District 9

[Dark Jaguar]

[alien space marine]

Its good to see sci-fi making a comeback

[Dark Jaguar]

Did it ever leave? I mean the super hero movies alone...

[alien space marine]

When was the last time they made a completely original new movie? That was not a sequel,Prequel, Adaption or remake?

[Dark Jaguar]

Isn't that a completely unrelated issue? Weren't you saying something about sci-fi?

Also, this movie is very similar to Alien Nation.

[A Black Falcon]

I don't think I'd even heard of this movie before this thread, though I have seen a few reviews of it in the past day or two... looks interesting. Not sure if I'll see it in theaters, but sometime for sure...

As for Ponyo, yeah I want to see that.

[etoven]

Yea, I defiantly want to see Ponyo. Studio Ghibli can have my babies... Their worthy of a thousand Internets.....

I mean it's like the worst kind of crack genius!, only a mad super story writing animation super factory like studio Ghibili can create a story about a fish that want's to be a little girl and then go on to make me want to see it so bad that I'd kill my 90 year old neighbor for front row seats!

I mean what do they feed people in Asia? Seriously I want some of that super human juice that makes Asians use 1/3 more of their brains than Americans do. Man, I would kill for just a smidgen of the talent of some of the great Asian minds at Studio Ghibli!

[alien space marine]

Isn't that a completely unrelated issue? Weren't you saying something about sci-fi?

Also, this movie is very similar to Alien Nation.

I just had to post something here to endorse the movie, whether it made sense or not!

Just roll with it!!!

[Great Rumbler]

When was the last time they made a completely original new movie? That was not a sequel,Prequel, Adaption or remake?

Moon. Go see it.

Also, District 9 was a pretty good movie. Not everything went off perfectly, but, hey, it's the guy's first full-length movie ever, so he's still got plenty of room to grow.

[Dark Jaguar]

Don't you want to talk about the storyline instead of just this boring sort of thing? I mean what ever happened to good old fasioned criticism?

[EdenMaster]

I think you're ignoring the "fi" half of sci-fi. It's a movie, it doesn't have to make sense. It's good to criticize, and I could come up with a couple, but if you get into the arena of "that wouldn't really happen", you're just going to ruin the movie for yourself.

[Dark Jaguar]

I'm not calling out the movie on the cleary sci-fi stuff.

I'm perfectly willing to accept aliens that resemble bipedal humans, anti-gravity floating ships, and faster than light travel.

I'm calling it out for plot holes and stuff that was never explained. Not the stuff that's not explained to keep a mystery, I'm talking very basic points that needed to be explained.

I'm criticising the STORY ITSELF, SURELY that's allowed! Plus, when you get right down to it, some of that stuff really requires a LOT of suspension of disbelief to make any sense, and I have to call it out on that stuff too. There comes a point where "sci-fi" stops being an excuse, and alien rocket fuel turning someone into an alien for no explained reason at all is dashing across that line like it's the finish. Yes it's a movie. Is it so wrong for me to have high expectations?

And I did make it clear that I DID think it was overall a good movie but with some problems that needed addressing. Did you totally forget that? Can't someone criticize something's shortcomings without coming off as though they hated the entire thing?

I mean seriously, you people criticize things all the time. Why is this any different? It would be like if in one of your reviews of Oblivion you noted that the conversation "wheel" was a boring system that drew one away from interactive conversations and I responded "It's a GAME".

[EdenMaster]

I said it's OK to criticize. I had some too. I felt like they got all their explosion funding in the 11th hour of the movie and had to use it up as quickly as they could. I was waiting for a body count meter to appear on the bottom of the screen like in Hot Shots Part Deux.

I liked it too, and there were parts I did not like, such is the case with pretty much any movie.

And expectations high? Mine really weren't. Not a single recognizable face in the movie leaves a big wide chasm of uncertainty about the movie to me, and honestly, the only reason I went to see it was because my friends and girlfriend wanted to go. Otherwise I would have happily passed it by.