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Just watched it. I downloaded the second link I got in Google, and the copy is fantastic. Played it thru the xbox and it was as good as a dvd. After being annoyed endlessly in the cinema watching Inglorious Basterds I relished watching this baked and drinking Bow. I thought it was great. Nice mix of styles, awesome headshots if slightly hackneyed storyline; Genuinelly funny too. Tellin ya tho, get the R5 dvdrip. |
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Did you watch it on a XBOX 1 or the 360? I have a XBOX1 with XBMC, will check the rip. |
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yup, watched it yesterday. good movie. cool special effects and a not so cliche storyline. what more do you want? |
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It had a low budget yet I would say it probably had the most impressive effects since Jurassic Park. Every alien was an individual, the most convincing aliens i've seen. Christopher's son was so cute, like when he was comparing arms, so many great moments. Really does set the bar for modern sci-fi films. "Get your fookin' tentacle out of my face!" |
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blah i didnt like it. the location sucked, the story sucked. i dont feel like typing |
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its ok. it lacks something |
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Basicly its a love story, like e wall. But is oposite in representation of nature of e wall, things here are more realistic, and I like this part of this movie. There is dirt, inperfections of characters, and world....But plot is kinda mutated, and some things are added here, this I guess is "holywoodic" part, stereotypic love story. |
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wasn't super good I think. it was like watching a one and a half hour of video game cutscenes. |
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"I also would have liked an explanation as to why the aliens and humans can understand each other." Yes i wondered about that too. Only see the trailers though. |
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Eugh! |
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the R5 release is top notch, i got a copy with alien subs hard coded on the avi |
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*spoiler alert* For the retards who saw the movie: - the language thing. The aliens have been around for 2 dacades. Plenty of time for both spieces to learn each others language especially an MNU speicalist who's turning into a prawn and an alien commander. the weapons thing: - dropped form the mothership and gathered by the refugees before mnu could grab them the mnu as bad shots: - chopper snipers do well on static targets, not so well in a dynamic firefight. this is logical Great movie.. my first 10/10 since The Lives of Others..... another non-hollywood film. "Go figure". |
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ps.. why land in jo'berg? - densly populated city, suitable climate, under non-american jurisdiction, plenty of cats. Who fucking knows/cares One beef I had... if a giant space ship is hovering for 20 years and is accessible by humans, surely there'll be teams of scientists anaysing it.. even after 20 years? I reckon you could do a sequel where Christpher arrives back to home planet with a bunch of scientists trapped in the ship |
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quite enjoyable movie. although it had some flaws. - i didn't like how it ended in a teardroping drama after it started as a total mockumentary (that soldier loosing his arm at the beginning) - this little thing - they collected this "fluid" for twenty years, finally collected the whole amount to the single drop, then wikus sprays himself half of the container into the face but the amount is still perfectly fine... so couldn't they just 10 years earlier fly away ? |
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" this little thing - they collected this "fluid" for twenty years, finally collected the whole amount to the single drop, then wikus sprays himself half of the container into the face but the amount is still perfectly fine... so couldn't they just 10 years earlier fly away ?" thats interesting, i didn't think of that... maybe there wasn't enough fuel in there and it was 50/50 whether they would make it to the ship or not had they not been shot down before. After all the command module never makes its own way to the ship, I think they were taking an extreme risk hoping there was enough since they had no other choice. Could be what he sprayed himself with wasn't even the fuel, could be a separate compartment. Who knows. |
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The biggest problem is just that Wikus was a shitty protagonist. I didn't care whether he lived or died, therefore had no investment in the story. They didn't even have a worthwhile villain. Just that sniper guy I guess, he was pants. I guess people are sold on the idea that District 9 had some really thought provoking social allegory behind it-- but to me it was a pretty standard hollywood summer flick written by another hollywood hack. Like most hackjobs it has some fun moments but it's utterly forgettable. I felt this same way about Children of Men, another movie which this board hyped pretty hard. |
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Well, it wasn't the fact that they still had "fuel" left over after Wikus sprayed himself that bothered me. I think perhaps the idea was that they could still get home with less fuel, it would just take them far longer in transit (higher rate of travel = greater fuel consumption). What bothered me was that their fuel somehow had the ability to perfectly transform another organism into one of them. There aren't any complications, it's just *poof* "I'm an alien now." I was annoyed that the story of the aliens was left on the back burner while "gun porn" for nerds became the major focus of the movie. Did anyone else cringe at the painfully obvious "gun testing" scene? Pantalaimon, I don't see why we should expect that, during the 20 years they were working to build up a fuel supply, the aliens also took the time to build other technologies which conveniently turn humans into "prawns" (because we're forced to sit through the entire film without learning what the aliens call themselves). Why not just focus on getting the fuel instead of using time and resources developing a "human-to-prawn converter"? |
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Also, why would aliens that would so clearly dominate in a battle allow themselves to be subjugated to the kind of shit that went on in that movie? "100 cans of catfood for this insanely powerful mecha suit that humans can't even use? I think I'll just use it myself and take all the catfood I want, sucka." Now there's a thought that apparently never crossed any of the aliens' minds. Even without their technology, the aliens are still more powerful than humans on a 1v1 basis. If the filmmakers wanted to portray them as the victims, how about not making them total warrior badasses? |
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subjugated = subjected* that's what I get for trying to write a coherent post before my morning coffee. |
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I read somewhere that almost all of the aliens in the film were genetically created 'worker' aliens who, without command input from the Queen alien were completely aimless. It was mentioned near the beginning of the film i think, that the queen alien died from a virus or something, as did most of the command staff. Christopher was either the only of the command staff to survive, or one of very few... When threatened clearly they could rip apart a human, but other than that they couldn't put any kind of organised resistance together. As for fuel, I thought the ship itself had fuel (hence it hovering there for 20 years), it was just the command module that didn't. |
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Distant travels would be more secure with good reserve of fuel, ist it logical, becose fuel consumption isnt constant (trajectory of spaceship may be changed in order to evade physical objects, gravity fields are changing becouse all nearby space objects are moving)? It is even more difficult to calculate fuel consumption because distance between galaxies and stars are long. |
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really good film, but there were some storyline faults that pissed me off. why the fuck did wikus get a strop on and prevent christopher from taking him to the main ship, as he was his best option of help? |
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exactly - most of the aliens besides christopher are simple workers who don't have the ability to make conscious movements without some leadership. the fuel thing still doesn't convince me but as there is no clear explanation than that means the director didn't feel the need to say it. the fact that wikus is changing into an alien after being exposed to this fluid makes a little sense as it seems that in fact this alien race is a lot into genetics and stuff. for example how their weapons work etc. i think it might be that that fluid, the weapons and the aliens itself are all from some kind of unified materia or shit. anyways the main problem with this movie is the fact that it somehow is in the middle of being a psychological drama and a simple science fiction movie and tries to be both. now if it would be a strict science fiction movie it wouldn't have to have everything correctly explained and give room for speculations (like thinking about mechanics of stuff in the star wars realm). on the other hand when you make a movie with some difficult drama every single element should be clearly explained so that the viewer somehow focuses on the plot. |
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this films does for sci-fi what unbreakabale does for superhero shit...in a good way, to me! |
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good movie! the little alien is the coolest fella |
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the super robot at the end was also cool, i just expected more weapons instead of always evaporating them soldiers |
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the coolest sci fi film i've watched in a long time, despite the plot holes* you guys mentioned. |
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looking forward to the blu-ray |
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thought it could have had less-crappy bad guys and some of the emotional cheese was cringe food, other than that pretty fun. Some of it reminded me of the original Half-Life in a good way. |
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