Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: Roger Ebert suspects District 9 fanboys are racist

[quote name="Fussbett"][quote]Let's move on to the reasons those countless readers (and also those who posted at the New York Press under his review) hate him for what he wrote about "District 9." I write this on the night of August 13. The movie opens tomorrow. Some of them may have seen it at a preview, although it did not have extensive promotional screenings. Why do they already like it? Because it is this weekend's movie that everybody is going to see. The movie was a the big hit at ComicCon this year. They've seen the trailer online. On YouTube alone, one trailer has 350,0000 views. It shows creepy insectoid aliens who get blown up real good. It also has the subtext of us against them--outsiders, unwanted visitors. "Why won't they go home?" Am I hypersensitive in sensing a tinge of anti-immigrant feeling here? Who would ever dream this might be a political parable?[/quote] Roger Ebert actually believes that normal people, even people who are so hardcore into pop culture as to attend ComicCon, expected District 9 to be Independence Day.[/quote]