SoldierHawk wrote:

Dr. Jeebus wrote: Alright, so Syd really wanted to see this and I really wanted to get out of the house (And there's nothing else playing I want to see that I haven't already),so I have now seen District 9. I understand why everyone loves the movie and it was definitely entertaining, but the story is still completely RIDDLED with plot holes. Pretty much all the explanations I've seen are just people trying to make excuses because they love the movie so much, but I have yet to hear any that are really convincing. I can elaborate later, but now bed. That's the closest we're gonna get to, "you guys were right, it was a damn good movie" isn't it?

It's entertaining, but the plot is still terrible (Note: premise != plot). Also, while they were cool, I'm pretty convinced that the action scenes and alien weaponry for the movie were all designed by some 14 year old gamer hopped up on Mountain Dew.

SoldierHawk wrote:

Hahaha granted. But honestly, that's part of what I enjoyed about the movie--it felt like it was actually made by a sci-fi fan, and not someone pandering to sci-fi fans in the hope of a blockbuster opening weekend. Maybe that's just me though.

Judging from how bad the story was, I'm guessing it was made by a fan of made for Sci-Fi movies

See, the premise itself is fine. Also, obviously the CGI is phenomenal. The problem is the story, because I don't think 30 seconds could go by without a plot hole. This will be full of spoilers, but I'll list a bunch of them. These are mostly different from the previous comments.

The aliens would never have achieved intergalactic flight. With the exception of one, they are all fucking idiots. I understand that these were workers and all, but if you took 1.8 million teamsters, they wouldn't all be a bunch of brain dead jerks. Sure a lot of them may be, but not all of them, and the aliens all came off looking retarded in this.

The ship is broken. When they cut their way inside, they need flashlights because it's all dark and stuff. How the fuck is it still floating, and how the fuck is this ship that was completely inoperable able to move on its own power and pull the pod up with a tractor beam without the fuel? (They recovered the fuel, but it's still not in the ship.

Why the fuck does the fuel turn the guy into an alien? There is no reasonable explanation for this. Yeah, I get that the weapons are DNA based, but that doesn't even remotely explain this and there's nothing I've heard that isn't just people trying to rationalize it.

The transformation of Wikus is EXTREMELY inconsistent. He starts immediately getting sick and losing fingernails. Like 10 hours later when they cut the cast off, his entire arm has been transformed, but not really anything else. Over the course of the movie we see the rest of his body slowly transforming, but even 70 hours later none of his other body parts have fully transformed.

They named the aliens. They gave every alien a first and last name. 1.8 million of them. Not a fucking chance; if this is supposed to be realistic, they would all have been branded with numbers like the Holocaust and that would've been the end of it.

It sure sounded like they were going to try to serve all 1.8 million aliens in a single day. This is insanely unrealistic, and while it may not have been the goal, it sure as Hell sounded like it.

In 20 years they weren't able to figure out how to fire the guns? Just cut the prawns arms off and pull the trigger. Assuming that works, which there's no reason to believe it wouldn't, fashion their arms into gloves. If the arms required the organic tissue to still be alive, I'm sure that in 20 years they would have been able to figure out how to do just that. They also could have easily cloned a few prawns and brainwashed them to be completely obedient.

On the subject or weapons, why would the prawns trade them for cat food? Why would I give you a mech suit for 100 cans of cat food when I can just kill you and take the food? It's already been established that the prawns are pretty much cunts anyway, so I don't see why this is out of the realm of possibility.

In the documentary they said how Wikus hid in the one place he knew no one would look for him. Why wouldn't they look there? It's where he works. It's where the creatures he's turning into live. That would be the second place I looked, right after checking his house. I mean, they did just serve them all 24 hour eviction notices as well, so there should be people there evicting them (Which doesn't happen until at least like 2 days after it was supposed to start).

There's a LOT more, but I'm tired of typing.

I'm willing to suspend a lot of disbelief, and I wasn't actively looking for plot points to complain about; they were just so pervasive that they were impossible for me to ignore. And Reeper, the rationalizations regarding the food don't really make sense. Yes, they are starving and will do anything for food, but we've also seen footage of the prawn using their weapons destructively. They also spend the entire movie being total douchebags, so it's really hard to believe that they're "unwilling" to fight. Also, the fact that you said they could easily wipe out humanity is something else I have an issue with, because given the fact that they seem to be violent assholes without the brain capacity to even contemplate the consequences of their actions, I don't know why they wouldn't have just taken to the streets and gone hunting.

As for the numbering thing, yes it would have paralleled the Holocaust, but it would have been realistic. They just wanted to make sure you were thinking of apartheid and not the Holocaust, because a lot of the movie is spent either trying to make the allegory clear or pandering to audience reactions (Mech suit catching a missle/revealing his entire arm as alien at once even though it's inconsistent with the rest of his transformation). It's alright if you want to make a point and have a cool looking movie, but not when it comes at the expense of the entire plot.

Stop saying "haters" or "for those of you". We all know I'm the only person on this forum that things the plot was awful.

WTF is TL:DR?

SoldierHawk wrote:

The details of the fuel and transformation are still a bit dodgey, but you know what? I never questioned how the facehugger in Aliens was able to perfectly interact with human biology (and I doubt many other people did either). It served the greater part of an awesome story. I don't quite understand the need to cite that as a problem with the movie.

That transformation is really the basis for the entire plot of the movie, that's why I need to cite it as a problem.