the net raiders

I just recentley saw “District 9″, and I was totally wowed. I’m an avid fan of not paying 10 bucks to go see a movie that I can rent three months later for less than half the price. On a whim my friends and I decided to see  it on opening weekend. I payed 12.50 after the Fandango charges, and OMG it was so worth it. There were a few moments of disbelief, but nothing to distract you from the story itself. The movie is a good action Sci-Fi, and has some very heavy social commentary. What I liked best was that the aliens were closer to behaving more like humans than other films in this genre. That’s also one of the major complaints I’ve heard about it. Thank goodness someone finally went out on a limb though! This is one of the most original movies to come out in the last few years in my opinion.

To get to my point, the week after I saw District 9, I watched the trailer for James’ Cameron’s new movie (the first feature film he’s made since Titanic), “Avatar” scheduled to be released this December. I don’t know much about the story line, but based just on the trailer, I can tell that I would pay 15 dollars to go see this film in IMAX.

Like most movies coming out these days, there’s a game to go with it! I’ve only watched the trailer for it, and it looks beautiful. But I won’t invest as much hope into it as I am into the movie, even though it’s under Ubisofts care. Normally I wouldn’t invest anything into the movies that are coming out. In the case of Avatar though, I will join the ranks of fanboys and girls because there is finally something out there to spark my imagination again. Thank you James Cameron for instilling hope into the movie industry once more.  Also look out for another film he has planned to come out sometime between 2011 and 2013 – “Battle Angel”, which I can only assume is based on the manga “Battle Angel Alita” by Yukito Kishiro.