District 9 Is Not A Mind Blowing Movie

I recently viewed District 9 via a free screening, and while I couldn't wait to see it, I wasn't blown away by any means. Now why bother stating this? Well usually when a majority go with a movie, you have the usual haters, then the movie is usually decent. Well even the "haters" the people that nagged Transformers and The Dark Knight because of their "apparent flaws" are saying this is the greatest movie in years. Let me look closely at why this is wrong.

For starters lets look at the "apparent flaws" this movie has, yet people seem to completely over look. Noting if you haven't seen it, there will be spoilers. For one in the begining of the movie they state that no one has breeched the space ship at all, and its just been sitting there for weeks. Do we honestly believe in this political driven world that a county like America or Russia would not be fighting over this and trying to be the first ones into the shuttle? Next they state that they breeched it and put the aliens in camps on the ground, with people directly within the reach of them, no super secure location or anything. Again we believe this would happen why? Now look at the aliens, they have these super powerful weapons and begin to trade them for cat food. If these aliens were truly addicted to the cat food like stated why would they trade the weapons instead of use them?

You can ignore all of this, but you can't ignore some of the nitpicking things in Batman or Transformers? The complaints only get worse from there. There was a decent story behind it, im not complaining there. The movie had tons of potential but in the end of the day all it turned out to be was another Independance Day knock off. If anyone has ever played the game Resistance Fall of Man (if you havent i highly suggest you do) then you know where they got a majority of their ideas, including the giant space ship and how the main character is changing. The movie isn't original, lacked in many departments, and shouldn't be labeled in the same class as "greatest movies ever made" at all. /end rant