Dangerous to have dissenting opinions, but I'm bored at work so here it goes. I wasn't a huge fan of District 9. Don't get me wrong, I don't think it was a bad film in any way, but I have some gripes. Instead of really capitalizing on the ability to create a whole alien culture that could be explored through the eyes of an outsider, they instead just made the prawns exactly like humans in alien form. The story seemed (again, just my opinion) a bit contrived - I can't give great examples but I just feel like the themes throughout it have appeared time and time again in numerous films. Maybe I'm just a movie snob, but to me even though it was fun to watch it didn't really do anything I haven't seen in other films, which upset me a bit because the whole story and concept was really creative and interesting.