FRpilot

i think all different places of the world have people who are bigot-like. i'm sure, a lot of US citizens have a lot of pride in this country and hate outsiders too. you got to places like japan and i'm sure they hate outsiders. when i was in taiwan, i didn't speak taiwanese or mandarin; i went inside a store with an older couple owners and they greeted me, but when i spoke to them in my limited cantonese the guy yelled at me and told me to get the fuck out of there. apparently, one of my taiwanese acquintences told me that taiwanese have a lot of pride in their country and hate outsiders who they believe is going to influence their culture. there's already a rift among true taiwanese born on the islands, and those who are taiwanese but born somewhere else.

anyways, i would be pissed off if i was a south african and we had to house district 9 with a bunch of aliens running around rampant and doing whatever the fuck they want to our city w/o regard to our human laws.

i guess, if shrimp-like creatures can get a girl in the mood, a lot of guys would be bringing girls to watch this movie or pirates of the caribean to see that sea captain and johnny depp.

but i would bet that a jonas brothers concert has a higher probability of success and automatic.

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jimmytango00

kinda like Joaquin Phoenix...


the guy who played the main character has never acted before, i believe this was his first movie and first time acting from what i've heard.

FRpilot

i was thinking the same thing while watching the movie and thought about the mech warriors games. then i realized that tony stark's iron man suits are probably the best type of battle armor (heavily armored with wide array of weaponry but best of all light and mobile, unlike those bulky and clumsy armors like in this movie)


I was also wondering, when the nigerian kingpin warlord was eating the "prawns" if that shit taste like a delicious lobster.

and don't those alien guns remind you of the #6 or #7 gun in the original half life?

man, my mind wanders and thinks about a lot of things. LOL

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!Zar!

Would you've really wanted to be around Joe getting bossed up?

Eh, I didn't see anything wrong with the dude and his acting.

But a mech and battle armor are two different things.

What if iron man got into a gundam or something?

Or better yet, got into a bigger iron man.

Iron robo?

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FRpilot

you're right. battle armor and mech is different.

if iron man got into a mech, after the mech is destroyed, you'd have to deal with the iron man armor. pretty good backup.

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zenki.life

i loved the movie. any you know those little signs they post around the theater.......well i may have stolen one........

edit. the iron man in a mech made me laugh. its like when a guy pulls off his mask only to reveal another mask. lol.

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FRpilot

talk about frustrating video game boss. like metal gear rex

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exitspeed

Saw it last night with the wife. She HATED it. She said the main character reminded her of Borat just like Mike (ixfxi) said.

Me personally, I didn't like his character. He seemed a little too quirky and slapstick for the situation. I just felt like i couldn't take him seriously though entire time. If he could have just been serious the movie would have been totally different for me.

Over-all I love the premise and I liked (not loved) the execution. I think it's one of these movies you have to watch a couple times to fully appreciate. What sucks though is my wife hated it so much I probably won't get a chance to watch it again unless I watch it on my own.

I would give it 3.5 out of 5 starts.

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ixfxi

this movie sure has gotten a lot of attention, everyone i spoke with this weekend was upset that i had already seen the movie... sure is a lot of hype surrounding this movie!

to be honest, i know its comparing apples and oranges.. but if we compare transformers, batman, district 9, any of these teenager action movies.. my personal favorite in terms of plot and design has been Iron Man.. and I'm curious to see what the new one will be like.

the character in district 9 was good, i didnt mind him being a dork... its just the perspective they decided to give him. its like complaining that clark kent is a tard in real life.. its just the way it is.

on friend said he wants to see the movie because it reminds him of "V" the tv series they used to play in the 80s. i saw similarities, but it was different and original in its own way of course.

i wonder how soon the sequel will be released... district 9.2

haha

exitspeed

Iron Man is my favorite also. I know everyone things Dark Knight is tey bezt evar. But I disagree.

Looking forward to Iron Man 2 and Distract 10.

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mehsilvia

Agreed 100%. And had the exact same experience myself with the wifey.

FaLKoN240

...obviously not, but that's besides the point.

I'm all for women who choose to objectify themselves in front of random people THEY don't know.

They probably have some cartoon like that in Japan already, kinda like how in JDM land Spider man has a giant robo.

I didn't bring the girlfriend along for this trip, and from the sounds of it I was better off.

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K_style

watched last friday...

awesome movie... totally different than any other alien movies...

wish it had better ending...

thought that guy is ganna come back in 3 years to fix him...

DreamN

I enjoyed. Though for the first 15 min. or so I felt like I was watching a weird episode of The Office. Definitely liked the story and the ending left me wanting for the movie to be longer. Probably going to watch it again to see if I catch things I didn't the first time.

fromxtor

^^I feel bad for you Meh and Mel, my wife liked the movie. I take it alot of the people posting in this thread have never been around anyone from africa, most of the South Africans I've met are quirky and excentric like that guy in the movie. I'm glad they decided to at least write the script in english (although broken), it would have been a bitch if it were all in Afrikaans.

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ayuaddict

saw it with Yarou yesterday (with our respective girlfriends! haha no homo).

i thought it was great he thought it was great, im not sure if the females got it.

im gonna say its up there with Cloverfield.

the main character was a bit of a bitch but it worked i suppose.

FRpilot

if it was anything like cloverfield with the camera shaking and shit for the entire movie, i would have got up and left. (yes, i'm one of those pussies who got motion sickness and felt like puking the entire movie)

ending was how it should be. left it open for a sequel and that guy turned into a total prawn.

"christopher" will be back. he seems like a humble dude and true to his words. he also seemed pretty distraught when he saw his fellow prawn be dissected for medical experiments, so when he said "i'm going to go home and bring help" who knows if that's to bring mass armies to kill us humans or just to get all his remaining peoples back home. i'm thinking the latter, but he could want revenge for us treating his peoples like that.

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ayuaddict

i seriously thought, at the end when the huge ship started to move, that it was going to blow the fuck out of the planet.

zenki.life

no offence but would that seriously make sense.......no

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Rockda240

Good movie, 8 out of 10, could've improved in a couple of areas.

YoungGun

I liked it.

I wanna paint MNU on the side of my truck.

nothix

I loved it, my friends didn't like it nearly as much as me, and one thought it was stupid.

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kill some boredom with their games

FRpilot

what i do not understand is how spaceship fuel can mutate a human.

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The same reason why you can't catch swine flu from a swine.

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palmdale_mob

I really liked the movie, wasn't what I expected at all

The only part that I didn't really get is why didn't the alien just get beam himself up a long time ago?

zenki.life

good one! lol

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iHeartTheTouge

it took them 20 years to get enough fuel to run that ship under his shack.

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FRpilot

i'm kind of slow.. why's that? because you don't pass swine flu by eating pigs, it's a virus spread through human's handling pigs through contact/air-borne?

guy turned into a prawn because he was interacting with too many aliens? he didn't eat them.

am i over analyzing here?

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palmdale_mob

Yeah but, he didn't fly to the ship, he just messaged it to come beam him up

Idk maybe he needed the fuel to use the electronics on the ship as well