Tuesday, September 1, 2009

District 9

I usually don't like movies (they never live up to the hype) and almost never recommend movies to friends... but I happened to see District 9 last night and I thoroughly enjoyed it. For all you mindless people out there who just love good fight scenes and bodies exploding into bloody goo... there's plenty of that. But the surprising part was the story, which was excellent and made you actually give a shit about the characters. I won't get into the social parallels... but it was very well done.

Anyway... that's my one movie recommendation for the year. Hope you like it.

6 comments:

Griff said...

good to know..i read up on the storyline of the movie a while back and it sounded interesting but people I talked to about it thought it was gonna be just another "alien invasion" movie...
but looks like i'll be adding this back to my watch list.

Chandler said...

yeah, it's not an "invasion" at all. instead, it deals with real life parallels to the xenophobia going on in the world. definitely go see it while it's out in the theaters.

YellowBird said...

A movie recommendation from Chandler.... and it wasn't a gay porn flick.

Unknown said...

Geoff and I saw it this past Saturday and I enjoyed it! It was much better than I expected it to be - especially for an alien movie and all. I thought the plot was more original than most of those kinds of movies, where they just invade and try to take over. Good stuff!

~Marla~ said...

I agree with April and Chan.
I liked it too! :)

Geoff said...

I liked it too. But if you didn't see district 1-8 it's going to be hard to follow.