Watch the Damn Thing Already

Rating: 10/10 (22 December 2009)

I enjoyed District 9 immensely.
I'm not a film critic nor will I try to pretend to be one on IMDb. I just love film. I've even written, produced, and directed a few. But I have to say District 9 really stood out above all the unsatisfying, unoriginal films coming out this past year. So many novel adaptations and defiling remakes are really showing what a cesspool America has for screen writing talent. District 9 soars above the majority of dull, stagnant films being mass produced week after week here in the states.
I don't know how it's gotten this bad, but it's terrible. I have to wait several months, sometimes years before leaving theater saying, "Wow, what a great story!". Most of the time I find myself trying to point out the pros of a film like, "That had some cool effects" or "The acting was really good" or "I really liked that character". I want more movies like District 9, while not perfect, still have me leaving the theater satisfied on many more levels than one.
Original, entertaining, stylistic, thrilling, while delivering an important message all at once, District 9 accomplished a lot more with a budget half the size of stale, re-heated Blockbuster attempts (i.e. King Kong, The Wicker Man, The Day the Earth Stood Still....all remakes) Stop giving these mindless, unimaginative writers and filmmakers money and go see films like District 9, PLEASE!!!!!