District 9

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

So I went to see this movie, "District 9" with a few friends. It's a live action, fun film geared toward folk who watch movies, and to my surprise, it contained a lot of Illuminati/Discordian references in it. For instance, the main character allegedly sodomizes an alien, much like that hippie boned that prostitute. The aliens are roughly triangular in shape and have tentacle-like nipples. The number 5 was probably in the movie too, I don't really remember all that well (I won't spoil it just in case anyone wants to watch it, but I was drunk). Both "the fookin prawns" and the protagonists were made by the same person (Jaysus Chroist!!1). It also contained some other cool symbolism like shit blowing up, ridiculous violence, crazy weapons and ironically alien on human sex.

I'm not sure how much of this was intended by the creators, but I'm pretty sure those aliens did not have dongs. If so, i'm curios to hear if anyone saw any alien vaginas I would have missed.

[Cain]

South African accents are almost certain some sort of Discordian symbology at work.

Oh, if only Dan Brown were here to help us figure it all out.

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

Fookin roight!

[AFK]

If that's true, then my co-worker must be a sooper sekret illuminati spy.  I knew she couldn't be trusted.  

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I am so fucking excited about seeing that movie! My favorite kinds of movies are either stupid funny, or have aliens and explosions.

My favorite are helicopter explosions, but that's too much to ask, I expect.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I am so fucking excited about seeing that movie! My favorite kinds of movies are either stupid funny, or have aliens and explosions.

My favorite are helicopter explosions, but that's too much to ask, I expect.

I like people explosions, myself.

[Dimocritus]

My favorite are helicopter explosions, but that's too much to ask, I expect.

There's a really good one (IMO) in the first "Darkman."

[Jenne]

Well, any  movie that's banned by Nigeria has to be worth watching, eh?

I saw it with my husband and it was fucking depressing.  But good effects.  I just came out of it thinking...fuck all humanity...but then I'd known what kind of movie it was going to be anyway.

[Cain]

There is going to be a sequel.

I predict it will be terrible.

[Eater of Clowns]

I didn't like this movie at all.  I saw it opening weekend and was really surprised when I kept hearing all kinds of awesome shit about it.

[Cramulus]

what didn't you like about it?

[Cain]

Didn't you really like the Harry Potter film, though?

[Cainad (dec.)]

There is going to be a sequel.

I predict it will be terrible.

Yeah, I'm skeptical about a sequel as well. They've set it up for a sequel, yes, but in such a way that the sequel is very likely to be an excuse to show lots and lots more alien technology porn


I thought it was pretty damn swote; I walked away feeling like I'd gotten my time and money's worth. Bestest movie of the century EVAR that everyone should see and love? No. Good SciFi (where "good" is taken to mean "what I personally want from a SciFi flick")? Yes.

[Cain]

I'm struggling to see what they could do with it, without undermining the first story entirely.  Is an alien task force gonna come down to South Africa and kick ass and take names in revenge for earlier wrongs?  Well, I suppose you could draw parallels between that and the ANC's terrorist campaign, just as they drew comparisons between the treatment of the aliens and apartheid, but the obvious power disparity between the aliens and humans mean it will be a slaughterhouse, and makes setting up a reconciliation for the end of the trilogy very hard (if there is going to be two, then there will undoubtedly be three).

[Eater of Clowns]

what didn't you like about it?

Well if a movie is going to be a mindless sci-fi/action flick it had better have some damn nice action sequences.  This didn't really.  There were a few cool parts involving the alien weaponry, but even the better ones just rehashed the physics gun from Half Life.

The allegory was like being hit in the face with a shovel.

The torture porn scenes with fingernails and teeth falling out were strangely out of place.

I couldn't figure out if it was going for so bad it has to be good or was actually trying to be good and failed.  The tone was pretty light at first then shifted abruptly to really fucked up, which made both pretty ineffective for me.

I'll definitely give it props for being unconventional in several ways, like having a completely unlikable main character.  Then the primary alien, hilariously named Christopher Johnson, was only distinguishable from other aliens because he wore a red vest.  It reminded me of Children of Men where they had that bad guy with the dreadlocks who kept showing up but had no personality so he was distinguished solely by his dreadlocks.

Didn't you really like the Harry Potter film, though?

I was fortunate enough to see that movie twice in one weekend due to some scheduling with different groups of friends.  The first viewing I can recall thinking it was pretty good.  I don't know if I'd say I really liked it.  Even the crappy first Harry Potter movies were watchable though because it's just littered with good actors.

The second time I watched it I couldn't wait for it to be over and I left the theater for a while to walk around the lobby.

I'll have to hunt down that thread and see what I wrote.  I'd be curious to see how much my opinion changed by having to sit through it twice.

For the summer movie season I saw Up, Star Trek, District 9, Ponyo, and Harry Potter.  Of those I think Star Trek was the most fun.  I'm a bit of a J.J.Abrams fanboy and I even liked Cloverfield, which I recall most people saying they hated.  Up was my favorite of them all, and Ponyo, well...if the world were to die of cute, Ponyo would be its destroyer.

I also watched many of these movies in the middle of a mission to watch AFI's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time, one a day for 100 days (I have 30 left and the 100 days are long over, haha), so being exposed to that many movies probably jaded me on going to see even more of them.