Tuesday, November 27, 2012

This week I decided to watch District 9 which reminded me of dancing with wolves but with aliens. It's about a giant spaceship of humanoid shrimp aliens that have landed on earth in Africa and are wanting to go back to their homeland. Meanwhile, a bureaucrat decides to take a look at the aliens who have seemed to adapt with the Africans third world environment  he gets sprayed by a strange liquid made by one of them and starts to turn into one of them. now on the side of the aliens, he accepts to help them by going against the military so he can get his body back to normal. While the concept is different, the premise is very similar to Dancing with Wolves, a guy joins a troubled outside force to oppose against his own kind. It woks with this film and the alien designs are cool. It's not often you see prawn aliens living with a bunch of Africans. Overall, the effects and designs are cool, but the plot could've used more differentiation to make it a bit more fresher.

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