Nope. Possible spoiler . . . . . I was a soldier. I do not want to see a sequel, because any decent race is going to send a rescue op, and first step in a rescue op is establishing a perimeter. And we know how humans react to shows of force. You concentrate camp the species, they are not going to react well when their national guard shows up to document what we did and begin the evac, and you can bet they will set down hard perimeter defense.
A lot going on in this movie but I love the premise of "what if the protagonist was kind of dumb and unlikeable?" Wikus feels like a very believable character.
It is so new to me. This movie is the very first alien movie that is very unique to me. Mostly we know alien movies are about abduction or invasion but this movie is so different from others that is why I like the story.
This movie gave us Sharlto Copley. He's great in everything he's been in. If interested, he's in a indie movie called 'Hardcore Henry' that is pretty much shot in the perspective of a First Person Shooter game. Very interesting and went viral with a clip they released a long time ago.
I was at the US premier of Hardcore Henry at SXSW. Was in the third row when Sharlto Copley said in a preamble to the screening that he liked to call the first 5 rows the splash zone. Such a fun movie, but don't watch it that close on the big screen, lol.
I love what this movie does to your emotions. You go from disliking the main character to feeling sorry for him to hating him to cheering for him and back to feeling sorry.
The VFX and CGI in this movie are still mind-blowing to this day. Especially considering the low budget and mostly handheld direction. This is one of my favorite sci-fi movies of all time.
Initiallly, Blomkamp was supposed to direct a cinema adaptation of the Halo franchise (co- produced by Peter Jackson) but the project was put down (the studio execs didn't like the look of the test scenes) District 9 (which is inpired by one of Blomkamp's short) was a message to the studio "look what you missed"
I still feel like not enough people know about this movie. So great start to finish. I'm really sad that they never did the sequel when the aliens come back, although it's better not to have a sequel at all rather than one that can't live up to the original. Great reaction, yet again.
Pretty amazing movie, about human rights using aliens. The movie was inspired by the real events in District 6. Obviously no aliens, but with people and segregation
This is truly a badass piece of sci-fi. Gnarly, dark, hard to watch in places, but with so much rough truth about humanity running through it. Glad you reacted to this one. Another good one is Elysium, which ironically has the same actor who played Wickus, as well as Jodi Foster and Matt Damon.
This movie is the ultimate grey area movie. You can hate the main character's guts yet also understand him. It's an alien movie yet it makes you feel so much. One of my all time favorites.
This movie at first i was like what is this?!i was so confused,but as long the film progressed i just can't stop watching and indeed the movie has a deep message and still is a masterpiece.Greetings and love from Portugal. ❤
Wow I wasn't expecting to see this movie reaction today. Made my day this is one of my favorite films. Top tier Sci fi movie. Sharpton Copley does a phenomenal job.
Hi Angela, so happy you reacted to this film. One of my favorite sci-fi films of all time. It is hard to watch at times, even though I own it on DVD and I know what happens. But it's so beautiful, visceral, violent, and unfortunately the realism & social commentary is heightened by all of these elements. Still hoping beyond hope with the other fans that the sequel still comes out, but you never know these days. Oh yeah, everyone else has recommended Neill Blomkamp's other movies: Elysium, Chappie, and Hardcore Henry. Take care, Angela!
My thought on the black fluid, consider how their tech is genetically based, designed the modify the body for a task. What likely happened is the one who had the command gene died & effectively, the worker drones couldn't use the ship. Christopher spent 20 years recreating the gene so he could take command of the ship. The species is clearly cast based, with most being simple drones/workers, while Christopher was clearly of the scientist/geneticist cast
One thing that's really subtle is in a late shot we see a sonogram if a foetus in the background when the wife is talking. That's why the "3 years" revelation made Vikis flip out.
I literally laughed out loud when you called Vikus a twat, wasn't expecting it, didn't see it coming! Love your analysis, as usual. It's always well thought out, even though it seems like it's off the top of your head.
This movie is in the Pantheon of top 5 of all time (it is still behind Arcane as is everything) and your right, there is no way to describe it with out giving too much away. Nobody has a favorite part, nor can they explain why they like it so much either but everytime this movie is mentioned anyone who has seen it has the same reaction. "ERMAAAHGEEEEERD! I love that movie!"
I must say out of all the reaction videos of District 9, THIS was closest to my own reaction when I watched this masterpiece for the first time. Only difference: I had a higher sympathy for Wikus.
Just an amazing movie, came out of nowhere. I saw it five times in the theaters because I kept bringing everyone I know who would come with me to go see it. Such an interesting variation on the "aliens come to Earth" trope. I can't really think offhand of another movie that has run with the premise that when aliens come, almost all of the "smart ones" are gone and the ones we actually have contact with are basically their version of worker bees who don't know what to do because their control team is gone. We don't get many South African films here, so the apartheid allegory was a very different theme for the American audience; we need more of that sort of thing (studies of other cultures and the issues facing people in other parts of the world) in our films.
This reminds me of the scene between Professor X and Senator Kelly. "I'm afraid if i went to a hospital"... "They would treat you like a mutant". If you ever want to watch a cheesy sci-fi ship battle movie. I recommend Wing Commander with Matthew Illard and Freddy Prince Junior.
For more of Neill Blomkamp, there's Elysium (2013) and Chappie (2015). For more aliens, I'd recommend Alien Nation (1988) - both the movie and the TV series, Arrival (2016), and Ender's Game (2013). 🖖
one of my favorite theories is that the prawns where actually not prawns but after an accident at the ship happened the fuel or whatever it was that turned Wickus turned all the Aliens into prawns that's why they seemed primitive and didnt land or open the ship, they couldn't work the ship when the humans cut it open, Christopher was maybe exposed less and thats why he was smarter then the rest
The dynamic of this all happening in South Africa is an interesting parallel. Wikus is an fascinating flawed protagonist. He has major failings, but has his good moments too. Christopher and his little one were my favorites as well. I want a sequel, but I want it to tell more about the aliens and their society and how it works more. Why does Christopher and his little one seem more technically proficient? What is the social hierarchy of the aliens. Why did they come to Earth in the first place? I actually put Wikus wife above Wikus in the like ranking. Your South African Wikus accent imitation sounded a bit more posh British. 😄 Mine's not any better, sounds more Aussie. And btw your new highlights look great.
there's another Jo'berg film from the era, "Chappie" (2015). definitely a vehicle for the EDM group Die Antwoort, but still a cool production, esthetic, and story.
The reason Peter Jackson was involved was because alot of the resources came from his scrapped Halo project If I remember correctly. When it wasnt realised Niel (this director) went and convinced him to make it when they already had all those resources there.
The theory is that either there was a cast systems or a disease had affected the aliens intelligence. That's why they were stuck in the ship and needed rescue. Christopher, his son and to some extent his friend were able to keep their high IQ. The Aliens left behind require rescue to get treatment, or at least be back in the hive. As to if the aliens might return and bring war? well they had a lot of weapons for a peaceful race :) Loved seeing you watch this. A great movie.
This is by far one of the greatest scifi films of all times. I loved how the writers incorporated a lot of social, political commentary that existed in South Africa during the height of the apartheid years and as unfortunately it continues today in other parts of the world.
Neil's sci -fi-socio-political trilogy... definitly left a mark... If you found District 9 to be an emotional rollercoaster...then you surely will be rocked by ELYSIUM... Chappy probably too... enjoy.
I don't care what any one says but wikus was a normal human and did what a human would do in his situation try to survive he did some of the scummy things he did because he thought there was hope he can go back to a normal life but realising he is fked at the end made him help christopher and stay back, at least in my opinion he has better charecter writing than an alien with clothes and a kid and the genaric "I wanna go home" thing
Thanks for your always great reactions! But, Sorry: My inner Monk freaks out, that your beautiful Tetris-lamp has a green s-shape tile with the form of the red z-shape tile!! It always drives me crazy!
"Show him your hand. Put up your other hand. God, here I'd be wielding that thing around like, 'Hey everybody, you see what I got.' SHOW THEM YOUR HAND!" Showing people who eat aliens in order to possess their power and gain the ability to fire their stolen space weapons would certainly not be the first thing that would come to my mind. Call me crazy but I would definitely not want to do anything to be the main course on their banquet menu...
Great movie! It made me feel terrible in the right way! I just couldn't stop seeing the parallels with german concentration camps, like you said, and everything that went on with Apartheid and all. So horrifying! Also very true that scifi often comments on this kind of stuff and I love it. I wish people learned more from movies like this.
This movie came out around the time that the question of immigration and refugees was really becoming a contentious debate. This was very much meant to be an allegory for that. That part at the beginning when they talk about it being a humanitarian effort where the aliens were starving so the humans shuttled them down to the ground, and that they were relocating the aliens to a safer and cleaner location were propaganda. They removed the aliens from the ship, because they wanted to study the technology. They wanted to clear out District 9 because they were wanting to confiscate any more alien technology they could find, and look for the command module. This is a story about a minority group that is seen as foreign and scary are being forcibly relocated. The official narrative is that everything the government is doing is for the aliens' own good, and they were providing some assistance like they said they were doing, but the real reason the government was doing all of this is because the aliens had resources that the human government wanted. In essence, this is a sci-fi retelling of The Trail of Tears. And the ending where people are speculating about what Christopher Johnson was going to do now that he's free and "what if he comes back with a fleet and declares war" serves to pose the question "when people are violently repressed and treated like lesser beings, if they are ever able to get out from under that repressive rule, what do you think they're going to do?" You hope that they will take the high road and forgive, but if Christopher Johnson did come back at the head of an armada, it's not like humans didn't give him plenty of reasons to do exactly that. The answer is to not abuse people in the first place.
There is a sequel, District 10, that has long been in the works, but never got strictly close. As of now, it is reportedly supposed to start filming this year or next, the closest it has ever gotten, but until it happens no one is holding their breath.
The satire of this film is that racial discrimination is replaced by species segregation in a country with a dark history of apartheid... The director is South African...
The movie really is an allegory of Apartheid. Wickus believed the aliens were inferior and subhuman because that was the governmental/popular stereotype. When he started becoming one and encountering the inherent racism he realized he was wrong.
Not everyone can start all heroic, we all grow from something. Starting to act like Wikus in the beginning here, ie preconceived notions. Great reaction though.
District 9 wasnt a concentration camp, it was just a slum the aliens were forced to live in. Its based on an apartheid era slum called District 6 in Cape Town. The South African government would force blacks to live in slums with no access to jobs, education, or public services until cities grew too close to the slums, and then they would designate the slums as a whites only area under the Group Areas Act and forcibly remove all the blacks to other further away slums, justifying it by saying how dangerous it was to allow blacks to live too close to whites and how the slums had become unfit for habitation. The documentary part at the start of this movie is depicting what it was like during the 1970s while they were forcibly removing 60,000 people from the slum of District 6, with things like forcing people who couldnt read to sign away their property rights, subjecting them to the whims of a court system they had no hope to navigate, or just outright rampant violence, abuse, and murder, because nobody saw them as human. The way they spread the rumors about Wikkus having sex with the aliens in this is to ruin his reputation and isolate him from his family is exactly the kind of stuff the government used to do to any whites who opposed apartheid. Millions of blacks had their properties forcibly taken from them under the Group Areas Acts from 1951 until 1991, and apartheid didnt even officially end until the first election in South Africa with universal suffrage in 1994.
They wouldnt give him an anesthetic because that would mess with the chemistry inside him, they need all of that as pure as possible...so they wouldve experimented with him for hours, gettin every possible test done before he would die. Sadly, a lot of modern medicine was developed by cruel experiments on humans, just for science.
My first priority was also Chris and his son, Vikis was 2 maybe 3rd but the MNU and Nigerians I gave no shits about, they could murder all of those guys to their heart's content
We marvel at this level of technology, but what if they were something like garbage removal or miners and what we see here is minuscule compared to what they really have for technology.
Great reaction ... you look radiant 👍👍😊😊 However, I am a bit confused about something. Why you are assigning a derogatory meaning to the word "Prawns". That's what HUMANS do, assume that various terms MUST be a putdown, but that's not always the case. You can see in the movie that, the aliens had no issue with the term, and it actually was an apt description ... they *WERE* bottom feeders. Plus, the movie never gave us an actual name of their race. We don't know why, but just because some people meant it to be a negative term, that doesn't mean that it started out that way, or that everyone meant it that way. It really has more to do with WHO is saying it and what THEY meant. For example, we call those little things red and/or black things that bite us sometimes, "ants". How do we know whether they would object to that term or not ??? Are we being derogatory, or are we just using the word we've all agreed upon ??? It's humans that can take a word that is normal one day and make it the most horrible word in the world the next. They word never changed, but someone decided to make it a thing that they could get angry over ... and then it was bad.
RE 13:20 "Would you rather..." Alien hand. No contest. Google pictures of Commisar Yarrick. Or, seeing as you're a Star Wars fan "Yuuzhan Vong". Rule of cool applies.
It’s really sad that Neill has never quite reached the same heights of debut film. Chappie and Elysium are not terrible, but nowhere near the freshness of District 9.
My theory is the ship is a slaver's ship. All of the 'lower cast' aliens are actually lots of distinct species from other worlds that have gone through the same transformation as Wickus. It's how the slavers impose control over their captures. The ship was headed to Earth to gather more cargo when it broke down and the slavers abandoned it. I suspect Christopher was originally a member of the slaver's ship/species that violated 'the code' and was punished by being made a slave as well. If this theory is used as a basis for a sequel (or prequel), it would be insanely epic!
Apartheid South Africa was probably the worst place for the aliens to break down. Every other generic alien go to point in movies would have had a so much better outcome for them.
Kudos to the effects team for being able to express such personality and emotion and make you feel so much sympathy for such an otherworldly being. And may I also add... Who-dey!
Let's not forget that Christopher screwed over Wickus too, on saying that he was going to help fix him, but it was all a lie just to manipulate Wickus. They both used each other. But fortunately in the end they became friends and Wickus risk his life just to help Christopher and his son. And the fact that Angela didn't realize it and showed no empathy to Wickus, just left me shocked. Because they both were victims and good guys. And Wickus was a hero in the end.
@@JillMachado-yb3vg Chrisopher never lied. He said how long it would take from the beginning. He continued to reinforce that he would be back in 3 years to help Wikus out. Christopher was never manipulating anyone. He was the one that got manipulated all the time. Threatening his son, threatening arrest, threatening his life. Not to mention the fact that the whole reason Wikus needed help was because of him touching and illegally searching the home to begin with.
@@JillMachado-yb3vg He always intended to help him. Just after he found out his people were literal test subjects, he felt that that was a more pressing issue to deal with than turning Wikus back right away, and doing so would have used up valuable fuel which could shave time off his journey back home and thus cut down on the amount of time his people were experimented on. He still fully intended on curing him, just not fast enough for Wikus' liking.
So original. So unpredictable. This blew my mind when I first saw it. Whatever I thought I expected, it wasn't this and I loved it. Also the commentary on the treatment of Aliens IRL in South Africa at the time and, well, kind of everywhere. I was hoping you'd do this and so glad you did
@@target844 and after it was abolished 30 years ago. I more or less recently had a pretty deep look into Cape Town and the most bewildering fact to me is that the golf club is like 20min by foot away from a sea of shacks. If you walk a bit too far on the promenade you get into areas that people would advise you not to be in. It's kinda wild these things are so fresh and palpable. I believe this gives Wikus' little "better late than never" thing after having "walked in their shoes for a day" a whole new dimension and it's a bit sad that a lot of people don't connect that, this being a "south-african movie", as i don't think the movie is very subtle about it, but more likely because people don't even have a faint idea what went down and, imo more importantly, when. And while there's a growing portion of the non-white population there making big strides it's gonna take a few generations before one can even remotely think about saying that segregation is over and actually meaning it. I recommend 'Invictus' as a palate-cleanser on the whole issue.
The filming was unexpected as well 😂 it was suppose to be Halo by Peter Jackson but when that project fell through, they had to repurpose the props and vehicles for this film😅
I love how this movie makes us root for the "ugly and disgusting" aliens, and that they make Wikus show more "humanity" as he becomes more alien.
Do we now...?
@@dallesamllhals9161 Do you root for MNU??
@@rowaystarco What'sa(n) MNU?
Is it like D.S.A.?
^West-Jute asking.
@@dallesamllhals9161 I mean, unless you are a sociopath/terrible person, yes.
I am still holding out hope for a sequel to District 9.
I believe there's a District 10 in the works
@@Cobalt059 yeah the most recent update was in 2021 so it might be another couple of years yet
Out of all the movies that deserve a sequel for me this is one is on my top of the list.
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I was a soldier. I do not want to see a sequel, because any decent race is going to send a rescue op, and first step in a rescue op is establishing a perimeter. And we know how humans react to shows of force. You concentrate camp the species, they are not going to react well when their national guard shows up to document what we did and begin the evac, and you can bet they will set down hard perimeter defense.
Neils career has been such a disappointment since D9 I'm sure we'll get a bad sequel.
A lot going on in this movie but I love the premise of "what if the protagonist was kind of dumb and unlikeable?" Wikus feels like a very believable character.
Sadly movies dont do that anymore...not all protagonists need to be good people tbh
His mother at the beginning of the movie did say he wasn't very bright. 🤣
District 9 has a level of realism and believability that sets it apart from all other scifi movies
Yes, as soon as I started watching it the first time I thought "THIS" is how it would actually have happened, as opposed to almost every other movie.
that's because it's supposed to be an allegory for apartheid south africa
It is so new to me. This movie is the very first alien movie that is very unique to me. Mostly we know alien movies are about abduction or invasion but this movie is so different from others that is why I like the story.
This movie gave us Sharlto Copley. He's great in everything he's been in. If interested, he's in a indie movie called 'Hardcore Henry' that is pretty much shot in the perspective of a First Person Shooter game. Very interesting and went viral with a clip they released a long time ago.
Hardcore Henry was fantastic, best POV movie. Not that I can name any other POV movies lol
I was at the US premier of Hardcore Henry at SXSW. Was in the third row when Sharlto Copley said in a preamble to the screening that he liked to call the first 5 rows the splash zone. Such a fun movie, but don't watch it that close on the big screen, lol.
@@jasondemagio4449 Enter the Void does it well. Apparently Pandemic and Lady in the Lake are also First Person POV, but I haven't seen those.
I love what this movie does to your emotions. You go from disliking the main character to feeling sorry for him to hating him to cheering for him and back to feeling sorry.
The VFX and CGI in this movie are still mind-blowing to this day. Especially considering the low budget and mostly handheld direction. This is one of my favorite sci-fi movies of all time.
Funny story. My 17 year old nephew thought this movie was a real documentary for about a year after watching it. I still giggle thinking about it
Well given its an allegory to apartheid... its kinda is... sorta.
Initiallly, Blomkamp was supposed to direct a cinema adaptation of the Halo franchise (co- produced by Peter Jackson) but the project was put down (the studio execs didn't like the look of the test scenes)
District 9 (which is inpired by one of Blomkamp's short) was a message to the studio "look what you missed"
I still feel like not enough people know about this movie. So great start to finish. I'm really sad that they never did the sequel when the aliens come back, although it's better not to have a sequel at all rather than one that can't live up to the original. Great reaction, yet again.
Pretty amazing movie, about human rights using aliens. The movie was inspired by the real events in District 6. Obviously no aliens, but with people and segregation
This is truly a badass piece of sci-fi. Gnarly, dark, hard to watch in places, but with so much rough truth about humanity running through it. Glad you reacted to this one. Another good one is Elysium, which ironically has the same actor who played Wickus, as well as Jodi Foster and Matt Damon.
This movie is the ultimate grey area movie. You can hate the main character's guts yet also understand him. It's an alien movie yet it makes you feel so much. One of my all time favorites.
This movie at first i was like what is this?!i was so confused,but as long the film progressed i just can't stop watching and indeed the movie has a deep message and still is a masterpiece.Greetings and love from Portugal. ❤
Wow I wasn't expecting to see this movie reaction today. Made my day this is one of my favorite films. Top tier Sci fi movie. Sharpton Copley does a phenomenal job.
Hi Angela, so happy you reacted to this film. One of my favorite sci-fi films of all time. It is hard to watch at times, even though I own it on
DVD and I know what happens. But it's so beautiful, visceral, violent, and unfortunately the realism & social commentary is heightened by all of these elements.
Still hoping beyond hope with the other fans that the sequel still comes out, but you never know these days.
Oh yeah, everyone else has recommended Neill Blomkamp's other movies: Elysium, Chappie, and Hardcore Henry.
Take care, Angela!
My thought on the black fluid, consider how their tech is genetically based, designed the modify the body for a task. What likely happened is the one who had the command gene died & effectively, the worker drones couldn't use the ship. Christopher spent 20 years recreating the gene so he could take command of the ship. The species is clearly cast based, with most being simple drones/workers, while Christopher was clearly of the scientist/geneticist cast
Thank you for reaction to this film! It is my favorit film about aliens ever!
One thing that's really subtle is in a late shot we see a sonogram if a foetus in the background when the wife is talking. That's why the "3 years" revelation made Vikis flip out.
I literally laughed out loud when you called Vikus a twat, wasn't expecting it, didn't see it coming!
Love your analysis, as usual. It's always well thought out, even though it seems like it's off the top of your head.
This movie is in the Pantheon of top 5 of all time (it is still behind Arcane as is everything) and your right, there is no way to describe it with out giving too much away. Nobody has a favorite part, nor can they explain why they like it so much either but everytime this movie is mentioned anyone who has seen it has the same reaction. "ERMAAAHGEEEEERD! I love that movie!"
I must say out of all the reaction videos of District 9, THIS was closest to my own reaction when I watched this masterpiece for the first time. Only difference: I had a higher sympathy for Wikus.
Just an amazing movie, came out of nowhere. I saw it five times in the theaters because I kept bringing everyone I know who would come with me to go see it. Such an interesting variation on the "aliens come to Earth" trope. I can't really think offhand of another movie that has run with the premise that when aliens come, almost all of the "smart ones" are gone and the ones we actually have contact with are basically their version of worker bees who don't know what to do because their control team is gone. We don't get many South African films here, so the apartheid allegory was a very different theme for the American audience; we need more of that sort of thing (studies of other cultures and the issues facing people in other parts of the world) in our films.
This reminds me of the scene between Professor X and Senator Kelly. "I'm afraid if i went to a hospital"... "They would treat you like a mutant".
If you ever want to watch a cheesy sci-fi ship battle movie. I recommend Wing Commander with Matthew Illard and Freddy Prince Junior.
"Is it ok that it got in his eyes and his mouth?"
Morgan Freeman: "It was very much *not* ok that it got in his eyes and mouth."
No matter how empathetic you may feel towards the aliens, remember that this is OUR planet. The prawns are VERY different from humans in many ways.
This was a very welcome surprise 😀
YES thank you for reacting to this, i havent seen it yet but im sure its gonna be great xD
Oooooh. I’ll have to bookmark this for later Angela doing district 9!? That’s my late night watch after work for tonight.
For more of Neill Blomkamp, there's Elysium (2013) and Chappie (2015).
For more aliens, I'd recommend Alien Nation (1988) - both the movie and the TV series, Arrival (2016), and Ender's Game (2013). 🖖
one of my favorite theories is that the prawns where actually not prawns but after an accident at the ship happened the fuel or whatever it was that turned Wickus turned all the Aliens into prawns that's why they seemed primitive and didnt land or open the ship, they couldn't work the ship when the humans cut it open, Christopher was maybe exposed less and thats why he was smarter then the rest
The dynamic of this all happening in South Africa is an interesting parallel. Wikus is an fascinating flawed protagonist. He has major failings, but has his good moments too. Christopher and his little one were my favorites as well. I want a sequel, but I want it to tell more about the aliens and their society and how it works more. Why does Christopher and his little one seem more technically proficient? What is the social hierarchy of the aliens. Why did they come to Earth in the first place?
I actually put Wikus wife above Wikus in the like ranking.
Your South African Wikus accent imitation sounded a bit more posh British. 😄 Mine's not any better, sounds more Aussie.
And btw your new highlights look great.
there's another Jo'berg film from the era, "Chappie" (2015). definitely a vehicle for the EDM group Die Antwoort, but still a cool production, esthetic, and story.
The reason Peter Jackson was involved was because alot of the resources came from his scrapped Halo project If I remember correctly. When it wasnt realised Niel (this director) went and convinced him to make it when they already had all those resources there.
I have NEVER heard anybody pronounce "sniveling" like you did lmao
The theory is that either there was a cast systems or a disease had affected the aliens intelligence. That's why they were stuck in the ship and needed rescue.
Christopher, his son and to some extent his friend were able to keep their high IQ.
The Aliens left behind require rescue to get treatment, or at least be back in the hive.
As to if the aliens might return and bring war? well they had a lot of weapons for a peaceful race :)
Loved seeing you watch this. A great movie.
This is by far one of the greatest scifi films of all times. I loved how the writers incorporated a lot of social, political commentary that existed in South Africa during the height of the apartheid years and as unfortunately it continues today in other parts of the world.
I think there is definitely going to be a war. It won't be Christopher's fault, but someone on either side is going to pull the trigger.
You have to watch Chappie after this!
The District is a Township. That's where they "kept" the colored people during Apartheid. That's very southafrican.
I think the same VFX team did Chappie. They blend CG characters extremely well.
I always appreciate the dental perspective we get from this channel.🦷🦷
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Neil's sci -fi-socio-political trilogy... definitly left a mark...
If you found District 9 to be an emotional rollercoaster...then you surely will be rocked by ELYSIUM... Chappy probably too... enjoy.
amazing movie. love your background ;)
I LOVE that it was not over a "1st world nation". Nicely done.
I don't care what any one says but wikus was a normal human and did what a human would do in his situation try to survive he did some of the scummy things he did because he thought there was hope he can go back to a normal life but realising he is fked at the end made him help christopher and stay back, at least in my opinion he has better charecter writing than an alien with clothes and a kid and the genaric "I wanna go home" thing
Thanks for your always great reactions! But, Sorry: My inner Monk freaks out, that your beautiful Tetris-lamp has a green s-shape tile with the form of the red z-shape tile!! It always drives me crazy!
There is a reason it was set in Johannesburg. The whole movie is a commentary on the townships in South Africa during Apartheid.
"Show him your hand. Put up your other hand. God, here I'd be wielding that thing around like, 'Hey everybody, you see what I got.' SHOW THEM YOUR HAND!"
Showing people who eat aliens in order to possess their power and gain the ability to fire their stolen space weapons would certainly not be the first thing that would come to my mind. Call me crazy but I would definitely not want to do anything to be the main course on their banquet menu...
Brilliantly original sci-fi and the rumors continue of a possible sequel. Fingers crossed we will still get one some day.
The cgi for this movie still holds up I remember watching this when alit came out and I couldn’t believe it
That mecha is still one of the best I've ever seen in any movie or show, not just the design but the animation too.
Great movie! It made me feel terrible in the right way! I just couldn't stop seeing the parallels with german concentration camps, like you said, and everything that went on with Apartheid and all. So horrifying! Also very true that scifi often comments on this kind of stuff and I love it. I wish people learned more from movies like this.
This movie came out around the time that the question of immigration and refugees was really becoming a contentious debate. This was very much meant to be an allegory for that.
That part at the beginning when they talk about it being a humanitarian effort where the aliens were starving so the humans shuttled them down to the ground, and that they were relocating the aliens to a safer and cleaner location were propaganda. They removed the aliens from the ship, because they wanted to study the technology. They wanted to clear out District 9 because they were wanting to confiscate any more alien technology they could find, and look for the command module. This is a story about a minority group that is seen as foreign and scary are being forcibly relocated. The official narrative is that everything the government is doing is for the aliens' own good, and they were providing some assistance like they said they were doing, but the real reason the government was doing all of this is because the aliens had resources that the human government wanted. In essence, this is a sci-fi retelling of The Trail of Tears.
And the ending where people are speculating about what Christopher Johnson was going to do now that he's free and "what if he comes back with a fleet and declares war" serves to pose the question "when people are violently repressed and treated like lesser beings, if they are ever able to get out from under that repressive rule, what do you think they're going to do?" You hope that they will take the high road and forgive, but if Christopher Johnson did come back at the head of an armada, it's not like humans didn't give him plenty of reasons to do exactly that.
The answer is to not abuse people in the first place.
One of my all time favorite movies.
This movie has been on my list of ones I want to watch for ages, maybe this will get me to finally get around to it so I can watch your review.
If you loved Sharlto Copley in this movie you’ll love him in Chappie, Elysium and Maleficent. All great movies to watch.
this film is something special
One of my favorite Sci-Fi films. Elysium should be in your list, very similar feel.
An allegory with a capital 'A', about a system with a capital 'A'.
There is a sequel, District 10, that has long been in the works, but never got strictly close. As of now, it is reportedly supposed to start filming this year or next, the closest it has ever gotten, but until it happens no one is holding their breath.
Don't let anyone talk you into watching The Fly films.
Still one of my favourite movies + the kid throwing the lolly back at his eye was hilarious
Looks like you enjoyed the film...😊
South Africa is not as dysfunctional as portrayed in this movie...
Love this movie
I really love your charm and of course your reactions. I remembered this movie being boring but probably because I saw it as a child.
Hey, can you tell me how you set up to record / upload react videos? This seems like something super fun to make!
You need to watch Elysium, with Matt Damon and Diego Luna. The guy that played Wickus is also in it.
The satire of this film is that racial discrimination is replaced by species segregation in a country with a dark history of apartheid... The director is South African...
The movie really is an allegory of Apartheid. Wickus believed the aliens were inferior and subhuman because that was the governmental/popular stereotype. When he started becoming one and encountering the inherent racism he realized he was wrong.
Not everyone can start all heroic, we all grow from something.
Starting to act like Wikus in the beginning here, ie preconceived notions.
Great reaction though.
Who are those patreons and what have they chosen 1st place?
District 9 wasnt a concentration camp, it was just a slum the aliens were forced to live in. Its based on an apartheid era slum called District 6 in Cape Town. The South African government would force blacks to live in slums with no access to jobs, education, or public services until cities grew too close to the slums, and then they would designate the slums as a whites only area under the Group Areas Act and forcibly remove all the blacks to other further away slums, justifying it by saying how dangerous it was to allow blacks to live too close to whites and how the slums had become unfit for habitation. The documentary part at the start of this movie is depicting what it was like during the 1970s while they were forcibly removing 60,000 people from the slum of District 6, with things like forcing people who couldnt read to sign away their property rights, subjecting them to the whims of a court system they had no hope to navigate, or just outright rampant violence, abuse, and murder, because nobody saw them as human. The way they spread the rumors about Wikkus having sex with the aliens in this is to ruin his reputation and isolate him from his family is exactly the kind of stuff the government used to do to any whites who opposed apartheid. Millions of blacks had their properties forcibly taken from them under the Group Areas Acts from 1951 until 1991, and apartheid didnt even officially end until the first election in South Africa with universal suffrage in 1994.
" didn't wear a condom", hahahahahahq
Now onto Chappie.
They wouldnt give him an anesthetic because that would mess with the chemistry inside him, they need all of that as pure as possible...so they wouldve experimented with him for hours, gettin every possible test done before he would die.
Sadly, a lot of modern medicine was developed by cruel experiments on humans, just for science.
My first priority was also Chris and his son, Vikis was 2 maybe 3rd but the MNU and Nigerians I gave no shits about, they could murder all of those guys to their heart's content
Unfortunately they needed an Act 3 so Wikus had to betray Christopher and try to pilot the ship himself ;)
I always found the lead character absolutely infuriating. The guy that knows full well, he has no idea what he’s doing, and is in charge.
If you want aliens and fighting you should try Starship Troopers.
my name is Stephen Christopher Johnson
So good 🌸
I suspect the aliens have nanotechnology some of us humans are working on something similar
Great movie... kinda of an updated version of Alien Nation
If you like District 9, I'd highly suggest Enemy Mine, it has a lot of the same vibes.
now you need to watch "Chappie"
We marvel at this level of technology, but what if they were something like garbage removal or miners and what we see here is minuscule compared to what they really have for technology.
Great reaction ... you look radiant 👍👍😊😊
However, I am a bit confused about something. Why you are assigning a derogatory meaning to the word "Prawns". That's what HUMANS do, assume that various terms MUST be a putdown, but that's not always the case. You can see in the movie that, the aliens had no issue with the term, and it actually was an apt description ... they *WERE* bottom feeders. Plus, the movie never gave us an actual name of their race. We don't know why, but just because some people meant it to be a negative term, that doesn't mean that it started out that way, or that everyone meant it that way. It really has more to do with WHO is saying it and what THEY meant.
For example, we call those little things red and/or black things that bite us sometimes, "ants". How do we know whether they would object to that term or not ??? Are we being derogatory, or are we just using the word we've all agreed upon ??? It's humans that can take a word that is normal one day and make it the most horrible word in the world the next. They word never changed, but someone decided to make it a thing that they could get angry over ... and then it was bad.
Watch the movie Arrival for more unexpected aliens.
Still waiting for district 10
RE 13:20 "Would you rather..." Alien hand. No contest. Google pictures of Commisar Yarrick. Or, seeing as you're a Star Wars fan "Yuuzhan Vong". Rule of cool applies.
It’s really sad that Neill has never quite reached the same heights of debut film. Chappie and Elysium are not terrible, but nowhere near the freshness of District 9.
My theory is the ship is a slaver's ship. All of the 'lower cast' aliens are actually lots of distinct species from other worlds that have gone through the same transformation as Wickus. It's how the slavers impose control over their captures. The ship was headed to Earth to gather more cargo when it broke down and the slavers abandoned it. I suspect Christopher was originally a member of the slaver's ship/species that violated 'the code' and was punished by being made a slave as well. If this theory is used as a basis for a sequel (or prequel), it would be insanely epic!
I was shaken walking out of the theater after this one.
Visceral, emotional, hard to watch at times. It's horribly beautiful.
Beautifully horrible would make more sense here.
Nah Bill got it right
Apartheid South Africa was probably the worst place for the aliens to break down. Every other generic alien go to point in movies would have had a so much better outcome for them.
After all the ways Wickus screwed over Christopher, he still said to Wickus "we stick together, I'm not leaving you here"
A true heart of gold
Kudos to the effects team for being able to express such personality and emotion and make you feel so much sympathy for such an otherworldly being.
And may I also add... Who-dey!
Let's not forget that Christopher screwed over Wickus too, on saying that he was going to help fix him, but it was all a lie just to manipulate Wickus. They both used each other. But fortunately in the end they became friends and Wickus risk his life just to help Christopher and his son. And the fact that Angela didn't realize it and showed no empathy to Wickus, just left me shocked. Because they both were victims and good guys. And Wickus was a hero in the end.
@@JillMachado-yb3vg Chrisopher never lied. He said how long it would take from the beginning. He continued to reinforce that he would be back in 3 years to help Wikus out. Christopher was never manipulating anyone. He was the one that got manipulated all the time. Threatening his son, threatening arrest, threatening his life. Not to mention the fact that the whole reason Wikus needed help was because of him touching and illegally searching the home to begin with.
@@JillMachado-yb3vg He always intended to help him. Just after he found out his people were literal test subjects, he felt that that was a more pressing issue to deal with than turning Wikus back right away, and doing so would have used up valuable fuel which could shave time off his journey back home and thus cut down on the amount of time his people were experimented on. He still fully intended on curing him, just not fast enough for Wikus' liking.
So original. So unpredictable. This blew my mind when I first saw it. Whatever I thought I expected, it wasn't this and I loved it. Also the commentary on the treatment of Aliens IRL in South Africa at the time and, well, kind of everywhere. I was hoping you'd do this and so glad you did
It also shows the treatment of large parts of the Soth African population during the apartheid era.
@@target844 and after it was abolished 30 years ago. I more or less recently had a pretty deep look into Cape Town and the most bewildering fact to me is that the golf club is like 20min by foot away from a sea of shacks. If you walk a bit too far on the promenade you get into areas that people would advise you not to be in. It's kinda wild these things are so fresh and palpable. I believe this gives Wikus' little "better late than never" thing after having "walked in their shoes for a day" a whole new dimension and it's a bit sad that a lot of people don't connect that, this being a "south-african movie", as i don't think the movie is very subtle about it, but more likely because people don't even have a faint idea what went down and, imo more importantly, when. And while there's a growing portion of the non-white population there making big strides it's gonna take a few generations before one can even remotely think about saying that segregation is over and actually meaning it.
I recommend 'Invictus' as a palate-cleanser on the whole issue.
The less human wikus became, the more human he acted
This movie definitely should get more recognition and the script alone deserved an acadamy award. Had a blast with your reaction.👏
It was nominated for movie of the year. It didn't win though.
Last I heard on District 10, Blomkamp said it was in development and we should be hearing more about it come 2024, so there's still hope.
Such an unexpected movie! This was nothing what I expected when I watched it for the first time.
#teamChristopherJohnson
The filming was unexpected as well 😂 it was suppose to be Halo by Peter Jackson but when that project fell through, they had to repurpose the props and vehicles for this film😅