District 9... good, but not great.
These reviews for D9 are fucking ridiculous. "best sci-fi ever!", "challenging Lucas", "sci-fi mechanics are spot on" blah blah blah. The movie was good no doubt. You have a not so obvious hero, but the mechanics of the sci-fi world here were a little shaky.
1. How is it the aliens speak alien and the humans speak human, but they all understand each other. I hate the bs language barrier issues. Just go with what everyone else does and just use english.
2. It took twenty years for these goons to find enough fuel to create the power source to turn on the big ass gynormous mother ship. It turns out to be a DROP of liquid as the final touch and they are all good. Then asshole hero opens the bottle on himself where it sprays the fuck out of him and yet there is plenty left to continue the plot of the entire movie and see these aliens off to power up the mothership and leave. Total bullshit.
3. Said liquid also has the magical power of changing a human into an alien... convenient.
4. Goon 1 was able to operate the mother ship and beam himself up into the mother ship (tractor beam, not particle photon beam) from a remote ship. This whole process fucked the logic of the plot up... pure stupidity rocking right here.
5. Aliens are powerful, but not more so than standard concentration camp walls and minimal arms. just not impressed. why bring them down anyway!
Overall as a sci-fi film, it was good and enjoyable. The alien guns are fucking awesome and there are some not meant to be funny funny parts definitely worth laughing at. But its not some sky opening, devine right of sci-fi greatness. I said it here first.
1. How is it the aliens speak alien and the humans speak human, but they all understand each other. I hate the bs language barrier issues. Just go with what everyone else does and just use english.
2. It took twenty years for these goons to find enough fuel to create the power source to turn on the big ass gynormous mother ship. It turns out to be a DROP of liquid as the final touch and they are all good. Then asshole hero opens the bottle on himself where it sprays the fuck out of him and yet there is plenty left to continue the plot of the entire movie and see these aliens off to power up the mothership and leave. Total bullshit.
3. Said liquid also has the magical power of changing a human into an alien... convenient.
4. Goon 1 was able to operate the mother ship and beam himself up into the mother ship (tractor beam, not particle photon beam) from a remote ship. This whole process fucked the logic of the plot up... pure stupidity rocking right here.
5. Aliens are powerful, but not more so than standard concentration camp walls and minimal arms. just not impressed. why bring them down anyway!
Overall as a sci-fi film, it was good and enjoyable. The alien guns are fucking awesome and there are some not meant to be funny funny parts definitely worth laughing at. But its not some sky opening, devine right of sci-fi greatness. I said it here first.