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Old 08-24-2009, 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by G-Benz View Post
I had also read that the producer lived in Johannesburg, SA, so he had firsthand experience of the apartheid conditions there, hence the movie's premise.

If you didn't know this going into the theater, you may have been disappointed that this wasn't another "Transformers"...

...I did laugh once when the guy in the robotic unit grabs a pig a forcefully chunks it at one of the soldiers!
Kinda like that scene in Saving Private Ryan when the two soldiers ran out of ammo and threw their helmets at each other

I loved it, my wife slept through it. Either you like it or you don't I guess.

Now comparing this and Cloverfield which has a similar style, I would go for this one rather than Cloverfield. The other alien movie was harder to visualize because it made the audience dizzy more than District 9.
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