Sci-Fi is having a real banner year. With Moon and District 9, we've got some gems early on. We've still got Avatar to look forward to as well. Who's excited?!
@coolarman:The Hurt Locker is really really fantastic. Incredibly intense.
I can't stand it either. I moved back down to school this past weekend, and getting away from my sisters and their god damned Bravo has been the biggest relief. Bravo shovels some of the worst shit onto their network. It's all the same format: edited to no end in order to manufacture drama and tension.
The top model shows are /literally/ unwatchable, food network is lame as hell too (I know most people love it, sorry), and there was some other show called "Shark Tank" or something that was SO bad. Everyday people present their business ventures to a roundtable of snooty, pretentious cocks who delight in tearing the pitchers apart and degrading them. Can't bear to watch this fucking DRIVEL.
District 9 was really good, I saw it yesterday. Much of the praise it's receiving is well warranted. I would indeed like to see it get some award attention.
But everyone is billing it as the sci-fi movie of the decade. In case you didn't see it, this summer had another spectacular sci-fi release in Duncan Jones' Moon.
If you haven't seen Moon, and I suspect many of you haven't since it was a limited release, please treat yourself and see it if you can. Sam Rockwell is more deserving of a best actor nod than anyone I've seen this movie season. It's slower paced than District 9 and distinctly different in style. But what it lacks in action it more than makes up for in its downright chilling and terrifying study of hopelessness, isolation, and humanity. It was one of those movies that I didn't stop thinking about for days after I had seen it. My favorite movie of the year with District 9 taking a backseat to it.
So the point of this dissertation is to try and establish that the Pokemon TV series is riddled with symbolism and allegory, that nothing is as it seems, and that it's all in Ash's head. That's some unnecessary, deeply nerdy shit right there.
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