Loved the main character. His arc was very moving. As was Christopher's. I can see wanting another 20 minutes.
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
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Sean K - Aug 14, 2009 7:10:55 pm PDT #3696 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
quester - Aug 14, 2009 7:12:18 pm PDT #3697 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
My sister and I just saw D9 today, and her big question was How did the aliens wind up stranded and starving when one of them could fly the ship?
Sean K - Aug 14, 2009 7:24:06 pm PDT #3698 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Not important to the story, and/or not covered in the events of the story.
evil jimi - Aug 15, 2009 6:02:44 am PDT #3699 of 30000
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
So it sounds better than Alien Nation (the movie), huh? I mean, in Alien Nation, the aliens land, Reagan welcomes them, and all of a sudden it's a buddy cop film, where the two partners are different! "One's a human, the other alien; they fight crime!"
I think it gets down to the look of the "alien". In Alien Nation the "newcomers" resemble humans more closely than the aliens so in District 9 (from what I saw in the preview).
Polter-Cow - Aug 15, 2009 8:09:57 am PDT #3700 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I look forward to your review.
Loved the main character. His arc was very moving.
I agree. It was so weird to see the clip of Wikus from the beginning of the story at the end because the man we knew by then was so very different. Even discounting the whole mutation thing.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Aug 15, 2009 8:46:34 am PDT #3701 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Time Travel[l]er's Wife:
Enjoyed this, but not nearly as much as the book. They didn't have time to cover everything - which I understand - but as a result, they made a movie that tells a slightly different story than the book. It was a much less traumatic story. Since the trauma and pathos are central to the book, it definitely felt like something was missing. The cast are good, though - even Eric Bana, whose casting I was bemoaning from the moment I heard about it. He isn't quite... Henry. But he's not bad.
As a metaphor for disability, the book particularly appealled to me (going to see this with my non-disabled partner was interesting, although she was mostly complaining that she had popcorn stuck in her teeth and missing the moments where I poked her) - but I saw more clearly with the film than the book that the story is about many other things, too. (I may attempt to write a paper with my colleague who studies disability and film. It would help me figure out exactly what's being said with the disability metaphor. I think I quite like it, whatever it is.)
Sean K - Aug 15, 2009 9:13:41 am PDT #3702 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
It was so weird to see
Such a sweet, harmless, ignorant man. In some ways he winds up being almost exactly the same person at the end of his journey that he was at the beginning, save for having his ignorance lifted.
Sean K - Aug 15, 2009 9:27:14 am PDT #3703 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
It's designed to make you think without telling you what to think.
OMG, P-C! So very much this.
Jessica - Aug 15, 2009 5:19:15 pm PDT #3704 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Robert Downey Jr. is in talks to become the movie world's latest vampire sensation.
The Iron Man star is in negotiations to play Anne Rice's Lestat Du Lioncort in the latest movie adaptation of her The Vampire Chronicles, according to BloodyDisgusting.com.
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Atropa - Aug 15, 2009 5:31:07 pm PDT #3705 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The Iron Man star is in negotiations to play Anne Rice's Lestat Du Lioncort in the latest movie adaptation of her The Vampire Chronicles, according to BloodyDisgusting.com.
I ... what? Oh, whatever. Will it bring me more antique-y costume-drama vampire eye-candy? Then fine.