Hollywood just got pwned!
On only a 30 million dollar budget by a guy that does Nike commercials!
Makes me think some billionaire needs to go into Hollywood, ignore everything and give the green light to the next guy that makes the best (most interesting) commercials.
And tell universal and everyone else to just go f**k themselves if they don't like it!!!

#1 at box office. a remake of (Alive in Joburg ) a short he made, not recycling someone else's idea.

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An awesome movie,sound wasn't too bad,can't wait for one with English subs too though.Keep up the great work with these links!

>>>>>>>>>Disscusion

I loved it, even with russian subs... at the end i swore i started to understand what the prawns said... a sequal could be pulled of right, but leaving it as a stand-alone is fine too... i hope they will not rape it with a awefull sequal....

gosh, i really liked this movie i just want moar

AMEN

i loved this movie. so great, on so many levels

It reminded me of a cross between Alien Nation, and the districts "ghettos" in France where the Muslims live. There are often conflicts between the native French, and the Muslim immigrants. I can't say who is right in that argument. I do not know the entire background of the conflict. There are already black people calling this a racist film, because the Africans were portrayed as superstitious and violent. I would have to disagree with that assessment. The Nigerians were black marketeers not doctors. Has anyone heard of Rwanda (east-central Africa), or seen stories like this http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25806 There is still a lot of superstition and violence in South Africa. Maybe every movie with a black thug should have the thug speaking like Marry Poppins, and have a PHD. Now that would be a more realistic thug. I always enjoyed Jordi on Star Treck throwing up gang signs, because Hollywood never looks at the context of the story. They just assign all black people the same role. Sorry Will Smith, and Denzel Washington.

what an excellent movie-especially for both the directorial debut and the actors full length feature debut. loved the story

I can see it being picked up by fox or some other big name who want to make District 10 more 'American', and thereby ruining it. The biggest part of it's charm is that it took place in South Africa, using nobody actors and raw cinematography. If it ends up with Bruce Willis in a ship over New York I swear I'll...well I'll complain bitterly.

i agree, please dont make a sequel.

finally had a chance to see this in a theater this evening and i have to say it absolutely met and exceeded my expectations.

Seems that I am the only one in the whole wide world that didn't like this movie. So sophomoric and blatantly obvious. Too much like "Alien Nation"; which in my opinion was better. Merely a whole bunch of "racialism" and "politic-ism". Fx and visuals were also "PP" (pretty pathetic). Thank the gods that I didn't pay to go and see it. Nevertheless; thanks to all of you who have risked their lives, bodies, and fortunes to have pirated and uploaded this "thing". From NZ and South Africa - "who would'a thunk it"? People "down there"; please leave the making of SciFi to Hollywood. Nobody does it better.

Agree that the film is racist, but it's racist to everyone. If anything it is anti-human. The Nigerians get a raw deal (har har), but so does everyone else. They may eat Aliens to get their 'power', but the South Africans are running a chop shop for basically the same reasons. Very bleak film, but impressive. A real deluge of hate against the human race, teenage guys will lap it up.

Why so we can have Keanu running around saying, "Oh my god...like there's aliens everywhere dude." LOL!

Last thing the world needs

really? Hollywood does it best? Why don't you name one sci-fi film from hollywood in the last 10 years that was as insightful and interesting as District 9. If you some how manage to answer that question, than name one that was made for 30 million or less. I'm sorry, but all hollywood does at its best is majorly dumb down Phillip K Dick and Isac Asimov stories so the general public can watch things explode without having to think to much. At worst they pile together a bunch of ideas they saw in star wars or star trek and fail to even do that well. Special effects aren't everything. I've seen this movie twice so far, and it just keeps getting better.

For fans of things like Primer that manage to almost make science fiction seem like a part of real life, this movie is for you. If you prefer not to have to think about your science fiction then I think perhaps you picked the wrong genre. The job of sci-fi is to mirror the problems of the real world, and reflect them into an alien world so we can percieve the ideas without our pre-programmed prejudices getting in the way.


Major spoiler alerts beyond this line!!

Some things I've discovered/hypothesized upon my seccond viewing.

1. As was plainly stated at the beggining it is pretty clear that the prawns have a multi class system, but what I believe is that it is heavily geneticly based, almost like Brave New World where they purposeful breed the lower class to be a bit dumb, which helps when it comes to following orders.

2. It is quite clear that Christopher was one of the few surviving upper class members of the prawns on the ship, perhaps he was even the captain, and managed to excape in the shuttle before the humans entered the ship. This is clear by the way he is clearly more intelligent than the other prawns, but is even more obvious when you see how intelligent his son is. This further exemplifies that perhaps the intelligence, and perhaps even knowledge is passed on genetically.

3. It also seems clear that vikus, who may not have been the smartest human, becomes a sort of messiah figure to the other prawns, along with Christopher, at the end when the other prawns all come to his aide. This could also plays into the genetic conditioning theory, because vikus's unhandicapped brain could make him a valued asset as a leader once his transformation is complete. This would explain why so many of the prawns were willing to risk their lives to save him at the end, and perhaps they have a natural ability to seek out and protect anyone with strong leadership capabilities.

I'm sorry if this isn't the place for this sort of thing. I just felt the need to discuss the ideas with someone.

i just think that the prawns attacked the MNU team leader guy because he was such a harsh dick hole.
(he may have smelled of cat food too)

i thoroughly enjoyed it, the gonzo reporter type shots through most of it and the surveillance camera work filling up much of the movie. for the budget the movie was created with makes it a great movie for what it is and i think more movie makers should try to model themselves after this movie's example.

8/10 - best movie of the summer i have seen so far.

This one rules on so many levels...For one I love how real the Aliens look at times, uncanny...Plus the S. Africa detachment from our "usual Hollywood" point of view. I was blown by how clever this whole plot was and the fact that there was no glam in this!
edit: Just had to ad that I dig your new avatar and the like Jayflix! The Life Aquatic is one of my Favs!!

Couldn't have said it better myself. By far the best film of 2009 and the year isn't even over, but phukit I'm putting my vote in early!
Take notes you Hollywood hacks. This is how it should be done.

i never saw a bond company stooge stick his neck out like that before.

out of all the links in the district 9 thread which one is the best quality?

It was a pretty cool film but the plot skimmed over soooo much.
All those weapons lying around everywhere that the aliens can use but they don't? wtf.

i think jayelcee's link looks best. it has letterbox subs and a great quality audio and video.

http://ipb.quicksilverscreen.com/index.php...st&p=777785

It gets a little clearer when you watch it again. Most of those questions I left the theater were answered really subtly, and most of it boils down to the fact that they have no real leadership, or even leadership potential, while the humans are well organized. The other important thing is that they need food and stuff, so most of their weapons were used more for a means to purchase food. They also did show some rioting and firefights and things in the beginning. I think the basic idea is that the majority of the aliens on earth were sort of the idiots of the race, and i guess after the rioting and things they had all sort have considered revolt suicide.

Spoiler Alert I think

I thought it was an entertaining film but it lacked on so many levels. I thought it was silly how in 20 years humans learnt basicly nothing. The fact that they couldn't operate the weapons is ok, but why didn't they salvage everything they could off of the ship? Or atleast learn some of the technology behind how things worked. The language barrier (or lack of) was also silly. The aliens were understood by nearly everyone and could understand English with no problems, if they're clever enough to learn English why can't they figure out how to pick up a gun or negotiate with governments rather than with gangs? I also think the way the governments acted ws silly, they would want to learn about the aliens through co-operation rather than kidnapping them to experiement on them, if they are willing to trade the big robot suit thing for 100 cans of cat food then I'm sure they could be hired to conduct tests for cat food too.

I guess I just think than with a big alien mothership hovering for 20 years people would learn more than they did.

Alot of the problems I think you have with the movie are actually strong points the film was trying to express; the government handed over the handling of the aliens to a private company with the sole aim of making a profit from the alien technology. Twenty years might not actually be that long of a period of time to try and understand technology that is completely foreign, we don't know, it didn't show much of the research and I would assume that the gruesome experiments are the result of the company becoming frantic with it's research as it had taken so long. The aliens were probably "re-educated" in some way to learn english but who knows, that's what is so great about the movie, it causes you to think of those problems as if it were a real situation.

this movie was brilliant on so many levels... they didn't spoon feed you anything, made ya work for it... something most movies these days lack. It made ya think, and the fact that we have a whole thread on speculation as to the hows and why's just proves that. I'm all for a district 10 movie.... as long as the same director does it, and they don't "hollywood" it to death.

Really a great movie to watch! Full of adventure and thrill.

It's a must-see movie and to those who haven't watch it,

don't let until it's too late. Go! Watch it and I'm sure you'll

enjoy the movie.

really glad i watched this movie,brilliant,i ve also seen some people have watched without subs,subs are vital.

Gotta be said: Watch this ONE film in the Cinema...it's really not worth watching the cam quality D9 videos on here unless the film is not showing in your country..
If not, wait for a better copy to come out cause this film rocks in the cinema!

- Ben

great screener copy just came out the other day
but this really is a great film. highly recomended

I believe an R5 came out yesterday.
r5 is pretty much a sped up DVD release for countries where film makers are competing with pirates. (russia, india, etc)

I done my best not to watch any trailers for District 9, I wanted everything to be for the first time when I watched it. I saw it today and WOWWWW!!!! This movie is amazing, everything about it is awesome.

The monks would be proud of the patience you ve displayed Shaolin. I wouldn't make much of a monk .

I'd suck as a monk too.

I d like to think I would of made a hell of an ass kickin monk though .

Can anyone elaborate as to why all the prawns seem to have what looked like a spray painted or tattooed marking on the left side of their heads? I watched a pretty good copy of the movie and I still can't tell what the deal was.

just a guess, i think it might have been some sort of way for the MNU to tell that each prawn had been catalogued and had been through some sort of health check up with a bar code or something.

i saw the markings too and speculated upon it until i came up with that theory.

one part of the movie that pissed me off (after watching it again last night) the MNU trucks are so cool, the pick ups and the armored personnel carriers. i really hated to see them abused and wrecked. i'd like one of each for myself, even the wrecked ones from the film, i'd fix them up and have hellish good fun with them.

Wow!

This film just raised the bar for sci-fi and that is a good thing.

In almost 2 years of being on QSS i've heard alot of crazy things... ALOT... but this is by far, without a doubt, the single most disgusting statement I've ever seen. Hands down.

First... "racialism" "politicism" bad things? Think hard, every TRULY great movie had large degrees of (sometimes less clear) political and humanistic debate. This is for a good reason... intelligent people like movies intelligent movies, a lack of brutal social commentary in the media is half the reason most of us don't give two craps about anything outside of our "box" or at most the box of our favorite celebrity.

Second, "leave sci-fi to hollywood"... are you kidding me? I believe any pro-hollywood statement is absolutely depressing and my only question is... "when you watch these "great" sci-fi hollywood movies... are you in the same room as the tv?"

Finally, what are you talking about!?!? the visuals were ASTOUNDING!! with the visual idealism the director proved in his Alive in Joburg short (which i saw many many months before district 9) and the budget/camera/visual expertise of the ever so talented peter jackson this was a cinematic grand slam!

Hands down, by far, without a doubt, no "just saw it" hype involved this was the single best action-sci-fi movie I've ever seen. No reused ideas about an alien invasion, no over payed piss in a gold cup A-list actors, and it wasn't the same street of DC or LA that every other film uses. Add all of this together and you've got on of the few films I not only payed to see in theaters but will absolutely buy on DVD.

Mr. Blomkamp has earned my business for years to come.

Couldn't agree more with Ghoul,


I thought this movie was both refreshing and inovative, the CGI was of the highest class and didn't saturate an otherwise organic piece of work.
Loved the fact it was based in Johannesburg without the scars of hollywood cliche.

A great movie, I for one will be purchasing it on DVD.

i couldnt agree more,now i fancy some prawns

Probably one of the most amusing comments i have read for a while,
every single SciFi story the big budget companies get there hands on is ruined, they twist the stories to make them more mainstream for the retarded gullible merchendise friendly masses,
havnt seen many good actors in hollywood for a while now, nevermind a good film.
Just because a film has huge gate receipts doesnt mean its any good.
i aggree with ghoul and would some response from you as i am dying to hear which scifi films you are talking about.
District 9 was a breath of fresh air, no heavily featured love story, no overpaid dick trying to crack jokes and most importantly an orginal storyline.

The beginning of the movie was awful, and I almost walked out. After about ten minutes went bye it became very good and I was very interested with the rest of the movie. I would defiantly watch this movie again. On other note the main actor was real good.