Posted by: Nysssa

I’m not a movie theater kind of gal – mostly because I like being tucked under a blanket with my dog next to me sipping wine and getting up to pee when I want kind of movie watcher. Today I went to the movies with my husband and my parents to celebrate my husband’s birthday. He picked “District 9″ and I thought I’d share my impressions here.

Before I begin though – my current movie theater knitting project is the Windmill Bag – I soared through about 7 or 8 inches of garter stitch during the movie today – 21 stitches wide on size 6 needles using worsted weight yarn..

Ok, the movie…

If you’re the kind of person who shows up to a movie late – this movie is perfect for it. I spent the first 30 or so minutes wondering why the movie theater had so many people in it. It was extremely documentary-esque but didn’t seem to have a point and was gory and I couldn’t wait for something to finally HAPPEN.

When things finally started happening, the movie went from hmm to HMM to Oh, ok – there is a plot. It was predictable, but not in a bad way. There was a lot of splattering bodies – but by the end there were bodies being splattered that you were glad to see go. There was a lot of eating catfood – and some eating of alien flesh – not really my thing. There were parts I just didn’t watch – peeling off fingernails, vomiting black goo, chopping off offending body parts. I saw some people with small children in the theater, probably not something I’d want a small child to see – but I don’t have to get up in the middle of the night with them when they have nightmares that they are slowly turning into an alien.

My favorite character was the son – you’ll see why.

The main character didn’t have enough character – I’m not sure if it was the actor’s fault or the writer’s, but he went from wishy-washy to hero and then back to wishy-washer.

They did manage to leave us hanging at the end – please I don’t want them to make a sequel – it was interesting but not enough for another one.

This was definitely not a ‘have to see it on the big screen with the big sound system’ kind of movie. Catch a matinee so you have money left for popcorn to get your through the beginning of the movie – or just wait for it to come out on DVD.