I didn't like District 9 either, simply because I felt the characters could've been handled better without making them walking stereotypes. I guess it's my own problem since I've been more and more anal when I see movies. I expected something completely different when I saw District 9.

Haha...my mom thinks so too.

I don't know, I guess I'm too much of a traditionalist to enjoy movies that don't allow me to think anymore. But at the same time, I didn't feel any pity for the main character and the prawn-father/son weren't in it enough to care much for them either. Also, I got a little pissed when the main character started killing people simply for his own greed of being turned back to normal. Yes, I know it's a movie, but it's really difficult to turn off my brain when I'm watching this shit.

It's fine if you like it, I'm just a lot harder to please when it comes to movies.

I'm glad Syd decided to tear it apart instead of me, since I tend to shred movies enough already, however I will add onto my previous comment.And like you said, it was like Halo but I would consider it Halo meets the Wolf Man.

What pisses me off the most is you're with this guy for the entire fucking movie. He's basically the only human that's in this movie for more than 3 minutes. Let's break down the character so we can best identify with him. He's a bit dim witted, oblivious to anyone's problems other than his own, whiny, arrogant and not charming or interesting. We spend most of the movie following his fucking plight to fix himself and a lot of times he is willing to throw anyone under the bus to get his way. Building up characters should be the easiest part of movie making, and in this case, it sucked. Also, this movie had little to no supporting cast, unless you count the giant CGI insects who speak in garbles and clicks, so you have no one to fall back on in case the lead character is uninteresting. I was almost buying willing to ignore all that, but then he broke into a military based and killed people who were just trying to do their job, just so he could get his way. In other movies, I might be able to tolerate that, but not when I don't give a shit about the character to begin with. And while I know that not all movies should follow the same character pattern, when you're doing a very basic action story, it would probably be best to make the main character a little more fucking likable.

Eh...I guess I look for too much in movies nowadays. I seem to be the only person who didn't like District 9.

You see, that's what I'm talking about. He does change, but it comes after many attempts to screw everyone else over. I at no point felt sorry for his character, and it's literally within the last 10 minutes of the movie that he does the right thing, and by that point, I was just waiting for the movie to be over. I hate to say I could do a better job telling a story, but honestly...I just couldn't stand the guy.

On the contrary, a character such as Alex from A Clockwork Orange works for all the right reasons. There's a character who shows no remorse, is willing to do anything to get his way and in the end, doesn't learn his lesson. And we cheer for him the entire way through.

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Also, Dodds, you don't like the guy from District 9 for being selfish while trying to save his own life, but you cheer for Alex in A Clockwork Orange? Fuck, I didn't realize people actually rooted for the murderer/rapist/sociopath in that film.

The difference lied within how the characters were written, as I said before, if the character doesn't have any real characteristics, we have to follow his actions, if his actions are immoral, then we have no reason to like him. District 9 failed on both parts in my opinion, whereas A Clockwork Orange provided such a well written character that we were able to overlook his actions because we identified with his later plight. I know not everyone likes it, but I was just using it as an example of where District 9 could've provided some better character insight.

Maybe the story would've been better if they eased up a little on the action and put a little more plot for the main character. An action movie without a plot is a boring movie, and that's what it was to me. A very lifeless uninteresting movie.