I liked it a lot. I liked that the characterization was a little bit unconventional (though only a little*) and thought it was really well done. Copley did a great job creating this weak, dweeby guy and making a plausible presentation of him becoming more dangerous as needed. As SF, it's at least as well thought out as most space opera, modern or otherwise (and much more so than most). I liked the ending a lot -- I know some people hated it, but to me it did a couple of things I like to see: avoided the pat feel-good ending without being outrageously bleak; and creates a clear connection between The Character Who Changes (because we ALL know characters MUST change!) and what he was before he "changed." A lot of people seemed to me to be disappointed by what it didn't do. It wasn't a penetrating social commentary picture with lots of sympathetic alien characters interacting with humans in Very Special Moments. But then, neither is 99% of print SF. I went in expecting an action movie with culturally significant subtexts, and that's what I feel like I got.
-- *It's very much in the 'do the right thing against his better judgement' school of anti-hero characterization (like Bogie in Casablanca, The Man in Yojimbo/Fistfull of Dollars, Han Solo in Star Wars, or The Continental Op in Red Harvest). On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Alicia Henn <[email protected]>wrote: > > I liked it, too. As long as I didn't think about the plot too much. > It was gruesome in a lot of different ways, but good. > A damning judgement of humanity and terrific effects. > > > > On Sep 12, 2009, at 11:54 AM, delancey wrote: > > > > > So, I finally saw District 9 last night. I know some people (e.g., > > Nancy) didn't like it, but I thought it was great. About as good as > > big budget SF gets (granted: that's a kind of faint praise). Am I > > alone in this opinion? > > > > cd > > > > > > > > > > > > -- eric scoles ([email protected]) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
