The previews for District 9 provided wildly varying pictures of what kind of film it might be. From the first teasers that suggested it was a documentary about alien internment, to the later trailers that attempted to depict it as an action film along the lines of Transformers. Neither is precisely true, although it is closer to the former than the latter. In the alternate reality of District 9, an alien ship arrived over South Africa in 1982.  ...read more