It's for the best. District 9 is a slight to all creative thought. It is a messy conglomeration of every scifi movie of the last 30 years with a shallow moral lesson thrown in that would have been relevant in the 1960s.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'
Derivation requires no originality. Dhampy likes originality. Great story can make up for it; but District 9 had no real story, only setting and characters.
In artistic terms, it's the work of a high school student dabbling in scifi. He thinks about all the movies he's seen and books he's read and rips everything in his story from them. Nothing is his own.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'
Brett Favre first plays against the Packers on 1-Nov-09
1-11-09
Reverse the numbers and have a little jiggery-pokery with the zero...
9-11-01
OH SNAP.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'