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serynThe movie District 9 is available streaming via Netflix. So when jack mentioned it recently, it got shuffled up near the top of the pile where I could find it easily.
This morning we watched some of it.
We probably won't be watching more.
It's a bad movie if you're looking for something entertaining. Science fiction has a tremendous potential to be entertaining. Star Wars is a great example. But all we get is horror stuff and now political commentary about how when we see anything that's different as scary then we're the monsters.
The movie is done in this pseudo-news style, including the alternation between taped interview and live report that the actual news does to keep people from changing the channel. It's like a documentary, but about things which don't exist.
Most of the parallels in this movie were drawn with a very heavy hand. To the point of being offensive.
jack mentioned it recently, it got shuffled up near the top of the pile where I could find it easily.This morning we watched some of it.
We probably won't be watching more.
It's a bad movie if you're looking for something entertaining. Science fiction has a tremendous potential to be entertaining. Star Wars is a great example. But all we get is horror stuff and now political commentary about how when we see anything that's different as scary then we're the monsters.
The movie is done in this pseudo-news style, including the alternation between taped interview and live report that the actual news does to keep people from changing the channel. It's like a documentary, but about things which don't exist.
Most of the parallels in this movie were drawn with a very heavy hand. To the point of being offensive.
