Aug/090
District 9 Impressions
Rest assured: The film is better than the poster.
Went with Gabe to see this with admittedly low-to-no expectations, which is always a safe bet.
I’m not a person who finds myself scouring the web (or any media for that matter) for movie recommendations, and so most of the movie buzz I get is from Gabe who usually instigates these movie outings.
He was psyched to see this movie, which was good enough for me, so we headed out to catch the 8:00PM show. So bromantic!
I found it to be entertaining, and I was pleasantly surprised. Sure there are loose ends and unanswered questions, but I felt like it was a pretty generic alien flick told in a novel way, and it made some very interesting “artistic statements” that clearly reference Apartheid. Speaking of, I felt that it was very brave of Peter Jackson to stage it in South Africa, a place I really love, instead of a stereotypical film setting such as New York… Simply because Johannesburg is a place that probably doesn’t resonate much with the 18-24 year old, American male target demo… That and because it makes the Apartheid connections WAY less subtle. Risky. Provocative. Political? Finally Hollywood gets the Alien-Apartheid allegory off of its chest! I know we’ve all been waiting for it!!
All in all, not my favorite flick of the year so far, but it was kinda fun, which is why I see movies. They tend to be fun. How’s that for insight?
Rating: 6.5 out of 8.5 on my “Sliding Fellini Scale of Cinematic Quality” ©. This is going to be my proprietary film rating method from here on out.