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Despite My Gripes - District 9 (SPOILERS ALERT)
The premise sounds like any other sci-fi movie, but District 9 puts a twist on its story and makes it unpredictable. I was so enthralled by the documentary style, the violence, the characters (emotionally invested to as well), and the best special effects I've seen in a long time that even these plot holes didn't matter since the movie moves at a great pace.
Several hours after I watched the film, I kept contemplating on the things that midly bothered me while watching District 9 and despite my gripes, District 9 is -
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1. How is it that Wikus and Christopher able to get in without any guards immediately attacking them? How did Wikus and Christopher even get to the headquarters of MNU without being spotted (especially for the alien) by the public- I mean Wikus' face was even shown at a fast food joint. Once the big bad mercenary leader and his other group of mercenaries come in, wouldn't they be more trained to kill Wikus and Christopher in like 3 minutes? The two are just standing behind a generator- why not throw a grenade? When Christopher gets distracted by one of the dead tortured prawns lying down on a table, the mercenaries come in and start to attack. How did Christopher not get shot at all? Why is it that once Christopher throws a bomb at a wall, it leads to a garage full of cars? What if the bomb just flew off the wall to a bathroom? What then? What seemed like more than 5 minutes, when Wikus and Christopher take the car they were only two people taking care of the garage and the both escape without a scrath. Wouldn't the roads be blocked off by then? I mean even the news crews responded faster than MNU's army forces.
2. How did the prawns end up in District 9? Did they beam down from their ship or were forced by the army forces to reside at District 9? If they were being watched by the government, wouldn't the government get a hold of ALL the Alien Weaponry then? It's not like Alien Weapons fell right out of that big spaceship right? How come those thugs weren't arrested if MNU knew they had guns- both human made and alien- illegally?
3. I felt the relationship between Wikus and his wife- with the very limited time the two have together was emotional and believable- and the final scene in this film was VERY powerful. BUT it didn't make much sense to me how a Prawn would be able to escape District 10 (or District 9 I don't know, Transformed Wikus looked like he was in a dump) and made his way over to her doorstep to leave the flower with nobody noticing him outside the government sanctioned area at all.
4. Doesn't anybody from MNU look around their surroundings in District 9? If it's a concentration camp, shouldn't it be watched over than more than just ONE gate? Wikus broke in, then Wikus and Christopher breaked out, and then came back in. Heck, even before shit goes down, aliens were able to riot through South Africa. Shouldn't have MNU learn from their lesson to lock their shit down?
5. How was it that once Wikus was on the prawn's side that Christopher was intelligent enough to revolt? For 2 decades, not once alien suggested to the other aliens to revolt? There's one scene where two aliens sell that big robot (that reminded me of Aliens) and one of the two aliens are carrying an alien version of BFG. What if that alien killed all those thugs with his BFG and then took all that cat food?
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(I know I might sound a hypocrite after I bitched about District 9 but it) is one of the best movies I've seen this year- to be honest even better than The Dark Knight (which I also love but can't help but be annoyed by it's plot holes every time I watch it). Although James Cameron's AVATAR might take Best Special Effects in the end, if this film isn't nominated for it, something's wrong with critics. The first two acts were perfect, but the last third act - while incredibly entertaining and emotional, I wished the film focused on more plot and less action.
The director, Neill Blomkamp, said he'd like to visit this world again and the film ends on a note where it is its own film and CAN lead to a sequel (District 10). And I'd love to see it too. It's the best sci-fi film I've seen in a long time but it's not perfect - it has six or seven plot holes that might bother me the second time I watch it but I still love and was very much entertained and emotionally invested in. This is a very awesome movie that uses special effects wisely, and out of this world. This film is TRULY more than meets the eye - unlike that piece of shit film Transformers 2
District 9 Rating: high FULL PRICE!
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Comment by Jd Moreno on August 30, 2009 at 4:00pm -
Christopher knew his people were a hive community that being said Christopher and his friend near the begining of the film were some of the only prawns able to think or formulate a plan in a wider view. Then MNU had to come and shoot the prawn brains out of christopher's friend and ruin the plan.
SPOILER!!!
1) I also think that wikus was able to leave the Metal Rose in front of his girlfriends house easily beause a lot of MNU and New teams were focused on relocating the Prawns to District 10 so it might have been easy for WIkus to stray from the group and deliver the present to his Gf.
Personally if the do make a sequel i would hope the do the sequel in the point of view of Christphers friend or Christophers son. My reason being we could see a wider view on the plan christopher had and see what they had planned to do once they reached the prawn home planet.
also ......... ( Gravity Gun + Pig= Dead MNU Soldier)
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Comment by Main Event on August 30, 2009 at 12:02am - Haha. Cool dude. I saw this film 3 times. So I picked up on a lot of the details.
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Comment by Charlton Normalman on August 29, 2009 at 11:44pm - To Main Event: Hmm, those answers might convince me to ditch my gripes. Lawl.
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Comment by Main Event on August 29, 2009 at 10:47pm
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1. They still wanted to take Wikus in alive at this point. At least that was the order.
2. I assumed the aliens were taken down by the helicopters. When they used the beam at the end, no one knew what it was. As for the weapons leaking out, it was shown that MNU was corrupt. Someone could of been selling them to the gangs.
3. Wikus was able to sneak around fairly well the rest of the movie. Why not when he turned into a Prawn?
4. Look at the Mexican/USA border for an example. There are over a million Prawns in District 9. Surely a few could sneak by unnoticed.
5. Christopher was intelligent enough not to revolt. He had his plan to escape with his ship, and his son to look after. He saw what happened to the other aliens who attacked the humans.
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Comment by Charlton Normalman on August 29, 2009 at 4:49pm
- To Nevadan123: I meant to compare TDK and District 9 by that. The Dark Knight was, to lots of people, the best film of last summer but this summer it's District 9. And thanks for the compliment.
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Comment by Nevadan123 on August 29, 2009 at 4:44pm - Another great blog, Charleton Normalman. If you think about it, all of the greatest movies even have some plot holes.
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Comment by Nevadan123 on August 29, 2009 at 4:41pm
- I acknowledge that "District 9" was a GREAT MOVIE!!! But do you really have to compare it to "The Dark Knight"? They're completely different movies, genres, and stories. In my opinion "Dark Knight" was the greatest movie last year and "District 9" was the best movie this year, so far.
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Comment by Minus5ScenePoints on August 29, 2009 at 3:46pm -
Do people not listen to movies? the "plot holes" people speak of are addressed in the film, no, they dont go deeply into everything, but thats part of the mysteriousness of this flim, not EVERY thing is reveled, you have to come to some of your own conclusions. you know. think on your own.
and i do agree, this was better then the dark knight. D.K was an amazing movie, but fuck people, it was not the greatest film of all time. Take out the joker, ticket sales cut more then in half. sorry. D-9 had much more, and it managed to mix thought provoking sides to it with sci-fi, not many films can and or would do that. i do think the haters of this movie are well, just haters in general.
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Comment by Cinema Dr. AJ on August 28, 2009 at 7:12pm -
and at RickC:
what movie were you watching? it wasn't the South African Government, it was the MNU! MULTI NATIONAL UNITED! the people working with the aliens were a NUMBER of COUNTRIES TOGETHER, not just the shitty south African government. so yes, this article's gripes are ALL VALID. imagine the UN not being able to keep a few thousand refugees contained in one area... it would be a laughing stock yet it was so overlooked in this film
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Comment by Cinema Dr. AJ on August 28, 2009 at 7:09pm
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THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!!!!
This movie was HEAVILY FLAWED and everyone treats it like the Dark Knight. I agree with everything you said until you started to say it was awesome anyway and yadda yadda
I enjoyed the movie, but it was not one of the best of the year. It was fun and stupid (yes, stupid. Way way way too many coincidences and plot-holes to be a smart movie)
MATINEE for me. fun, dumb, inconsistent, cool at times, all around a decent film. THANK YOU for posting this and not jumping on the omg-this-is-the-best-movie-ever bandwagon. cause it wasn't.
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