I watched it yesterday. It is very obviously a commentary on the have and have-nots on the DAL seniority list. Those living on Elysium represented the top third of DAL's list and those living in oppression/misery/dirt/pain were everyone else on the list.

 

I liked District 9. A lot of the movie was improv as well which I didn't know until after I saw it.

We're the Millers looks hilarious! I agree, must see!

 

It had it's funny moments and watching JA *bounce* around beats Matt Damon any day!

 

I can see how a segment of the US population (and other similar groups of people around the world) would not like "District 9".

 

If you can, without going political (or is that your veiled intent), just what group of people are you referring too.

 

Orkin guys obviously

 

The movie gets most of the theme from the way the that S.A. operated during the apartheid era.

From the time I was a kid my dad got SOF magazine, in the 80's many of their stories were about the bush/border conflicts going on in Southern Africa. 2 friends of mine were SADF during the bush and border conflicts, grew up in SA, etc and gave me the courtesy of explaining what it was like growing up in a place like SA at that time.

Funny, when you talk to many, many people about SA about that time frame, most have ZERO clue what you are talking about. In typical American fashion, many Americans don't know nearly as much about T.R.O.T.W as they think they do.

Much like people can't tall you what the holocaust was, what the Khmer Rouge were, what the Holodomor was.

The movie is simply a depiction of that time in SA's history, just using aliens (the Prawns) to take the place of the segregated African population with the story of the guy turning into a prawn tossed in, etc.

Maybe what he's getting at is that many people can't handle the facts of something that bad happened that recently?

 

That is dang funny.

 

perfect! :d

 

Whats with all these biased films always dissing on the Orkin people?

That kind of stuff really bugs me.