District 9 was great in every way. Great story telling, great effects (and, yet, very low-key compared to what we usually expect anymore), and I really loved the fact that it wasn't set in the United States and didn't feature any big name actors.

Dusty's right. See it. Now. No, right now.

Taint wrote:

(and, yet, very low-key compared to what we usually expect anymore)

You are out of your mind. Most of the extras and a significant number of important characters are completely computer generated, there is a constant supply of explosions, extreme tech, and flying pieces of fire, metal or electricity over at least a good quarter of the runtime of the film. And that's not even talking about the heavy doses of gore and um, biologicals that flow with the story.

The weird thing is, the story does not exist as an excuse for the effects as in must science fiction movies, but the heavy effects actually do move the storyline. It's an incredible, thought provoking film.

All in all, an extreme display of balls on the part of a major studio.

Orangina wrote:

All in all, an extreme display of balls on the part of a major studio.

E-Specially as the "trend" now seems to be "re-booting" movies that aren't but two to three decades old yet.  I fucking hate Holly-Wood Ashkenazis all-most as much as I hate the ig-norant fuck-heads who actually pay money to sup-port such sloth.