District 9

I didn't really think it was all that special. I'm not saying it was bad, just isn't all that new and exciting like everyone seems to think it is..

Wanting to know where the aliens come from and so on and so forth is like wanting to know where E.T comes from. Sure it might be interesting but if your asking those kinds of questions you were paying attention to all the wrong aspects of the movie.

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lol sorry didnt mean to cause any harm here..didnt think watching it online was illegal on my behalf if i was watching it on a streaming site such as (Removing Link!) NOT downloading it... it would be the streamer infringing the copy right law im just an innocent googler lol

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Innocent, my ass. By watching it online, you're as much a part of the problem as the people who illegally put it up for streaming in the first place. You don't pay, you don't play.

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It's not.

I don't know what site that was, but I did remove it from your post, since you mentioned it in reference to watching movies on-line. That is against the forum rules. So was your signature that I just removed. You are not allowed to link to any sites that allow movie downloads, or viewing. Don't do it again.

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Negative rep? Really?

so ANYWAY about that one movie...District 9....

... about illegal movie-aliens ...

District 9, has some substance and the imagery and CGI are amazing in there own way. But I don't think it deserved the 'blockbuster' reputation it gathered and would have been more appreciated in a art house theater rather then at the box office.

I heard so much about this film in the last few months, I've seen the posters everywhere and watched that first teaser trailer that started all the fuss over District 9. Ill admit it all had me engrossed, the imagery was shocking and new, that shot of the space ship hovering over the horizon really impressed me. I gathered this was going to be something big. But it wasn't. Its not a huge or overwhelming story. This is an intimate and small story, a humanitarian tale. Not that its a bad thing I just didn't expect it and I doubt many people did. So like in my review of Inglourious Basterds I think the advertising has got it wrong again, this movie would have been much better without it.

Another problem I had with District 9 is that sometimes I felt like I was watching an amature film. The documentary style is one of the reasons for that. But mainly some of the props were unconvincing and looked obviously fake. I'm a big fan of Sunshine another science fiction movie with a low budget the special effects were done with tact and I never noticed. But during District 9 they stuck out between the better effects. District 9seemed like a mash up of other movies, the raw handy-cam and unknown actor style of Cloverfield, the spaceship looks like it came straight out Independence Day, the narrative itself resembles the plot of E.T and maybe just a hint of The Fly. Overall I just wasn't that impressed when I walked out of the theater or at least not as much as I though I would be.

The 'prawns' are one of the most convincing aspects of District 9. The CGI is first class, the way the prawns interact with the environment and real people looks life like. Especially there glass-like eyes, its hard to believe they're computer generated. There spaceship that hovers over Johannesburg is the other impressive piece of CGI, the way the documentary style footage shoots it, really looks realistic. Ill admit I never got bored with these things.

Towards the end the action speeds up and there a few minutes of suspense. I enjoyed those few minutes but apart from that the only thing I liked apart from the CGI was the message, ' human beings are scared of what they don't understand ' this message could have worked just as well with an all human cast, the aliens are only there to get the public interested. In that way it does what good science fiction should. I expect most people will be more interested in the aliens themselves and not whats actually taking place and therefore missing the message altogether.

A strong underlying message but a weak movie in the end.

Watching movies illegally is watching movies illegally… you may not be fined but you very well could lose your internet connection.

Oh, and thanks for the negative rep...

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If the person/s who own the copyright to a movie have authorized the movie to be shown on line for free, then it is legal... if they have not authorized it, it is illegal....

Pfft, if you're paying for it, it's not. However, I doubt this guy was paying for it.

There's a clearly defined line there, of which, I'm not sure if it's clear enough for either of you.

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Yeah, it's not even a debate. Of course watching it online is illegal, even if you're not the uploader, much in the way people can be held liable for owning stolen goods, even if they're not the ones who stole it.

Have not seen too many movies worth paying for. When I do, I buy them.

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Best Sci-fi movie ever. I loved district 9. This movie is freakin' awesome! Best alien movie ever. My girlfriend also thought it was great.

It was good, really good, but best sci-fi ever? In my opinion it is not even best sci-fi this year as Moon takes that.

The main Actor was great. This movie was different and that’s cool with me. I like new stuff, I get bored with most movies and this one was interesting. At the beginning of the movie, I almost walked out, but about 10 minutes later it got real good. It was worth my dollar.

Rule #1: Never walk out and/or turn off a movie.

Unless that movie is "Dude who stole my car."

D9 was entertaining, but there were too many cliche action movie scenes. I'm not sure if they were doing this to be ironic, or just because they couldn't think of anything else.

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