I've finally seen this movie and it was three hours long. I also watched it in 3D (no 2D version availabe at IMAX theatres) and it was the most expensive movie I have ever paid for in my life - $18.50! Also the first long movie I've ever sat through that got me bored out of my mind by the last hour and wishing it would just finish already!

Boredom and expensive theatre tickets aside, did I find this movie entertaining overall? Yes, it was entertaining... for the first two hours. There were lots - no, hundreds, of pretty things to look at. Everything was pretty, even the night time jungle forest. Those floating jelly seed-things were pretty. The blue cat people were pretty. Naked and pretty. They reminded me of tree-hugging, crack sniffing hippies from the 60's tripping out on tree roots. All naked and frollicking, and mating, and dancing around butt naked.

There were lots of animals, with weird designs like spiracles, two sets of forearms, and fancy little head-dress things. Very nicely presented, and very pretty to look at.

There were so many pretty things, all beautifully presented to the audience, that the ugliest things in the movie were the humans. They were shown to us as technology-whoring Orcs with Sauron as their warlord leader, and once Sauron is defeated, these Goblins, Trolls and Orcs are sent packing back to their "Dying and polluted Planet". (Rolls eyes). By about this predictable time my attention started wandering, because as the story became more and more cliche-ridden, and its moments became cheesier - When Pandora Animals Attack - and successfully defeat the evil Goblin Troll Humans for the beautiful Elven Cat People, my attention span had just about dried right up. Yeah, okay, I KNOW the human race are nothing more than technology-whoring Cave Trolls - but do we need to be reminded of this every five seconds?

I haven't seen a movie in a while that presented technology as being pure evil. Its all very Amish.

The technology looked cool though

I also had the feeling, whilst watching the first two hours of Avatar, that all this pretty Computer Generated Imagery was being thrown in my face to disguise a really dumb story. In fact, as the story progressed, it started getting in the way of all the pretty SFX. There were so many of these moments I found them dumb, predictable and brain dead. Like the predictable Love Scene. At least the Cat People go down on one another the same way we do. They even suck face the same. Yeah right. That's just Too Perfect.

I do like how they hiss like house cats when they wanna get real mean. Even the human blue cat hippie does it to his own species before he betrays his own race. Always easy to betray your species when you've got some nice piece of tail to go down on. :rollseyes:

I entered a competition today [link] just for fun! It's a video game based on the end of the world (Wow, 2012 the video game!) and I used some of my OC Halo characters, just for fun though! I created my own background for this pic since I didn't want to use the resource material backgrounds they've got.



And the two characters were drawn and coloured with the tablet. Only one attempt was used for the Flood, but I had to roughly sketch the Sentinel, then redraw the Sentinel on a new layer. Sentinels are miiiighty hard to draw. Both characters equated to about three hours of drawing and colouring each, and the background another two-three hours.

Apparantly this is the most expensive movie ever made. So, I'm kinda interested and might see it next Tuesday (movies are cheaper on Tuesdays lol).

So... is it just me or is this flick nothing more than a romantic interlude between that guy from Terminator Salvation and some blue alien woman who is "the most beautiful woman in her clan". Barring the fact she is an alien who looks more sinister than beautiful, why does he hook up with a gorgeous drop dead, blue-skinned, cat-tailed model anyhoo? Number One reason why I can't stand Romance Flicks: Too. Many. Cliches. The other reason why I'll wait till Tuesday to see this flick - I ain't paying full price to watch a dumb sci fi romantic epic!!!

And the other thing I find annoying - dumb alien clan fights against bad-guy humans who want to pillage minerals/air/water/dirt/buffalo from their world Pandora (wow, what an original name for a planet). Sounds like too many other movies I've already seen: Ewok sticks and stones versus Galactic Empire Technology, pssh, haven't I seen this before - in another epic 80's sci fi movie??

It's a good thing Terminator Guy's avatar wasn't a Sentinel, he'd have had nothing to fall in love with otherwise, certainly not a 'drop dead gorgeous supermodel Sentinel woman'



Dang, methinks Hollywood needs to come up with some new ideas... not something we've seen a dozen times before made into 3D Dhuhhh... wow .

I entered a competition today [link] just for fun! It's a video game based on the end of the world (Wow, 2012 the video game!) and I used some of my OC Halo characters, just for fun though! I created my own background for this pic since I didn't want to use the resource material backgrounds they've got.



And the two characters were drawn and coloured with the tablet. Only one attempt was used for the Flood, but I had to roughly sketch the Sentinel, then redraw the Sentinel on a new layer. Sentinels are miiiighty hard to draw. Both characters equated to about three hours of drawing and colouring each, and the background another two-three hours.

I went into this movie not really expecting much, so was very impressed with the movie overall. There was a lot of special effects of the CGI kind, and some scenes were a little bit Yeah Right. It's also one of those movies that requires a huge screen to sit in front of so as to get the full effect of the special effects

The best thing I think, about the CGI was that it looked like the effects people combined real stuff with CGI to make it look more real. Hense, you don't get that horrible confusion of a lot of stuff happening aka Transformers 2 that your eye just can't follow. Re the volcanic explosion scene. That whole scene was done in extreme slow motion, so you actually see trees and rocks still attached to giant volcanic bombs impacting like atom bombs when they hit the ground.

Also, so many people die in this flick, including whole families, children and innocent/elderly people that it's quite tragic. The main characters' families are wiped out by every horrible natural disaster imaginable.

I don't really like apocalyptic flicks that much (re The Knowing and Day the earth stood still, lol what a joke), so this was rather a pleasant surprise. At least there were no friendly aliens taking little humans away in their spaceships.

I entered a competition today [link] just for fun! It's a video game based on the end of the world (Wow, 2012 the video game!) and I used some of my OC Halo characters, just for fun though! I created my own background for this pic since I didn't want to use the resource material backgrounds they've got.



And the two characters were drawn and coloured with the tablet. Only one attempt was used for the Flood, but I had to roughly sketch the Sentinel, then redraw the Sentinel on a new layer. Sentinels are miiiighty hard to draw. Both characters equated to about three hours of drawing and colouring each, and the background another two-three hours.

I've just bought a copy of the regular edition of this game, and was rather pleased to see Bungie have finally opted to separate the multiplayer/campaign by putting them on two disks. It would've been great had they done this for Halo 3, as I think it would've added some longevity to Halo 3.

I'm quite impressed with the gameplay and I really enjoy playing as an ODST. They're not as strong as a Spartan, so more care is required to deal with the enemies. Being a normal soldier means less armour, less strength and no shields!!! So I like relying on stealth and using headshots to make quick kills. The other aspect I really like is when you hang around too long, enemies will eventually come at you from behind. Nasty stuff!

The vehicle driving parts are a lot of fun, not long like in Halo 2 but much more enjoyable than Halo 3 for some reason. I also like playing from the perspective of the different squad members. Too bad Halo 3 couldn't have been more like this.

Overall, Halo ODST is harder but more enjoyable than Halo 3. Only thing it lacks is pretty forest and different localities. Fighting in a city gets a bit boring after awhile. Also, shouldn't Elites still be your enemies in this game? The Covenant civil war doesn't start till near the end of Halo 2, and this game starts after the Covenant capital ship jumps into slipspace over Mombasa in Halo 2 - just a third of the way into Halo 2.

No Flood, and no Sentinels... well, I'm glad the Flood were left out, I get tired of fighting tentacled screaming zombie lunatics. Sentinels are a bit more dignified in their killing habits

Thankyou to for featuring my new artwork here [link]
This was drawn with my brand new tablet... the colouring and everything is a lot easier to do now without fiddling around with a mouse!

SPOILERS! SPOILERS!
I was rather impressed by this movie... it had everything a fan of science fiction movies would ask for... loads of guns, aliens, fighting, CGI, oh and lots of gore. Sounds almost like Transformers 2 but this movie was much better presented, especially in the gore-factor and swearing department.

Firstly it was shown as a kind of documentary with news casts, and an official from a government agency is filmed by a cameraman as he goes through an alien refugee camp handing out letters to evict the tenants from their shanty homes. He gets this alien fluid on him which infects him and turns him into an alien. This ends up with him able to use the weapons the aliens have been trading with the humans for food and stuff (humans can't use them, only alien DNA). It starts this huge war between the criminal human gangs running District 9 and the government military and the aliens are caught in the middle.

The aliens were particurlarly well presented, ugly looking giant cockroaches living like roaches. You expect them to turn on the humans, but they don't, the humans end up killing each other for control of District 9. They all get shipped off to District 10 (a new shanty town further out of Johannesburg) and when the mother ship leaves, none of the aliens are willing to go anywhere near it. Thats because 20 years earlier, the aliens were packed into these giant pens on board the ship in pitch dark and left to rot in their own excrement before the humans rescued them.

The movie was also a lot longer than I expected... and very much like how I expected the Halo movie to look if it got made. There's a number of Halo-esque references throughout which were rather cool. I wonder if this is how we would treat Sentinels if they were on Earth (hopefully not for refugee reasons )

WOOOOAAAAH HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Whoops! I seem to have made a certain young someone very very angry for mentioning Halo over District 9's creation! Not to mention the Deviant who drew the Poleepkwa is a halo fan as well... I wonder if a new rule has emerged that the mention of a game should not be inserted into comments made on how awesome you think another Deviant's artwork is... ho hum. He hates on Halo, thats fine by me... but no need to swear rant and rave about it good sir. Anyhoo, I drew my latest deviation in response to his wailing on me... what incredible FUN!

Thankyou to for featuring my new artwork here [link]
This was drawn with my brand new tablet... the colouring and everything is a lot easier to do now without fiddling around with a mouse!