What are you doing this weekend?
You should be watching this.
Opened in Manila last Wednesday, 26 August.
All I knew about it was the name above the name above the title. It was enough. Clever, inventive, oddly touching. And political.
Some of my friends got headaches after watching Up in digital 3D. Bernard-Henri Not Levy says the trick to not getting a headache is not to tilt your head. The screen is polarized, so if you watch it with your head on your boyfriend’s shoulder, you see the image double. Headache! Maybe you and date could sit in different sections of the theatre.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
August 29th, 2009 at 00:16
How is it that the special effects in this movie mesh so well with the environment while GI Joe, which had a much bigger budget by comparison, has those Halo-ripoff megaexopowersuits looking so…cheaply artificial?
August 29th, 2009 at 00:26
Oh yes! I just watched it, I was blown away!
August 29th, 2009 at 03:15
Wikus van de Merwe and Hans Landa can’t wait for Avatar!
August 29th, 2009 at 07:16
there’s a short film in youtube where this movie was based on… it looks so believable, it’s creepy.
August 29th, 2009 at 07:28
best sci-fi movie this year, if not one of the best. Problem is that, somehow, it made me angsty against institutions, specially the MNU. It’s very political You should have watched it already by this time.
August 29th, 2009 at 08:21
the movie was great.. hehe! just watched it recently with my gf.. the ticket was free (thanks to video city) hehe! The story was different from other “alien invading the earth movies” on hollywood. Indeed, it puts hollywood to shame..
August 30th, 2009 at 05:38
The movie reminded me of Cavite, Jason Bourne, The Dark Knight, The Matrix, and George’s strange lump in Mark Haddon’s A Spot of Bother. And you couldn’t be more right. Controlled pacing, disciplined restraint, unapologetic.
August 31st, 2009 at 01:33
District 9 was very impressive! not the usual alien invasion movie. reminded me of the Alien Nation tv series, and a little bit of ET.
August 31st, 2009 at 11:53
i like everything on this movie… well, maybe except for the ending. this is not your typical Alien movie, it’s like immersing you in what would feel like the biggest eye-opener for SETI and other alien-seeking groups there.
August 31st, 2009 at 18:45
Definitely a must watch movie. This has got to be my favorite sci-fi movie of all time, although I don’t want to label it as just a sci-fi movie because it transcends that. I love how we are forced to accept the alien invasion as an old given at the very beginning of the movie and it proceeds right away to make us focus instead on the commentary on / impugnation of humanity. Sure there is plenty of blood and gore and cool technology to feast our eyes on but the way it stirs our emotions is an even bigger accomplishment.
Also, I love how it ended. It could stand alone as a one-of (highly unlikely) but the promise of a sequel was actually a very welcome thought.
I’m now fine with Peter Jackson not doing THE HOBBIT. As long as he produces more movies of this caliber :D