Best movie of the year? Gimme what you're on! (Score 1)

District 9 was HORRIBLE. The plot made no sense: a fleet of over a million aliens armed with insane weaponry are seriously turned into effective POWs? The weaponry works only with them, is NOT confiscated effectively from them, and it's demonstrated later in the movie that just two untrained people each with a single alien gun could take out a huge underground militarized compound. I also find it kind of hard to believe humans could see the aliens' weaponry and technology and have to balls to treat them so horribly without fear of sparking a complete human beatdown by some galactic community. So the premise sucks to start with.

BRUTAL inconsistencies plague this film. Little bullets take down a mech armor (which in a previous scene was shown to be able to stop bullets midair...go figure) while a guy with a tiny shield made from aluminum siding was deflecting them. The guy piloting the mech had, of course, INSANE weaponry, and yet used them in a retardedly conservative way while under fire from an entire platoon. "Oh gee, I'm gonna stand here and get shot at and only once I'm nearly beaten down will I use the biological homing rockets to wipe out everyone in one shot." The protagonist also didn't wipe out the band of black market criminals he stole the alien weapons from despite knowing they vowed revenge...it would have smacked less of stupid-villain-letting-the-good-guy-escape-because-he-used-a-stupid-over-elaborate-scheme if he had just blown them all to hell the moment he grabbed the crazy gun and raided their armory after they were no longer a threat. It was basically dragon ball z in sci-fi form - instead of going super alien right off the bat, the main guy plays around and gets beaten up a bit before doing anything that even makes remote sense.

And the shaky camera crap was awful. It made me sick to my stomach. When our eyes are scanning our surroundings and not tracking anything in particular, they don't move smoothly and instead jerk incrementally. Between jerks, we're temporarily blind. This is to prevent motion sickness. The camerawork in the movie mimicked a ground reporter documenting everything. Consequently, there's a lot of shaking and quick panning of the scene going on. Since we're not moving our eyes, we don't get the temporary blindness thing going on and since the camera is scanning the surroundings, it induces motion sickness. So the camerawork gave up a lot of function to follow form. Some people aren't affected so badly by it, but it's still unwise to do anything in a movie that could repel viewers without adding to its plot or impact. Creative idea, but retarded to actually USE it.

So no. This was one of the WORST movies I've seen this year.