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District 9
Directed by Neill Blomkamp
Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA,… From TMDB
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District 9 is a 2009 science fiction film, directed by Neill Blomkamp, starring Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope and Nathalie Boltt.
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60 of 243 · most liked firstDistrict 9 (2009) 🎬🖤 Directed by Neill Blomkamp
neutral · AI labelView post →New Starship Troopers film is happening at Sony Pictures, written and directed by Neill Blomkamp (District 9). ➡️ deadline.com/2025/03/star... The new film will go back to the 1959 source material by Robert A. Heinlein and not be based on the 1997 Paul Verhoeven movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →District 9 is about what its like to have a weird arm. Masterful film.
positive · AI labelView post →Share a SCI-FI or SCI-FANTASY movie title that begins with the letter “D” 🎥 D is for… ‘District 9’ (2009) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching District 9 for the first time. What a wierd film.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm watching District 9 for the first time in 15 years and by Gods this movie aged well
positive · AI labelView post →Revisited District 9- I think it’s very interesting how this film entirely gets away with not fully committing to the faux documentary approach. You never question it, and it gets zero flak for it. Very confident spin on the format.
positive · AI labelView post →District 9 really is my favorite movie still i don't think movies get more zuzu then that one does
positive · AI labelView post →"Blomkamp will also produce the feature alongside Terri Tatchell, his partner and wife who co-wrote the South African filmmaker’s District 9 and 2015 outing, Chappie." As usual, this thread will be updated as soon as necessary.
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember the movie District 9? Where the two aliens with their kid were trying to sneakily rebuild a spaceship to get off earth because they were trapped in a government slum surrounded by the cat-food addicted, low IQ, violent aliens? It resonates, somehow. *glares at neighbor’s new Trump flag*
positive · AI labelView post →District 9 Like it's just a movie that feels utterly miserable and not in a fun way. Also, Fingernails. Can't.
negative · AI labelView post →ICYMI: Columbia Pictures has hired Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium, Chappie, Demonic, Gran Turismo) to write and direct the new STARSHIP TROOPERS movie, which will re-adapt Robert A. Heinlein’s novel rather than outright remake Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Chappie and District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is set to write and direct a new Starship Troopers movie. It will be the first film adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's sci-fi novel since Paul Verhoeven's 1997 cult classic. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Chappie is a weird movie. But no weirder that the other movies he made, District 9 and Elysium. District 9 being my favorite among them.
positive · AI labelView post →“What’s the name of that movie where the French guy lives in a wasteland and turns into a reptile?” — My wife. Reader, she meant District 9.
neutral · AI labelView post →DISTRICT 9. Not the worst movie I saw in a theater (I have a kid, so I’ve seen some *stinkers*) but definitely the one that pissed me off the most. Ended up getting into a loud argument about it in the lobby with my best friend.
negative · AI labelView post →Having watched a Hitchcock classic in the cinema going to finish the evening watching one of my favourites and in my opinion a modern sci-fi classic - District 9 from 2009. If you’ve not watched it then I couldn’t recommend it highly enough #scifi #scifisky #filmsky #horrorsky #District9
positive · AI labelView post →District 9. Absolutely incredible movie with a lot of themes that are still very relevant today... Which is why I have such a hard time rewatching it.
positive · AI labelView post →Got this German import District 9 Steelbook that’s region free. It’s magnificent! An all time favorite of mine, I love this film. #physicalmedia #filmsky #promosky
positive · AI labelView post →OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Crunched the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Here are the top 1,461 presented as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film #Resist #MovieSky #Movies #1,452 District 9 (2009) dir. Neill Blomkamp
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching District 9 #district9 #NeillBlomkamp #sharltocopley #film
neutral · AI labelView post →mostly it involves laughing at the phrase "District 9 But It's In Boston" since we can't really remember any quotes or whatever from the movie. rest assured this tree may eventually bear fruit; some might say it already has
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching District 9. I remember when I watched it for the first time with my then-boyfriend, he became FURIOUS when I started talking about apartheid because he insisted it was just a movie about aliens. bruh.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching District 9 for prep for a new gig and this is still one of the best uses of a snorricam in film.
positive · AI labelView post →Considering that Blomkamp did District 9 an anti apartheid movie, I don't think we have to worry about him fawning over fascism like Heinlein did.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finishing off my first read of 2026 today: Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor Originally written in anger against the film District 9, I’ve had fun with this very fast paced, multi angled first contact thriller, that just about chucks everything into the mix 🪐📚💙
neutral · AI labelView post →The 12 Days of Xmas is back! And the first day of Xmas is District 9 (2009), a science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Peter Jackson, starring Sharlto Copley. youtu.be/OW0Oom3BWio
neutral · AI labelView post →i think the movie i liked the most as a teenager that i’m the most scared to revisit due to assuming it actually mega sucks is District 9
neutral · AI labelView post →A new Starship Troopers movie is in development, with Neill Blomkamp (District 9) set to direct. #movienews #90smovies #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie District 9 is a fascinating example because the movie is about apartheid but at the same time shows nigerian people as cannibal violent gang members.
neutral · AI labelView post →#BlueZicos #MusicChallenge 06/05 - Sci-Fi Film: District 9 (2009) Music: Black Milk – Massive Attack www.youtube.com/watch?v=zncq...
neutral · AI labelView post →Me and my family all really liked the film District 9 and for the last, like, 15 years, we've been making fun of the main character's name Wikus! Wikus Mondmumbler!
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching District 9 for the first time in quite awhile. Almost forgot just how damn good this film is.
positive · AI labelView post →District 9 (2009) Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs. (Day 13) #FilmSky #Movies 🎬🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →Did a good thing today. Watched District 9. Damn, that film is good.
positive · AI labelView post →#FebruaryMovieChallenge #FilmSky 🎥 Spaceship in a movie. District 9 (2009)
neutral · AI labelView post →💯 District 9 is a perfect movie that deserves a continuation. It’s easily the most empathetic movie ever made (on our planet at least).
positive · AI labelView post →Today's Movie recommendation is "District 9" A none-too-subtle metaphor for apartheid and immigration issues, this sci-fi movie uses a "documentary" style to explore what happens when an alien ship breaks down over earth, and its inhabitants become unwelcome "guests" of Earth. #Movies
neutral · AI labelView post →Great example image on that post too: for anyone not aware the original short film that became District 9 actually used interviews with real South Africans about actual migrants. Many of the scenes about casually hating or even killing "them" refer not to the aliens but to those very real people.
neutral · AI labelView post →Cannot understand directing a movie that looks like District 9 and thinking this looks like anything other than warmed over dog shit.
negative · AI labelView post →District 9 was pretty good. Blomkamp followed that up with Elysium, which was awful, and then with Chappie, one of the worst films ever made. "Plan 9 From Outer Space" bad. His most recent film is an adaptation of the video game Gran Turismo, which notably has no plot. Dude has no career to ruin.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ugh how do you go from writing and directing something like Elysium, a film with themes exploring humanity's own ecocide, to making AI movies District 9 was one of my favourite sci-fi films... I'm so disappointed
positive · AI labelView post →District 9 is a movie worth returning to (or seeing for the first time) as a powerful allegory for South African apartheid most specifically but also imperialism, genocide and institutionalized racism generally. It’s literally “what if one of the genociders became one of the genocided?”, the movie.
positive · AI labelView post →I'd like to think District 9 is a good enough movie but I'm not so certain how lie changing it is, I did love it though
neutral · AI labelView post →In the movie District 9, aliens crash land in South Africa and immediately became the targets of hostile xenophobia. The fact that they managed interstellar travel granted them zero respect from those ppl.
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW EPISODE COMING THIS SUNDAY! @poopsmcgee.bsky.social joins Adam and Ryan this Sunday to talk all about the 2009 sci-fi film, District 9. The directorial debut of Neill Blomkamp, and produced by Peter Jackson. #filmsky 🎦🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →The District 9 guy was foaming at the mouth to make a Halo movie for like a decade and they ignored him. It's so funny.
neutral · AI labelView post →I rewatched this sci-fi masterpiece last night 🏙️ 👽 📹 District 9 is as immersive and powerful as ever, in many ways. And I don't remember ever seeing such a detestable main character in a movie 🤮 #District9 #NeillBlomkamp #SharltoCopley #SciFi #Cinema #Movies
positive · AI labelView post →This isn't deeply important but Neill Blomkamp (the guy who made District 9, Chappie, bunch of other crap) is starting an Ai movie production company. And of course the little he's put (short films) are completely terrible. Once a hack loser ALWAYS A HACK LOSER!
neutral · AI labelView post →Yes, I liked District 9. ...I was also a 20 years old braindead centrist shitlib when that movie was The New Hotness, it's probably okay for me to reflect and let go of it. "The only thing that can stop a bad enforcer of Apartheid is a good enforcer of Apartheid!"-ass movie.
negative · AI labelView post →This guy was supposed to be the next big thing & instead he made a movie with Die Atwood & is now plugging AI with his only notable work being District 9 & a Matt Damon movie people only kind of remember that is explicitly about why tech like AI is actually bullshit.
neutral · AI labelView post →What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 80s - Angel Heart 90s - Forrest Gump 00s - District 9 10s - Arrival 20s - Project Hail Mary
neutral · AI labelView post →So District 9 is not a good background movie to play while I'm arting as I keep watching it and looking up to read the alien language subtitles. Oops.
positive · AI labelView post →District 9 is such a fascinating movie, you ever racism allegory so hard you end up with "turns out the aliens weren't the real monsters, it was Nigerians all along"?
negative · AI labelView post →Sounds like the movie District 9 !!
neutral · AI labelView post →It's from a South African alien movie "District 9". Worth a watch Jokes are funnier the longer the explanation.
neutral · AI labelView post →Neill Blomkamp’s directorial debut, written by him and his wife, Terri Tatchell. Neill was all ready to direct the Halo film with Peter Jackson producing and when that fell through, Peter gave him the money to make District 9. Our new episode with @poopsmcgee.bsky.social, this Sunday night. #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →I still stand by the fact that Neill Blomkamp's Sci-fi anthology film series is probably the BEST Sci-fi anthology film series ever. District 9 - anti-refugee culture Chappie - colonial/apartheid police culture Elysium - white techno classist culture Told brilliantly through the eyes of Sci-fi.
positive · AI labelView post →WOW. Just saw Gareth Edwards of Rogue One fame new film The Creator. If you are a hard sci fan, this is a MUST SEE. Like District 9, Blade Runner and Ex Machina had a beautiful child. Remarkable film. #TheCreator
neutral · AI labelView post →I rewatched this sci-fi masterpiece last night 🏙️ 👽 📹 District 9 is as immersive and powerful as ever, in many ways. And I don't remember ever seeing such a detestable main character in a movie 🤮 #District9 #NeillBlomkamp #SharltoCopley #SciFi #Cinema #Movies
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