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Previewed before Wolverine. The trailer gave me a really similar feeling that Cloverfield's trailer has done before. The film is, afaik, going to be documentary style. It's based on a short film done by the director in 2005.

Plot from Wikipedia

The short film is about aliens landing in Africa and becoming contained to a specific area and forced to work. In the movie these aliens are called "Non-Humans" and are overseen by Multi-National United (MNU), a company which is utilizing alien technology.

Aside from the trailer released, everything's been viral campaigns, like Cloverfield. Here are site related to the movie:
http://www.d-9.com/
http://www.multinationalunited.com/
http://www.mnuspreadslies.com/

Fansite: http://district9news.com/

2005 Short Film "Alive in Joburg":
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District 9 Teaser:
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Pretty excited for this movie. It's coming out on August 14. Some people call it as the biggest surprise movie this summer, but we'll just have to wait.

very nooiiceee!!!!

i'll look into this more, thanks mate

Will be watching this.

Looks interesting. Kinda hard to believe this is how we would treat first contact though.

If first contact popped out of space with no intentions of leaving but needing resources from us to survive its very believable. Think of the way we treat illegal aliens in this country, and those are human beings.

woah.. the first minute or 2 of the clip reminded me so much of halflife 2, with the gravity gun the way he was throwing objects around,
i never heard of this movie b4 but i think its going to be a must see for me.

TBH it looks really shit lol.... no country on earth would treat first contact like that... the story doesnt even make sense lol

Looks like a very very good movie, I'm sure as hell gonna watch it.

It's not about first contact, it's about the years after first contact from what I can see and understand from the movie and trailer. So first contact was made, but nothing good came from it. Aliens blending in our society and slowly spreading, parasiting resources.. Not a completely unrealistic situation really. In the event that aliens would visit Earth, that is.

I was a bit sceptical while watching, but I have to say it looks pretty interesting.

I saw that preview before Wolverine too.It looks really mysterious...

BUMP!

Planning to go see it tonight. I don't rely on critics that much but damn, RT is giving it 98% as of today.

I seen it advertised last night when i went to see GI JOE, looks really terrible!, not going to see it.

I'm seeing it with a bunch of friends tonight as well, pretty excited.

Prophet Izaach wrote:BUMP!

Planning to go see it tonight.

same XD

I thought it was a joke when I first saw the trailer on T.V lol. Like no lie, I thought it was a comedy or something..

I've been wanting to see this also. Been meaning to watch Cloverfield as well, just haven't had time

Sacchin wrote:I've been wanting to see this also. Been meaning to watch Cloverfield as well, just haven't had time

cloverfield is pretty good but if shaking cameras make your eyes hurt or make you wanna throw up dont watch it

so gonna see district 9

Jstar1 wrote:

Sacchin wrote:I've been wanting to see this also. Been meaning to watch Cloverfield as well, just haven't had time

cloverfield is pretty good but if shaking cameras make your eyes hurt or make you wanna throw up dont watch it

so gonna see district 9

I wanna see both ;d

cloverfield is definitely worth watching

i'm planning on watching this tomorrow night =]

XemnasXD wrote:If first contact popped out of space with no intentions of leaving but needing resources from us to survive its very believable. Think of the way we treat illegal aliens in this country, and those are human beings.

Aliens landing on Earth itself is already a sensational idea. Them landing with that kind of situation is even more unlikely.

Definitely looks cool.

Mr.Ganji wrote:

XemnasXD wrote:If first contact popped out of space with no intentions of leaving but needing resources from us to survive its very believable. Think of the way we treat illegal aliens in this country, and those are human beings.

Aliens landing on Earth itself is already a sensational idea. Them landing with that kind of situation is even more unlikely.

i didn't say i was expecting it...i was saying that if they arrived under those circumstance, we would be assholes like we always are...if they arrived with death rays, we'd turn into pussies...

EDIT: Saw it. Liked it alot, couldn't find any flaws in the acting or the story. I wish i got to see more of the Aliens world and their real culture but alas. If i had to rate it i'd give it 9/10 and highly recommend it.

i plan on seeing it but most likely ill wait for bluray and rent it cus its so much cheaper.

some1 stay for the credits and let the rest of us know if theres anything (good) during or after them.

XemnasXD wrote:i didn't say i was expecting it...i was saying that if they arrived under those circumstance, we would be assholes like we always are...if they arrived with death rays, we'd turn into pussies...

You assume everything way too much.

Why would there be aliens with space ships on our planets for years, taking resources and stuff and we havent taken the technolgy and got our own spaceships and w/e.

Unless they did in the movie? :d

It's actually more plausible for a community/species to move to another planet for resources than to just make contact. The will to survive far outweighs the thirst for knowledge.

Just saw it. I liked it, as I expected. The action scenes are pretty fun - makes me wish they made a game for this, just to wield that crazy alien weapon. I don't really know what to say lol.

i can't wait

the budget was 30 million, it looks like a movie double its budget =]

Saw it earlier today. Was pretty damn good, but the story line unfolded waaaay different than I had expected (probably because I didn't read any plot outlines, just went in after seeing previews) Either way was still good. Had a good bit of documentory style filming and a lot of shaky camera footage. Nice action scenes, etc etc. I'm not a movie reviewer, it was a good movie.

I did find one flaw during the movie and remember going "hey wait a minute", but then after leaving I couldn't and still can't remember what it was... I fail.

awesome pig flinging gravity gun. too bad the aliens are still using binary systems. (or maybe that's because they built their ship from human computers?)