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The Daily Movie Wallpaper
Friday, August 14, 2009
Freshly back in from having finally seen District 9 at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar. The lines wrapping around the building and crowds there to see it was pretty overwhelming and not to mention great seeing a first time filmmaker in Neill Blomkamp get this type of response. Not to mention earlier in the day all the shows for District 9 had already sold out. Seeing this reminded me of older days when a movie like Predator would come along and unless you wanted to wait in line several hours, forget about it. If you are going to try and see District 9 in Austin (South Lamar) this weekend you better buy your tickets way in advance.
I thought this movie was great science fiction. It’s really rough around the edges and its imperfections make it even more wonderfully unique. For a first time filmmaker under what seems like a 1/10th of a budget Hollywood makes similar budgets on this scale… Neill Blomkamp more than delivers. He also plays against convention of sci-fi vehicles of late in not trying over explain every aspect of the movie, if anything he leaves a hell of a lot of unanswered questions and rather intentionally so I would think. I noticed a couple of answers to key points already in the movie but many are blink and you will miss variety. The other interesting aspect of District 9 is that it doesn’t have the typical 3 act story, much more of a 2 act movie, which to me largely indicates this will ultimately be part of a trilogy (box office willing). And like others have said this movie is so good and done so well on its budget that whomever pulled the plug on Halo will go down in infamy.
Image Source:
Official stills that were used in the original international release of the film. © 2009 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
Related Links:
::: Official Site
::: IMDb Profile
