.a. the government took it and hid it somewhere. Besides, if this happened tomorrow, would there be any sort of thing resembling a launch?
2. This is for people reading this review. The beginning is not boring, it displays the cruelty and hate that mankind expresses towards these creatures, not only that some things are pretty funny as well. It’s necessary to build the story up to the character changes coming later on. The beginning of the story also displays concepts/actions that you won’t really understand until you watch them play out further in the film.
The thing that fell of the spaceship was that little spaceship that is later used in the movie…
-Albert