Flicked Off: District 9 (Is Really, Really Great)
Here are my only two beefs with District 9, the new Peter Jackson-produced scifi apartheid-invoking epic stealth blockbuster opening this weekend. One is that I do not approve when a film switches seamlessly between faux-documentary and omniscient styles. Just conceptually speaking. But it's not a problem if you don't notice it! And no, Will Leitch, I do not think in any way that the last half hour is lazy, though I agree it is slightly conventional. And yet conventionality brings narrative satisfaction! So my two beefs are minor and here I will join the crowd and be all OMG IT IS SO SUPER-GOOD I CANNOT WAIT TO GO AGAIN. YES PLEASE. The thing is? It's great! I really, really, really liked it! I also made you a giant space-time diagram to explain the components of the movie!
I can't find Uranus, Choire.
Oh! There it is.
Too many Klingons.
Because of the poisonous gases, nobody can survive anywhere near Uranus.
"Briana S" of Flixster, I think I love you. Here's her review: "like transformers but less gay."
Where does the James Caan/Mandy Patinkin '80s alient buddy cop movie "Alien Nation" fit into your Venn diagram? It's gotta be in there somewhere, right?
I think what ran through my mind when i saw the commercial for this was "Alien Nation meets Guantanamo/concentration camp".
Also, I think I'd want to see it more if the aliens didn't look like transformers.
You are the Leonard Maltin of graphic design!
THE MOUNT
ANATHEM!!
(just finished it again for the 2nd time last night)
Jack Shaftoe would be their new King.
The films switching seamlessly between faux-documentary and omniscient styles was to save money I read (under $30 million). The budget — for a sci-fi apartheid allegory — was remarkably small, i hear. Even with Peter Jackson in some producing capacity.
I'd love to see this, but I'd have to get a sitter for the 4-year-old. Stupid baby!
Escape To Witch Mountain, though?
First Balk references a Canticle to Leibowitz in his personal blog, and then Choire references The motherfucking Mount?!
We've got a Shadowrun game going on Wednesday nights, if you guys want to drop by.
OMG, you are ON.
I know, we are nerds. But The Mount was AWESOME!