District 9 (2009) Retrospective/Review
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I remember 2008 being a pretty great year for sci-fi movies. Not only did we have the Star Trek franchise returning to the big screen, but also James Cameron's epic original movie, Avatar. However between these two was a scrappy original movie which was just as exciting: District 9.
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01:01 Intro
01:35 Development
06:02 Casting
08:15 Production
13:47 District 9 (2009)
19:13 Release and Reception
20:13 Legacy
20:53 Outro
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Did I like it. No! I f##king loved and agreed with everything you said. It's about time somebody did this because its the best sci-fi I've ever seen and 1 of the best films I've seen come on District 10......
Wow I had no idea Copley was a new actor, I assumed he was seasoned and well known, just not in America. He was so incredibly good in that part!
He was also amazing in "Hardcore Henry" and "Free Fire." I would not have been interested in either except for his involvement.
His ability to play several aspects of a single character in"Hardcore Henry" was absolutely acting at its finest.
He was the head of a south african tv network i believe
It was a very unique part. Definitely not a traditional role, really against a lot of traditional acting principles so we'll suited to a keen novice. The film played out like a documentary after all.
He is AWESOME. Loved him in Hardcore Henry. This and District 8 need a sequel yesterday.
Also in Elysium. Dude played Krueger or whatever well too! Took me a second to realize it was him.
Hardcore Henry was so much better than it aught to be.
One of the most meaningful science fiction films around.
The metaphor is thick as tree sap, but intentionally so.
I hope it's remembered
Yeah? Bet you wanted all the unvaccinated prawns killed on the spot.
After I first watched this film, the phrase "fooken' Prons" entered my everyday vocabulary.
"Ten years? Ten fokkin years???" 🤣
“Holy shit!” In African accent.
By order of the pesky fooken blinders
Yup 😂😂
Let's all go to Gunters for some lunch!
I'm dying to try that menu with French fries.
What amazed me most about District 9 was that the SFX were so realistic. It really looked as if there was a massive spaceship hanging in the air over the city!
I know one of the CGI team.
@@MrkBO8 How did they make it look so good (in simple terms please)?
@@NavarinoDC WETA studios has the amswer
What’s amazing about the SFX is that the budget of the movie was only $30 million, but the SFX looked so much better than other big blockbuster movies that costs over $100 million to make!
This movie is hands down one of the greatest and also the most underappreciated movies of all time. Sheer brilliance.
Can't wait to bawl my eyes out of Wikus and Christopher's camaraderie one more time 😭
Hey slow down the clicks
What are you crying about?
Want a sequel but scared to death of one.
Some films are just fine being left untouched as they ended perfectly. Just look at Pacific rim for example...
@@TeoTH80 why did you have to remind me there is a sequel to Pacific Rim? Here I was thinking I had forgotten that dumster fire...
@@TeoTH80
It never happened... It never happened...
Uprising isn't real...
If the same people are involved, I’m invested either way.
Just hope no wokeness seeps it’s way in, hopefully that movement will uncover itself by than and be dead in its tracks just like BLM is doing.
Sad that this even has to be mentioned in a movie like this.
@@markvonschober6872 as if the original wasn't already 'woke' as fuck?
The Prawns are my favorite alien design. They’re scary, but there is a sense on innocence in their faces and how they move.
And yes this movie is hilarious and it makes me upset Neill Blomkamp isn’t doing the new RoboCop anymore.
Isn't calling them "prawns" being speciest? 😉😂
@@BTScriviner Yeah its basically the films version of a derogative racial slur. Using it to describe them normally makes me think the whole meaning of the film went over this persons head
They’re remaking Robocop AGAIN?! JFC.
District 9 Chappie and Elysium hold an extremely special place in my heart
I remember little of "Avatar" after two viewings. "District 9" stuck in my mind for years, and then got better at second viewing; it hit me all over again.
Exactly.
Me too the second time it was better
Right! I barely recall Avatar, but I can remember most every scene in this movie!
Only thing i remember from avatar is that they had tentacle sex with a weed.
You remember little of Avatar because there is little to remember. It’s an empty shell of a story. Even the second is
This is a damn fine film. So glad you were able to produce this Retrospective. Thank you Rowan. The ending of the film is a real treat, leaving the audience wanting more. It did not set up a sequel per se, instead one is left with one's imagination and speculation. Ideal for discussions with friends. Clever ideas generated in an after-dinner discussion can be genuinely enthralling.
Blomkamp has such a unique and striking visual style with so much potential. It's a pity that the long form screenwriting sometimes falls a bit short.
Yeah elysium seemed like same place same thing
@@dosmastrify And Chappie had a similar structure because of the documentary segments.
@@freemantle85 I really liked “Chappie”
That was a great retro/review to start off 2023. D9 is such a unique gem in the genre, and despite the teasing of a sequel with Christopher's promise to return the film is so weirdly perfect in its own way that I actually wouldn't be mad if the sequel never actually materialized. Looking forward to your Elysium retro/review.
This film is the reason I'm in film school now... this was such a special film for me at the time of its release. I was way too young to watch it, but I was hooked and amazed by it. It sparked that passion for filmmaking, I thought big films could only be made in Hollywood, but this was made in my country! So cool, I love this film.
I friggin love Niel Blomkampf's movies, they are all so unique and awesome. District 9, Chappie, and Elysium are three of my top ten favorite movies, whatever he touches turns to gold in my opinion.
I’ve never understood why the sequel hasn’t been made, Christopher has yet to return and save his people, Wikus is waiting to be ‘fixed’, MNU getting its comeuppance for the experiments etc. there’s definitely a lot more story to tell.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the metaphor of SA's history with discrimination, especially in terms of forced removals. For many in SA it was such a clear allegory of our history.
Not to mention for many outside of SA it was a way to spread awareness and discussion about parts of history that may have been glossed over or otherwise ignored.
The people in the street interviews in the movie were actually talking about Nigerians, not extraterrestrials, so yeah...
South Africa is a present day tragedy
@@DuckmanYaHeard still better than at any time in the past
I'm guessing if you mention stuff like that RUclips buries it for being "controversial" or some crap
I think this should have gotten the Oscar instead of The Hurt Locker. And Blomkamps Alien movie would most likely have been just as awesome.
I think we know the reason why hurt locker won the oscar
District 9 and 5 other film should have won Best Picture at the Oscars instead of The Hurt Locker in my opinion.
District 9 was amazing and realistic and disturbing in some ways. I think I watched it twice when I got it (didn't get to watch in the theater) but I haven't rewatched it since, and not sure why. This makes me want to rewatch. It was brilliant and unique science fiction and criticism in its own way. Great stuff.
I havent watched it since I realized how effed up Die Antwoord is... their presence in this movie now overshadows everything and leaves me with a bad taste... wich is sad because it is a good movie...
I loved that movie and when I saw(and bought) the art book of it, I was blown away from discovering all the imagination behind the alien designs along with all the logos, and made me realize that a movie is not a singular vision but a collectives collaborative work among many artists, that is what sparked my interest in wanting to go in concept artist and discover a whole other world.
This movie had everything; great cast, engaging story, realistic effects, subtext, and humor.
One of the best Scifi films ever created. And im gonna rewatch it NOW!
My GF just took me to the theater to see this and I still remember how blown away I was on the bus ride home. It was so refreshing to see something different in science fiction at the time. At first the documentary-style reminded me of predator 2 and the drug war. During the pandemic I had opportunity to watch the film second time and it still holds up so well.
I went into this movie blind at the theater. For the first part of the movie I didn't know what to think. By the last third I was transfixed. It's one of my favorite movies of all time...a very rare masterpiece of science fiction.
they did an amazing job on the special effects. looked very realistic. this is probably my favorite movie. it was very well done.
This movie resonated on so many levels. I think it facilitated a spirit beyond what it's creators imagined. That's the trait of a really good movie. It becomes a endearing yet repulsive metaphor for things people would like to forget but know deep down that they must remember.
I love your style of retrospective, I love the detail you go into about the production, it's like a behind the scenes doc plus a retrospective, live for this stuff! Thanks for making it!
I think Neill is most famous for what films he hasn't made.
He has an even harder time getting things made than Guillermo del Toro.
To be fair, Chappie might be one of the worst movies I've ever seen (I don't actively seek to watch bad movies though) so I can see why. That horror movie he made some years ago was critically panned too. At this point, I think the is just not cut out for the feature filmmaking, that said his shorts from the Oasis Studios label are pretty good. Interested how his Grand Turismo movie will turn out, making something outside his wheelhouse (sorry for the pun) might be what he needed.
@@koklusz89 100% agree, Chappie is absolutely dreadful. I also thought Elysium was underwhelming and moribund. district 9 showed so much promise in Bloomkamp as an artist and I've been disappointed since.
I love these non Trek reviews because the BTS info is almost always new to me!
Remember seeing this at the movies. I was going to see something else that turned out to be sold out so I picked this at random. Knowing nothing about it and going in blind made it one of the best cinema experiences I ever had.
When I was 8 or 9 I was taken to the cinema to see Clash of the Titans. Was very upset to find tickets sold out ; fortunately my dad was able to get tickets for some little film playing in the cinema's smaller screen. Than film was a little know indie 😃 film, Raiders of the Lost Ark .....
Would love to see a retrospective on The Gods Must Be Crazy 1 and 2, the best South African films ever made (at, unfortunately, a dark time in it's history). They bring me unending joy.
District 9 remains as impressive now as it was back in 2009. So well crafted and fully realised you'd have been forgiven for thinking Blomkamp had been making movies for decades. It's a shame none of his follow-ups have lived up to his first go.
He and Gareth Edwards seem to be these guys who put their all into their initial efforts, with so much creativity with so little to work with, that there's seemingly nothing left afterwards. But shit, they made them and continue to have a career, so good for them. And I would have loved to have seen Blomkamp's Halo movie
I love these retrospectives that give me excellent insight into shows and movies I love. Breathes new life into them.
I dont know what happened with the algorithm but i wasnt served your last 4 videos which is a shame. But! im so glad to see you branching out with these retrospecitve series after B5/ST. I made it about 20m into the B5 series before i was convinced to watch the whole thing and im so glad i did. For the longest time id written B5 off as the weird "costco brand" scifi show and your video helped shake that notion for me. Cant wait to see what comes next
Another great retrospective/review, thanks Rowan!
Ooooh nice video! Hope you had a pleasant new years 😁
I really appreciate you for making this video
CG artist and filmmakers often throw around the term "photo realism" but District 9 is one of maybe three movies where the CGI is so good I honestly can't tell what's practical and what's not.
I’ve always loved this channel. Been watching for years now. It fills a gap for me that harks back to the old on-set reports we used to get from the BBC back in the day, from people like Barry Norman, Michael Aspel and, later in the 1990’s, Johnathan Ross. I grew up fascinated with the film making process and was always glued to making of stuff, before every, “Making Of,” documentary became what they are now; nothing more than promotional pieces.
Knowing what the struggles and controversies were is just as important to understanding the movie making business as hearing about people’s skills or talents. I genuinely love this stuff. Thanks.
And, yes, the central character of Viccus (probably misspelled that?) is wonderfully fleshed out and realised. I get the Arnold Rimmer take. That fits. You have to feel sorry for him, despite his loathsomeness. And he has a redemption ark too, ultimately deciding to sacrifice himself, just when we’ve given up on him. The love story’s sincerity is surprising touching. The biggest flaw is the villains. They are one dimensional. Too irredeemably, moustache twirling and psychotically cruel. The detachment with which his father in law to be, who’s known him for years, discusses harvesting his organs over his twitching body, ignoring his pleas for mercy, and which the other doctors and scientists merrily take part in that conversation and bizarrely unnecessarily cruel experiments just prior to that scene, go beyond hyperbole and beyond plausibility.
Take the guy who hunts Viccus down, leading the mercenaries. His script is terrible and one note. We get the illusion that it’s better than it is because the actor gives such a brilliant performance, investing the character with some humour and zest, to along along with his desire to kill and cause pain.
If they had put as much work into the villains’ scripts as they did the protagonist’s it would have been a 10/10 perfect movie.
I loved District 9, but in a weird way I think I preferred Alive in Joburg. Blomkamp is fantastic at creating a world, but I feel like his feature films tend to run out of ideas story-wise. While I think District 9 is likely his strongest, the overall plot doesn't feel very special once it moves away from the documentary style.
Alive obviously doesn't have the budget or runtime, but I love the way it just puts us down in this fascinating and believable world.
This movie is an incredible example of a genre that often goes unstated, and seems so little talked about (literally, look at the wiki page for a sad sad example of this), but which I love nonetheless. It is a fantastic tragicomedy, and a solid recommend for thos who like it. It is not just drops of humor to spicy up a tragedy or serious bizz drama otherwise. It is a proper blend of both.
Awesome job on this one.
great video. keep up the work
I remember watching the trailer for the first time, I was hooked immediately! The movie was even better then the trailer promised, amazing film!
The first time I saw this film was a torrented version a buddy of mine downloaded. It was incomplete because there were no subtitles for when the Prawns were talking. We would argue that it enhanced our experience rather than take away from it. Because we had no clear idea what they were saying, we had to pick it up through context clues or instances where the conversation was taking place in Prawn on one side and English on another. This was my first vid of yours I've seen, defo got the sub. Thank you, Spacedock for the recc.
Great video on what has become my favorite sci-fi film of the 21st century.
District 9 is an absolute original that showed so many Americans another "universe" in Jo-berg, South Africa as the backdrop for this Kafka-esque story.
Just an amazing piece of work. Instant classic.
I had to play it back and check the day this video was released and check out the date on that article for District 10 because I love this movie and I’m hype it’s still in the works!!!
I've seen Copely in a couple of films and he's bloody great.
IMHO hes a criminally underrated actor. His WWI British soldier character in Hardcore Henry made me want a video game with him as my team mate. And his take on Howling Mad Murdock in A-team was hilarious. Id watch just about anything with him in it.
District 9 is easily the most underrated Sci-fi movie I have ever seen I'm glad that it is building a cult following as it deserves. It feels so alive, organic, strange, but still incredibly relatable, and let's not forget it has some of the most believable special effects and 3d rendering to exist in movies.
Man, I actually scored a ticket to the South African Premiere of this movie through some friends. I had no idea what the movie was about going in, but it was so awesome to see. I also got to chat to the guy who played Kobus Venter in the movie about the filming, which was such a privilege!
Excellent retrospective on one of my favorites. Like you I'd heard little about District 9. I only saw it because the company I worked for also had a single theater and would show a movie every Monday evening (for free). As much as I enjoyed the movie it was when the mothership fired up that really hit me. What a moment. Amazing visual and sound design.
Excellent movie. Great review. Thanks
Oh my god, you nailed it comparing Wikus Van De Merwe to Arnold Rimmer.
I always felt like District 9 signed the end of several years where SciFi was pretty much empty in meaning, Sunshine came close to being good but messed up towards the ending (my humble opinion) but District 9 embodied what SciFi should be and from that point onwards a strain of brilliant SciFi movies started to come out quite regularly
I didn't see this movie until 2011, since it came out at about the same time as I was growing disillusioned with cinema, but I'm still absolutely haunted by it. It's such an incredibly human movie, and the main character being very much like Rimmer honestly helped pull me into it. (Honestly Rimmer's always been one of my favourite characters, he's an absolute mess of a man.) If we ever do get a District 10, I'll be one of the first in line.
Great review. Subbed.
Great movie, in my opinion. Very well done.
Thank you for the interesting narrative behind its making.
Excellent as usual
Wow. That 20 minutes just flew by. Great overview of the film. I remember the marketing campaign and websites. It's been a long time since I've watched the film. Time to give it another viewing. 👍
I remember being shocked that it was filmed on location and that "District 9" was actually where people had lived.
There is something about new concept movies attempting to make things work that comes off so genuine and awesome. People really work hard to put everything they have into making it work, in contrast with films that are assumed to do well with a fantastic budget and well known actors.
Not to say many people don't work hard on big budget blockbuster, but something is lost which really makes the work really standout.
16:34 I couldn't stop laughing at the 'pop pop' of the Ps here 😂
Just a great movie! And learned lots! Thanks, another great vid!
This is a film that passed me by. Even today, I have never seen it. Maybe I had better check it out. Thanks for the review Rowan.
I watched all three of those movies at least twice in theaters. Star Trek just twice, once with friends once with family.
Avatar I watched five times. Twice with friends, imax 3D and normal, twice with family see friends, and once by myself.
District 9 I saw three times. Once by myself, just before watching avatar then I dragged my family to watch it. Then with my friends.
If there was going to be a year where I was going to get into movies for a career it was then. I took movie classes, made very simple short clips for school work, and I was editing and shooting the film class movie that was my final. I loved it, hated with short film but loved the work. I guess that interest has kept me interested in RUclips and podcasts.
This video has unlocked some happy forgotten memories.
I was blown away when I saw this movie, I think I ended up going three times to the movies to watch it. I got high hopes when at the end, Vickers banging on about being back in 3 years, they drilled that so hard, I thought it was their message about a sequel;
When we get to the mother ship, how long is this gonna take?
To do what?
The fixing. To fix me.
It's going to take a bit longer than I thought.
Okay. All right. That's fine. How long do you need?
Three years.
Really good episode 👌👌
I recognised a lot when you started talking about the humour in the movie. Some scenes are actually kinda funny whilst others make you go "what the actual fuck" (in a good way) so hard that it's funny.
You did a fantastic job with his retrospective. And Copley will forever be the Michael Scott of sci-fi.
It's a shame Neill Blomkamp has never been allowed to work on huge franchises.
Because Chappie was terrible.
Yes, awesome piece of art 😀
one of my favourite movies of all time, super smart and right out of left field. visually stunning
Very very good job 👍 liked & subbed
Real good Review of a movie which still give me a smile, laughter, goosebumbs, tears and enjoyment when I think about it ...and it's so rewatchable ...not to forget the pig, the fuqin pig!☺
Saw this at the cinema when it was released and i still watch it at least once a year
I went to highschool with Peter Muijzers who also worked on the VFX. Never thought he would end up working on movies like these.
District 9 made such a great impact on me as a teen, it really made me look at our society and how we treat different people. It terrified me but it also made me for better.
I’m still waiting for Christopher to return.
Great film, one of those I can go back to again and again.
You have hit all the right notes in your review. I thought it one of the best scifi movies to come out in that decade and really traded on the nitty gritty down to earth setting in South Africa, a location that is never seen unless its an Attenborough documentary.
I love this movie, one of the few films I re-watch about once a year.
Its was an experience,and one of those movies which #stuck in your head ...
I still got it in blue ray dvds .
Love this movie especially the prawns language sounds.
I was sad Vickas was going to be stuck as a Prawn forever but on second watching i was confident Christopher would come back and heal him 😁
I remember watching Avatar after this. Man what a come down. District 9 was so damn good.
Yep, not even close, it's almost an insult to even compare them. D9 is just in another league from "look eye candy and actions, look at our fancy effects". Avatar is so meh to me, it's just trying to BUY it's way into history, D9 earns it's place.
I absolutely loved District 9. Have been waiting a long time for the rumored sequel.
The last shot in this movie will stick with me for the rest of my life. So beautiful, so sad.
I saw it when it came out. Rewatched it with my 9 year old son a few weeks ago. Bloody brilliant film. One of the best Sci films.
I think if Copely had been a more seasoned actor then the character of vickus wouldn't have had the same level of awkward charm while being followed about by a documentary crew.
This is soo funny, I was just thinking/talking about this movie
One of the few big films that doesnt depict the aliens as the bad guys and i greatly appreciate it for that.
Utterly phenomenal film. I had the pleasure of seeing it in the cinema with little knowledge of the plot and was blown away. Finding out Copley wasn't really an actor blows me away all over again!
District 9 is in my own top 10 films list, not just sci-fi but of any genre. It's a fable, the end scene always gets me. Mon the Scotland!
This is one of my favourite movies, truly a gem in the rough!
I actually rewatched thisa couple of months ago, still totally stands up. Even the cgi isnt bad
I hadn't made the connection with being Total Recall and RoboCop's spiritual successor, but that nails it.
Good choice, and as always a damm fine retrospective and review.
I really do hope you will eventually take your time and talent to do a full deep dive in to the history, and the non existent history, of the failed Halo Tv/Film series/franchise (including the new Halo series)
as always
I've got a setup for a sequel. 20 years have passed and District 10 has developed a bit. The next generation of prawns have grown up and they are a bit smarter. They build a nice secluded sustainable colony without interference from humans. MNU is like boarder security with flyovers, but aren't present inside the colony much. You have a smart prawn rise the ranks and he becomes a politician of sorts and wants to prosper alongside humans (could be prawn Wicus even). You got a lot of prawns now that only know earth as home. So there's something at stake for them.
Christopher Johnson comes back to save the prawns. His kid is grown up. Some prawns are willing to go, many aren't. There's conflict between the prawns. Humans are involved. Wicus is weaved into the story and he would be returned human. Maybe halfway through. He gets redemption by the end.
An excellent film, it sparked a fiery curiosity for more
This is by far one of my all time favorite movies. ever.
when i saw it, opening day back in 2009, i remember watching it and being amazed. There is one scene where Christopher Johnson is in the back of a truck and i remember thinking, holy shit that looks real to me. i would forget it was CG sometimes.