District 9 *no spoilers please*

[Martin]

Anyone seen this yet? I'm looking forward to seeing it but I'll have to wait for the DVD release (I refuse to pay money to share a room with people who can't shut the fuck up and watch a movie they've just paid to see).

Anyhow, it's a sci-fi flick about an alien race who live in a ghetto in Johannesburg. Obviously the whole film is an allegory about apartheid but it looks pretty darn cool.

So, erm, talk me in to seeing it on the big screen. Anyone?

[Todd]

Yeah, I seriously want to see this, but I couldn't agree more about going to theatres.

Teresa and I went once this summer to a cheap theatre just to get out of our house. It was nice, there were only like three other people there. Saw Angels and Demons. Was good for a laugh. I'm always up for stories about the ritual murder of cardinals and popes.

[Stevo]

So far, out of the 10 or so flicks I've seen at the theater this year, District 9 is one of the best. I give it major cudos for not having Tom Cruise or some other huge hollywood name in it.

[yokono]

So I finally saw this one, and I was quite excited to see it.

Then within the first 5 minutes, I hated it. I just felt completely patronized. It was the same reaction I had to Crash (the racism one, not the sexy one.)

Yes, I get it. This is what has happened (and continues to happen) to people all around the world. Racism exists. Tell me something I don't know.

Plus I really hate non-scary aliens. Since aliens are my biggest fear. Ever. ET? Fricken scary. These aliens? Dumb.

[Martin]

I've still not seen it yet. Probably won't bother. Saw Avatar though. I love 3D. It is better than real life.

OH FYI aliens aren't real. You should be more worried about the impending zombie apocalypse.

[yokono]

Aliens aren't real? Are you sure about that?

I'm not afraid of zombies. Which is why I'm settling in right now to watch either serious French Zombies, or hilarious Nazi Zombies when Todd is not home. You wouldn't catch me watching an alien movie on my own right now.

Zombies you can either outrun, fight, or just give in to and become one of them. Worst case scenario? They want yer brains. Aliens could possibly out think and over power you, and if all they wanted were your brains you'd be lucky. They don't lumber along slowly and noisily. They are stealthy.

Interesting me fact--at 5 years old, I had vowed to kill myself if it were ever proven that aliens were here on earth. I wasn't waiting around to see what they wanted. Thank God I didn't grow up during the whole War of the Worlds fiasco. Crazy thought for a kid to have.

Now as an adult I think that it all stems from a combination of being exposed to ET at far too early an age and being moved at 5 years old to a basement bedroom in a scary small town that had been a hotbed of UFO activity.

Also funny me fact that sums up my mother perfectly--in said basement one day my mom said to an approximately 6 year old me (with a completely horrified look on her face) "Oh my God, don't turn around, there's an ET behind you." I have never been more horrified in my life. It was a total "vertigo zoom" moment. And she wonders why I don't trust her.