District 9

I used to love movies, I went to film school, I’ve most likely spent a year or more in front of the screen watching films of all levels of quality. Recently, the film industry has taken a giant shit on us. The films released the past couple of years (minus a few) are utter garbage. With heavy saturation of style of substance, films are getting shittier and shittier, and audiences are getting dumber. It’s imperative in this shit-filled time that you hold on to quality like a fatty to frosting.

District 9 has been a long time in the making, freshman director Neil Blomkap, was originally tapped to make the multi-million HALO film a reality, but as Hollywood does, it took a shit deciding we needed another twilight and more Saws, project scraped forever. Then like a beacon of hope Peter Jackson flew down from his pile of money and produced Blomkap’s pet project; and District 9 was born.

I’ve watched the film about four or five times, aside from a rich story, great cinematography and acting the film successfully merges two distinct types of story telling into a fucking amazing, blood soaked, action-fest. Heavily using a faux-documentary storytelling, newscasts and security camera feeds the story is told realistically. No bullshit effects for the sake of effects, no recognizable actors, the film comes off as possible and plausible.

Coming out on Blu-ray Dec 22nd the disc will make a perfect holiday addition to anyone’s pile of consumerism. If you don’t like the movie you area fucking retard, it’s a perfect film filled with realistic romance, humor and heavy violence.