iTunes now carries District 9 in 4K and Dolby Vision, it was on sale for $5 and I thought I'd pick this up.
It's been a decade since the movie came out and it's still just as good today as when it was released. Our protagonist, Vickers is a managerial stooge for a multinational weapons contractor- MNU (ie: Blackwater) who takes it upon themselves to oversee a settlement of refugee aliens from their home planet. More interested in their weapons technology, the MNU perpetrates unspeakable crimes upon the aliens, willing to do practically anything to extract information and technology from them.
When I first saw the movie a decade ago, I recall being sympathetic towards Vickers, but this time around not at all. He only seemed to care about the aliens when he was actually physically being transformed into one of them.
The best sci-fi shines a light on modern social issues, there's few movies in recent memory that does it as well as District 9. I only wish there were more sci-fi movies as good as this.
It's been a decade since the movie came out and it's still just as good today as when it was released. Our protagonist, Vickers is a managerial stooge for a multinational weapons contractor- MNU (ie: Blackwater) who takes it upon themselves to oversee a settlement of refugee aliens from their home planet. More interested in their weapons technology, the MNU perpetrates unspeakable crimes upon the aliens, willing to do practically anything to extract information and technology from them.
When I first saw the movie a decade ago, I recall being sympathetic towards Vickers, but this time around not at all. He only seemed to care about the aliens when he was actually physically being transformed into one of them.
The best sci-fi shines a light on modern social issues, there's few movies in recent memory that does it as well as District 9. I only wish there were more sci-fi movies as good as this.