District 9

[marcus_sez_vote]

After the hell of dealing with automated phone company menus PLUS the "disconnection office" that tries to do everything in their power including use of delays, bargaining, etc. to prevent one from actually completing what you're trying to do, I decided to catch a flick during the day. District 9 happened to be playing nearby and with a matinee

Comments

[gesturejester]

Yeah... this movie mostly made me want to hurl. It made me want to hurl while researching long-term refugee situations and possibly sending letters and or money to various politicians/humanitarian aid (which I have yet to do), but still. Irrational calculated cruelty for no particular reason (i.e. using a random alien as a weapons testing target, acting gleefully about blowing up fetuses, trying to cut apart Wikas' body while he is still fully conscious, etc) and excessive puzzling gore, make me much less able to suspend disbelief (e.g. why does engine fuel turn Wikas into an alien... how come the aliens have incredible technology of various sorts but are in the situation they're in... what's with the catfood?)

If the humans took most of the guns before the aliens knew what's what (they were weak, malnourished, and disoriented), then I could maybe start to see the situation where the humans have the power... but it still seems like those guns never need reloading and can blow up pretty much anything.