District 9 | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Movie Commentary

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  @jamezmcc · 3 years ago

  The film's CGI is superb, especially when you realise the budget was $30m.

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• HE

  @HerbSparks · 3 years ago

  The coolest thing about this movie is how it shifts from documentary style into an action film and you barely notice the transition.

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• TH

  @thedeepfriar745 · 3 years ago

  Sharlto Copley absolutely sells this movie his constant teetering between being a mindless cog, a coward, an asshole, while still ultimately being sympathetic and very, very human. That’s such an interesting complexity and Copley’s intensity really makes the film.

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• TO

  @tonymarshall3978 · 3 years ago

  Crazy true story. Peter Jackson and WETTA were hired to do a Halo movie and were working on the designs and effects. Jackson did not want to direct and figured the best idea was to find a complelty unknown director and saw Neil Blomkamp's reel of shorts and commercials. Halo pulled out of the project so they had all these designs and allocated time to film something but now with no intellectual property or guaranteed funding so Blomkamp looked in his drawer and pulled out one of his short films and that became the basis for District 9. I believe the short was a much cheaper version of the first 5 minutes of this film where its a doc about aliens in South Africa

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• WE

  @webapp31 · 3 years ago

  As Wikus became less human, he gained more humanity

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• MA

  @maximillianosaben · 3 years ago

  This movie was a massive hit when it came out, and people clamored for a sequel. Now, it's sadly largely forgotten. But it's so darn good.

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• ST

  @standasebek5033 · 3 years ago

  You can tell George really liked the movie, when he's frantically trying to fill all the unnecessary details and real life possibilities😀

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• MR

  @mr_k4tz · 3 years ago

  Having grown up in South Africa during the transition out of Apartheid, this movie is an absolute masterpiece. There are so many direct comparisons and Blomkamp nailed so many aspects.

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• ED

  @EDTGO1 · 3 years ago

  The Buzz around this movie at the time<br>It came out, was that studios were starting to make blockbuster movies with a budget of over 100million dollars, some +200milliom &amp; the stories sucked or the CGI. Then this movie came out with a budget of 30mil out of nowhere, which was insane considering how good the CGI is. The story is great as well.

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• DA

  @DavidHorwitz99 · 3 years ago

  In South Africa, the last name &quot;Van De Merwe&quot; really is a fairly common surname (it, like many Afrikaans names, comes from Dutch), but it would also be recognisable to most South Africans as the common name in a whole genre of jokes about stupid, bumbling, oblivious, or incompetent Afrikaaners. The fact that the Wikus Van De Merwe character is (at least at the beginning of the film) an ineffectual, catastrophically clueless bureaucrat is immediately communicated by the screenwriters&apos; decision to give him that particular name.

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• FL

  @flixandclips · 3 years ago

  Can&apos;t believe this movie ONLY cost $30 million and was nominated for Best Picture!? So amazing!

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• ER

  @ericduran5818 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Christopher Johnson in the experimentation room demonstrated more humanity than any of the humans did in the movie. Such a powerful moment. Such a masterfully crafted film.

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