Ziz said:
Going to see it Sunday with my friends, but I'm now looking at it with a more critical eye. Ever see Alien Nation?

Exactly someone told me about seeing the trailer in theaters and explained the premise to me. And i explained it sounded an awful lot like Alien Nation.

Well except district 9 is not a very well veiled allegory on racism and the treatment of black people in general by whites. its just easier to make it science fiction. And all the more relevent as far as marketing goes to put it in theaters when Obama is president.

But it is in the true science fiction tradition of star trek and gene roddenberry to talk of such subjects under the guise of science fiction. Imagine that another sci fi movie talks about something relevent in the same year that star trek was reborn as a dumb action movie for fratboys, and american football watchers.