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Tonight I went and saw District 9 and I was pleasantly surprised.  The movie, which is based off of a short film  by Neill Blomkamp, is about a city in South Africa that gets visited by an alien ship.  The movie starts 20 years later, after they were taken and put into man-made camps and forced to live there.   As the movie progresses, violence and chaos break out and decisions have to be made.  Full of intense action and well placed special effects make this movie a must see.  Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp do not disappoint.

–Tim

(500) Days of Summer is a story about a guy and a girl who fall in love.  Guy stuck at a dead-end job and girl is somewhat of a free-spirited bird.  It stars the boy teen from 3rd Rock from the Sun, and a hippy-esk chick who is engaged to lead singer Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cutie.  The movie has not been released fully to all theaters; it’s playing in select (non-chain) theaters.  Bethany and I saw it at the Guild on 45th.

Tom (Joseph Gorden-Levitt) finds himself being miserable working at a greeting card company, writing those cute little phrases in birthday and congratulation cards.  He jokes with his coworkers, about finding the right girl for him, but they just never work out.  Enter Summer (Zooey Deschanel) as assistant to Tom’s boss.The movie jumps back and forth between day 1 and 500, depicting the funny and sad periods of their relationship.  Tom is taken back by Summers beauty and she is all he can talk about.  A little obsessive, to say the least.  In their true first incounter with each together, Tom is listen to The Smiths on his headphones in the elevator.  Summer enters and recognizes the band.  According to Tom, they quickly bond because of this recognition of the band.Summer is hot and cold with Tom throughout the movie, which produces comedy through Toms facial expressions, his actions and discussions with his friends.  She wants to not be tied down and just have fun, but is slowly, in Toms mind, falling for Tom.  There are quite a few scenes with Tom’s friends, which really bring out the comedy of the movie.

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Short points:

1: Not to many continuity issues

2: Zooey sounded like Kermit the Frog most of the time and reminded me of Maggie Gyllenhaal.  And not the hot Maggie Gyllenhaal.

3: Joseph did an excellent acting job.  Kept it emotional and serious, then funny when needed.

4: The actress playing Autumn (Minka Kelly) is way hotter then Summer.

Great movie.  One of the better ones I have seen in a while.  This more romantic then drama movie had the perfect amount of comedy, keeping me happy.

I might purchase this movie when it releases to Blue-Ray.

/juice

Okay, okay, so I havn’t seen District 9 yet, so this isn’t going to be a movie review.  But I am looking forward to seeing it.  Basically, in a few words, it looks amazing!  Below is the Original Short Film – District 9, which the box office movie was based off of.

District 9 will be in theatres August 18 of this year, and shot by Neill Blomkamp.  Blomkamp was the producer of the movie Halo, until it went on indefinate heitaus.  The combination of Peter Jackson (King Kong, The Lord of the Rings trillogy) and Blomkamp (lots of small documentary style films) is simply, amazing.  I’m not a big Lord of the Rings, or Harry Potter fan, so I wasn’t at the begining of the line, at the midnight showing of these movies.  But you can almost count of me seeing it if not opening day, opening weekend.

Don’t forget to check out the site: d-9.com.  The site has the official trailer, a satellite map that shows where the aliens live and other restricted areas, links to MNU (Multi-national Union) [which currently have career openings now] and a 800 number to report any aliens out of zone, or exhibiting improper behavior.

AWESOME!

/juice

Yesterday, my partner signed up for Netflix – 1 out at a time – program.  It is something we have been talking about for the last year and never really thought we could afford it.  Turns out, we can!

I’m so excited about getting these movies in the mail, and even more excited about ‘Instant Viewing’.

Since my current job is awesome [/sarcasm], I get to connect to the Internet as well as watch DVDs.  I look forward to writing reviews about the movies I watch and doing some good critiquing.  I’m a huge continuity person, so mostly it will be about that.

/juice