District 9

A few weeks back I went and watch District 9 and it was honestly one of the better movies I have seen in a long time. For those who have seen the previews but have no clue what this movie is about let me explain. in the early 80's a spaceship filled with aliens in flying past earth when it runs out of fuel. The ship comes to a stop over Johannesburg, South Africa. After sitting in the air for a good while the world's governments finally decide that we need to know why they are here and send up some crews to open the ship and see what is going on in the ship. The aliens on board are emaciated and dying. It is decided that the aliens will be given a place to live in South Africa in a area called District 9. As time passes the people that originally lived in the area have had enough of the aliens for various reasons and want them gone. Multinational United (a fictional agency in charge of the aliens) are tasked with moving the aliens from District 9 to the new District 10, this is where the movie starts.

While the movie is slow at times the story is engrossing and by the end you feel for the plight of these aliens and how they are treated. One thing that I loved about this movie was the cut in interviews of people commenting about how they want these unwelcome visitors gone and how they are disrupting their lives. As I later found out all of these interviews are real interviews with people that actually live in the slums shown in the movie and are about the black south Africans commenting about the black Nigerians and Zimbabweans that had come to their area. Gives the film a real deep feeling of hatred that the people feel about the outsiders, in this case the aliens, living among them.

The main actor in this movie is someone that I personally have never seen in anything I have ever watched, yet he blew me away with his performance. As times progress things breakdown for him and he conveys every bit of that breakdown through his actions and behaviors.

Finally I wanted to make a comment on Neill Blomkamp. This is his first big directing gig and he did a phenomenal job. This movie originally started out and the pre-shoot for the Halo movie but the studio pulled the plug. So Peter Jackson came along and told Neill we are already here lets just make a movie regardless and boy am I glad they did. This was a great breakthrough directing gig and puts Blomkamp on the map as far as I am concerned.

Halloween 2

Went and watched Halloween 2 and I have to say: WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? Now to understand where I coming from with that statement you have to know that I enjoyed the first Halloween remake from Rob Zombie and expected something similar in this installment. I could not have been more wrong. This movie was a fucking mind-trip that made no sense what so ever. When someone thinks of Michael Myers it conjures images of a unstoppable killer along the lines of Jason or Freddy. In the first film that exactly what we got, once we got past the initial telling of his childhood that is. In this one we basically get a homeless guy wandering across the country following a white horse and his dead mother. You would think that we would at least get him killing people everywhere like the first film, but again no. All in all I can only think of 12 people that get killed in this movie (2 of which never actually occurred). In the end I was severely disappointed in this piece of crap and wonder how high Rob Zombie was when he made this.

Next week I should have a review of Gamer up since that looks like the only thing worth watching.

The Whole Point

Some people may wonder why I decided to start this blog. The whole reason behind this is to review the movies I go watch. You see almost every weekend I go out and watch some movie in the theater that looks good in my opinion. The types of movies I watch are not always what you would call the best movies out there. I like everything from the deep stories right down to the cheesiest, corniest stuff you can think of. Now the problem I have is that I always see movie reviews from actual critics that pan nearly everything I like. Why is it that these so called critics have to take everything so seriously. I swear none of them can accept a funny movie for what it is; something to entertain people without them having to think about every single little thing that has occurred in the film? For example Happy Madison was completely tore apart for its corny jokes and crude humor. Yet to this day it is one of those movies that a person can just sit down and watch anytime even though they know damn near every line in the movie.

I digress, what you will find on this page is my honest review of the new movies that come out that I have actually taken the time to go watch. I will try to spoil as little of the movie as possible when reviewing them but I will also not pull any punches what so ever as far as my opinions go. I hope you enjoy and if you disagree with my opinion than leave a comment and tell people why, but don't be an ass about it.