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District 9 #401018 07/31/09 12:20 PM
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OP Brownoholic Hall of Famer B Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 7,234 Columbus, OH, U.S.A.	Hey Sci-Fi / Action fans. Wanted to share a little gem (hopefully) that just flew in under the radar and hits theaters in 2 weeks. It appears to have a bit of a mockumentary feel for it, but I heard it's not like that the whole movie. I really like the look of it as it blends the CGI in a bit more naturally, unlike so many of these huge blockbusters that end up looking a bit too cartoonish. If you watch Adult Swim, they appear to be advertising it a lot. Don't watch too many commercials w/ my DVR, so for all I know, you've already heard of this already. District 9 . . . . http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809961221/info http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/district9/

Re: District 9 Brownoholic #401019 07/31/09 12:30 PM
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FloridaFan Legend F Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 15,015 Likes: 147	It's been getting some heavy airplay on Fox and CW down here. Looks like a cool movie. We don't have to agree with each other, to respect each others opinion.

Re: District 9 Brownoholic #401020 07/31/09 03:54 PM
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Draftdayz Dawg Talker D Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,224 Boston, MA	Looks to be a good flick. I have high hopes I like that the aliens look extremely life-like in the interrogation cell. Although it seems to paint humanity poorly. Although I have a feeling the majority of the populace would react the same way as portrayed in the movie . There are no sacred cows.

Re: District 9 Draftdayz #401021 07/31/09 04:25 PM
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OP Brownoholic Hall of Famer B Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 7,234 Columbus, OH, U.S.A.	Quote: it seems to paint humanity poorly. Although I have a feeling the majority of the populace would react the same way as portrayed in the movie I thought the lamest thing was that its set in South Africa. They should have thought what you did: There's a good chance most of our planet would react that way. They should have set it in another country. One that HASN'T already treated their own humans this way. Alien invasion stories always raise that debate of how humans would react. Would we fight over how to deal w/ it or all unite against it?

Re: District 9 Brownoholic #401022 07/31/09 06:47 PM
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Squires Hall of Famer S Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 4,118 Likes: 141	The trailers caught my interest, but seemed like a wait for DVD movie. Maybe I'll check it out sooner.

Re: District 9 Brownoholic #401023 07/31/09 09:07 PM
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Arps Hall of Famer A Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 3,643	Quote: Quote: it seems to paint humanity poorly. Although I have a feeling the majority of the populace would react the same way as portrayed in the movie I thought the lamest thing was that its set in South Africa. I hear that there is a reason that it is set there. The movie is more about racism then anything else from what I have heard. I really hope that it is a good movie though. I should be able to prebiew it within the next week or two.

Re: District 9 Brownoholic #401024 08/03/09 12:07 AM
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10YrOvernightSuccess Dawg Talker 1 Joined: May 2007 Posts: 1,621 Likes: 115	Quote: Alien invasion stories always raise that debate of how humans would react. Would we fight over how to deal w/ it or all unite against it? What I dislike about these kinds of movies, alien invasion movies in general, is that they don't ever really note just how far beyond us any alien species would have to be in order to make that kind of trek. To build a "ship" and travel across those kinds of distances/times at those kinds of speeds and through conditions we can't begin to fathom, actually survive a trip like that and when they arrive they'd be something we could actually contain or even defeat is just kind of silly. It's like a caveman vs the terminator. If they are that far along the evolutionary chain, likely many thousands of years beyond us, it's just silly to think they'd be successfully kept in some suetto shanty town. Of course I haven't seen the movie, just a bunch of trailers but I feel like I've seen this relationship of man to alien before. I liked the way the book/movie "Contact" dealt with it. Of course that was written by Carl Sagan and he dealt with the physical reality of the actual trek directly in one of the only ways modern physicists think it could actually happen. But even that was a great stretch. This star trek-star wars idea of getting in some big metal thing with directional propulsion and going somewhere is silliness. To think an alien species that figures out the staggeringly enormous riddle of long distance intergalactic travel would get here and not know exactly how to handle the situation is tough to swallow. I feel like these movies all start off on a shaky foot. And yea, I know I'm giving a sci-fi matinée softee too hard a time but I used to read a lot of sci-fi and later a lot of sci-non-fi, physics and theory and I wish most sci-fi would just try a little harder. "Team Chemistry No Match for Team Biology" (Onion Sports Headline)

Re: District 9 10YrOvernightSuccess #401025 08/03/09 12:35 AM
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PDR Legend P Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 11,465	Quote: What I dislike about these kinds of movies, alien invasion movies in general, is that they don't ever really note just how far beyond us any alien species would have to be in order to make that kind of trek. To build a "ship" and travel across those kinds of distances/times at those kinds of speeds and through conditions we can't begin to fathom, actually survive a trip like that and when they arrive they'd be something we could actually contain or even defeat is just kind of silly. It's like a caveman vs the terminator. If they are that far along the evolutionary chain, likely many thousands of years beyond us, it's just silly to think they'd be successfully kept in some suetto shanty town. The flip side to that premise is that if they're so much more advanced than us, then we probably wouldn't even know if they were spying on us. Used to know a really bright and highly accredited guy who thought that 'aliens' were possibly further evolved humans who had figured out time travel and were attempting to observe the past in a clandestine manner. Don't think I buy that...but it's an interesting thought.

Re: District 9 Brownoholic #401026 08/03/09 12:56 AM
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Maddog Dawg Talker Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,346	Looks cool, but I'll probably wait until it is on DVD. I found it interesting that the yahoo link gave three reasons why we should make it a box office success and #3 was so that Jackson can do Halo. Jackson can certainly do the "big" ones, but I would prefer a good rendition of Half Life. Jackson got Tolkien right in my opinion and I trust he would do justice to HL. From District 9 to City 17. Not to take from this District 9 thread I did find this vid interesting (one of two episodes apparently on a $500 budget...wow, very nice): 2007 Browns at Blip.tv

Re: District 9 PDR #401027 08/03/09 01:26 AM
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10YrOvernightSuccess Dawg Talker 1 Joined: May 2007 Posts: 1,621 Likes: 115	Quote: Quote: What I dislike about these kinds of movies, alien invasion movies in general, is that they don't ever really note just how far beyond us any alien species would have to be in order to make that kind of trek. To build a "ship" and travel across those kinds of distances/times at those kinds of speeds and through conditions we can't begin to fathom, actually survive a trip like that and when they arrive they'd be something we could actually contain or even defeat is just kind of silly. It's like a caveman vs the terminator. If they are that far along the evolutionary chain, likely many thousands of years beyond us, it's just silly to think they'd be successfully kept in some suetto shanty town. The flip side to that premise is that if they're so much more advanced than us, then we probably wouldn't even know if they were spying on us. Used to know a really bright and highly accredited guy who thought that 'aliens' were possibly further evolved humans who had figured out time travel and were attempting to observe the past in a clandestine manner. Don't think I buy that...but it's an interesting thought. Cant say anything to what that guy thinks but it would seem logical that if a species we that far along that they could get back and forth relatively efficiently, they'd probably sit and watch for a good long while and could probably do so undetected. Again, if they figured the god-scale riddle of intergalactic travel then something like undetectable surveillance would probably be very simple stuff. And I liked that bit at the end of Contact (more flesh in the book than the movie) when the alien was talking about the different species and how the conquest based ones, the violent and forceful natured ones tended to burn themselves out and destroy themselves before they posed much of a threat to others. It was the ones who rose above that that tended to thrived. "Team Chemistry No Match for Team Biology" (Onion Sports Headline)

Re: District 9 10YrOvernightSuccess #401028 08/03/09 07:09 AM
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OoooRahJoice Legend Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,149	If they had been out there, we would have since been here no longer.

Re: District 9 10YrOvernightSuccess #401029 08/03/09 11:38 AM
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OP Brownoholic Hall of Famer B Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 7,234 Columbus, OH, U.S.A.	You're not giving me a hard time, 10Year..., this is the kind of discussion I hoped to get out of this thread. I agree w/ everything you said. I love good sci fi that is heavy on the science. Loved Contact. The book, that is. I would hope that the writers of this thing have come up w/ a good explanation of how we were able to get these guys locked up. And its obvious that they use their intelligence and technology to get lose and start kicking our butts. Too bad for the humans that these aliens don't just melt when you throw tap water on them!

Re: District 9 Brownoholic #401030 08/03/09 11:57 AM
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FloridaFan Legend F Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 15,015 Likes: 147	intelligence and technology isn't everything. Maybe our atmosphere is too thin, making them weak or dizzy. Maybe our gravity is having an effect. Maybe they were explorers, not warriors. Maybe they expected us to me primates, not intelligent beings. There's a lot of scenarios, but Hollywood typically goes with the aggressive, world domination theory. We don't have to agree with each other, to respect each others opinion.

Re: District 9 FloridaFan #401031 08/03/09 12:16 PM
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HurricaneDawg Dawg Talker H Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,044 Winter Springs, FL	I read that the aliens in this movie are refugees, the last of their kind. Here's the short film "Alive in Joburg" which led to the feature: I want the Cleveland Browns to be my pallbearers so they can let me down for the last time.

Re: District 9 HurricaneDawg #401032 08/04/09 05:06 AM
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Draftdayz Dawg Talker D Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,224 Boston, MA	Interesting ... There are no sacred cows.

Re: District 9 Brownoholic #401033 08/09/09 11:35 PM
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PDR Legend P Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 11,465	Just saw a preview... ...clearly an apartheid allegory.

Re: District 9 10YrOvernightSuccess #401034 08/10/09 12:55 AM
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Heldawg Hall of Famer H Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 3,728 Kailua, HI	Agreed 100%. But what if Will Smith stole one of their ships and implanted a computer virus which rendered their shields useless. I mean that could probably happen right?

Re: District 9 Heldawg #401035 08/10/09 09:43 AM
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gage Hall of Famer Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 3,259 Uniontown OH	yea but only if it took a pod race to get there #gmstrong

Re: District 9 gage #401036 08/16/09 02:40 PM
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OP Brownoholic Hall of Famer B Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 7,234 Columbus, OH, U.S.A.	Saw it and liked it. Dark and violent. Good story w/ some characters you can sympathize w/ and get behind. Human and alien. W/out spoiling too much, it starts out in a mock-umentary format but shifts to a standard movie format. I've seen the mock-umentary thing done much better in other movies so I was glad to see it shift to a normal movie. Some of the logic and science of it will get picked apart by die hard sci-fi buffs. Won't go into it until someone else decides to possibly bring up specific examples. However, the action is great and what they managed to w/ a small budget is amazing. It won't have the box office of the other mega blockbusters but it will profit nicely. I'd give it a B+ and recommend seeing it sooner than later. It seems to be a media darling right now and it might not live up to all the hype for you.

Re: District 9 Brownoholic #401037 08/16/09 05:43 PM
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BrownBuck Hall of Famer Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 4,333 Hilliard, Ohio	saw it last night.... I think it was awesome....even if you are told "it's different" you don't know how different until you watch it. It's very unique...i'll leave it at that. It's def not like one of those alien movies you are use to watching. And the plot isn't "oh now here they come to kill us" What i didn't understand is the before and after...it left me sort of blank...like why they were there...and i can't talk about the end w/o giving it away so i won't....But let me just say there COULD be another one coming out if they want one...it was left open. And yes i would watch the 2nd one.

Re: District 9 BrownBuck #401038 08/17/09 07:28 AM
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Couch Girl All Pro Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 473 Metro NYC, New Jersey	The movie was genius. So original and just... wow. What can I say? I absolutely LOVED it. I love all kinds of sci-fi, but this was not like anything I had seen before.

Re: District 9 Couch Girl #401039 08/17/09 01:53 PM
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OP Brownoholic Hall of Famer B Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 7,234 Columbus, OH, U.S.A.	Since I posted my first thoughts, I've been focusing on what I loved about it and less on some of my minor problems w/ it. It truly was a great film. I want to see it again asap. Definitely a breath of fresh air during a crappy movie summer. Unfortunately, w/ my schedule and budget, I won't see it again til its on DVD.

Re: District 9 Brownoholic #401040 08/17/09 02:42 PM
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FloridaFan Legend F Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 15,015 Likes: 147	Quote: I want to see it again asap. Definitely a breath of fresh air during a crappy movie summer. Oh come on. How can you say it's a crappy summer. With bound to be classics such as "Hanna Montana Movie" and "Land of the Lost", "G-Force" We don't have to agree with each other, to respect each others opinion.

Re: District 9 FloridaFan #401041 08/17/09 04:31 PM
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OP Brownoholic Hall of Famer B Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 7,234 Columbus, OH, U.S.A.	Quote: Quote: I want to see it again asap. Definitely a breath of fresh air during a crappy movie summer. Oh come on. How can you say it's a crappy summer. With bound to be classics such as "Hanna Montana Movie" and "Land of the Lost", "G-Force" Don't go for them snooty, arty flicks.

Re: District 9 Couch Girl #401042 08/17/09 07:11 PM
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BrownBuck Hall of Famer Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 4,333 Hilliard, Ohio	you guys think there will be a second one?

Re: District 9 BrownBuck #401043 08/17/09 07:57 PM
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Couch Girl All Pro Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 473 Metro NYC, New Jersey	Quote: you guys think there will be a second one? Hope not. They need to leave the good ones alone and not do 15 sequels to each movie. I think they wrapped it up pretty good... we all knew how it was going to end from about mid way through, right?

Re: District 9 Couch Girl #401044 08/20/09 10:00 AM
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FloridaFan Legend F Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 15,015 Likes: 147	Could find the other movie thread, but came across this. Quote: Even Dirtier Dancing? By SaraC Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:23:48 GMT I’ve suspected for quite a while that original movie ideas are all but dead. Now I’m sure. Today’s almost certain remake rumor (it’s been reported by the Guardian and via Production Weekly on twitter) is that Lionsgate will put Baby back in the corner. That’s right, "Dirty Dancing" is boarding the remake train. Hollywood can’t just stop with one insult. It’s not enough that "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights" got a green light. (I really, really wanted to like that movie, but even y tu hottie también Diego Luna couldn’t save it.) Who can possibly fill Swayze’s dancing shoes – or more importantly – dancing pants? And I don’t think there’s an actress in Hollywood who remotely resembles Jennifer Grey. Remember, this movie was made before the mandatory-extensions-and-boob-job-at-15 law was passed in L.A. Watch this cheesy, yet undeniably iconic clip and tell me who you think, if anyone, could be cast in these parts. http://www.comcast.net/entertainment/reelnews/4755/evendirtierdancing/ /> I'm waiting for a "Weird Science" remake. We don't have to agree with each other, to respect each others opinion.

Re: District 9 Couch Girl #401045 08/24/09 01:02 PM
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RABIDAWG07 All Pro R Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 530	Just saw the movie thought it was great, I would like them to put a tighter wrap on the ending though.... just that situation is enought to build a sequel out of....... IMO they left it too open for them not to seriously consider a sequel... I think youll see a D-10.... IMO when the movie hits DVD youll see a big explsoion in popularity, I actually think most main streamers will end up liking this movie alot

Re: District 9 RABIDAWG07 #401046 08/24/09 03:04 PM
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OP Brownoholic Hall of Famer B Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 7,234 Columbus, OH, U.S.A.	It's sure set up for a sequel. If it happens, and I don't think its necessary, I hope its the same director. I hate it when they get a whole new crew to make a sequel. Or prequel. Or remake. Or reboot . . . . .

Re: District 9 Brownoholic #401047 08/24/09 04:43 PM
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RABIDAWG07 All Pro R Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 530	either do I, another 15 to 20mins of movie could have been plenty of time...but I just would like to know a little more and have it wrapped up all tightly...especially the end scene with the metal flower...and does the alien do what he says he'll do??????????

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