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I have decided that Avatar, District 9 and Terminator salvation are my top 3 favorite movies of 2009. At first I wanted to see District 9 because it looked like a shoot-em-up alien movie like the movie "Aliens". I found that was not the case but I was still pleasantly surprised! they do an amazing job of illustrating the alien's prospective in this movie! If you don't know what it is about let me summarize it for you. It is mostly shot in a documentary style video and it tells you about how 20 years ago an alien space ship hovers over a city in Africa. After 3 months of showing no movement, humans bored the ship and find the aliens trapped inside. They free the aliens and make them live in a small beat-up village below. The people of the surrounding town become irritated by some of the crimes commented by the aliens who are referred to as "Prons". A company decides to move them to a new town so they hire a guy to go door-to-door to the Prons and notify them about their eviction. He accidentally stubbles upon a substance that slowly changes him into a Pron throughout the movie. He must hide to escape the scientist wanting to harvest his body parts to activate some of the alien weapons. They really show how human like these aliens are. It’s one of those movies where you want the aliens to win. The humans think they are dirty creatures who can't be reasoned with even though it’s the humans faults for making them live in dirty villages scavenging for food. Besides their fiscal appearance, the aliens are the exact same as humans. they can be bribed and reasoned with, they can create solutions and they know how to deal with certain situations. you can really connect with the aliens and you feel bad for them. I felt more connected to this movie than E.T. this movie is a lot like E.T. but I really preferred District 9 more. over all it was a great movie but I will warn you, it is very gory. it could have been worse but it is a very gory movie yet at the same time emotional movie. I give it a solid 10 out of 10 especially because this is the first movie the guy had ever directed!

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