District 9 is one of the most anticipated summer blockbusters this year. I can't say it was amazing and spectacular, but I can say I definitely enjoyed watching it. It broke hollywood sci-fi stereotypes as it was shot documentary style, with a bunch of aliens that did not initially come to earth all mighty and powerful. Think of The Transformers, where all the robots comes in so shiny, new and colorful that you just instantly know its an epic sci-fi film, or the up and coming Tron. District 9 is the opposite of that. Think of it as the "Born Identity" of the Sci-fi films, though the story is a familiar "alien on earth" one, the technology and all the sci-fi bits are scratched, used, and... just more real. Yes, I am already hoping for a "District 10".
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