It was okay. The action scenes were cool, not because they had me on the edge of my seat (they didn't) but because of all the cool FPS throwbacks. It seriously had me itching to play some FEAR2, albeit not a lot.

Story/progression were okay I suppose, I didn't feel the story was anything special, the main character was an asshole but you knew he wouldn't die because hey, he's the main character.

My dad thinks they're opening it to one or two sequels, which would make sense based on the ending, but I figured they would just leave it as is.

So yeah, for all the hype surrounding it, I feel comfortable in the fact that it was pretty much what I thought it was - a decent but not really innovative or genre-defining scifi movie. I would probably rate it like a 7/10. 

Zwiffle, the main character might have been an anti-hero but he certainly wasn't an asshole. 

Yeah, he was. 

He redeemed himself in the end. That's the point. 

although I'm with zwiffle that it was really just a well made chase film in a sci fi setting rather than anything groundbreaking. But I'll tkae that these days, hard enoguh to find something thats decent in sci fi.

oh, and I thought he was an asshole too. But you could still root for him because the others were even bigger assholes :) 

I agree, he was an asshole. I never liked his self serving "just following orders" company man attitude the entire film. He should be first against the wall when the aliens come back. 

I disagree, he wasn't an asshole. He was a bigotted (well he's white saffer WTF do you expect) incompetent way out of his depth and trying to look out for number one, but an asshole, no. He also clearly had some conscience and had to go through a lot of traumatic shit...

It might have been a "fairly" standard chase/action film beneath the style and grit....but hey, form and function, too often such films have too little of either... 

I watched A.I. just a few days ago for the first time, and it was the biggest sack of incongruent shit ever. So D9 rapes it. 

The problem I had with Wikus Van De Merwe was that he basically didn't really give a shit about anyone but himself (until like the veeeeery end as many have said) - for example not really caring about Tommy's lack of body armor in the beginning, really the entire apparent illegality of that whole part about the mass eviction which he seemed to have no problem with, and that one part where knocks out Christopher, essentially forsaking him and his plight at that point, as well as kidnapping his kid, for his own self serving needs. 

excellent Black Comedy of the year, from Peter Jackson. The screenplay and angles reminded me soooooooooo much of Bad Taste, along with the awkwardness of the VERY broad South African Accent, and dress sense.
The special effects were very good, especially the fight scene at the end.
And the part with the fingernails really made me cringe horribly.

Definately held my attention for the duration, with plenty belly laughs and some gripping serious parts.

(District 9 that is) 

Watched D9 last night, brilliant film, need to rewatch when less stoned though.

And yeh the main character is an arsehole. I thought that was the point? 

it was deliberate and it worked but I still dont buy that he wasnt an asshole. Since when is being a 'bigoted white saffa' from whom you shoudlnt expect much not being an asshole :) 

that nice girl married him! And misses him! 

She wasn't nice she was an asshole too. 

I KNEW IT! I'M SURROUNDED BY ASSHOLES! 

You've been at func_msgboard for how long now? 

never seen space balls? :( 

commence operation vac-u-suck!! 

hehe, i could quote that movie all day. so many good ones. :) 

 

The International (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963178/

Amazing film until later. Huge waste of a great buildup and tension. Nice soundtrack. Clive Owen. Dammit, it could have been a fantastic movie... (I don't like spoilers). 

I know I'll get flamed for this (assuming anyone has any left in them (speaking of which, maybe if we ignore the ejeet he'll just leave)), but Space Balls wasn't very good... 

as a parody, it was amazing. but you're right, the movie itself wasn't great or anything. 

I agree with you, actually the only Mel Brooks movie I've liked is the original Producers, none of the other spoof/parodies work for me. 

i wanted to ask you, which character change did you find so unacceptable in Death Proof? I actually felt that movie worked really well.