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looks pretty good. Looks like its for us 30 somethings that grew up on the A Team in the 80s, rather than a re imagined/re hash Liam Nesson look like he is having to much fun a Hannibal. After him in Taken, he can do no wrong by me
Ok, so i went to See Avatar. The story is about Jack Sully (Sam Worthington) a crippled marine. Whos' brother dies while involved with the "avatar" project. Due the DNA similarities he then picks up where his brother left off and uses what would have been his brothers' avatar. Thing is, his brother was very clever scientist and he is just a grunt.
Anyways, the mission is for Jake infiltrate the Tribe to get them to move their home "diplomatically", so the corporation can mine this mega-rare valuable metal call "Unobtainium" that is directly below the "Home tree" of the tribe. Sully meets (and falls for one of the Tribe) but also becomes one of the tribe and is see as kinda "chosen one" for something. Time runs out and the the Corporation decide to Home Tree by force.
The film is very good but is very very long (3hrs) and there were bits of the film that should/could have been cut. There was like 3 scenes of training/initiation (one for hunting, one for riding and another for flying). Now by the time we got to the 3rd "training level", i did begin to think this is becoming a bit of a CGI wank fest, and that has cost it few stars for me. it is Visually spectacular. I have never seen such incredible visuals since a huge triangle shaped space ship flew over my head some 30years ago.
The story just about hung 2gether, it was a bit "tree huggy" and the environmental undercurrents were too blatant to ignore, and that kinda bugged having this "we are the bad guys and we must do more to save this planet" (especially when Jim Cameron's weekly carbon emissions are probably more than what all of us here kick out in a year)
To sum up, the film was good but i do feel the special FX and the 3D were kinda propping up what i feel was, once you stripped all the "CGI Dick measuring, a pretty bog standard film If i didnt see this in 3D, i think i would have come a way saying " well...its ok, but nothing amazing"
All in all 7 SkinToxications out of 10, make sure you go and see it on 3D, otherwise this will struggle to be a 6 out of 10
I think Orph mentioned this b4 but i cant find the thread, But Alien Breed Evolution is up on the market place, 800 MSP is on the price tag. I am gonna have a go at the Demo now and here is a trailer clip
Well i went and saw this last night and i couldnt wait till the weekend to do a review Trailer 1st
what a film!!! truly, truly amazing and very moving
the plots is, 28 yrs ago and alien ship stops over Jo'burg in South Africa. After months of speculation and no signs of aliens, the humans break into the craft as discover 1million aliens (Prawns) either sick or dying. The government set up a area for them to live in names District 9 and the Aliens leave peacefully but in squalid conditions. back to the present day and the citizen have had enough of them and want them moved (the Xenophobic racial undertones are more than apprent) and and area named District 10 is setup some 200km away.
Wikus van de Merwe (pronounced "Vickers") put in charge of the "formality" of issuing eviction notices to all the inhabitants of District 9. Vickers is a bit of a nervy nerdy guy but a good man with a huge heart. During the the process of issuing the notice to one of the shacks, Vckers is sprayed with a liquid from a strange unknown canister. He is admitted to hospital after becoming very ill and is discovered he is mutating into on of the Prawns. He his forced to escape a medical research facility when they(the humans) try to "harvest" his body for genetics after it is discovered he is the only human that can used(fire) the (vastly superior) Alien Weapons.
I wont go any further than that and spoil it. But this film was absolutley amazing! its shot with a mix of Docu-camera follawing Vickers, CNNesque TV report and security cameras as well "normal filmograpy" but still in that kind of "docu-style"
its a very moving film as what happens to Vicker is made all the more horrid by him being a really good, honest and caring guy (the little guy/brother you wanna look out for) and you really feel for his situation as the films goes on. I nearly shed a tear at the end of day one when he pulls a piece of manky cardboard over him as he tries to get some sleep in one of the vacant shacks as he flees back to District 9
Really really loved this film, took me a while to get to sleep last night as it really got me thinking. would love to see this again. Its so good i think if i bought on Bluray, it might cheapen the experience and watching it at my lesiure may numb incredible feel/tone the movie has.
"Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence."
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