We watched it a few days ago. The film was chock full of violence and amazingly foul language... and it was totally excellent. The aliens were ugly and hard to sympathize with, but over the course of the film, you began to do just that. Some of the themes were extremely close to those touched upon in "Avatar," but I found "District 9" much more interesting and satisfying.
Angel and I had very modest expectations. I started the film off w/ the "we can always shut it off if it's terrible" preface. Within ten minutes we were interested. Within thirty we were sitting up straight and paying attention. It was very good.
"District 9" was a $30M film. It's done in a documentary style that's very believable despite the fantastic story line. For the interested among you, I'm providing a wikipedia link for District 9. If you follow the link, read only the top two paragraphs because there are spoilers later in the wikipedia article.
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