District 9′ aliens challenge believability for viewers
Jessica True
For a movie that was made in this generation, why was it that the best film makers could do was cartoon aliens?They had the technology back in the 70s to make realistic aliens looking like those seen in the Alien movie series starring Sigourney Weaver.
A black and white film made before the invention of color called The Day the Earth Stood Still showed a very frightening Alien named Gort who was more realistic than the aliens in “District 9.”
Jessica Lange starred in King Kong, which was nothing but a man in a monkey suit ok a mechanical puppet hand, but it was incredibly real and it frightened viewers.
Even “Close Encounters,” one of the very first alien movies ever made, appeared more authentic.
One movie-goer, Rakesh Sud, reported that he left the theatre in the middle of the movie.
“It was pretty bad,” Sud said.
Sud considers himself the type of viewer who could basically sit through anything, but he had to leave because his date was complaining.
There were logical problems presented, such as when the aliens spoke a foreign language to humans who understood the foreign language and spoke English back to the aliens, who in turn understood English and spoke their language back in the same conversation.
It’s a lack of direction or thought.
Anyone who has spoken to foreigners before knows that people choose one language or the other, not both at the same time, to avoid any confusion.
Another phenomenon is how well the humans could understand this foreign language in “District 9” and yet the humans in Mesa Community College Spanish 101 class cannot even pronounce Spanish verb sounds properly.
There is supposed to be a suspension of disbelief in movies, as though even the movie-goer knows it’s a false reality but can still accept it as truth because of the level of pensive entertainment; but in “District 9” the disbelief was not even given a kindergarten time out.
