District 9?

[Edgar]

SCREW YOU!!!!!

Uber, do you know why I'm such a happy person?

Because I am the most popular person on TypeC. As long people laugh at my jokes, I can do anything I want. Anything. In fact, the only thing I ever worry about is, that one day... if some idiot trolls too hard, it all might end.

And you're fucking making it happen!!!

 

[Synarch]

Uber, do you know why I'm such a happy person?

Because I am the most popular person on TypeC. As long people laugh at my jokes, I can do anything I want. Anything. In fact, the only thing I ever worry about is, that one day... if some idiot trolls too hard, it all might end.

And you're fucking making it happen!!!

Wait, wait. What movie is this from?

 

[Edgar]

Wait, wait. What movie is this from?

The Eternal Jew.

 

[Nonsensical]

Uber, do you know why I'm such a happy person?

Because I am the most popular person on TypeC. As long people laugh at my jokes, I can do anything I want. Anything. In fact, the only thing I ever worry about is, that one day... if some idiot trolls too hard, it all might end.

And you're fucking making it happen!!!

Now we know that Jack really is innocent! You Fucktard!

 

[Synarch]

The Eternal Jew.

We aired that in my Henry Ford Social Club meeting.

 

[Edgar]

We aired that in my Henry Ford Social Club meeting.

I love that guy.

I used to read his columns every Sunday.

 

[Synarch]

I love that guy.

I used to read his columns every Sunday.

The Dearborn Independent is where the real news is. News and views and Jews.

 

[Edgar]

The Dearborn Independent is where the real news is. News and views and Jews.

There are too many inside jokes here for me to keep up.

I haven't felt this confused since that time I signed a usury agreement with Rothschild Bank.

 

[Synarch]

There are too many inside jokes here for me to keep up.

I haven't felt this confused since that time I signed a usury agreement with Rothschild Bank.

What was the interest on your pound of flesh?

 

[Edgar]

What was the interest on your pound of flesh?

If you tickle us, do we not laugh? And if you wrong us, do we not revenge?

 

[BlackCat]

I just saw this movie, wow what a trip. It was very intense, I enjoyed it. It was depressing, since it seems so real. At least they didn't kill Christopher... that would have really made me mad.

 

[BlueSky]

I dont understand how people liked District 9. I went in the theater expecting to see some allegory of racial conflict or immigration. Instead I got some mindless action movie kind of thing with MASSIVE plot holes. What is there to like about something like that?

EDIT: I forgot to mention that during the first half of the movie I was in pain because of the way they were handling the camera.

 

[simulatedworld]

just saw it.

AMAZING.

seriously.

worth the money.

watch.

Actually I wish I could just half my money back...for the second half.

The first half was phenomenal...it hinted at all kinds of very scary philosophical questions in a very clever way (political commentary on immigration and such was awesome.)

I liked this rottentomates review:

"Once you've watched a doomed alien race become obsessed with cat food and Nigerian prostitutes, gunfights don't seem all that impressive anymore."


Anyway though...

Wikus - ISFP!!
Tanya - ISFJ
Evil Father In-Law - ENTJ
Christopher - INFJ

anybody?

 

[JivinJeffJones]

I just saw this, having spent a few weeks dodging spoilers. It wasn't worth it. I don't watch alien movies just to receive thinly-veiled messages about the evils of racism. Setting it in SA? Making the main (racist) character an Afrikaaner? Putting the aliens in slum districts? How obvious can you get? This was barely a sci-fi movie imo, and pushing a message so thoroughly approved that I wonder if it even needs to be said again (and so clumsily). The only redeeming feature for me was my inexplicable amusement every time Wikus said "prawns".

I really don't see what all the fuss is about, and I'm a very soft judge when it comes to sci-fi movies. Honestly, I thought Independence Day was a better movie. Independence Day!!

 

[r.a]

The first half was phenomenal...it hinted at all kinds of very scary philosophical questions in a very clever way (political commentary on immigration and such was awesome.)

true but the second half was awesome in its own right! i'm kinda glad that the movie didnt spend too much time getting in depth on the politics and social issues cause OK I GET IT LETS SEE SOME MOTHERFUCKERS EXPLODE.

the second half delivers on that front.

I liked this rottentomates review:

"Once you've watched a doomed alien race become obsessed with cat food and Nigerian prostitutes, gunfights don't seem all that impressive anymore."

yeah its kind of ridiculous but the meat of the movie outweighs the many many holes and question marks. i went to the movies to be entertained. and i was.

Anyway though...

Wikus - ISFP!!
Tanya - ISFJ
Evil Father In-Law - ENTJ
Christopher - INFJ

anybody?

its only appropriate that the best character in the movie is INFJ

 

[TopherRed]

^ Yeah, but if they would've had more ENFJs in there, none of that would've happened! Bring on the smart, diplomatic Prawns!

 

[Totenkindly]

ok, now I need to treat myself to a night out... it's been forever since I saw a movie... and most suck.

 

[simulatedworld]

ok, now I need to treat myself to a night out... it's been forever since I saw a movie... and most suck.

Just be sure to leave half way through and get your money back; that way you can kill two birds with one stone.

 

[swordpath]

I'd see it. Does it have some relation to the Halo game series storyline? I've heard it does.

 

[metaphours]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT.

Just watched it.

I waited 6 hours for this Russian bootleg version with subtitles to finish downloading, and every minute of waiting I endured was completely and utterly worth it.

Honestly, going into District 9, I really didn't know what to expect. Other than the trailer and the viral marketing campaign, there wasn't much about the premise other than the fact that aliens landed over Johannesburg and they were being kept in the titular District 9. But, when I watched it I realized it wasn't at all what I had expected, but in fact, a whole lot better.

I love how the filmmakers purposely made Wickus resemble Hitler, although I think they should have somehow had him shave his moustache off after his "transformation" to sort of symbolize his transition from a discriminatory and prejudice character to a man who sympathizes with the Prawns. I also liked the very subtle foreshadowing that was used (e.g.: when the Nigerian druglord is talking to Wickus, he is smoking a cigarette. You see smoke billowing out of the butte and out towards the side of his head, foreshadowing his death by point blank shot to the forehead).

All in all, I loved the movie and it was actually kind of sad, but at the same time extremely intense. Definitely one of the best of 2009, and I'd watch it again in a heartbeat.