I don’t know if anyone else has seen this movie, but it is awful. The worldview of the author(s) is ridiculous. The author thinks that if over a million aliens landed on earth, that they would just end up in a concentration camp, with no one in the world interested in what is going on except for an evil corporation. Just one corporation mind you. There are no reporters there, no government workers from anywhere else in the world, just absolutely no interest in these aliens. The aliens bring some of their weapons to earth and they trade them with a local gang for cat food. In other words, the premise for the movie is completely unrealistic. And then there is no plot. The amazing thing is how good of reviews this movie has received. There has to be a way to tap into the stupidity of sheeple that think this kind of stuff is “good”.
I hated the part at the end where the guy is fighting off the humans, yet no aliens come to his assistance.
i guess the alien world can make some high tech. weapons and spaceships (assuming that’s how they got there), but couldn’t figure out the cat food part.[:P]
sounds really stupid - I’m definitely not going to see it, thanks.
There are some misconceptions about the plot. The purpose of the movie was not to illustrate what would happen to aliens if they landed on Earth. It was a metaphor for District 6, and it was ultimately a movie about the history of apartheid South Africa. In regards to the weapons, it’s held that the majority of the alien race is unintelligent, except for the ship commanders (Christopher Johnson). That’s why none of them know how to use their weapons, trade them in for cat food, and generally sound and look stupid during the movie (remember Christopher Johnson’s friend who gets executed?).
The movie was actually pretty good.
The underlying message was about property rights, which is distinctly Capitalist. I think what marred this view was the fact that MNU was a corporation interested in exploiting the aliens for their weapons technology. But, it’s pretty clear that the message is for the respect of private property. The evictions was one clear signal, but the principle signal was when the MNU evictor goes into the computer lab and starts raving about the lack of permits for having a business.
And, obviously, the director and writer had to twist the story to make it semi-interesting to the audience. I liked it. I guess I’m a “stupid sheeple”. [:(]
Imagine if the American government, in an effort to relieve overcrowding, put a million prisoners on a high-tech boat and shipped them out to China. What do you think would happen?
Yea it does sound stupid. All of those untapped trading partners just roaming around and no one seems to want to advance themselves competitively en mass?
But it dragged on for soooooo long.
I might volunteer for that.
Then I have to say using aliens was pointless. The movie made no sense if you look at it from a real world perspective.
Maybe more people know more about South Africa than I do. I said “stupid sheeple” referring to anyone that sees this movie and thinks it has anything to do with how the world actually works.
Science fiction is always about the real world in an extrapolated perspective.
If District 9 had been about anything other than aliens, it would be have been called racist and vulgar. But because aliens are literally sub-human, you can safely make a movie about them.
The Nigerian gangsters did. The others were simply forbidden from dealing with them.
There was a black market which was ran by Nigerians.
It was to sell the movie. Of course, using aliens was pointless. Why not use blacks? Mexicans? The fact of the matter is that a science fiction movie would sell. Some stupid documentary would not.
To a degree it is; at least in regards to what a society without any private property rights due to government regulation would look like. I agree that this is marred in the movie because of the fact that it is a corporation which controls the territory (it is mentioned in the beginning, though, that the corporation operates with a government permit).
Where’s this South African documentary aspect coming from? Was it in the book or did the makers of the movie say this is what it’s about. That would be an interesting way to get people thinking about something further based upon a fun (?) movie. Similar to the Matrix. That movie pushed an idea that even now when I go to the philosophy section in Barnes and Nobles there’s a Matrix philosophy book sitting on the shelf. I wouldn’t doubt the Matrix isn’t in other sections in bookstores as fiction is a great way to get people to think outside the box in fun, more easily digestible, and attention getting ways that don’t scare people away from what the more potentially complicated concept is. And only more complicated I’d say due to it does involve some thought and effort outside of the more personal routinely acted, habitual, patterned, matrix thinking that is false - you know break the matrix.
All markets that are run by nigerians are black markets, lol. 
Seriously though, the plot seems to be stupid, even though it might be about property rights or whatever, it still has A LOT of leftist premises in it, to say the least.
I saw it last night and thought it was one of the best movies that has been made in a long while.
I don’t feel like writing up a review for it right now, but it definitely played with a lot of very intelligent points, and made them available to a wide audience.
District 9 is a play on District 6. District 6 was a location in Cape Town that was beforehand predominately black. In the 1970s, around 60,000 black residents were forcefully removed. Wikipedia has a decent overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_Six,_Cape_Town. I think I had researched the movie when I saw the original trailer, which was ambiguous towards what the movie was about (it was a very well directed trailer; it didn’t reveal any real information about the movie, but it sparked interest immediately).
Although, obviously, the movie played the alien part in order to sell it to the majority of people, that don’t know apartheid history and don’t care. I think most people liked it because of the action, not because of the message. There was a good article on the South African reaction to the movie, but I don’t remember where I read it.
Wrong. Documentaries sell all the time. They are some of the best movies. They can have some of the highest profit returns, given the low budget needed to make them. District 9 seemed like leftist propaganda to me. “Corporations are evil”. “Humans are evil”. It has Hollywood written all over it. The plot was completely lame. Other reasons why I think the movie was a waste of time: WARNING SPOILER:
The main human starts transforming into an alien after just a few hours after being exposed to some substance. The rest of the movie you expect him to keep changing just as fast, but for convenience, he hardly transforms after the first few hours. A whole arm transforms in the first few hours. After 72 hours, one eye has transformed and he has some bumps on his skin. Most of the aliens seem to act completely irrational, for the convenience of the movie. A ship drops from the mother ship, for some unknown reason. The humans are apparently too stupid to find it, even though it is barely below ground. Somehow, the only apparent slightly intelligent alien finds it and takes twenty years for no good reason to get enough fuel for it, and then takes off. For no apparent reason, it will take him three years to return for the rest of the aliens.
And what is the deal with Inglourious Basterds? Hitler wasn’t killed in a movie theatre! I want my money back.
Was it any good?