District 9 and 3 quarters

oh lordy, please throw away all your transformers and gijoes, the real meat is in District 9.

Instead of writing confusing paragraphs of praise, I'm just going to divide it between what I liked, what I disliked and what I recognized.

I liked:
-The hero was anything but a hero. Often in movies, the protagonist either knows what he's doing or is at least cool and funny enough to be a hero. Everything about the main character goes against the norms of film making. He's got a long uncool name, he's naive, and he's not smart. He does everything that you'd expect a regular pencil-pushing person would when put in his situation. I've never felt for a character this much since Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.

-Laugh out loud scenes. Sometimes in the movie you didn't know whether it was tragedy or comedy. Most of the time it was both.

-Great action. Even though it was mostly graphics, this movie was not shy when it came to exploding heads, bloody wounds and realistic(sort of) gore. The alien weaponry is beyond coolness.

-First time. A lot of the actors/crew were either first timers or small timers. I didn't recognize anyone(except Peter Jackson when the credits rolled). And yet, this movie was packed with so much more talent than most of the other shit that's been coming outta hollywood.

-All this, and with a budget of just $30million? Hell yeah. Transformers 2 needed what...200million bucks? Michael Bay can go kill himself now.

I didn't like:
-Stereotypical aliens. With typical clicky-clocky noises as their voices. That, paired up with the fact that most of the humans and aliens understood each other nearly perfectly just didn't match up to the realistic setting of the movie.

-Towards the end, the action became very unimaginative. Sure, the ending was pretty vague (but decent, which is always good), but the whole uninspiring "final boss battle" scene that brought down movies like Iron Man, The Hulk(2008) and to some extent The Dark Knight returned once again to plague District 9.

-Just like the last point, the "final boss" feature that's become so recurring in Hollywood movies somehow managed to make it's way to District 9. I really think that big bad bosses should not exist, or at least have unremarkable deaths because they really should be as vulnerable as their nameless minions.

I recognized:
-South African white accent. The last time I heard this awesome accent was in The Blood Diamond.
-The theme of Alien discrimination and separation doesn't just draw its roots from Apartheid. It's more closely related to the game Half life. In Half life 2, the aliens were kept on Earth while their technology was being stolen by the evil humans.

That's about it really. Halfway through the movie I nearly cried "PERFECT!". But then things got a little messy in the 3rd act, so 9/10. Seriously though, movie of the year (so far).

What am I doin here, I've got an assignment to do.