District 9

[LiveCoug]

Just watched it for the first time... I enjoyed it. It was unique and well done. It was actually NOTHING like I thought it would be and that was a good thing. As for the cursing, I truly didn't even notice due to the accent. It was almost the same as hearing "frick/ing", or "flip/ping".

The ending did not lead me to believe there will be a sequel, but maybe that's just me.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Just watched it for the first time... I enjoyed it. It was unique and well done. It was actually NOTHING like I thought it would be and that was a good thing. As for the cursing, I truly didn't even notice due to the accent. It was almost the same as hearing "frick/ing", or "flip/ping".

The ending did not lead me to believe there will be a sequel, but maybe that's just me.

There's going to be a sequel and the rumor is that pre-production has already started with filming set to begin this October. That figures into a July-August 2011 release, or maybe Christmas 2011.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/District-9-Sequel-May-Be-Headed-To-District-10-This-October-18246.html

In my original post I thought the movie would make $300 million worldwide, but in reality it only made $210 million. That's still an excellent ROI. Surprisingly a foreign film made a majority of its money in the US.

[Shaka]

I loved some of the inside jokes that only South Africans would understand. For instance the main character's name is Wikus(Vickers) van de Merwe. The South African version of a polack joke uses the surname van de Merwe to describe a dumb Afrikaaner (South African of Dutch decent) who is usually the butt of the joke. A typical van de Merwe joke might start the following way:

van de merwe walked into a bar....

or

Wanna hear a dirty joke?
Van der Merwe slipped and fell in the mud!

The movie character Vickers was the epitome of a dumb Afrikaaner.