Thread 212867554

Just watched this after having it sit on my drive for years. Why tf was this movie so praised and has such a high rating? I understand critic rating, since nobody would dare give it a bad score, but user rating too. Definitely not a kineaux experience and have no idea what so many people saw in it? My working theory is that people managed to recognize the hamfisted metaphor and felt smart watching it.

You should stick to /pol if you're racially insecure.

>>212867688
It has nothing to do with /pol/, the movie was just kinda dull and pointless.

>>212867554 (OP)
It was cool how the main character Wickus killed all his enemies like a cool terrorist, blowing up buildings, killing ZOGbot mercenaries, killing the dumb african jig gangsters, and all for selfish reasons like getting his old life back. Christopher the Prawn was also cool and his son was cute. The movie is redpilled in a certain way. The Prawns are supposed to be like black people and most of them are retarded but a small handful of them (Christopher, his son, and to some extent Christopher’s friend) are smarter than the rest. The movie ends with the implication that Christopher will come back to free his people and change Wickus back to human form. But realistically, Christopher never came back and probably never will.

>>212867554 (OP)

mostly due to a great lead performance. Wikkus was very engaging and memorable.

>>212867554 (OP)
Because insectoids is the only real extraterrestrial race. Not Reptilians, Greys or Nordics.

>>212867554 (OP)
>having it sit on my drive for years. Why tf was this movie so praised and has such a high rating
You had unrealistically high expectations because you spend too much time consuming discussion of media properties and placing value in opinions of strangers

>>212867554 (OP)
Christopher, you fuck... 3 years, you promised...

why did the prawns come to earth in the first place?

>>212868645
Shutup reptilian, gray, or Nordic.

>>212868881
Ship was coming to destroy Earth but all the leader aliens died on the way, leaving a ship of dumb prawn workers

>>212869122
Why send one ship with a bunch of mindless workers?

>>212869320
A ship needs a crew

>>212867554 (OP)
Its praised because it has a good and unique story, with amazing practical effects and cgi.

Aliens are stranded on earth because their mothership malfunctioned, they are pretty dumb and have lost their leader, they are not here for an invasion of earth and the ship is over Johannesburg and not some american city all of which is very refreshing when it comes to scifi story telling.

The main character who is an average corporate jackey who thinks he is doing something "good" and at his work, is also just a tool for the real projects, harvesting the advanced alien technology of course.

When he fucks up with some alien biotech that slowly turns him into "one of them", and becomes a possible billion dollar advancement in technology, he realizes how replaceable he is even though his father-in-law is one of the head guys of the company, they are gonna harvest him like a fucking lab-rat. He tries to get the help from a "smart alien" who has been trying to escape and get help, while he slowly physically turns into a "prawn" he ironically becomes more and more human.

The effects, the alien technology, especially the weapons feel truly organic and powerful and the semi documentary filming also adds to the movie as you follow the main characters journey.

Yes, it is obvious that the movie being set in South africa is portraying apartheid and segregation and so forth but I like it for the scifi movie it is, its my favorite.

>>212869374
but why just one ship? it seems more like they were lost or something.

>>212869601
I wish webbums had been a thing when D9 came out

There aren't nearly enough of the Prawn weapons

>>212869806
>>212869601
the Prawn Mech Suit was so damn cool. I wanted a sequel just to see a platoon of those bouncing around fucking human military up

the abortion scene was pretty fucked up

>>212869949
Baby Prawn was the cutest. It's vile to think about aborting

>>212867554 (OP)
The gross aliens are smarter and better than you and you should give up your land or you are bad.

>>212867992
I disagree; the alien weapons are cool, the effects are insanely good for their budget, and Sharlto Copley's performance is great. It's just great scifi with an emotional story and compelling lead

>>212870042
>*your land and your bed
that's right, you dumb slut

>>212869806
The best mecha design.

the guy who says "oh my god" in the saffer accent when they first board the prawn ship made me laugh so hard for some reason

>>212867554 (OP)
You nailed it. It's right on the line between absolutely hamfisted propagandic social commentary and being obvious and catnip for pseuds who think they're deep and it's "not just another alien movie". It's finely crafted goyslop.

>>212869767
Too based for this gay world.

For 2009 it was very fresh and had very good CGI

I think it's just one of those 'you had to be there' type of movies

>>212867554 (OP)
I didn't get it either. Its marginally not as bad as Elysium though. That movie was pure ass.

>>212870589
Only because they didn't follow through with the sequel. Which is nuts since they're obsessed with putting out sequels to everything else even movies that never needed or implied another movie.

>>212867554 (OP)
Anytime Leonardo DiCaprio's accents get corrected it's a good job

>>212870589
it's still fresh and has very good cgi for 2025

>>212869767
Really liked him.

>>212870890
Screw Koobus!

>>212869767
>>212870890
why was he so spacist?

>>212867554 (OP)
No idea. Saw it opening night and it was an extremely mixed bag. That wasn't even an outside opinion. Most people dismissed the criticism as it being disappointment bred by reaction to the enormous pre-release hype. But all of the issues it had would be reflected in Neils subsequent films that were varying degrees of failure.

>>212869645
Is this the greatest scene in film history.

i remember when this movie came out and everyone here was saying FOOKIN all the time

>>212871090
I DID NOT HAVE PORNOGRAPHIC ACTIVITY WITH A FOOKIN CREATURE!

Bug scum.

>>212871228
i just kinda think they're neat

did you ever play the game on AOL with the spaceships? arachnids were fun as fuck.

anyone have a webm of the nigerian guy getting his head blown up?

>>212867554 (OP)
damn, I gotta watch this again. thanks for the reminder, OP

this movie holds up

>>212869949
>>212869986
It's just a clump of polygons.

>>212872334
based

>>212867992
You misunderstand, you should go back to /pol/ because you belong with your kind, paco

>>212868881
It'll be explained in the sequel. Be patient.

>>212872938
this

>>212871526
surprisingly difficult to find in the archive. It used to get posted all the time

>>212869520
>When he fucks up with some alien biotech that slowly turns him into "one of them"
That's my only complaint with this movie. That part was stupid.

>Definitely not a kineaux experience
Kill yourself

>>212873103
that part was great and it the entire movie

>>212873103
Well the idea is that these aliens have already been on earth for a long long time, to the point where aliens aren't even a big shock anymore; they're fucking mundane. So the whole need for hazmat suits and standard operating procedures went out the window for these guys because they're just trying to seize and evacuate these motherfuckers as fast as humanly possible. The official word of god as for what that black goo is that it's a biotech "repairing" fluid that was needed to finally get the ship working again, and I guess that tiny little vial was super potent because Christopher straight up says it took him like 10 years to salvage it. But regardless, when it sprays on Wikus's face, it "repairs" his dying cells with Prawn DNA instead of Human DNA, because the biotech "assumes" the Human DNA is incorrect, which is why he slowly turns into one of them.

>>212873253
This.

>>212867554 (OP)
Tasteless faggot.

>>212873168
>>212871526
I remember it was in the news when ds9 came out that the Nagos were all butthurt for being called out for being Pan-African crooks

>>We are not crooks, now email me 1000 dollars, care of your royal highness Butuntu

>>212867554 (OP)
what kind of bullshit message is
>yo dude what if we compared migrants to bugs
>let’s throw in some voodoo foreign africans into the mix to show that people can be bad too

One of the best movies of the century so far. Shame he blew his load with his debut feature.

>>212873103
>>212873253
that part is great and necessary but it's also a bit stupid

>>212869986
I love the scene where he holds up his arm and says they're the same and Wikkus goes off

>>212875141
we're not the FOOKIN same man

It's a good movie.

The first half is great, but I personally don't like when it turns full action movie. I liked the comedy/mockumentary bits from the start the best.

A sequel would be lame as fuck and Blomkamp's every film since has been worse than District 9. Also for as much love as the prawn look gets what really sells them to me is the way they move, you can see their jittery insectoid way of examining things and in particular scenes with the kid which puts even stuff like Starship Troopers to shame. They move like crickets with this stilted but quick motion

>>212870024
I like how they made it a point to show just how experienced and skilled he was on the terminal. Like, in a foreign planet with all this decrepit technology that he has to salvage, he's just another unassuming prawn, but put him behind the terminal of a ship, and he'll show you just who exactly he used to be. It really demonstrates the idea that this is one impressive motherfucker compared to all the other prawns that just sort of muck about all day.