# Anyone seen the trailer for District nine **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2009, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-trailer-for-district-nine/504305 "2009-07-26T06:37:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-trailer-for-district-nine/504305/1 "2009-07-26T06:37:49Z")
This looks like its going to be a tres cool movie, an opening night event if i can get the time. Makes me wonder with a space ship like that , i am gonna be curious to see how we are not letting them go. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-trailer-for-district-nine/504305/2 "2009-07-26T07:15:08Z")
Yep, there’s a couple of them up on Hulu. It looks bloody awesome. On a related note, I’ve noticed a lot of movies coming out this year are role reversals of traditional alien movies. Normal alien movies have the aliens as the malicious or benign invaders of Earth, and the plots are told with humans as the sympathetic side. However, just from the trailers on Hulu we have: _District 9_ - Humans are _dicks_ to the poor captive aliens. _Planet 51_ - A human lands on an Earth-analog and befriends an alien teenager in his bid to get back to his spaceship and return home. _Battle for Terra_ - Humans, desperate to find another planet to colonize, invade a peaceful race’s homeworld. (I just noticed this came out in _May_. I haven’t been paying attention to theatrical releases at all, wow.) Of course, there’s _Aliens in the Attic_, which is a more traditional alien invader comedy. So yeah, sort of off-topic. But _District 9_ looks awesome, I’m totally looking forward to seeing it. (And what’s up with the 9 movies now? We’ve got _Nine_, _9_, _District 9_…okay, okay, I’ll stop.) ---
**Author:** ![Other\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Other\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Other_Dreams)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-trailer-for-district-nine/504305/3 "2009-07-26T08:23:04Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > (And what’s up with the 9 movies now? We’ve got _Nine_, _9_, _District 9_…okay, okay, I’ll stop.) An aside - my favourite number is 9. It is so purrdy. Nine, nine, nine…NINE! On Subject - I played an Alternate Reality Game for District 9. It seemed pretty cool; my internet got shot off before I could really get started, though. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-trailer-for-district-nine/504305/4 "2009-07-26T09:04:20Z")
[Here is the short film that inspired District 9. It’s called “Live in Joburg” (youtube video)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5GZpD6nmUI). I don’t think there are any spoilers in the short–it’s done in the style of a documentary without any real plot. Pretty well done, although the low budget shows in the alien costumes. Some of the other effects aren’t bad. The movie takes the concept and builds a story on it. The trailer does indeed look really cool, and it’s got me excited about it. The same director that made the short is directing the movie, and Peter Jackson is the producer. Apparently it was screened this weekend at Comic Con to a few lucky geeks and it was very well-received. There aren’t many movies that I feel I HAVE to see in the theater this summer, but this is one of them. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-trailer-for-district-nine/504305/5 "2009-07-26T17:23:34Z")
All this excitement is pretty heartening, I thought our little local SF film would be a quiet event… …of course, you all realise it’s _Alien Nation_ for the new millennium, right?