An honest view of District 9!

Rating: 3/10 (2 September 2009)

Alright before you discard this comment as simple hater's fodder because of the rating please stay with me.
First I want to go forth in stating that District 9 is ABSOLUTE FAIL!!! There I said it, I gave you fair warning that if you pay money to see this in theater your brain will melt! I first came to love Peter Jackson's work with the film everyone thought would be near impossible to produce, Lord of the Rings, and seeing some of his other films I expected a lot more out of this one than I should have. It's not entirely on the fault of Peter Jackson's reputation that I saw this movie but also my friends and the idiotic comments of worthless praise heralding this film to be, "the best new Sci-Fi movie to come out in 10 years!" or, "its not your typical Sci-Fi movie of brainless action and destruction, it in fact has a very deep plot dealing with betrayal, relationships, politics, yada, yada, yada." WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP, if not complete lies and the ratings these saps gave the film is just ridiculous! Its almost as if they had seen a completely different movie! I saw the trailer for the film, which strangely reminded me of transformers (might have been the intention), before leaving to see the film and still had high hopes that the movie would be very good especially since the fact the it landed a spot at #2 at the box office, but all hopes were dashed after only twenty minutes of viewing the film! I had a really hard time at the beginning trying to determine whether or not this film was actually meant to be a comedy before finally realizing that no, the film is just terrible, the writing and dialogue is just terrible, but the special effects were great! In conclusion I sincerely believe this film was targeting a dumbed down audience of morons (very successful at finding that audience when I heard one man a few seats away start crying, or maybe it was tears of shame) and just like after watching Be Kind Rewind I felt not only insulted but that apart of my brain was taken away from me that I will never see again. If you want to see a Peter Jackson movie that has an excuse for being a terrible film just try watching Bad Taste.