“District No. 9”: the best sci-fi film of the year?

After the premiere of the film District 9 last weekend, high-tech forums and geek communities filled with enthusiastic messages. On a slashdot, the film is compared to masterpiece with “The Matrix” and “Star Wars”. Spectators and experts agree that District 9 is distinguished by the harmony of the plot, entertainment and special effects. And outstanding exoskeleton .

The Wired website publishes a brief “guide for parents” who are going to send a child to District 9.

- Why do children like the movie so much?
- This is a terrible and bloody film of the highest category of cruelty (Rated R). Do not let children go there if they have not watched anything like this.
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- There are famous actors?
- No, this is a low-budget film, about $ 30 million was spent on it, and almost all the money went to computer graphics.

- Is it necessary to wait for the end of the credits in the cinema?
- In the credits of so many people, as if to create special effects helped half the population of New Zealand. But no, their end is not worth waiting for, you will not be told anything new.

- When can I go to the toilet?
- There is a small pause in the development of the plot in the middle of the film, after the scene with an alien and son. Toilet break experts recommend going out in the 49th minute.

Already, the film District 9 is called the best science fiction of the year. And this is despite the fact that in 2009 a whole bunch of high-quality sci-fi novelties came out (still listed under the software).

And some of these films are really science fiction, unlike District 9.

The list is in English for uniformity, because the official titles of some films in the Russian box office are still not approved.

• Gamer
• The fourth Kind
• The Time Traveler's Wife
• Pandorum
• Splice
• The surrogates
• 2012
• 9
• Astroboy
• The box
• The sky crawlers
• Radio free albemuth
• Hunter prey
• Deadland
• Moon