TDTESS: I'm not going to spend much time on this, as it already wasted enough of my time as it is. So, to the lowlights of this crap.
Plot: Weak weak weak.
1) Unknown object heading to earth at doomsday speed, gunna hit new york and nuke it. Gathers together team of scientists for...some reason. Hey, space thingy is coming, we need scientists dammit! No time to stop the impact, just to clean up afterwards, so they fly all the scientists...right...over...new york...just as the object is coming in. WTF? Thank god it was only an alien glowy space pod and not some bit of space debris on a collision course.
2) Shoot the alien who is just standing there. Yup, good job people, way to kick start that inter-galactic relations.
3) Hold said alien prisoner after patching up the gun wound you gave him, even though after shooting him his uber battle bot came out and shut down all your gathered forces in a few seconds and only didn't destroy you because he told it to stop.
4) While alien is on the run, antagonize said uber bot by launching missiles at it while it stands around doing nothing. I swear, the US was TRYING to pick a fight, there is no other explanation for what they were doing in this movie.
Beyond that, we also had a kid who served NO PURPOSE other than to be a true piece of shit. Seriously, I wanted this kid dead. Not hurt, not scared, not to learn the error of his ways, DEAD.
Okay, onto something better, District 9.
I think this was a good movie, I just didn't enjoy it that much. The story is good, and it rings frighteningly true on the subject of minority groups, which is what the Prawns were. The start however was just too slow for me, and things took too much of a turn into the absurd
The action bits were pretty good, it was great fun to watch the Prawn battlesuit rampage around and turn people into chunky salsa, the lightning gun was just one of those alien weapons that makes you laugh to watch used because no other reaction feels appropriate enough to cover it.
The end of the movie is rather much of a downer, and looks pretty bad for the humans. I'd say in 3 years we're about to be royally screwed.
Overall I found this an odd movie to watch, because it really is the best movie I've ever seen that I didn't like.
