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District 9: first full length trailer here

Simon Brew


Is District 9 the sleeper surprise of the summer? The new trailer does its reputation no harm at all...

Published on Jul 9, 2009

"There's a lot of secrets in District 9."

It's in the midst of a story where aliens have come to Earth and live as refugees in South Africa that we might just have one of the most interesting films of the year. Already 2009 is looking to be something of a big year for science fiction cinema, with Star Trek hitting hard at the box office, and the small matter of Surrogates and Avatar still to come.

But District 9 could still be the one to watch. Sony's smart promotional campaign for the film has clearly done it a few favours, and thus we were intrigued to get what's actually the first full length trailer for it (earlier in the week we got a new viral video, which you can see here). It expands on the theme of keeping aliens separate from humans, and you can draw plenty of subtexts already, and with some excellent use of sound here, it's a really good trailer.

The only downside? We're not utterly convinced by the look of the aliens themselves, but aren't sure that squinting at them in a web browser does them many favours, to be fair.

Still, our ticket for the film - out on 14th August - is very firmly sold.

 

 

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Re: District 9: first full length trailer here
Posted By moakle 1 July 9, 2009 08:48:49 AM

Oh my days. How excited am I now?

Re: District 9: first full length trailer here
Posted By mattrek 1 July 9, 2009 01:48:58 PM

About bloody time, i loved Alive in Joberg, Neil Bloomkamp is amazing

Re: District 9: first full length trailer here
Posted By evanjdooner 1 July 9, 2009 02:03:41 PM

Films looks very good. I thought we finished having South African bad-guys after Apartheid ended. For they surely are the bad-guys from the look of the trailer. I just wish I hadn't needed to click through to Youtube to watch it, the comments make my brain hurt.

Re: District 9: first full length trailer here
Posted By 04BennettCH 1 July 9, 2009 06:50:38 PM

I really think the aliens look pretty darn good, Is this meant to be a thriller/horror?

Re: District 9: first full length trailer here
Posted By Modestgaz 1 July 9, 2009 07:36:08 PM

Wow. Looks great, very excited about this

Re: District 9: first full length trailer here
Posted By lurgus 1 July 10, 2009 12:44:20 PM

I've been looking forward to this for a while now and this trailer just makes things better. What with Moon and now this it's about time we got more intelligent SF with interesting ideas in cinemas. I know I'm not the only person that thought the George Clooney version of Solaris was a fine, intellegent film and looking back at all the great thoughtful Sci Fi from the past, bleeding Star Wars has a lot to answer for. MNU spreads lies.
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