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#21

Bad Movies / Re: Films you don't talk about...

Last post by Trevor - July 16, 2026, 09:33:20 AM

No worries. Nobody will ever know your hate for District 9 online! 

13 for me: I actually walked out of District 9 and demanded my money back. Got it too.

I think I am totally on my own when I say that I dislike The Shining, District 9 and Invictus

Invictus and District 9

District 9 (aside from Sharlto Copley's performance, this is a horrible film)

I only watched Elysium to give SA born filmmaker Neill Blomkamp another chance after the poo pile that was District 9.

I hated District 9 for various reasons. I actually walked out and demanded my money back.

I also never quite understood the appeal of DISTRICT 9 but I did like CHAPPIE.

District 9 (I hated this movie and I wasn't the only one here who did)

I actually walked out of District 9 when I realized what I was watching was nothing more than a thinly disguised anti-South African diatribe from a born South African who must have had a really crappy childhood here.

CHAPPIE (After District 9, no thanks and what is my beautiful flag doing on the shoulder of an ugly robot?)

DISTRICT 9 (anti-South African garbage disguised as a sci-fi film)

Neil Blomkamp must have had a really crappy childhood in South Africa: my theory is that his films District 9 and Elazyium are anti-South African diatribes. 

he passed away last year but he was a damn good filmmaker. Until District 9 came along

Neil Blomkamp's District 9 was an anti South African film disguised (not well) as a sci-fi action film.

If the SA public feels that District 9 is yet another faint reminder of their supposedly unique past, this film will bomb at the local box-office. Many anti-South African films such as A Dry White Season and Catch A Fire among others, crashed,  burned and slid right down the crapper here.

I get asked this all the time and I always say that I love movies like The Shining, the 1973 Lost Horizontally, District 9, Chappie, Invictus and things like Cry Freedom and Lethal Weapon 2 😉😉

I walked out of District 9, Invictus and Master Harold & The Boys halfway through: I got my money back for the first two.

I have also never gotten the hype and acclaim that DISTRICT 9 has gotten over the years.

People know how I feel about DISTRICT 9.

DISTRICT 9
[An anti-South African film made to look like a sci-fi film: excruciating viewing]

I think ol' Trevor's repeated not-so-subliminal messages over the years might be solely responible for me having never seen DISTRICT 9.... every time I see the dvd on a shelf I'm like, hmmm naah... I mean there's no real logical reason why I haven't checked it out yet....

I refer to that movie in my book in less than glowing terms. It was presented and marketed as one of my country's very rare sci fi films. Sadly, it was actually another attempt to make South Africans feel bad about their countries past made by a locally born director.

It is actually very well made with good visual FX, good performances but I dislike it intensely.

#22

Games / Re: Answer the question with a...

Last post by bob - July 16, 2026, 09:30:15 AM

I make



to her and be left alone.

How did you grow wings?

#23

Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...

Last post by Rev. Powell - July 16, 2026, 09:28:56 AM

#24

Bad Movies / Re: Films you don't talk about...

Last post by Trevor - July 16, 2026, 09:28:01 AM

Hilarious.

RUSH = early 90s drug thriller?
I absolutely hated it the one time I watched it on VHS. In retrospect, I think the intentions were serious and noble, but the (one-and-done, iirc) director wasn't capable of delivering a serious, challenging, good film instead of a boring, overwrought, frustrating mess.

The only films I try [sic] not to talk about online are those born out of such hatred or meanness or bad faith or mental illness that I feel like even acknowledging them will only grant them more power. Still I stumble at times in this effort.

Ron Howard's RUSH about the relationship between Formula 1 champions Niki Lauda and James Hunt. The film is so historically inaccurate that, great performances aside, it presents Lauda and Hunt as mortal enemies when they were actually friends off the track, more like brothers really.

I will walk out of a film when it is a historical drama and isn't factual, another reason why I disliked INVICTUS and I assisted in pre production on that 😳😳😳

#25

Games / Re: Movie Title Chains

Last post by bob - July 16, 2026, 09:26:49 AM

The Big Boss

#26

Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by Rev. Powell - July 16, 2026, 09:14:57 AM

OBEX (2025): An agoraphobic computer nerd travels inside a video game to rescue his dog, kidnapped by the demon-boss Ixaroth. Another quirky, warm-hearted, and lightly surreal parable from Albert Birney (SYLVIO, STRAWBERRY MANSION), this time with a 1980s VHS/Macintosh aesthetic (and, for some reason, presented in black and white). 3/5.

#27

Bad Movies / Re: Films you don't talk about...

Last post by indianasmith - July 16, 2026, 08:39:17 AM

FWIW, I have never seen a single ROCKY movie and have no desire to.

#28

Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...

Last post by Rev. Powell - July 16, 2026, 08:18:11 AM

I like that CoPilot threw in an astronaut playing the drums.

#29

Bad Movies / Re: Films you don't talk about...

Last post by Rev. Powell - July 16, 2026, 08:15:26 AM

I don't fear getting flamed for talking about movies.

Sometimes I will review movies positively and get flamed because I didn't praise them enough (this has happened to me with "The Nightmare Before Christmas," "Songs from the Second Floor," "Enter the Void," and some others I can't recall.)

#30

Bad Movies / Re: 100 Historical Movies in O...

Last post by Rev. Powell - July 16, 2026, 08:10:21 AM

44. Gone with the Wind (ends in 1873)