District 9

[Die Hard]

I'm surprised no one have posed a link to the trailer. Allow me to rectify that oversight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6PDlMggROA

[Kirin]

District9 totally took me by surprise. Haven't heard a word of it before I saw it (through a Chinese peer-to-peer video service while I was in Beijing ). I really like the main character as well as the story. The CG was breathtaking but subtle - the suspense of disbelief perfect.

[321BAR]

You might enjoy "UP" --one of the best movies I've seen in a while.
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UP was the fun silly equivalent to WALL-E. I liked WALL-E better because of the background theme based for adults...It actually hit some of my friends hard enough to say "hey... lets stop that from happening".

One story flaw did bug me.

How did the main ship defy gravity for so long without power?

It was never without power, only the navigation command shuttle which was the ship that the father and son were trying to resurrect.

[Skuzzy]

"WALL-E" was a technically brilliant movie.  Take a featureless, ovoid shape and give it a strong character using only audio, 2 changing shapes (eyes), and two sticks/weapons (arms) (I would mention the hands, but they were not integral to shaping the character).  Very well done.  Then the sheer amount of assets for the movie was incredible.

I have to say though, I think "UP" had more for the adults than "WALL-E" did.  The opening few minutes of "UP" was aimed right at adults.  I think very few children got it.  Many women in the theater were in tears during that first few minutes, including my Wife.  The characters drew on many common aspects of good adult relationships making it easy for most people to relate to, at one point or another.

[321BAR]

"WALL-E" was a technically brilliant movie.  Take a featureless, ovoid shape and give it a strong character using only audio, 2 changing shapes (eyes), and two sticks/weapons (arms) (I would mention the hands, but they were not integral to shaping the character).  Very well done.  Then the sheer amount of assets for the movie was incredible.

I have to say though, I think "UP" had more for the adults than "WALL-E" did.  The opening few minutes of "UP" was aimed right at adults.  I think very few children got it.  Many women in the theater were in tears during that first few minutes, including my Wife.  The characters drew on many common aspects of good adult relationships making it easy for most people to relate to, at one point or another.

thats true. never thought of that actually

[shreck]

stupid movie, full of stereotypes with an underlying "hate whitey" message! Truely terrible!!

should have used my $4 for corndogs!!

[Sonicblu]

You prawn!!!

Maybe you would like a movie called shreck better..

Just kidding. IM in violent agreement on most of the points made.

I like the overall concept it could have been so much better.

I didn't like the stereo type political message either. Just like X- men turn into a mess. oh and Matrix. The first one was great the other two got lost on the whole ........ skuzzy would probably hit me with the rule stick.

I wanted to like it overall but hate someone subltly telling me what to think. yuck.

Ive owned a gold stock in S.Africa since 2000 It should have gone through the roof now but they can't even get electricity to run the mine now.
It used to be the largest gold producer in the world. What a shame.

[Halo]

Reminiscent of many Disney movies that do not live up to their previews. All that advanced alien technology captive to inferior Earthlings? Sure. To paraphrase Terminator. "They'll be baaaaccckk!:

[-tronski-]

"WALL-E" was a technically brilliant movie.  Take a featureless, ovoid shape and give it a strong character using only audio, 2 changing shapes (eyes), and two sticks/weapons (arms) (I would mention the hands, but they were not integral to shaping the character).  Very well done.  Then the sheer amount of assets for the movie was incredible.

I have to say though, I think "UP" had more for the adults than "WALL-E" did.  The opening few minutes of "UP" was aimed right at adults.  I think very few children got it.  Many women in the theater were in tears during that first few minutes, including my Wife.  The characters drew on many common aspects of good adult relationships making it easy for most people to relate to, at one point or another.

With two 4 year olds I've seen more animated movies lately than I care to remember, and they didnt really get into "Space Chimps", really liked "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs", and "Planet 51" but Pixar movies rule the roost especially "Cars" and "Wall-E" (I'm forever stepping over Cars die cast toys). They really get the Wall-E character and better still the characterisation isn't spoon fed to them say like Shrek, its far more subtle and engaging much like I probably did with R2D2 when I was younger.


As for District 9 I thought it was brilliant, and sure it could have an apartheid angle, but just like another scifi fav of mine "Alien Nation", I thought it was more about our own natural xenophobia and the effects of poverty. But even so it was a great sci fi movie.

 Tronsky

[guncrasher]

Was a great movie, I fell asleep 15 min into it at the theater and woke up about 5 min before the end.  my son said he liked it.


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