Comment You really like this shitshow? Really? (Score 1) 705
I find it amazing that so many people are ecstatic over this movie, especially the "professional" reviewers. I guess when Hollywood churns out so much garbage, it's not too tough to look good by comparison. In my opinion, District 9 was merely watchable, with the annoyances outweighing the few redemptive aspects.
Given the plot setup I was expecting the movie to tackle some real issues that would seem relevant to today's society. Segregation, pre-emptive violence, The Other, etc. Instead I got two hours of tired Hollywood cliches. The Most Moral Man wins. Love is more important than life itself. Big Corporations are Evil. Big Guns are cool. Soldiers are assholes.
Not only that, I thought the implication that the public would reject the aliens out of xenophobia to be a depressing view of humanity. The scene where it showed the "bugger lovers" holding signs up was particularly revealing of the writers' idea of human nature: the Megacorp was about to go in and commit illegal evictions and a small handful of people show up? I'm pretty sure there would have been a much larger worldwide outcry.
In fact, the entire shantytown doesn't add up. What I got out of the movie was the implication that these aliens were shoved into the shantytown because they seemed stupid, but were actually really smart, as evidenced by the whole computer lab alien. If they were really smart, there would have been some political representation/structure that humanity could have dealt with. Instead they were apparently worthless.
Instead of exploring these (explainable) inconsistencies, which would have made an interresting movie, instead we are stuck following Wickus on his comedy of errors, who I found morally repugnant and illogical. The power of a movie like this is to put you in the main character's shoes, imagining what it would be like to be in his/her situation. In this case, Wickus is simply too stupid for me to imagine having made his choices. "Hey I'm about to be taken away in a spaceship from the people who are trying to kill me, but since it's going to take longer than I thought I'm going to punch my savior in the face, kidnap his child, and try to fly his alien spacecraft by myself!!!" Fucking retard.
On the plus side, it had good CG, with some fun gore that made a Jason flick look tame.
Given the plot setup I was expecting the movie to tackle some real issues that would seem relevant to today's society. Segregation, pre-emptive violence, The Other, etc. Instead I got two hours of tired Hollywood cliches. The Most Moral Man wins. Love is more important than life itself. Big Corporations are Evil. Big Guns are cool. Soldiers are assholes.
Not only that, I thought the implication that the public would reject the aliens out of xenophobia to be a depressing view of humanity. The scene where it showed the "bugger lovers" holding signs up was particularly revealing of the writers' idea of human nature: the Megacorp was about to go in and commit illegal evictions and a small handful of people show up? I'm pretty sure there would have been a much larger worldwide outcry.
In fact, the entire shantytown doesn't add up. What I got out of the movie was the implication that these aliens were shoved into the shantytown because they seemed stupid, but were actually really smart, as evidenced by the whole computer lab alien. If they were really smart, there would have been some political representation/structure that humanity could have dealt with. Instead they were apparently worthless.
Instead of exploring these (explainable) inconsistencies, which would have made an interresting movie, instead we are stuck following Wickus on his comedy of errors, who I found morally repugnant and illogical. The power of a movie like this is to put you in the main character's shoes, imagining what it would be like to be in his/her situation. In this case, Wickus is simply too stupid for me to imagine having made his choices. "Hey I'm about to be taken away in a spaceship from the people who are trying to kill me, but since it's going to take longer than I thought I'm going to punch my savior in the face, kidnap his child, and try to fly his alien spacecraft by myself!!!" Fucking retard.
On the plus side, it had good CG, with some fun gore that made a Jason flick look tame.
