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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.79.117.85
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 09:16 pm: | |
Not really.
But I finally caught up with District 9 and was pleasantly surprised. The on-the-nose allegory is the weakest part of the film (as Tony once brilliantly put it, it's far too Legz Akimbo) but as soon as that's ignored, the film takes off. Hats off to the effects team - it must be tough to put so much effort into making your hard work invisible.
Bad things: It felt like BLACK HAWK DOWN - sometimes exhilarating, but with the same troubling ghoulish focus on sadism and weapons porn that plagues video games and may be - I don't know - fostering a view that glamorizes violence in an entire generation of disillusioned young men?
[SPOILER]
The moment that sticks in my mind is an anti-violent one: catching the surface-to-air missile in mid-flight and saving the dropship. I almost cheered an act of non-violence - how often do we see that in a film these days? |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.35.248.2
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 10:00 am: | |
Yes, it's a lovely film. I watched it again recently (one of the best projected films we've had on - you could see every detail) and realised it was quite a blod little film. It addressed racism but then tipped it on it's head by having those scary black guys.
We loved the alien and his little son, and the main guy of course (a former effects man turned class/completely natural actor- 'Fook!') |
Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.79.62.59
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 12:59 pm: | |
It was a great performance. Don't know why he isn't a fooking star, man. |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.35.248.2
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 01:34 pm: | |
He was lost in the recent A Team. You kind of felt sorry for him, that he'd given his all and this was where he ended up. The feeling was 'Hey, you were great in that little film, now come and be almost anonymous in one of our big mechanical films'.
It was like they were trying to kill him.  |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.35.248.2
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 01:35 pm: | |
Blod? |
Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.79.121.1
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 02:57 pm: | |
The director was born in 1979. Flaming horsefires, I feel old and talentless. |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.35.248.2
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 03:01 pm: | |
It's a vast club, Proto.
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