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winetarelliwinetarelliMember
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Originally posted by wine+art:
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Originally posted by indybob:
District 9: ***


Interesting.

I talked to a number of folks at last nights off-line, and ALL gave it 5 stars.

I'm worried I will expect too much.

I'm in need of the great winetarelli's opinion here. Cool


Get thee to a movie theatre... NOW! Wink

Ok, here is my review, without giving anything away:

You know how it is sometimes easier to find faults with a great * or even ** Michelin restaurant than it is to find faults with a good NY Pizzeria or good taco joint? You know the fancy restaurant is better, but it is also easier to critique. I feel the same can be true of movies, where a silly throw away movie (Transformers, etc) there really isn't much to say about, but great movies you can actually find lots of faults with. I think that is the case here, and this is a great movie.

Almost all of the charatcers are one-dimentional, except for one character there is absolutely no character development, the movie is heavy-handed in almost all aspects (really evil people, really strong emotions, obvious social commentary), the incident that generates the plot doesn't make any sense, and the payoff (third act) is probably 10 minutes too long.

All of that said, from an holistic perspective, this is a great movie. I think it is just shy of classic; it is not an A+, but it is a solid A. Ultimately, this probably (hopefully) won't be my favorite movie to come out this year, but it will almost certainly be in my top 5 of the year. I would put this right at the level of Children of Men from two years ago -- both because I think it is about as good (just shy of "classic") and also because much of the movie had a very similar feel to me.

It is absolutely ASTOUNDING that this movie could be made for 30 million USD. I would have guessed over 100 million had I not known. But Peter Jackson is such a genius when it comes to incorporating CGI into real settings, I guess they found a way.

This is, as I'm sure you might have guessed, a movie that needs to be seen on the big screen; even a home theatre won't really do it justice.

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winetarelliwinetarelliMember
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Originally posted by indybob:
Good review winetarelli, and while I agree with most of it in principle, the restaurant analogy doesn't work for me, unless the tiny-little-film-that-could (District 9), cost a buck fifty to see. That said, it's a MUST SEE for anybody remotely interested in Sci-fi (my wife hated it, as she does all sci fi Frown).


I think you missed the point of my analogy, so I re-wrote it Wink
G gigabitMember
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Originally posted by KSC02:
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Originally posted by gigabit:
District 9

And your take on it?

K-

In the interest of full disclosure, I have an inherent bias when it comes to Sci-fi films. That being said, I thought that winetarelli's synopsis was accurate.

I would add that the movie has lots of gratuitous gore and blood.

Much of the film is shot like a documentary; it is an interesting perspective, but nothing new for this, or any other, genre.

I wouldn't call it a great movie (too many predictable characters and familiar plot-lines; even the aliens speech was stolen from characters in another movie), but it is entertaining.
S slipperypeteMember
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Originally posted by winetarelli:

You know how it is sometimes easier to find faults with a great * or even ** Michelin restaurant than it is to find faults with a good NY Pizzeria or good taco joint? You know the fancy restaurant is better, but it is also easier to critique. I feel the same can be true of movies, where a silly throw away movie (Transformers, etc) there really isn't much to say about, but great movies you can actually find lots of faults with. I think that is the case here, and this is a great movie.


Try Beerfest & Man from Earth , I think you will enjoy them.

Both are movies with Dirt Low budget. I had no disappointment because of no expectation in the first place.
It's like drinking a $2 wine, and pleasantly surprised by it being better than a $15 bordeaux.
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