by None-the-Wiser Pat Darnell
Living life faster than it was meant to be lived; is definition of apathy? Jaded before one's time; no longer curious -- just fast and furious? Gay but not laughing?
"I am the Lizard King; I can do anything." Do you know how you might not, as a fan, expect to see a yarmulke on Jim Morrison's head? That is how DISTRICT
9 affects viewers seated in our Bryan, TX Premier 24 down on Hwy 6 feeder, just North of Boonville Road.Not what movie buffs might expect: Apathy for ET's?
About the movie DISTRICT 9, Johannesburg's air-space is location where a mother-of-an-alien ship comes to rest, hovering in the air above the city for twenty-eight years. The ship carries extraterrestrials, who become intolerable to, and soon segregated to the citizens of JHA. The state does its best to house and protect their alien new comers. DISTRICT 9 is scantily provisioned; okay, a slum.
Even though one would expect an advanced species to land in the neighborhood, as it were coming from "out there," it isn't always exactly like it seems. No, the aliens do not look like Rodeo Queens; instead they look like land-walking "Prawns." Movie go-er's will have to go see DISTRICT 9 to experience Prawns, and that bit of Computer Graphics wizardry... well worth the price of a ticket; D-9 CGX = 100%.
Over the score of years, population of Johannesburg's docile yet reviled immigrants reaches one and a half million. Original DISTRICT 9 has to change locations 200 miles away from humans; thus a social
movement initiates a bureaucracy to form up -- Multi-Nationals United, MNU -- and secret shadow governments are revealed.This makes perfect sense to us movie-goers, because it follows the genre of Science Fiction from Dr WHO till recent mysterious departures of Michael Jackson and Billy Mays. Only, this time, the aliens themselves also have a secret shadow government and underground factory that produces the substance that might set them free... or will it?
Oh, yes, unveiled for future reference Sci-Fi alien vernaculars, D-9 aliens love the taste of canned cat food, and tires -- the rubber ignites alien gourmands saliva glands. Especially the taste of new tires, like the ones on white armored Hummers with insignia MNU, that are driven into DISTRICT 9 to herd the hoard of squattor Prawns. While protestors wave signs "I [HEART] PRAUNS" well-weapon'ed mercenaries turn the alien cattle drive into a military exercise... but--
"Frikkin' Awesome," says MooPigster Potrick McGuillicuddy.
Moviegoers Bravely Explore 'District 9' In The Saturday Box Office Report
Posted 4 hrs ago | by Josh Wigler in Box Office
1. "District 9" ($13 million)
2. "The Time Traveler's Wife" ($7.5 million)
3. "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" ($7.2 million)
4. "Julie & Julia" ($3.6 million)
5. "G-Force" ($2.3 million)
MTV Movies Blog -- "There's nothing alien about the moviegoer crowd's relationship with "District 9," the Peter Jackson-produced, Neill Blomkamp-directed science fiction epic that opened in the top box office slot on Friday evening." (Wigler, Josh)
2 comments:
D-9 definitely has a lot going for it -- character development, great acting a at least a few people, awesome alien weapons; it felt a bit preachy at times at different times though
I know what you mean, Sean. It needed a little bit of Farscape humor relief.
Did you get a timeline on this story; I'm not sure I understood? But the alien said he would return in three years? That makes it 2012 here... hmmmm. D-9-II a Sequel just in time for no one to see it?
My son and his friend: "It was really good. About the cool graphics..."
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