Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

by **jellydonut25** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:51 am

one thing i REALLY liked, looking back, was how Wikus changed as a person...he's giddiness and glee at enforcing rules that are just plain WRONG at the beginning really sets up just how lowly most people think of the aliens and then by the end he's one of them, not just in body but in mind as well...

by **Green Dragon** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:55 am

by **INVINCIBLE HASTUR** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:00 pm

by **Benjamin Haines** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 5:56 pm

Superb in every way. The best movie of the year so far.

This movie is what I would call real horror. It doesn't rely on cheap scare moments and it's not gratuitously gory, it's just genuinely horrifying. The idea of a population of aliens becoming stranded on Earth and being subjected to segregation and other atrocities by humans is both horrific and very believable.

I really like how this movie just goes for the jugular without going overboard, and in doing so ends up being all the more effective. It doesn't bend over backwards to be "ZOMG DARK," but it's very bleak in a realistic way, and it works. There is a lot of action, especially toward the end, but it never comes close to a generic Hollywood action movie because the characters are so well developed and they earn the emotional investment of the viewer.

Time will tell if Neill Blomkamp ends up becoming the next Steven Spielberg, but as for right now, I'd go as far as to say that District 9 is his Jaws. It's an absolutely fantastic movie that clicks in every way. It shocks, thrills, horrifies and keeps you sucked in from beginning to end. This movie deserves to become recognized as a classic among sci-fi.

by **Danno** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:43 pm

by **Green Dragon** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:54 pm

by **Zack Metoyer** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:19 pm

It's basically a remake of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? for the Xbox generation. I don't get how people are talking about realism here. Is this some kind of running gag? The film, tonally, resembles Shaun of the Dead more closely than anything I can think of.

Were you guys watching the same movie as I was? The one that made absolutely no sense, and didn't even care that it didn't? The characters are all purposefully moronic, the pacing is wretched, and to top it all off, the whole thing is filmed in closeup shakycam. Best piece of science fiction ever? Maybe if you think of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a deep, thought-provoking experience.

by **king_ghidorah** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:27 pm

by **Green Dragon** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:15 pm

by **king_ghidorah** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:19 pm

by **Green Dragon** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:21 pm

by **king_ghidorah** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:26 pm

by **Pkmatrix** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:54 pm

by **king_ghidorah** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:00 pm

by **Pkmatrix** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:21 pm

by **MouthForWar** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:36 pm

by **kidnicky** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:44 pm

by **MouthForWar** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:18 am

by **The Dark Uniter** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:48 am

I betcha it'll look even more amazing on a proper Bluray player with a 1080 surround sound TV than the theater showings.

by **Green Dragon** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:44 am

by **jellydonut25** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 9:26 am

by **skiddish** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:35 pm

by **Danno** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:54 pm

by **Pkmatrix** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:24 pm

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