District 9

[Punisher Rising]

Goes to show you bigger isn't always better. The $30 million may as well have been $300 million with the effects, sets and action D9 had in it.

 

[LostSon88]

8/10

Started off kinda slow for me but really started to pick up once it was revealed he was turning alien.

I thought he was kind of a *****e in the beginning but I really felt bad for him and began to sympathize when he was forced to kill that prawn w/ the weapon.

Yeah there were some times where he did Christopher wrong but in the end, he DID defend him.

That last shot was pretty powerful.

 

[LostSon88]

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[omid17]

Goes to show you bigger isn't always better. The $30 million may as well have been $300 million with the effects, sets and action D9 had in it.

8/10

Started off kinda slow for me but really started to pick up once it was revealed he was turning alien.

I thought he was kind of a *****e in the beginning but I really felt bad for him and began to sympathize when he was forced to kill that prawn w/ the weapon.

Yeah there were some times where he did Christopher wrong but in the end, he DID defend him.

That last shot was pretty powerful.

 

[Kane52630]

Box Office Update
Domestic: $92,490,621
Foreign: $14,336,708
Worldwide: $106,827,329

 

[omid17]

Box Office Update
Domestic: $92,490,621
Foreign: $14,336,708
Worldwide: $106,827,329

Hell yea, this movie better win some kind of award

best picture
best actor
best director
visual effects

 

[Punisher Rising]

8/10

Started off kinda slow for me but really started to pick up once it was revealed he was turning alien.

I thought he was kind of a *****e in the beginning but I really felt bad for him and began to sympathize when he was forced to kill that prawn w/ the weapon.

Yeah there were some times where he did Christopher wrong but in the end, he DID defend him.

That last shot was pretty powerful.

I give this review and this movie

 

[GoblinWhirlwind]

Hell yea, this movie better win some kind of award

best picture
best actor
best director
visual effects

Definitely visual effects, this and Cloverfield had the best CGI to me, much better than the huge big budget movies that are drenched with it.

 

[Etienne]

Speaking of Oscar talk.

'District 9' — catnip for Oscar voters?

Perhaps it sounds outlandish — maybe even as wacky as the story of reptilian aliens lustily devouring cat food while being imprisoned by humans in "District 9" — but Variety reports that Oscar voters are gobbling up the hit sci-fi flick. They've only endorsed a few in the past ("Star Wars," "E.T."). Now Variety's Peter Bart reveals a "dirty little secret" — asserting "'District 9' is an absolutely brilliant movie that could easily sneak away with some Oscars.

"Some critics missed the boat on this one (including Variety), but at a packed Academy screening over the weekend at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, the film received the most applause of any movie in a couple of years," the trade paper adds. "That’s usually a signal."

Hmmm . . . just a few blog posts ago, we wondered if 'District 9' was cursed at the Oscars.

 

[Bunker]

Pssh. The only reason they're going to throw this a bone is because of the backlash that snubbing TDK created. The Academy wants to appear relevant even though they are exactly the same as they've always been.

 

[Crook]

The "only" reason? Nah. Whatever the intentions may be, I'm fully behind a potential Oscar nomination. It's more than deserving of one.

 

[Bunker]

It's fully deserving. Don't get me wrong. No more deserving than The Dark Knight, though.

 

[CelticPredator]

More I say. This was imo way better then TDK, and I LOVE TDK. But this hit me so much harder...

 

[The Dark Defender]

I don't know if it's way better, but I too thought it was better than TDK...which was itself a masterpiece.

 

[COAL TIGER]

Oscar?

Nice.

 

[omid17]

i heard that sci fi flicks can't be nominated at oscars, is that true?

 

[WarBlade]

Totally untrue. They quite often gain nominations for technical achievements in things like sound or special effects etc.

 

[omid17]

^ oh i see, can they be nominated for best picture? i heard 10 movies will be nominated this year for best picture

 

[Etienne]

It can. E.T. and Star Wars have both been nominated for best picture.

 

[omid17]

sweet

 

[Timstuff]

This movie was definitely the surprise hit of the year. Even I, for all my geekdom didn't even realize what it was until a month before it released, and yet it was one of the best movies I've seen all year, right up there with Star Trek. For a tiny film like this, that is one friggin' accomplishment. This is for the current decade what Aliens and Independence Day were for the 80's and 90's, respectively. I think a sequel could be great, but I'm also eager to see what other ideas Blomkamp has brewing in his head, and what offers he gets next. District 10 could probably wait to be his third movie if he gets offered something bigger first, though it'd certainly be worth waiting for.

BTW, Microsoft, Universal, and Fox should all be kicking themselves for turning their backs on Blomkamp. If he could make this movie for just 30 million, with a measly budget of 70 million he could have made an amazing Halo movie, if only they'd given him the chance.

 

[TheFuture]

Amazing, brilliant............the best film I have seen since The Wrestler. I won't review this film today (if there is any recent film that deserves some real thought, it is this), but I will say that I loved this film. I know it won't happen but I honestly believe that Sharlto Copley deserves an oscar nomination. He is just fantastic as a perfectly flawed human, and every reaction he had to each setback is perfectly believable and understandable. Just brilliant, I loved it.

 

[omid17]

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Just saw it. Great, great film.

 

[Crook]

BTW, Microsoft, Universal, and Fox should all be kicking themselves for turning their backs on Blomkamp. If he could make this movie for just 30 million, with a measly budget of 70 million he could have made an amazing Halo movie, if only they'd given him the chance.

People should really stop assuming this. He shot on a landfill with absolutely no stars, people. That's the only reason why the film was cheap.