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Originally Posted by Laneco
Seriously - it was a dog...
Steve said it was "just OK" (coming from an avid Simpsons fan). Our 13 year old son didn't even like it.
It could only be more of a dog if it crawled on all fours into the aisle, squatted on its haunches, pitch its nose skyward and howl piteously at the waste of cinematic effort accumulated in this bowser.
Did you ever see Starship Troopers? THAT is a much better movie...
(oh and thanks stomachmonkey - you're pretty cool yourself!)
angela
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Hmm...most of the press disagrees...and NY Times Readers Poll gives it 4 stars (from 268 participants so far). Guess I'll have to see it myself:
Moviefone: "Sci-fi lovers should geek out over '9,' one of the most original and inspired genre movies to hit theaters in years."
Variety: "This grossly engrossing speculative fiction bears Jackson's blood-splattered fingerprints but also heralds first-time feature director Neill Blomkamp as a nimble talent to watch."
Bloody Disgusting: "'District 9' is hands down the best film of the summer and has made me love movies all over again. It's engaging, explosive, and pure nonstop awesomeness -- it's what big summer movies are supposed to be."
The Hollywood Reporter: "Combining the very best of the postwar sci-fi movies with their trenchant political undertones and pulse-pounding dynamism and contemporary movie technology that can blend aliens seamlessly into a realistic human world of urban and moral decay, 'District 9' flirts with greatness."
Entertainment Weekly: "What begins with 'news' footage out of South Africa ends with headline news here at home: District 9 proves that there's intelligent alien life in the movie universe this summer."
Sci-Fi Squad: "We were prepared for massive amounts of CGI, but we were definitely not prepared for the huge amounts of awesome that were dumped into our eyes and brains. Honestly, I haven't been this moved by a film or a performance in quite some time."
Cinema Blend: "It's impressive not just as a debut, but as a new example of how to use original sci-fi as a mirror to our own world, and without $200 million budgets and space battles or even hobbits. Peter Jackson took the money he made making a faithful and beautiful adaptation, and has used it to fund something truly, remarkably original."
Hollywood & Fine: "The 'wow' factor in Neill Blomkamp's 'District 9' is huge -- so much so that it would be easy to overlook what a soulful, tragically heroic story it is."