This week I decided to watch District 9 which reminded me of dancing with wolves but with aliens. It's about a giant spaceship of humanoid shrimp aliens that have landed on earth in Africa and are wanting to go back to their homeland. Meanwhile, a bureaucrat decides to take a look at the aliens who have seemed to adapt with the Africans third world environment  he gets sprayed by a strange liquid made by one of them and starts to turn into one of them. now on the side of the aliens, he accepts to help them by going against the military so he can get his body back to normal. While the concept is different, the premise is very similar to Dancing with Wolves, a guy joins a troubled outside force to oppose against his own kind. It woks with this film and the alien designs are cool. It's not often you see prawn aliens living with a bunch of Africans. Overall, the effects and designs are cool, but the plot could've used more differentiation to make it a bit more fresher.

This week I decided to see the movie Dark City, a science fiction noir film. It takes place in a city made up of other cities like New York, London and whatnot, that way it gives the viewers something familiar but different looking. It stars a man who wakes up in a murder scene where he is accused of the action and is chased by an unknown clan of black dressed people. Throughout the film, he discovers the mystery of the city and a new power he is given. He meets a doctor who secretly works for the clan, a girl he falls in love with and tries to find a path to a fictional paradise called shelled beach. It's pacing and mysteries keep the viewers interested for most of the time and the eerie design of the alien black dressed clan members definitely keeps you on edge the entirety of the film. The ending fight scene between him and the leader was a bit goofy, but it was so short that it didn't really effect the rest of the film that much. I do recommend this film who is a fan of the noir style who is looking for a completely different and fictional take on it. It's creative concepts do make you wonder what else we could do in other films inspirationally.

So this week, I chose to do "Empire Star" by Samuel R. Delany for this weekends reading. I have to say, coming into it, I thought it would have an average story, like the main character, Comet Jo, would go on a quest for the Jewel or whatnot. Boy is my mind scrambled beyond belief. The Gist is that there is an 18 year old boy named Jo who comes across a being named jewel is seems to be a crystalized creature called a Tritovian. After that, he leaves his hometown to go to the Empire Star to deliver a message and gets in all sorts of adventures and quests and discoveries. It's kind of hard to explain but the novel sort of ends abruptly, there were a a few pages left of some events that seemed scrambled. At that point, I tried to piece it together, but because of my hefty amount of work, I would try it again later.
So yeah, it definitely was a different kind of book, it does try something new and it did keep my interest for a while.