Just got back from seeing it a little while ago. This was probably one of if not the best movie I've seen all summer. Spoiler And the look on the Nigerian warlord's face just before his head popped was too good!
Was good but had too many holes in it. Spoiler 1. How the hell are you smart enough to build a spaceship the size of a small city and get captured by puny humans. 2. The aliens in district 9 were able to build alien mech warriors and alien weapons, yet aren't smart enough to band together to fight against the humans. 3. Okay I'll give them #2 since humans probably had enough firepower to have "supposedly" captured them, but they were b!@#%es to that one human gang living in the same area. MNU was supplying food to them so they weren't really starving that much. 4. The military leader guy (forgot his name). Wikus had so many chances to blast this guy, but this guy seemed to stay alive to the end despite his WHOLE team getting slaughtered. 5. I'm not sci-fi genius but alien fuel that also acts as a DNA changer? Why did Wikus want to hide this item in the first place? Okay, even after it sprays him in the face causing him to wheeze and cough black liquid, why did he still want to hide it (before he knew it would turn him into a prawn)? 6. Why would you betray the one prawn who could actually save you. Okay so you do get to the mothership, how are you going to heal yourself without a prawn? Wikus is smart but he can't expect to do bio-surgery on himself with alien equipment. Maybe he was planning for the kid prawn to help him? 7. I understand the aliens are much more technologically advanced but how can Wikus understand exactly what the aliens were saying back to him? I understand if the aliens used a lot of hand gestures and familiar sounds but that was stretching it a bit. Anyone else want to add to the list?
I agree.. I was hooked from the beginning cause I could really picture that happening. Spoiler Then when it became a alien & human/alien friendship story, it got a little corny for me. Still a great movie. I enjoyed it. I would recommend it.
Hope this is somewhat helpful. Spoiler 1. The Prawns are like ants. They're many drones, and there is a queen or higher-up. When the ship "crashed", the Hive Mind, or Queen, was believed to have been killed. Now, the drones were without any leadership whatsoever and just fell apart, becoming mere savages with nobody to guide them. They're stupid and gullible, as you can tell when they give up highly advanced weapons for cat food. 2. The Prawns had no will to fight back, nor the intelligence to start up a rebellion of sorts. 3. I think MNU might have neglected to give them food, as they seemed to be having to scavenge quite a bit. Even though the gang treated them like trash, they were too dumb to really do anything about it. Needed the cat food fix. 4. He was the antagonist. Had to be killed near the end, y'know. Wikus probably just couldn't focus on him and just killed whoever was exposed. 5. This is a good one. The reason the fuel acts as a DNA changer is due to the fact that Prawn technology is DNA-based. In order to use their weapons and operate their ships, one must have Prawn DNA. It is not unreasonable to assume that, due to Wikus getting it inside of him, it might have mutated him to be allowed to use such technology. He hid it? I thought he handed it to the MNU, unless I got confused for a moment. Perhaps hid it to try and hide what had happened to him. Didn't want to lose his job. 6. Humans, as a species, are emotion-fueled and are prone to act without thinking. Perfect example. He didn't want to wait, he wanted to get cured ASAP. Probably thought with his handy-dandy arm, and/or Chris's son, he could fix himself. 7. 20+ years have past. Humans have learned to understand Prawn, and Prawn have learned to understand humans. Neither can speak the other language, due to lacking the required vocal setup.
Spoiler 1. I don't care what kind of alien you are, if you can build that mech warrior, your not that much of a "drone". It's like saying I'm a r****d, but I will build you a car for a donut. 2. Of course they wanted to fight back as shown in the end where they rip that guy apart. Again, they aren't smart enough to rebel, yet they are smart enough to build alien weaponry such as the mech warrior. This is like saying we have a bunch of engineers, they can build a hybrid car but they can't think for themselves. 3. I don't understand the they are dumb, but they are smart enough to build **** like bio-DNA-weaponry. It wasn't even Christopher who was building these, it was a lot of other prawns because occasionally the Nigerian gang would take their weapons and kill them afterward. So it wasn't just a couple of "intelligent" prawns. 4. I know It's just funny his ENTIRE team gets slaughtered and he only has a scar on his head. 5. I understand the FUEL can recognize alien DNA in order to activate it, but c'mon! It should have either just killed him or turned his face into a weapon but not a complete metamorphosis into a prawn. 6. Yeah, plot hole. No reason for him to attack Chris, then there would have not been that whole scene with the mech warrior. Don't get me wrong, that scene was great, but totally unnecessary. Chris's kid could have easily just controlled that thing perfectly while guiding Wikus and his dad to safety. Again to part 4, Wikus finally gets beat but then has enough energy to shoot that random guy who hit him in a truck but not enough to kill his antagonist. 7. Again, I can understand that a technologically advanced alien race can understand english but how does Wikus understand specific words the alien is saying. It's not like he can distinguish those clicks. Basically, there was a lot of "this is happening" but not a lot of "why this happened". Okay so mothership gets stranded on earth, people find starving "drones" on board. They feel the need to rescue these aliens. Too many things to go wrong at the same time for this scenario to play out in my sci fi mind such as food running out (an alien ship would have sustainable food supplies), all the upper ranks missing (exception of Chris and others), etc... I'm just nitpicking cuz i'm bored.
Really dude... read more sci fi. Spoiler 'because they are drones' answers most of your questions. (I'm assuming chris isn't a drone, but if he is a drone... he's a higher level worker bee.) 6? Because vikus is a human. Our race is filled with dip****s.
Spoiler 1. Who says that those prawns built the machinery and weapons? Are you saying that every foot soldier in the U.S. military can build a jet fighter or an M16 from spare parts? I assume the mech and weapons came off the ship, the same way the prawns did. 2. The aliens were stronger than humans, but they were far from invulnerable. They bled from being hit with normal objects, they were easily killed with firearms, and they didn't have any special powers to speak of. Maybe you didn't stop to think about how small a population of 1.8 million aliens is when compared to humans. The prawns were outnumbered 3,500 to 1. A full-scale revolt, even if they could congregate long enough to coordinate one (which I'm sure MNU would not have allowed), would have been suicide. 3. See my response to #1. I don't believe the prawns were building the weaponry in the slums. 4. Asking how the "main bad guy" survives so long, and calling that a plot hole is one heck of stretch. It happens in just about every movie, and the fact that the guy lasts that long is one of the reasons he's the protagonist. Seems pretty self-explanatory. 5. This one is laughable. You're questioning the effect that an alien substance has on the human body, as if there's any kind of precedence for it. There's a reason they call it "science fiction". 6. He attacked Chris because he felt betrayed. He risked his life to go back to MNU so he could A) fix his arm, and B) help Christopher get home. When he got back to the shack and Christopher suddenly told Wikus that he wouldn't be able to fix his arm for 3 years, it pissed him off. I don't think that's hard to understand. As for his plan at that point, I assume he felt that the kid would know how to fix his arm. Which, based on how well the kid was doing with all the equipment in the underground ship, isn't hard to believe. 7. I wouldn't think it impossible to understand an alien language after 20+ years of studying it. I do imagine it would be extremely difficult, but this is far from a plot hole if you ask me.
Pretty good movie. Really paints another interesting picture of human nature and how we struggle to deal with corruption, greed, and power with regards to satisfying our curiosity when it comes to new technology and things we don't understand. 8.5/10. Stole it, now seeing it today.
Spoiler To further #7, it didn't seem like the humans fully understood the Prawn language, at least during the reloc in the beginning in District 9. Wikus seemed to have the highest understanding by far, which made sense given his position. The language didn't seem implausible at all.
I think its rated wayyyyy too high on imdb right now. It was a fun movie, interesting and well done... but not one of the greatest movies ever made.
Spoiler LOL at the idea that we wouldn't be able to understand their language due to technological barriers after 20 years. Language is language. While it is entirely possible (and is fact in the film) that we may not have the physical tools to replicate a language of a particular creature, if there are sentient beings attempting to communicate with each other vocally it is highly likely that after 20 years they'd be able to understand each other. Do you think it is a plot hole that Native Americans learned English after a time despite the technological disadvantage?
that happens with any decent movie that comes out in the theaters nowadays, while it is a good movie the ppl on imdb just shoot that movie up the charts like crazy.
I'm not seriously looking for REAL answers. It's a sci fi movie, it had alien buttsekks. lmao. Carry on~
So are you saying that no current movies could ever top the classics? I think District 9 is deserving of the 8.6 rating, regardless of where on the list that put's it. I'd say it's as good as The Matrix (tied) and Alien (.1 better).
