Rewatch: District 9

I haven’t posted any reviews in a few days, as I’ve been busy working, studying and doing other things. Basically, I didn’t make time to watch many movies over the weekend. I did, however, watch more of Season 2 of Alias, which I’ll write up a review for later.

Friday night I viewed District 9 for the third time. It was the first time my wife had seen the film and it was the first time seeing it on Blu-ray for me. The first time I saw it was at the theater and then on TV in HD.

The Blu-ray is great and has some awesome bonus features. The images are much crisper then when I watched it on TV, and the surround sound in wonderful.

Not a lot changed in my opinion of the film in the third viewing. I did feel that I didn’t care as much about the prawns, and I actually think Christopher wouldn’t come back for Wikus. I was little more positive the first time watching it, a lot more negative the third time.

I just love the image of the entire mothership that is continuously shown in the background and blends so well with the Johannesburg scenery. This film will definitely go down in history for it’s creative, modest budget and documentary-style. Though, my biggest complaint has always been that it seems the documentary feel gets somewhat lost in the third act.

Watching District 9 again just got me excited for Neill Blomkamp’s next film, Elysium.

8/10