District 9

Thursday, September 30, 2010
Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan is a historic World War II movie released in 1998 and directed by the famous well known Steven Spielberg. It starts of at Private Ryan (as an old man) visiting the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Normandy, France. The scene eventually cuts to June 6, 1944 right before the D-Day invasion. the boats then land on Omaha beach were the soldiers then get of and try to take cover from the German infantry spraying bullets at them. After a while the German forces were defeated and the rest retreated. The movie then vaguely introduces the characters of the Battalion which the movie follows and their leader John Miller (played by Tom Hanks). They are then given there assignment of finding Private Ryan who's other three brothers were killed in the D-day invasion. After given there assignment of locating him so he can go home the Battalion sets of on their journey. Personally, I think that this is the best war movie I have ever seen, even better than Black Hawk down which many people say is amazing. It made a grand total of $481,840,909,and only took 70 million to make. It was nominated for best picture but ddint win, but it did win best director(Steven Spielberg). Saving Private Ryan has made its mark in history as an amazing war movie and its legacy continues to live on.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
District 9
District 9 is a science fiction thriller that was released on August 14, 2009. It is about an alien species that comes to earth and ends up living on our planet. At first they show up in there mother ship an just stay there for about three months. But eventually a team enters the ship and gives them refuge on earth in a government camp know as District 9. After about two decades the people of Johannesburg have had enough of the prawns. So the government highers the Multinational United (MNU) a private military group to relocate the prawns to a new camp known as District 10. Which is expected to be the sequel of District 9. Neill Blomkamp quoted in an interview with rotten tomatos saying, "I havent thought of a story yet, but if people want to see another one i'd love to do it". Peter Jackson the producer of this film was originally was going to do a film based on Halo, the popular video game series on the xbox. But once he realized he didnt have a big enough budget for the movie they resorted to making District 9 which was a hit. The budget of the movie was only 30 million but the total money the film made was around 210 million which is a lot compared to most average movies. I enjoyed the movie a lot, and I loved the special effects which are amazing, escpecially in HD. If you havent seen District 9 I strongly suggest you watch it now .
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