It would be heavily woke nowadays: "Let the aliens be gay and proud!!!" Yeah I can't agree with you more. although there is a rise of woke people getting fired from their jobs at studio's and the fact that Deadpool and Wolverine made a significant gain out of what they originally paid to create the movie shows studio's that it doesn't always need *tHe MeSsAgE* .
I agree. Looking back at various franchises i now wish they left well alone. Die Hard, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, just to name a few. Why I’m glad we haven’t had a sequel to Dredd. One fantastic movie, story told, leave it alone. And at times, very rarely do we actually get a worthy sequel that expands on the original classic without pissing on it, Blade Runner 2049.
Fun fact the producers of this movie were originally going to make a halo movie but scrapped the idea and made this movie instead. Most of the weapons were painted over when they scrapped halo and a lot of the weapons and ideas in the movie were from the original halo movie that never came to be. Every time the prawn throws that grenade the blast always reminds me of the sticky grenade from the halo games
Totally awesome scene. Christopher's reaction after he fired the lightning gun makes me laugh every time. The special effects of him jumping on the desk were right on and made him seem pretty gangster. The scene with the tank suit where he launches the pig is priceless.
I don’t think people quite understand how fucking insane District 9 and Elysium were back in the day. Transformers was all the rage at the time, but man. This movie had some of the best cgi I’ve ever scene in a movie before. Plus the cinematography? *Chef’s Kiss* 👨🏽🍳
If only Blomkamp had been able to do a sequel to District 9 …. This was such a brilliant film, good script, dark humour and brilliantly executed in terms of cinematography and FX!
I remember seeing this in theaters and all the trailers that led up to it were so ambiguous I had no clue what this movie was going to be about besides that there were aliens living with humans. I love how it turned out and the twists along the way also the VFX and CGI are amazing they still hold up to today’s standards.
The closet to a movie set in the Half Life video game universe. The weapons, tech and atmosphere screams Half Life 2, love it. 6:48 after he smashes the glass, the little beeping noise sounds like it came out of Half Life.
This movie is so unique. Had that documentary and half life feeling to it, the aliens being similar to humans when their chain of command is lost, and the pacing was good. There were a lot of cool ideas in this that just mixed up so well, almost wish it was a series
@@АлексейКисилев-д3чthese types of comments piss me off, you’re acting like a random basically indie director is gonna fall into the supposed “”apocalypse of woke propaganda”” when the most “”woke”” thing they’re probably gonna do is make a female character it is NOT this deep. But nah we need a reason to hate on LGBTQ no matter how bullshit it is😭🙏🔥💯
He wasn't a reporter, he was part of the government agency policing, evicting, relocating, and generally harassing the prawns. He was being filmed for a news report in the beginning though, and we had the news-camera view for the first half (I forget how long tbh, cos it's been a while since I've watched it.
It's absolutely criminal they never made a sequel or anything else related to D9. This was such a fantastic story with amazing visuals. The sci-fi tech was so much fun to watch and see on-screen. The "Zappp-splats" were so freakin bad@ss.
This is such a great movie for so many reasons… but he really should have emotionally prepared Christopher for what he might see in there before they went in.
well wickus said he didn't know about the experiments but i wonder if that's a lie as he didn't seem too shocked when he went down there just saying "don't worry about it"
It took me like 10 watch throughs to notice 3 very important parts of this movie. The first were the analogies drawn compared to apartheid. The second was the human characters showing the aliens empathy and the aliens like Christopher showing a human empathy and compassion, despite being two completely different species that were raised billions of light years from eachother. The last is what you make of it. The same stuff that powers the prawns spacecrafts can also biologically mutate a human being, as if the fuel has a dual purpose as a seeding device for terraforming worlds. That means there is a possibility that the prawns did not come to Earth with peaceful intentions. The fact that Blomkamp left that part ambigious is one of the reasons that makes the movie so fantastic.
What always made me laugh about this scene is Christopher can clearly use the guns with no trouble and use them properly. Wikus seems only able to use or only wants to use the "special attack" mode on his rifle and abuses the auto-tracking lightning blast.
@4:38 when Christopher looses a few bursts of suppressing fire, I always got the impression that while he knew HOW his species' weaponry worked, he wasn't exactly a trained soldier. He's clearly extremely intelligent and knowledgeable about his species' technology and piloting (making things like biofuel, bombs, and computers with scavenged parts), but the way he just kinda rides the gun's recoil without controlling it seems very much so like a "I know how to use this technology because I grew up seeing it, but I didn't necessarily train with it". I always thought that was really clever though, to highlight just how the alien's weaponry helped them "even the odds"; because by themselves, they'd be no match; but as you said, with auto lock-on lightning, explosives that can bust through 2 feet of concrete, and giant war mechs, they really did manage to pull through haha.
@@sarcasticguy4311 Woah, that's cool! And I don't believe it's intentional (although I wouldn't be surprised if it was intentional) but it kinda matches their personalities too. Christopher is very deliberate and conscientious, so his gun fires accurate little bursts because he tries his best to limit the amount of carnage he does and tries not to take any unnecessary lives. Wikus on the other hand is going berserk and just lashing out at everything he sees, so his gun reflects that by just auto-locking on anything with a pulse and exploding them into chunks.
@@LordSeethe Yes, I think it's easy to forget that Wikus is probably in considerable pain for half the movie and it's getting worse and he's trying to keep a semi-cool head while most of this is going on.
I couldn't eat shrimp or prawn for a year after watching this movie for the first time. Such a great film. I should revisit it, since it's been a while since I've last watched this.
You know what always grinded my gears about this scene? The fact that an African militia soldier had an Red Tailed Boa as a pet, a species from Central and South America.
The graphics in this movie were phenomenal. And I always wished and dreamed that the director and producer would get back together and make a Gears of War series. They could pull it off and it would be kick ass
2:31..the best "holy shit" ever..😂😂😂...read some trivia that the actor didn't know how powerful the air cannon was so when it fired and the stuntman was blasted through the wall the "holy shit" was the actor's genuine reaction 😂😂😂
This may be one of the most overlooked and underrated movies in a long time, the story the characters everything is awesome, culminating with the raid on mnu which is so action packed and exciting, excellent movie.
This is the most trivial of nitpicks, but I'm pretty sure someone in IT would have cancelled Wikus's access code and fingerprint authorisation the moment they decided to harvest his ass. I say this with love though this is 1000% my favourite movie of all time
Yeah, i could understand the code still working, might be reused by another person. But the prints even though he was supposed to have died shouldn't take more than a week to reset at most for a secure facility.
@samfrancisco8095 This is a secure facility. And a basic procedure not being followed. It's not about expecting the unexpected, someone didn't do their job.
I'm no advocate for the Communist Manifesto, but Karl Marx once wrote that the worker in the capitalist system will confront himself as an Alien in the sense of being a stranger. Wikus is indeed a low level pawn (prawn) in a powerful company who is forced to become something he despises: Inhuman and thus Fully Expendable.
I wanted a sequel to this movie so badly ever since I saw it 3 times in theaters back when it released. But with the state of Hollywood these days, I feel the window for a sequel has passed. They would butcher this story if it was made nowadays
Such a great movie with such an interesting concept I’d love to see more of this world but the movie is a complete story it would need to be something else
Probably best we don't get a sequel, this alone is timeless
It would be heavily woke nowadays: "Let the aliens be gay and proud!!!" Yeah I can't agree with you more.
although there is a rise of woke people getting fired from their jobs at studio's and the fact that Deadpool and Wolverine made a significant gain out of what they originally paid to create the movie shows studio's that it doesn't always need *tHe MeSsAgE* .
I agree. Looking back at various franchises i now wish they left well alone. Die Hard, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, just to name a few. Why I’m glad we haven’t had a sequel to Dredd. One fantastic movie, story told, leave it alone. And at times, very rarely do we actually get a worthy sequel that expands on the original classic without pissing on it, Blade Runner 2049.
Apparently they are
At first I thought it was a new one
@@madcatgains What a sad life you must live
Still years later and no hollywood movie has made weapons as cool as these
Men in black,for example.
Chemrail.
Fun fact the producers of this movie were originally going to make a halo movie but scrapped the idea and made this movie instead. Most of the weapons were painted over when they scrapped halo and a lot of the weapons and ideas in the movie were from the original halo movie that never came to be. Every time the prawn throws that grenade the blast always reminds me of the sticky grenade from the halo games
Agree...
@@pogrmanrichmannah...cartoonish funny junk
The cgi from 2009 in d9 is still far better than modern Disney
absolutely one of the best raids ever. its like a mix between a terror attack and a spy movie evil scientist raid, with hints of ridley scott's alien
And the best part … successful raid !?
James Cameron's Aliens
More like a half-life NPC
@starwarsroo2448 guess i kinda just meant the franchise generally but yeah aliens was made by james Cameron srry 😂
@Rexini_Kobalt tighten it up a bit, we can do better than that
"I thought you said not to kill anyone"
"Well he shot at me!" - Every stealth through play through ever.
Totally awesome scene. Christopher's reaction after he fired the lightning gun makes me laugh every time. The special effects of him jumping on the desk were right on and made him seem pretty gangster. The scene with the tank suit where he launches the pig is priceless.
@@terryschulz7241"Imagine the last thing you see is a high velocity pig" 😂 read a comment from the mech video
@@genosootaku8649 Take cover! Incoming bacon!
2:32
One of the best and most underrated SF movies ever.
One of my favorites.
The detail of having a pit in the middle of the floor so the boss can look down on those he integrates is so good
Damn they left out the dialog of the prawn. When Wikus shot the dude that exploded, the prawn is like "HOLY SHIT!!" hahah
I don’t think people quite understand how fucking insane District 9 and Elysium were back in the day. Transformers was all the rage at the time, but man. This movie had some of the best cgi I’ve ever scene in a movie before. Plus the cinematography? *Chef’s Kiss* 👨🏽🍳
If only Blomkamp had been able to do a sequel to District 9 …. This was such a brilliant film, good script, dark humour and brilliantly executed in terms of cinematography and FX!
No sequel necessary
They would have fucked a sequel up.
@@icantthinkofaname4265It’s been in development already.
Visually was a great move. Also😢 no sequel. Wanna see Vikus redemption story.
No need for more
The alien gun effects and sounds are absolutely superb.
Still remember seeing this in the theater and literally being on the edge of my seat. Movie hasn't done that to me since.
5:18 On the wall says "Tetra vaal".
In Chappie, which is the same country, the company where the scouts robots are assembled has the same name.
just like Cameron's Cyberdyne company.
Chappie, District 9 and Elysium are all connected.
@@Andrew_John_I don't know, might be in the same country but in different timelapse.
I remember seeing this in theaters and all the trailers that led up to it were so ambiguous I had no clue what this movie was going to be about besides that there were aliens living with humans. I love how it turned out and the twists along the way also the VFX and CGI are amazing they still hold up to today’s standards.
he should've won an oscar for this.
Nope, he is not black, tran + s, guy with A or queen with R. so he is not Oscar worthy in the academy eyes.
@@YK-G99 Wikus van de Merwe is trans! He goes from being a human to a prawn.
@YK-G999 do you even know when this came out brain-worm victim?
@@YK-G99has nothing to do with it.
@@ronin5020fr don’t even know how that became a topic while watching this lol
The weaponry in this movie was top tier.
Human and alien:)
The closet to a movie set in the Half Life video game universe. The weapons, tech and atmosphere screams Half Life 2, love it. 6:48 after he smashes the glass, the little beeping noise sounds like it came out of Half Life.
The mech suit later in the movie even has a gravity gun. 🙂
Ironically it was supposed to be a halo movie.
underrated movie of the century
💯
wasnt underrated, it was nominated for the oscars (best movie)
Es que no hay "americans"
This movie is so unique. Had that documentary and half life feeling to it, the aliens being similar to humans when their chain of command is lost, and the pacing was good. There were a lot of cool ideas in this that just mixed up so well, almost wish it was a series
pretty sure this is exactly how government will treat any alien that arrives here
Good, people are actually the good ones in this movie
@@sven4049 the aliens are basically the rohingyas of the real world. They have nowhere to go and is unwelcomed anywhere 😢
they treat their own citizens this way, why they should do anything else to aliens?
@@sven4049 Are you a liberty hating commie by any chance?
Motherfucker, it's how they treat HUMANS. And not even foreign ones, as if that'd be better.
I know people like to throw the word "masterpiece" around, but this movie truly is a masterpiece
I'd forgotten how groundbreaking a movie District 9 is. Now I want to go back and watch it. It's been too long.
3 years he promised im still waiting
Bueno, tres años en el espacio para él serían muchos años para nosotros en el planeta tierra.
he talk about it since 2015
@@alfioargentina I really hope you are right i cant wait too much longer
we are gonna die and not see the fuckin sequel 😓
One of the greatest sci-fi films of all time.
One of the best sci FI movies of all time.
Chappie as well!
One of the greatest movies of all time... It's only flaw was the lack of a sequel....
наоборот, хорошо что нет продолжения, иначе наснимают про геев и лесби в главных ролях так что смотреть будет невозможно
@@АлексейКисилев-д3ч So true. The DEI has to get their way and ruin the plot.
@@АлексейКисилев-д3чthese types of comments piss me off, you’re acting like a random basically indie director is gonna fall into the supposed “”apocalypse of woke propaganda”” when the most “”woke”” thing they’re probably gonna do is make a female character it is NOT this deep. But nah we need a reason to hate on LGBTQ no matter how bullshit it is😭🙏🔥💯
@@АлексейКисилев-д3чI thank god I’m not this stupid 😂
From a nerd reporter to a badass hybrid
He wasn't a reporter, he was part of the government agency policing, evicting, relocating, and generally harassing the prawns. He was being filmed for a news report in the beginning though, and we had the news-camera view for the first half (I forget how long tbh, cos it's been a while since I've watched it.
The Alien Bio Signature Weapons are Spectacular !!
It's absolutely criminal they never made a sequel or anything else related to D9. This was such a fantastic story with amazing visuals.
The sci-fi tech was so much fun to watch and see on-screen. The "Zappp-splats" were so freakin bad@ss.
Thank god they didn't
@@christopherpekel6096 seriously. Especially considering everything blomkamp made afterward. I love that this movie was a one and done thing
ты что не видел продолжения властелина колец. опять про меншинства
@@АлексейКисилев-д3ч wtf are you talking about?
@@negator14 догадайся если мозги имеются
This is such a great movie for so many reasons… but he really should have emotionally prepared Christopher for what he might see in there before they went in.
well wickus said he didn't know about the experiments but i wonder if that's a lie as he didn't seem too shocked when he went down there just saying "don't worry about it"
@@mikesully110 Wikus saw the experiments. He himself was captured and experimented on.
This was African talent at its best
2:32
same with chappie and elysium
@@ARCLIGHT21 definitely
It took me like 10 watch throughs to notice 3 very important parts of this movie. The first were the analogies drawn compared to apartheid. The second was the human characters showing the aliens empathy and the aliens like Christopher showing a human empathy and compassion, despite being two completely different species that were raised billions of light years from eachother.
The last is what you make of it. The same stuff that powers the prawns spacecrafts can also biologically mutate a human being, as if the fuel has a dual purpose as a seeding device for terraforming worlds. That means there is a possibility that the prawns did not come to Earth with peaceful intentions. The fact that Blomkamp left that part ambigious is one of the reasons that makes the movie so fantastic.
Explains a lot why agent Kruger turned in to such an A hole. Beware the fury of a patient man.
Neill Blomkamp NEEDS to make a sequel!
A prequel needed. What caused the ship to get stuck?
Donate?
No, he doesn't.
I love how Wikus is firing back at MNU with the same weapon they forced him to shoot that innocent prawn with. Attention to detail.
What always made me laugh about this scene is Christopher can clearly use the guns with no trouble and use them properly. Wikus seems only able to use or only wants to use the "special attack" mode on his rifle and abuses the auto-tracking lightning blast.
@4:38 when Christopher looses a few bursts of suppressing fire, I always got the impression that while he knew HOW his species' weaponry worked, he wasn't exactly a trained soldier. He's clearly extremely intelligent and knowledgeable about his species' technology and piloting (making things like biofuel, bombs, and computers with scavenged parts), but the way he just kinda rides the gun's recoil without controlling it seems very much so like a "I know how to use this technology because I grew up seeing it, but I didn't necessarily train with it".
I always thought that was really clever though, to highlight just how the alien's weaponry helped them "even the odds"; because by themselves, they'd be no match; but as you said, with auto lock-on lightning, explosives that can bust through 2 feet of concrete, and giant war mechs, they really did manage to pull through haha.
@@LordSeethe Good point. I always thought the look on his face after those bursts was, "Wow. That was awful. Did I hit anything? Anything at all?"
@@LordSeethe Oh, shit. It has a nickname!
"The ARC gun, also referred to as the "Mulcher," is an alien weapon that fires a stream of electricity."
@@sarcasticguy4311 Woah, that's cool! And I don't believe it's intentional (although I wouldn't be surprised if it was intentional) but it kinda matches their personalities too. Christopher is very deliberate and conscientious, so his gun fires accurate little bursts because he tries his best to limit the amount of carnage he does and tries not to take any unnecessary lives. Wikus on the other hand is going berserk and just lashing out at everything he sees, so his gun reflects that by just auto-locking on anything with a pulse and exploding them into chunks.
@@LordSeethe Yes, I think it's easy to forget that Wikus is probably in considerable pain for half the movie and it's getting worse and he's trying to keep a semi-cool head while most of this is going on.
One of the best sci-fi movies ever made
This movie's an emotional roller coaster
I definitely don't want to die and not see if they ever made a sequel to this movie.
awesome underrated gem, doesn't need a sequel because i'm afraid they would F that up beyond anything,
Seamless, flawless special effects.
Considering this film had the budget it had is mind blowing
I couldn't eat shrimp or prawn for a year after watching this movie for the first time. Such a great film.
I should revisit it, since it's been a while since I've last watched this.
One of the greatest science fiction movies ever created; a true masterpiece.
this is a movie that really needs a sequel
Love this movie. Wish there was a sequel.
An underrated movie that deserves a sequal
You know what always grinded my gears about this scene? The fact that an African militia soldier had an Red Tailed Boa as a pet, a species from Central and South America.
Okay dude.
So? It was an exotic import. Can't African warlords and militias have nice imported things too?
@adamgitmed3779
How dare you judge African warlord as poor and not having taste for exotic animals
That's because he is GANGSTER 😅
Well they DID mention at the beginning of the movie that these gangs are also smugglers.
The graphics in this movie were phenomenal. And I always wished and dreamed that the director and producer would get back together and make a Gears of War series. They could pull it off and it would be kick ass
Such a great movie, really portrays the savagery of the Africans in South Africa.
Robot Activation sequence was the best,,,
This is the best sci fi movie ever made
5:34
Its green Maliwan rifle but UVHM picked xD
Such a good underrated film !
Love the biomech design in this movie!
2:31..the best "holy shit" ever..😂😂😂...read some trivia that the actor didn't know how powerful the air cannon was so when it fired and the stuntman was blasted through the wall the "holy shit" was the actor's genuine reaction 😂😂😂
Great movie- one of the best s-cs I have ever seen, but underrated and very sad story...
One of the best science fiction movies ever 😮
The fact that "think of your boy!" Got him to snap out of it and move😭😭😭
I forgot how good this movie is.
"jou poes! ek gaan jou fokken bliksem!" gets me every time XD
He estado buscando esta película durante años. ¡¡¡AÑOS!!! Y UA-cam me la recomendó ahora
Haven't watched this movies in yearsssssssss, defo watching it again tonight
People, this scene is not about an aliens. It is about you. Corporation owners do the same things to human beings every day.
never noticed the warlord is a paraplegic. makes the scene make much more sense
This may be one of the most overlooked and underrated movies in a long time, the story the characters everything is awesome, culminating with the raid on mnu which is so action packed and exciting, excellent movie.
Movie was amazing felt so immersed
Masterpiece
This is the most trivial of nitpicks, but I'm pretty sure someone in IT would have cancelled Wikus's access code and fingerprint authorisation the moment they decided to harvest his ass. I say this with love though this is 1000% my favourite movie of all time
Never underestimate the incompetence and laziness of office worker
@@OSTemli lol!
Yeah, i could understand the code still working, might be reused by another person. But the prints even though he was supposed to have died shouldn't take more than a week to reset at most for a secure facility.
@@tyr7876 Priorities. No expectation of expecting the unexpected.
@samfrancisco8095 This is a secure facility. And a basic procedure not being followed. It's not about expecting the unexpected, someone didn't do their job.
I still remember the collective gasp in theaters when Wikus used that alien rifle for the first time.
The way humans explode is absolutely badass .
One of the best movies ever
Can't believe what they did with such a small budget
Nowadays 400million usd are spend and chinare laughable
I saw this movie in cinema back then, it was pretty cool 😊
It is hilarious that his finger print scans still work. This is every corporation ever its just so funny how real that is.
I'm no advocate for the Communist Manifesto, but Karl Marx once wrote that the worker in the capitalist system will confront himself as an Alien in the sense of being a stranger. Wikus is indeed a low level pawn (prawn) in a powerful company who is forced to become something he despises: Inhuman and thus Fully Expendable.
la mejor pelicula de accion, lejos!!
halo flood form at 6:13 on a the left
Ooooooohhhh I see it , had to triple check 😮
There’s no way… that’s sick if it actually is!!
The way my jaw dropped when I saw it🤯
Can’t quite tell if it was
Sharlito's the GOAT!
Utter masterpiece.
The weapons were so cool in this movie.
Μια απο της καλύτερες ταινίες επιστημονικής φαντασίας...Την εχω δει πανω απο 10 φορες...!!!
Why has there not been a District 10 made? Awesome Movie! 👍👍
This man deserved a fucking oscar.
I wanted a sequel to this movie so badly ever since I saw it 3 times in theaters back when it released. But with the state of Hollywood these days, I feel the window for a sequel has passed. They would butcher this story if it was made nowadays
I have that repulsor cannon in my destiny 2 inventory
Didn’t love this movie the 1st time thru, it had to grow on me…love this movie.
"i'll send you 'ome in a fokkin jar!" 😂😂
Utterly magnificent scene and movie! 👍❤️👍
masterpiece !!
Чёткий фильм , опередил своё время. Мне оооочень понравился, низкий поклон создателям!!!
Such a great movie with such an interesting concept I’d love to see more of this world but the movie is a complete story it would need to be something else
people can talk shit all they want bust D9 is one of the best action sci-fi movies ever made
I love how their place has an intimidation hole
2:20 shout out to wakanda😂
A great movie a always a treasure for me
so much potiential for a whole franchise... why they let this slide??
Have you ever seen a Neill Blomkamp sequal?
@@longxiao9823 i guess not,it´s a sequel of District 9 ??
@@hansdampf640 No I'm just saying it's a thing for Blomkamp that he just doesn't do sequels...
@@longxiao9823 hmmm... as far as i know he´s working on District 10 right now,isn´t that true?
@@hansdampf640 I'm not sure...just don't want it to be another cash grab like Metrix Resurrection.
Everybody need a friend like Kris
still a 9/10 film, Adored it
This was such a great movie