It's been a while since I saw District 9, but I can't remember being as angry with a film since I saw 5th Element.
Before I saw D9 I was told it'd be magnificent and of the most intelligent sci-fi stories ever. I disagree.
First of all I hated the ever so witty Apartheid setting. Reminding us of that nice period didn't stop them from showing Nigerian stereotypes dealing guns and acting real bad. Still I think it was that hilarious their boss reminded me of Stephen Hawking.
Next up the idiotic scenario of SA having fucking shitloads of alien tech without any of the superpowers trying their best to reverse-engineer it. And don't give me the it wasn't working shit. Had it dropped? Wasn't it still in the air? You know, it might've been powered by something!
So nobody had found out anything about the alien tech? And nobody had figured out why the Surimi loved cat food? It seemed SA were a bunch of limp dicks. They hadn't even figured out that maybe, just maybe -– especially if cat food was like crack to Surimi -– they could've maybe bribed some of them to tell something? In the meantime the Nigerians were going fucking Gundam with a few cans of Whiskas!
And what's with the Surimi with the AKs at the start of the movie? What the fuck were they doing? They sure as hell didn't show up at any point in the end.
And why oh why couldn't the Surimi king and its son ask the other Surimi to help to look for the fuel? Okay, so SA couldn't figure out the cat food for info or guns scheme. Good to know the king wasn't smarter than them.
About the space fuel: Why couldn't they hide the cylinder in the shuttle? SA hadn't found that one in twenty years.
And the end battle was a fucking bore especially after the weathering the storm of stupid that preceded it.
That was my take.
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Clearly, SA (or just the director) has some serious issues with Nigerians... It was blatant racism. I guess they got away with it because of the whole retarded apartheid subtext but it was still some of the most blatant racism I've seen in a modern, mainstream film.
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Clearly, SA (or just the director) has some serious issues with Nigerians... It was blatant racism. I guess they got away with it because of the whole retarded apartheid subtext but it was still some of the most blatant racism I've seen in a modern, mainstream film.