I'm not into action movies

. . . Buuuuut . . . much like I had to admit after Star Trek came out, District 9 (a Peter Jackson joint (he's the Lord of the Rings guy)) was pretty good. The aliens looked like shrimp (but they were supposed to), the bigotry parallels were a tad heavy handed and obvious, and there are a million things that don't make a lick of sense logistically about some of the plot elements. . . . buuuuut. . . .

I liked it, very original sort of story with a very original way of laying it out. It was an odd sort of hybrid between the two extremes that usually exist in action/thriller films. Most choose the big epic beautiful panning shots filled with mystifying graphics and cinematography or they leave that to Lucas and go "raw" and shoot 3/4 of the thing handheld poorly lit and with the camera up some actors heavily breathing nose the whole time. District 9 went to some effort obviously to meld these techniques and I think it all came out seeming very new and, dare I use the cliche, fresh.

I told Mark at the beginning of the flick that I didn't know much about it but I was pretty sure it was "like Lord of the Rings 4, or something." I told him after I couldn't wait for LOTR 5.