Comments on: District 9: Not Bad!

By: Boy62

Boy62 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:12:07 +0000

Swedish car company wants to coat their cars with-including glass. ,

By: Alex J.

Alex J. — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:30:47 +0000

19, Agreed. You could replace “MNU” with “UN” and everything would run exactly the same. c.f No Man’s Land.

Whenever movies present evil corporations, they are always behaving just like governments.

By: district 9 is awesome

district 9 is awesome — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:46:05 +0000

erm yea, the reason christopher is smarter is cos hes a higher rank than the rest. If u listen in one of the documentary scenes a guy says theyre all workers. But christopher isnt, hes like the pilot or something.

But still this movie rocks from start to finish i recommend it to all.

By: CB

CB — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:29:40 +0000

@13
“Eileen! Open your eyes. See the racism in that movie! The portrayal of Africans – all of them – was beyond stereotypical in the worst way!”

Heh. Yeah, their “portrayal”. Did you know that those on-the-street interviews at the beginning, where they were all talking about how the prawns should go away and the government should stop helping them, were *real* interviews with people asked about the *real* immigrants coming to Africa?

This wasn’t an allegory about Apartheid, or a stereotyping of South Africans. It was a barely-allegory about the *real life* racism that continues to exist in our world. It is real. Abuses like those suffered by the prawns in the refugee camp are real. Real people being treated like that as a matter of course is real. Calling it a stereotype just means you don’t want to hear the message.

“What does it mean when aliens are made to be way more sympathetic, smart and dimensional than Africans?”

Sorry that a movie which makes the oppressed more sympathetic than their oppressors offends you. You must hate Amistad or Roots. And the only ’smart’ alien was Christopher, and he wasn’t even all that bright! The only characters fleshed out at all are him and Wicus, and sorry Wicus definitely has more dimension.

If it makes you feel better, there *were* South Africans depicted as protesting for rights for the Prawn. So, maybe the stereotyping wasn’t as simple as you thought?

To change topics to something less dim — while obviously MNU is supposed to represent the Big Private Defense Contractor Evil Corp both for the sake of realism and to bring in the plotline about wanting the alien weapons, did anyone else see the white vehicles and ‘we’re here to keep the peace by not interfering with the violent ganster/warlord’ mentality as a reference to the U.N.? Between that and the “MNU” name I think it was supposed to be a combined reference. And hell, you could take an article from a few years ago about U.N. forces in Sudan, replace U.N. with Blackwater, Sudan with Iraq, and probably wouldn’t be able to tell it wasn’t something from today’s paper.

By: Plamen Petkov

Plamen Petkov — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:55:15 +0000

I heard Howard Stern hyping it all week so I decided it was shit since it’s all advertising with him but I was sick with flu(swine I think) in bed and decided to torrent the low quality Russian avi and the movie did really surprised me in best way possible. It blew all the million dollars shitty Hollycrap movies outta water.
Plus I just saw the preview of Avatar and there is NO comparison between the two. Avatar was complete shit, all mindless CGI that didnt even look that great with preachy storyline and silly cartoon characters with huge anime type eyes so we would feel compassion toward them while D9 was raw and nasty and as real looking as it gets. Hollywood can only dream of making something this good.

By: deluxo

deluxo — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:34:59 +0000

Mads – is that true? Can you point me to where he said that??

By: LIExpressway

LIExpressway — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:17:38 +0000

What is the Deluxe African type you speak of. Sounds very tasty to mine ears. Please tell.

By: spam

spam — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:19:28 +0000

I was waiting for the deluxo type African to get here and cry foul.

By: Mads Mikkelsen

Mads Mikkelsen — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:04:09 +0000

Blomkamp said loud and clear that he wanted to depict blacks being racists in order to reflect the reality of today’s Joburg where SA blacks hate the poor refugees from Zimbabwe, plus the Nigerian gangsters are a fact of life there.

By: deluxo

deluxo — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:12:39 +0000

Eileen! Open your eyes. See the racism in that movie! The portrayal of Africans – all of them – was beyond stereotypical in the worst way! What does it mean when aliens are made to be way more sympathetic, smart and dimensional than Africans? I cannot believe the praise this film is getting!