Subj : District 9 (2009)
To   : Charles Pierson
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Nov 02 2020 17:39:30

On 01/11/2020 12:36 p.m., Charles Pierson : August Abolins wrote:

 CP> I still haven't really figured out why it took so long for
 CP> me to like it. I was leaning for a while that it looked
 CP> like one of those pseudo-documentary type films, which I
 CP> like only slightly better than the "found footage" style,
 CP> which I can't stand. But it really isn't that style. So
 CP> maybe it's just that was my initial impression, and it
 CP> biased me.

Now that you mention it, it *did* have an on-the-ground embedded
journalist kind of feel.  I thought that was a neat approach for a
futuristic tale.

I can't stand a lot of tv shows and movies that have a lot of
hand-held camera action that can't stay still on a stationary actor.


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